Yahoo Sports’ Pat Forde and FoxSports.com’s Bruce Feldman first reported Friday that Notre Dame was looking into potential academic fraud on campus and that four players and additonal non-athletes were being questioned. HAYES: Golson made mistake, didn’t take easy way out | 10 greatest Irish players Forde and Feldman both reported that receiver DaVaris Daniels, defensive back KeiVarae Russell, defensive lineman Ishaq Williams and linebacker Kendall Moore were questioned by school officials....

The sophomore appeared to purposely nudge injured USC running back Aca’Cedric Ware’s head while the Trojan was on the ground after being the victim of targeting and then later intentionally stepped on USC offensive tackle Zach Banner’s foot while he lay on the ground. MORE: Tillery should be embarrassed Officials apparently missed the head-nudge, but Tillery was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct after he stepped on Banner. “I want to take full responsibility for my actions on Saturday,” Tillery wrote in part in a statement he tweeted Monday evening....

He has said his decision to remain unvaccinated is a personal decision based on his concern regarding everything that goes into his body as an “elite professional athlete,” NPR reported. He has said he is not anti-vaccination, understands vaccines’ importance in fighting the pandemic and accepts that his decision will prevent him from competing in some tournaments. Djokovic had been waiting for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to possibly grant him an exception to travel to the United States despite being unvaccinated....

Djokovic, who did not lose a set during the whole week, claimed the 20th Masters title of his career and won the indoor tournament for the third time, matching the tally of his coach Boris Becker in the French capital. Unbeaten on an indoors court in two years, Djokovic also made a big step in his bid to finish the year at the No. 1 spot for a third time, extending his lead over Roger Federer before the ATP Finals in London from Nov....

Everyone knows you can eat well in Italy. But why stop there when you can spend your vacation digesting the fine art of making Italian cuisine? Instead of tramping through churches, museums and shops, increasing numbers of visitors to Italy are enjoying culinary tourism: chopping and stirring, pressing olives, learning how to produce wine. Tuscany is the most popular spot for cuisine-related travel, as it is for many other kinds of tourism....

I was stunned — not because I had no idea what it felt like to be the target of those hateful phrases — but because so many people expressed shock and horror at hearing those awful things, as if the idea of this sort of behavior was novel and unchartered territory. But women like Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro have been saying for months — perhaps even years — that they’ve been the targets of online harassment....

On Tuesday, the Maryland Department of Health began releasing coronavirus data from nursing homes across the state. As of Wednesday, the Department of Health reported at least 4,369 confirmed cases and 471 deaths at nursing homes. The 471 reported deaths account for nearly half of the state’s total confirmed deaths, which was at least 1,078, as of Wednesday, according to a tracker provided by Johns Hopkins University. Across Maryland, there are over 20,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, according to the tracker....

Just as these athletes have trouble organizing their lives, they can also struggle to organize an effective fueling protocol so they have the right foods available at the right times. As a result, they experience low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) and hunger that often gets disguised as inability to concentrate, stay focused on a task, edginess, hot temper—to say nothing of reduced athletic performance. Athletes with ADHD often disregard these symptoms, thinking they relate to their ADHD diagnosis, not hunger and poor diet....

One of those expansion teams, San Diego Wave FC, came away with five players including the No. 1 pick in the draft which it used on Stanford center back Naomi Girma, who is projected to be a future U.S. women’s national team regular. With its other pick in the first round, Wave FC made another surprise selection by taking Grand Canyon’s German midfielder Marleen Schimmer. Expansion counterpart Angel City FC traded away its early picks and didn’t make a selection until the third round: Hope Breslin (Illinois), Lily Nabet (Duke) and Miri Taylor (Hofstra) were the selections by ACFC head coach Freya Coombe....

The allegations have rocked the league, leading to the firing of a coach (Paul Riley), the resignation of the commissioner (Lisa Baird), the resignation of a team owner from his role as CEO and managing partner (Steve Baldwin), open letters from other owners, and the launch of several investigations from different governing bodies. And there’s seemingly more fallout by the day. Beginning with the NJ/NY Gotham FC vs. Washington Spirit match on Wednesday and followed by matches in Cary, N....

The stakes were high on the second night: Four titles were on the line and a heated rivalry sat on top of the card as former Undisputed Era members Adam Cole and Kyle O’Reilly battered each other in an unsanctioned match. MORE: NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver Night 1 results, match grades New champions were crowned and the show ended with violence that is worth going out of your way to check out....

The brand is bringing back the War Games match for the fall event with two teams squaring off inside side-by-side rings that will be surrounded by a steel cage. Anything goes — including weapons — until someone on either team is pinned or submits. Other matches will have championships on the line. The card continues to be updated as the show quickly approaches. Until then, here’s everything you need to know....

P.S. 79 in East Harlem will shut down starting Monday until September 28 due to “possible widespread exposure and transmission in the school,” according to Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer in a tweet Saturday. Learning will be conducted remotely, and the school will ensure every student has a device and meals will be able to be picked up daily, Brewer said. The cases were linked to staff orientation. “All my efforts are focused on supporting the principal, making sure parents are notified so they don’t show up on Monday & that the students and families have access to the devices they need,” Brewer tweeted....

This article discusses the meaning of nymphomania. It also covers characteristics, causes, and treatment for nymphomania, or hypersexuality. Nymphomania Meaning Nymphomania is a term dating back to the 19th century. Then, society considered assigned females with insatiable sexual desires to be delinquent, and physicians viewed nymphomania as a medical condition. Over time, research on sexual behavior has led to changes in the language used to describe hypersexual behavior to terms like hypersexuality disorder, compulsive sexual behavior, and sex addiction....

A three-person panel’s 16-page order (available here) rejected, on a point-by-point basis, Simpson’s request for the new trial, instead siding with a lower court judge’s decision. MORE: Worst crimes committed by athletes | Juice’s life in photos Simpson was sentenced to 9 to 33 years for his part as de facto ringleader in a botched October 2007 robbery in a Las Vegas hotel, but his lawyers argued in their October 2014 appeal that his trial attorney mishandled his case and had conflicts of interests....

MORE: Simpson enjoying life in Las Vegas 25 years after double murder Simpson’s first tweet was a video of him explaining that his is the real O.J. account, not one of those fake accounts that have surfaced all over Twitter. He also goes on to say he’s “got a little getting even to do.” The “getting even” really left viewers curious — and a little rattled as to what he meant....

Watch a live stream of O.J. Simpson’s parole hearing above (courtesy LawNewz) beginning at 1 p.m. ET. Room 201 of the Parole Board Office in Nevada’s capitol of Carson City is about to become the center of attention in ways it never has been before. The parole hearing there Thursday morning at 10 a.m. local time (1 p.m. ET) is routine, yet not routine — because the subject, O.J. Simpson, offender ID number 1027820, is the least-routine inmate imaginable....

The panel ordered on Wednesday that a ruling by U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman of the Northern District of Texas will stand while the administration appeals the decision. One of the three judges who made the order, James Earl Graves Jr. was nominated to the 5th Circuit by then-President Barack Obama in 2011, while the other two are Republican appointees. Pittman, who was nominated by former President Donald Trump, ruled that the debt-relief program was “unconstitutional exercise of Congress’s legislative power” on November 10....

In the poll, 67 percent of Democratic voters responded that former President Obama’s endorsement would be most important to them. Former President Jimmy Carter was second, with 11 percent saying the endorsement of the 95-year-old would matter most. Respondents who claimed the endorsements of former nominees Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale and John Kerry would be most influential were far rarer, with the trio bottoming out the list at around 1 percent each....