With four players banned from workouts during the university investigation, players took the field at Notre Dame Stadium become faculty and family members, according to the South Bend Tribune. SN’s BILL BENDER: For now, they’re the Tarnished Irish Coach Brian Kelly met the media after the workout. He said he will be not be involved in the investigation, is concerned about the four banished players and is focused on preparation for the Fighting Irish opener....

PHOTOS: College Football Week 10 action | MORE: TV station picks Steelers to beat Notre Dame Prosise was taken to the locker room following a 10-yard catch to end the first quarter. Josh Adams then came into the game to replace Prosise and immediately broke off a 25-yard run on the next play. Fighting Irish head coach Brian Kelly told reporters just over a week ago that the team was taking extra precautions to protect Prosise in practice, including giving him a non-contact jersey....

Reports circulated last week that Lombard, a potential NFL Draft pick, has a bulging disc in his back. Expect sophomore Mike McGlinchey to start at right tackle in the Dec. 30 game. MORE: Bowl schedule | Reason to watch every one Lombard was plagued by back problems all season after missing six games as in 2013. A three-year starter, he was seen as a possible day-three pick in the 2015 NFL Draft, thanks to experience at right tackle and right guard....

There have been countless players who donned the Yankee pinstripes who have never been adopted by the fanbase: A-Rod, Line 1. Carl Pavano, anyone? But on Nov. 13, 2008, a future Yankees fan favorite was born, when the effervescent, jubilant Nick Swisher found a home with New York; Brian Cashman acquired Swisher from the White Sox to start the 2009 campaign as the everyday first baseman. MLB FREE AGENCY: Ranking the top 101 available players...

The world No. 1 appeared to be in some trouble at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday before completing a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory to reach the quarterfinals. PHOTOS: U.S. Open photos from Billie Jean King Center | MORE: Venus stands in Serena’s way of history Albeit unconvincing, Djokovic’s win means he has now reached at least the last eight at 26 consecutive grand slams. The Serbian never reached the lofty standards he sets as the aggressive and powerful Bautista Agut enjoyed his share of success in the baseline exchanges....

Djokovic’s much-publicised visa fiasco eventually ruled him out of his Australian Open defence in January, and he was knocked out of the French Open by Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals. There was to be plenty of good financial news as he scooped a cool $2.5 million (£2m) for winning Wimbledon this year — his 21st Grand Slam. Sadly for Djokovic he won’t be competing at the US Open due to his vaccination status not meeting coronavirus entry requirements for the country,...

That’s not up for debate after watching No. 8 Michigan State (6-1, 3-0) beat Indiana and No. 13 Ohio State (5-1, 2-0) beat Rutgers by identical 56-17 scores Saturday. Here’s a question that’s a lot closer than it sounds. Are the Buckeyes better than the Spartans? Even though Michigan State beat Ohio State 34-24 in last year’s Big Ten championship game the answer is, “Yes.” At the very least, it’s “Even money....

Last month E Ink, a small Cambridge, Mass., start-up, took a step along the long road to the e-book. It unveiled a sample of changeable display of alphanumeric characters on a flexible page of plastic transistors, made by Lucent Technologies. It was proof that its “ink” could one day be the basis for “pages” of an e-book that rivaled paper: readable, low-powered and, above all, bendable. E Ink’s electronic ink consists of plastic microcapsules that contain a certain ratio of dark dye to white paint chips....

The Party was over. Lenin’s dream, as an old Bolshevik might put it, has been consigned to the dustbin of history. Five of the eight coup leaders who had tried to depose Mikhail Gorbachev were jailed in disgrace and two others were detained; the eighth, Interior Minister Boris Pugo, shot himself. In the wake of the coup’s collapse, the hero of the resistance, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, ordered the party shut down throughout Russia....

Sorry, Frederic Auburtin, you aren’t going to get a do-over. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gavin O’Connor, who recently wrapped the Affleck thriller “The Accountant,” will direct and co-write the script. PHOTOS: Top 10 World Cup runs made for the movies | Soccer stars behaving badly Warner Bros. capped eight days of negotiations by winning the film rights to investigative reporter Ken Bensinger’s upcoming book on Blazer’s rise from unemployed American soccer dad to the FIFA executive committee member known as “Mr....

Emotions were raised once Westbrook showed up to the arena wearing an “official photographer” vest, likely mocking Durant’s passion for photography. MORE: Picking MVP — but not Durant or Westbrook As the game played out, however, a new foe emerged. Backup center Enes Kanter, who has been teasing Durant all offseason, got in an exchange with the new Warriors forward late in the second quarter. It’s not exactly clear what was said between the two, but Kanter’s OKC teammate Steven Adams was even telling him to knock it off....

He has been on the butt end of any number of basketball epithets—ballhog, chucker, black hole—but perhaps that has not been his fault. Perhaps he has been a dime-dropping playmaker all this time, merely trapped in the body of a guy plenty capable of a 5-for-17 shooting night. “I feel that I’m a point guard,” Crawford said Monday night. “That’s other people that listed me at shooting guard.” Indeed, Crawford was a catalyst in Boston’s fourth straight win, logging 16 points and reaching the 10-assist mark for just the fourth time in his four-year career....

Some aides also worry that the campaign’s intense focus on issues may be a mistake. Polls show voters like Hillary’s stands on topics from education to gun control but still question her motives. Aides are urging her to loosen up, mingle with the public and meet with the media. This week’s tour will feature more retail politics, but issues will remain front and center, aides say. “It’s not an either-or choice,” says a top adviser....

A Pageant Peace Sign There’s something decidedly unkosher about the new Miss Israel. Rana Raslan, 21, is the first Arab to win the country’s beauty crown. Raslan, an aspiring kindergarten teacher, says she doesn’t see herself as a political statement in a swimsuit, and she doesn’t think the Jewish judges did either. “They wanted a beauty queen, not a political queen,” she says. Mazel tov to everyone. A Dance for Charles, a Song for Camilla...

This was a war of attrition as they split the first two falls in their 2-out-of-3 falls match, but the toughest part was yet to come with the third fall taking place inside a steel cage with plenty of weapons at their disposal. They each used everything they could get their hands on as they beat and battered one another until they both crashed off the top of the cage through a table....

“What is he using them for? For crowd control, for repressing the right of people to protest. For a political stunt, obviously,” de Blasio said during a Thursday morning interview with CNN. “We’re not going to allow that.” “What Donald Trump is doing is just exasperating the tensions and the divisions, and I actually think it will backfire on him,” the mayor said. “That will backfire in every way. It has to be stopped....

Adams was asked whether he would change the requirement Wednesday after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said on ESPN’s Get Up that he did not understand why the rule stopped Irving from playing home games, while unvaccinated players on visiting teams could come to NYC and play. Irving, the only unvaccinated player on the Nets or the New York Knicks, is not allowed to play in home games in the Nets’ Barclays Center or the Knicks’ Madison Square Garden because of the city’s vaccine requirements for athletes and entertainers....

“We watched the news yesterday as everyone did,” he told PIX 11 News. “I saw the attorney general’s remarks. But beyond that, that’s our involvement.” This news comes as David Soares, the District Attorney for Albany County, announced his office’s plans to open a criminal investigation against Cuomo. Soares said he planned to request investigative materials from the state attorney general so that his office could look into claims brought forth by 11 women, most of whom worked for the state government....

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday, with only one name plaintiff, Staten Island real estate firm Cornerstone Reality. The lawsuit said that businesses like the firm are being unreasonably forced to terminate unvaccinated staff, saying the city’s vaccine mandate doesn’t provide options for businesses to appeal. “This case is not about vaccines, but about an employer’s right to be heard,” the lawsuit stated. The city is infringing on business owners’ constitutional rights to make a living, the lawsuit argued....