The suspensions will be without pay and will last for three games. Additionally suspended was a free agent player, John Franklin III, who will also be ineligible for three games if he were to be signed by a team. In a statement, the NFL said that they had conducted a review into the “recent allegations that players misrepresented their vaccination status under the NFL-NFLPA COVID-19 Protocols.” “That review supported those allegations and found that the three players violated the protocols,” the statement continued....

Look no further than SaturdayDownSouth.com's Jon Cooper. He was 9-1 against the spread last week and is 16-4 over the past two weeks. That sort of picking puts a target on your back and right now, it's a target that is getting more difficult for the rest of us to see as he's built a five-game advantage. But it's a new week and Week 6 is full of great games -- from Maryland at FSU to kick off Saturday to Ohio State at Northwestern and Washington at Stanford to end the night....

Hawley also thinks the spitter was rookie Jarran Reed, although he isn’t completely sure. “Yeah I think that’s who it was,” Hawley said of Reed. “They were hitting me late and then one guy got up, and when I came up all fired up, he actually spit in my face after one of the plays. And that really got me fired up because I just don’t think that should be a part of the game at all....

Midway through the Sabres’ game Tuesday against the Tampa Bay Lightning, Eichel pounced on an opportunity to score when Tampa Bay’s Yanni Gourde slipped while handling the puck in Buffalo’s defensive zone during a Lightning power play. THE 2010s: Crosby named NHL Athlete of the Decade | NHL All-Decade Team Eichel immediately picked up the puck and raced toward the Lightning net, looking to fire a cross-ice pass to teammate Curtis Lazar....

Antonio Conte’s side were dumped out of the competition after a crazy penalty shootout, with Germany’s Jonas Hector scoring the winner past Buffon. The tournament will not be Buffon’s last with Italy as the 38-year-old has insisted that he is keen to play some part at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. But the defeat ends Buffon’s hopes of winning a European Championship with Italy, having also been on the losing side in 2012 as Spain ran out 4-0 winners....

Visionary it may be. But some people in Denver consider the new airport a pipe dream. They call it “Federico’s Folly,” a white elephant that is neither needed nor wanted. Why the fuss? For one thing, they claim, the cost of building the airport has risen substantially, to nearly $4 billion. And though city fathers bragged that Deliver International would be the nation’s largest airport, it will by some measures be smaller than Stapleton International, which it will soon replace....

In its glory days, METI was instrumental in building Japan into an industrial giant, but that was decades ago. Whether it can pick Internet winners has yet to be seen. Rather than trying to develop a Google rival, the METI consortium will focus on developing technology used to search and analyze information available not only online but also on mobile phones, smart-money cards and other electronic media, like real-time car navigation systems....

But the Nacional man is on the verge of completing a dream that has eluded even England’s all-time highest scorer: an international title. Uruguay are just one victory away from taking victory in the South American Under-20 Championship, and their scintillating journey through the competition so far owes a great deal to the performances of their wonderfully talented sharpshooter. Icardi banned for kicking ball at ref South American football bowed at the feet of Amaral in the first few days of 2017....

The video, filmed by Megan Foster, was posted to Instagram on Sunday by a popular Instagram account called TouronsOfYellowstone. It has amassed over 109,000 views and more than 200 comments, many calling the tourist an “idiot.” You can watch the full video here. Rachael Gonzales, a public information officer for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, told Newsweek that elk sightings are common in Estes Park. Interacting With Elk “It’s not uncommon to see elk hanging out in and around the downtown area and along the roads,” Gonzales said....

The All-Star guard didn’t come out of the locker room following halftime after aggravating a reoccuring shoulder strain. MORE: Augustin thriving as Pistons starter | Jordan misspells Obama’s name “[He’ll] probably have an MRI [Wednesday],” Thibodeau said per ESPN.com. “He’s got soreness, so hopefully he’ll be better tomorrow.” Butler was not available to reporters after the game, but admitted as he walked through the locker room that his shoulder was hurting....

The attacker, who celebrated his 19th birthday Monday and was nominated for the Golden Boy award on Tuesday, capped his side’s dominating performance with the third goal in the victory, the club’s 3,000 goal in Bundesliga play. Dortmund 21/10 to beat Real in CL Pulisic went to slide in celebration, a move he’s done before, only this time it ended with an awkward tumble, though it wasn’t clear if it was intentional....

Trisha Ryan said she confronted the worker after he allegedly used his phone to photograph her card at a drive-thru in Hamilton while she was trying to pay for her lunch. She said she initially became suspicious when the man behind the counter appeared to hesitate when she gave him her card. “I saw him grab his phone line it up, hover it over something on the counter, took a picture, then he did some more handwork and then he took another picture and gave me my receipt,” she told WKRC....

Land mines are the lethal detritus of 20th-century warfare. Indiscriminate, all but permanent, ever cheaper and increasingly hard to detect, they bedevil efforts to put a country back together after the shooting stops. And not just Bosnia, where millions of high-tech mines lie hidden–and where 85 NATO soldiers have been injured and seven killed by mines this year. In Cambodia, Angola, Mozambique and Afghanistan, peasants often must risk their lives to earn a living; huge fertile areas lie fallow....

Busch charged to front after a green-white-checkered restart, taking the lead from his brother Kurt and Tony Stewart. Larson followed him, but could not catch Busch on the final lap. Larson, a Sprint Cup rookied, finished second, followed by Kurt Busch, Matt Kenseth, Stewart, Jamie McMurray, Brian Vickers and AJ Allmendinger. The race was plagued by a rash of tires problems as more than a dozen drivers had flat tires, many of them causing spins and crashes....

But Busch will continue a transition he hopes has more younger drivers in his Kyle Busch Motorsports trucks next year as he will drive just four of the 22 events while fielding three full-time trucks instead of two. Busch will put Erik Jones, who won three races last year, in a truck full time thanks to the help of KBM sponsor Toyota. He then will have another truck full time for the funded Justin Boston and another truck he will split with Matt Tifft (six races) and Daniel Suarez (12 races)....

This is the impunity issue: did Nixon get away with it? For lack of criminal court proceedings was he allowed to think that public officials were above the law and could do anything they wished? I didn’t see how anyone could think so (though clearly plenty did) after the complex of Watergate issues had been played out and he had been forced from office. Likewise the Iran-contra pardonees. I feel rather differently about their case and this outcome, but on the matter of impunity and being above the law and so forth, I would argue that none of these fellows, whatever public gloating and chortling a few may be indulging in now, can conceivably look back on the past few years and say to himself: Gosh, turns out you can get away with anything-is this a wonderful country or what?...

Luz II: The solar firm, with offices in Israel and California, has signed a deal with Pacific Gas & Electric to build a 500-megawatt solar plant by 2010. Biodiesel Industries Inc.: The privately held Santa Barbara firm collects used cooking oil from the U.S. Navy and other large users and converts it into biodiesel fuel, which emits only a quarter of the carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas, of petroleum-based products....

Legislative action is needed now more than ever. As leaders representing U.S. businesses that encompass key elements of this country’s economy—recreation and transportation—we’re speaking out together to raise the alarm. For ski resorts, climate change is an end-game played out in melted snow and burning mountainsides. In the last four years, Aspen has seen our airport shut down due to climate-fueled fires, and later, mudslides that peppered our main interstate with car-sized boulders....

During the past year, the 37-year-old candidate from South Bend, Indiana, has gone from a relatively unknown candidate to one of the top five Democrats in the race. In November, his momentum peaked with a first-place finish in an Iowa poll. But his popularity in the all-important swing state has since waned, with more progressive candidates such as Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren taking the lead. In the latest survey, Buttigieg was in third place with 16 percent support—a 9 point drop from a few months prior....