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Gruden and New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton were each pictured not wearing masks during the Raiders’ 34-24 victory on Monday. NFL Network reported that San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan, Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll and Denver Broncos boss Vic Fangio had all been handed fines for violating rules regarding wearing face masks during Sunday’s action. Each coach has been fined $100,000, with their respective teams docked $250,000....

The Raiders had four first round picks, starting with the No. 4 selection, after Gruden rearranged the team’s roster last season with head-scratching trades of Amari Cooper and Khalil Mack. There was also a question of whether Gruden would try to trade up for an even higher pick. While Kyler Murray was projected, and eventually chosen, as the No. 1 pick by the Cardinals, there was some buzz he could have dropped down the draft board....

Jones, who is on probation from a hit-and-run conviction last year, said on Monday’s MMA Hour he jokingly revved his engine while stopped at a red light for fans, but just after the light turned green, he was pulled over by police. MORE: 37 astonishing UFC photos During the traffic stop, things got heated between a police officer and Jones, who was warned this month by a judge not to get any other tickets....

In this week’s cover, Jon, who is now in remission, writes about his lymphoma, the way he lives with cancer and with the constant threat that it will return in force. The essay was prompted by word of the recurrence of Elizabeth Edwards’s and Tony Snow’s cancers, developments that put a fresh light on what is all too drearily familiar to families fighting the disease. Journalists are generally observers. We sit just outside the arena, looking in, trying to maintain a certain perspective....

Rahm finished the tournament at 6-under par, just ahead of Louis Oosthuizen, who now has six second-place finishes in his career. Professional golfers finally began looking like everyday, recreational golfers Sunday afternoon during the back nine at the U.S. Open Championship at Torrey Pines in San Diego. What looked like a packed field getting ready to make a surge for a major title turned into the best golfers in the world shanking shots and trying to save par and not slip out of contention....

But, alas, he continues to make asinine decisions. After his altercation with Bryce Harper last season in which the closer choked the eventual NL MVP for not running out a pop-up, he was scheduled last week to attend a press conference to make public amends. Seems fair enough, right? Well, according to the Washington Post, the Nationals had to tell the 3-year-old … err, sorry, 34-year-old closer to change clothes first....

The Blackhawks were dealt another major setback Tuesday with the announcement that team captain Jonathan Toews is out indefinitely while he deals with a “medical issue.” There’s no word on the severity or the specific issue that Toews is facing, but he won’t be with the team when they report on Jan. 3. “Jonathan’s health is our top priority as he deals with this medical issue,” Chicago GM Stan Bowman said in a statement....

On Twitter, Peterson shared scenes from the Volume 9 #28 comic, which was published last week, and said Coates had used “a parody of [Peterson’s] ideas as part of the philosophy of the arch-villain Red Skull.” Peterson was made aware of the Red Skull scene on Twitter when earlier this week, sociologist Nicholas A. Christakis quoted an article from The Atlantic that said: “Certain elements of our community are threatening to get people fired....

Down 23-9 in the third quarter, the Washington tight end got tangled up — read as “mandhandled” — with Panthers safety Kurt Coleman and bopped him right on the helmet with a right cross. MORE: Updated playoff picture Reed looked ready to square up with just about everyone on the Panthers after decking Coleman, but the officials sent him off to an early shower before he got a chance to get a few more punches in....

The surgery was a cleanup procedure on his hip and took place after the Pro Bowl. McCarthy said the recovery time was expected to be six to eight weeks. According to ESPN’s Jason Wilde, the Packers’ leading receiver last season was seen on crutches while attending a Bucks game. STEELE: Coaches still ready to gamble on risky players — if they’re good enough Given the timetable for recovery, Nelson should be good to go by the time training camp rolls around in late July....

Host Mark Strassmann asked if Posada resented the players who didn’t play clean and achieved the records he didn’t. MORE: Bonds could have helped your team in 2008 | Posada ‘hurt’ by Yankees | A-Rod act of kindness “Yeah,” he said. “You know, the only thing that I can think is 2003. You know, I was close to the MVP. Didn’t happen. Alex [Rodriguez] won the MVP and, you know, I think second was either Carlos Delgado or David Ortiz, I don’t remember....

The Astros and Yankees are finishing up a three-game set in the Bronx, the first time Houston has been in New York in front of fans since news broke of their cheating scandal during their World Series winning season in 2017. Yankee fans are, understandably, still more than a bit salty about the Astros upending them in the 2017 ALCS (especially if there was foul play afoot), and have greeted Astros hitters with NSFW chants during the Series....

But not this one. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2016 Jose Fernandez was a great ballplayer and a better man. He had an electric arm, but what I remember most about him is his big heart. He was passionate about the game and he was a bigtime competitor, as we saw when he hit his first big league home run in 2013, as he watched the ball clear the fences, because he knew it was gone....

“I am sure it is a four-horse race now. They have a big advantage because they don’t play in the Champions League,” said Mourinho of Liverpool “If Brendan has a chihuahua it is one that trains a lot and rests a lot. The other dogs, they don’t train a lot because they play a lot and they don’t rest because they play every three days.” “And when the Barclays Premier League goes to the crucial point, we all will have to play Champions League at the same time....

A Sunday afternoon crowd that was still filing into the ballpark at Coney Island offered a quiet reaction, mostly for a lack of attention to the lineup being read. Those who did make noise offered warm applause for the player who was beloved in New York from the time he debuted with the Mets a day before his 20th birthday in 2003 until he won the National League batting title in 2011....

From there, Levitt would go on to feature in The Brother’s Bloom, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and Knives Out. Rounding out the cast of Looper, Levitt starred alongside Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Noah Segan, Jeff Daniels, Piper Perabo, Paul Dano, Pierce Gagnon, and Garret Dillahunt. The world of Looper is set in a strange time loop, one in which time travel has yet to be invented yet. However, in the future, time travel has been discovered and is being used by the Kansas City crime syndicate as a means to send targets back to be executed in a time zone in which they cease to exist....

Blue Jays slugger Josh Donaldson went off on the Twins in Sunday’s 9-6 home win. MORE: Mike Trout makes a kid’s day Donaldson, nicknamed “Bringer of Rain,” lived up to the billing by blasting three home runs and driving in four runs to help the Blue Jays stay ahead in the tight American League East race. The reigning AL MVP got off to a bit of a slow start this season, but he has made up for lost time and now has 33 home runs and 91 RBIs....

The first report surfaced on NBC, from Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio, minutes before the San Diego Chargers met the Oakland Raiders. Freeman had indicated to at least two news outlets on Saturday that he planned to make a decision sometime Sunday night, after talking to several teams over the weekend. MORE: Best images | Who has brighter future – Freeman or Schiano? | Bucs release Freeman Minnesota, 1-3, had a bye this week after winning its first game in London last week over Pittsburgh....

Hawley criticized Wray during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing and described the Trump-appointed FBI Director’s behavior as “absolutely unbelievable” and “indefensible.” “Why did FBI Director Chris Wray refuse to answer Senators’ questions & run out of an oversight hearing early? Because he had to get to vacation in the Adirondacks. On a government jet,” Hawley wrote in a tweet in which he shared a clip of Thursday’s hearing....

The journeyman quarterback has played for a record 14 NFL teams — an incredible 43.75 percent of the league’s franchises. The signal-caller, who began his career with the Buccaneers in 2008, has since gone on to carve a longstanding niche role throughout the league. Johnson’s latest stop is with the 49ers, who signed him to a one-year deal off the Broncos’ practice squad following the injury to Jimmy Garoppolo in Week 13....