Bennett was penalized for unnecessary roughness in the waning moments of Seattle’s victory over New York. MORE: Matt Ryan is the MVP front-runner, and more we learned in Week 4 Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman iced the game with a pick in the final minute and stopped the play by taking a knee. Bennett shoved Mangold from behind. “That’s a cheap shot,” the center told Newsday. “The guy was clearly taking a knee....
Then, one of the Jets’ top players directed the “E” word toward a teammate. A high-profile one at that. MORE: Joe Namath takes shot at Jets “He should be embarrassed,” defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson said, via New York Daily News of wide receiver Brandon Marshall. More, please. “There’s no reason,” Richardson continued. “He just should be. He knows what he did. It’s cool, bro. … It’s irrelevant. Scratch that comment....
MORE: Jets’ all-time worst draft picks “He played a big part, and just not him being there,” Forte said of Marshall. “He gave me his take on the facility and state of the organization, how things are run there. He told me about the training room, how the locker room is, everything. It’s a lot of young guys who love football. As a veteran, you want to play with guys who want to win as much as you do....
“If we can’t facilitate a trade, we’ll move on with Eric,” Maccagnan told reporters. “There’s never a good time for this. I’ve talked to Eric. We have advised Eric that if a trade doesn’t happen, we’ll move forward.” That news should pique the interest of many wideout-seeking teams around the NFL. Although Decker has slowed down and is coming off a season lost to hip and shoulder injuries, he still has plenty of value as one of the league’s best red-zone receivers....
While speaking with a small group of Gang Green, some of whom said they had traveled nine hours to attend the game in Jacksonville, Florida, Johnson was captured on video essentially throwing the Jets under the bus. “Hopefully, the team will actually show up this week,” Johnson said. The team would go on to lose, 29-15, to the Jaguars after a 33-0 shutout by the Patriots one week earlier....
No? Well, then you’re not Ukrainian billionaire Leonard Blavatnik. MORE: Jets among free agency big spenders | Sam: Other gay NFL players reached out to me Blavatnik purchased Jets owner Woody Johnson’s Fifth Avenue apartment for that price, according to the New York Daily News. It is reportedly the largest price ever paid for a New York City apartment. Even more interesting is that Johnson purchased the apartment about two years ago and never even lived in it....
While Mornhinweg added that "things can change," the offensive coordinator reinforced the notion Wednesday — as he did in previous comments — that Smith has an edge over Michael Vick in the competition for the Jets' starting quarterback job. MORE: Jets cut Mike Goodson, ‘concerned’ for running back Mornhinweg says his "duty" is to continue to make sure Smith progresses while also ensuring that Vick is also performing at a high level so he is ready to play if he is needed....
The rapper, who now goes by Ye, reportedly married the Australian-born architect earlier this month and is believed to be due to arrive in her hometown of Melbourne on Wednesday. But leading Jewish organizations have petitioned Immigration Minister Andrew Giles to block West’s visa and stop him from entering the country over his recent antisemitic comments. “He’s a blatant antisemite, he’s a hate preacher who loves Nazis and worships Hitler, and the Jewish community feels that Australia shouldn’t open the door to this serial bigot who incites violence … and keeps company with white supremacists,” Dvir Abramovich of the Anti-Defamation Commission told Newsweek....
The teenagers in the open-top bus were celebrating the first night of Hanukkah by setting up menorahs and handing out food on Oxford Street, a popular shopping hub in London. The party was then interrupted by what the Community Security Trust calls “an extremely hostile, threatening and abusive group of men”, the AP reported. The CST is a charity in the United Kingdom that monitors antisemitic incidents in the region....
David Finlay is the son of the legendary Fit Finlay, who made his name as one of the toughest men in the business during his time in WCW and WWE. Fit now works for WWE as a producer and has done so since 2012. His son David has become one of the most promising young stars in New Japan Pro Wrestling. On the most recent episode of AEW Dynamite, he made his AEW debut against former World Champion Hangman Page....
Saban finished third in voting for student government president at Alabama. Harbaugh received enough votes to finish fourth in Michigan’s election, according to The Michigan Daily. MORE: Harbaugh bringing helmet stickers back | Harbaugh’s sneaky PR move | Latest Mock Draft While Saban garnered just six total votes, Harbaugh received 115 votes for president for 1.26 percent of the total vote. The former 49ers coach also received 21 votes as a write-in candidate in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts elections for student government representative....
Harbaugh freaked out on officials during Michigan’s game against Oregon State when the Wolverines were flagged for roughing punter Nick Porebski, who appeared to be outside the tackle box. That makes contact fair game. BENDER: Harbaugh’s homecoming Saturday | Power run game gets it done for Wolverines College football is glad to have you back, Jim. Officials probably aren’t.
He spent 10 seasons as Ohio State head coach (2001-10), but resigned in 2011 because of NCAA violations. MORE: SN predictions | Viewer’s guide | What if playoffs existed last 16 seasons? But that doesn’t mean Tressel, the current president at Youngstown State University, is not pulling for the Buckeyes tonight. He handed out his prediction prior to tonight’s kickoff. He was apparently excited about his former team — Tressel won a national title at Ohio State in 2002 and lost back-to-back BCS championship games in 2006-07 — as it prepared to play Oregon for the national title....
That day in December 2009 was not about conference realignment or how to better establish a champion in college football. It was about money. It was about getting paid. Mack Brown had been earning a little less than $3 million annually from the University of Texas and winning double-digit games most every year. As the Longhorns approached another appearance in the BCS championship game, UT announced a new contract for Brown that would raise his pay to $5 million....
The puppies haven’t always been correct in their predictions — they picked Oregon to win the 2015 national championship — but they were very confident in picking the Super Bowl 50 winner. MORE: SN Super Bowl picks | Ranking all the Super Bowl winners Take a look: They all rushed to the Broncos food bowl without even considering the Panthers bowl. Guess that means the puppies have the Broncos as heavy favorites....
Two of the most accomplished emerging drivers, Chittesh Mandody of Mohite’s Racing and Vishnu Prasad of MECO Racing, set up an intriguing battle for the pre-final and final rounds following the heats in the Senior Max category at the third round of the 11th JK Tyre-FMSCI National Rotax Max Karting Championship on Saturday. In daunting conditions with intermittent showers, local man Mandody won the first heat from Prasad before the latter got his own back in the second heat....
Joachim Low’s men defeated three lions in their own back yard with a brilliant header from Arsenal defender, Per Mertesacker. Just a few days ago, Chelsea man Andre Schurrle stated that Germany’s squad is too strong and perhaps even Wayne Rooney would not make it if he was German. “Rooney is a great player, but we have good quality, too, in every position, and maybe twice, so I don’t know if he would play,” he said....
The Ligue 1 side had thrashed Celtic 5-0 and comfortably beaten giants Bayern Munich in their previous Group B games, before Anderlecht became the latest team to suffer at the hands of Mbappe, Neymar and Edinson Cavani. All three were on the scoresheet in Belgium, with Mbappe netting a record eighth goal in the competition as a teenager, and the France international headed home happy. “Not every game can be like the one against Bayern,” he said....
