In a recent interview with SportsDay DFW’s podcast, Steinberg said Manziel’s future in pro football is riding on the young quarterback getting meaningful help. MORE: AFC Division predictions | Peterson bemoans ‘boring’ offseason work “I think it’s pretty clear he’s in a state of denial and at the root of it is some form of addictive behavior. We’re never clear why he went to rehab but I assume most people don’t go there for a hangnail,” Steinberg said, referring to Manziel’s brief time in rehab in early 2015....

MORE: Ranking the top 40 college football players for 2016 You can watch the video and decide for yourself what to think. Both guys appear a little too composed for it to be an all-out brawl, reminiscent of the early days of the late, great Kimbo Slice’s career in South Florida, but regardless of whether it was a silly game of slapboxing or something more sinister, it was certainly stupid....

Jacksonville went 5-11 and missed the playoffs a year after making it to the AFC Championship game. The lowly record, Fournette says, humbled the team. The third-year running back, who was selected by the Jaguars as the fourth-overall pick in the 2017 draft, also admitted the team didn’t bring the right intensity and mindset entering the 2018 season. “I think we appreciate last season overall,” Fournette said after the team’s practice Saturday....

The Cougars already have an active list of candidates to fill the vacant head coaching position, including former LSU coach Les Miles and Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin, ESPN.com reported. MORE: Looking at the coaching changes (so far) in 2016 The report noted that Miles has long track record of recruiting Texas in previous jobs at LSU and Oklahoma State. Houston board of regents chairman Tilman Fertitta didn’t reveal too much about Miles when asked by the Houston Chronicle, but did acknowledge he is part of a short list of candidates that includes “five or six names....

His team already trailing 21-0 at halftime, Bills running back LeSean McCoy took a hit to his right knee on the second play of the third quarter against the Redskins. McCoy did jog off the field but was later ruled out for the remainder of the game at FedEx Field. MORE: NFL injury impact meter | Seahawks’ Marshawn Lynch reportedly rehabbing with MMA coach The bad news for the Bills is they lost, 35-25....

When my wife, Hind, an Arab-born psychologist, came to Syria this year as a Fulbright Scholar to lecture at the University of Damascus and to do research on the world view of young Syrians, I accompanied her as a Roman Catholic, like her, eager to explore the cradle of Christianity. After wandering the safe streets of Syria at all hours of the day and night, we can testify that domestic peacefulness is a Syrian specialty....

And so do we all. Anyone with a mortgage took out that loan in the expectation of building wealth. Like Trump, you’re using “leverage”–putting up a little cash to control a truly major investment. But loans have to be serviced, and that’s what this ’90s morality play is all about. Merv Griffin’s Resorts International went bankrupt because he couldn’t make his payments. Robert Campeau lies under the ruins of Allied and Federated stores....

Today’s global business environment brings people together from across diverse cultures. If business people and leaders want to succeed, they must navigate an often quite bewildering maze of cultural expectations, customs and business practices. It takes savvy and down-in-the-trenches experience to learn the essential insights for conducting business with anyone, anywhere in the world. My experience has taught me some enduring but simple lessons of global trade. One of the most crucial is the importance of leverage....

All that sensitivity and grit may be bad news for Harvard. For 33 years, the “Let’s Go” travel guides written by Harvard students have been peerless arbiters of penny-wise, street-smart travel. Now “On the Loose” executive editor Andrew Barbour, 29, and his student staff are determined to unseat what Barbour calls Harvard’s “appalling glorified Yellow Pages.” Both guides have the basics of modern tourism down, from visas to VD clinics....

The positive side of a special prosecutor is that he is independent of the attorney general and other high-ranking justice department officials who were appointed by the incumbent president and can be fired or promoted by him. This is not to suggest that any of these people would be overtly influenced by a political consideration rather than by the rule of law. Such bias is, of course possible, either at a conscious or unconscious level, but even if it did not exist in reality, the widespread perception would be that it was there....

On Saturday, Fury controversially drew his Los Angeles fight with Deontay Wilder for the American’s WBC heavyweight title. Despite many feeling that Fury, who twice had to get off the canvas, had controlled the fight, only one judge scored in his favor in a contentious ruling. A rematch with Wilder is a very realistic possibility with the winner then perhaps facing Joshua, who holds the IBF, WBA and WBO titles formerly held by Fury, later in 2019....

Drinking games were invented for just such confluences of verbosity, ego and idiocy. MORE: Curt Schilling blasts Hillary, Trump | NASCAR’s France endorses Trump Mexico is going to pay for it: shot. Washington cartel: shot. This administration has been a disaster: shot. We don’t win any more: Two shots. Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump especially likes to say the same nothing again and again (so designate a driver if you play), and his favorite word is great....

The fight was billed as a brawl between former Miami street fighters. It was supposed to be a freak show. But Kimbo Slice and Dada 5000 were too out of shape for that. The end result was a confusing, embarrassing display of, well, something. Just not mixed martial arts. MORE: Fighters turned actors | Groin strike causes controversy in Gracie vs. Shamrock 3 I am an avid MMA fan. Fellow SN writer Sean Gentille is not....

Proponents of the lethal injection method had called it a more humane way of carrying out death sentences. But as noted in a report published in The New York Times just hours after Brooks died on December 7, 1982, his death did not appear to be painless. A total of 1,377 inmates have been put to death with a lethal injection in the past 40 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC)....

So it was with decidedly mixed feelings that I found myself at what is billed as America’s largest literary gathering, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, an annual event that overwhelms the UCLA campus on the last weekend in April. Could the home of Hollywood and Burbank, capital of the mass-entertainment industry, better known for its trivial game shows and glittering but insubstantial soirees, truly celebrate something as solitary and unglamorous as reading?...

“I was praying with my wife last night that these terrorists would not turn out to be Arabs,” a taxi driver named Hassan told me as we drove through the alleys of Nablus’s old bazaar district, which was eerily subdued and nearly devoid of shoppers at 4 p.m. The driver feared that the attack could spark a wave of anti-Arab hatred in the United States and Europe, he said, and prompt a fierce crackdown on Palestinians by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon while the world remained preoccupied with the American tragedy....

Last week the Federal Communications Commission fundamentally rearranged that neat chart, opening the door for networks to buy into cable. Rather than having an affiliate in Boise or Topeka, the nets could feed their programs directly into their own cable systems, eliminating the need to pay fees to local stations. Although CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox will still face limits–they can’t have cable systems in cities where they own stations and may not own systems serving more than 10 percent of households with cable access-they could, at least in theory, keep some of their most popular programs away from their affiliates....

This year, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS)’s fundraising platform is going virtual. The organization is hosting a 31-day Team In Training Re(solution) Challenge to help create community and promote fitness while raising awareness and funds for cancer research. The LLS Virtual Fitness Challenge The free online event, which takes place throughout the month of January, is the second installment of the LLS Virtual Challenge Series. It encourages participants from all over the world to pick a sport or activity to help meet a preset mileage goal, which is tracked using a personalized fundraising page that can be shared with friends and family, who can make donations and cheer them on....

House Democrats on Tuesday night released new evidence obtained by Parnas, who, along with fellow Giuliani associate Igor Fruman, was indicted last October for allegedly illegally transferring foreign funds to American politicians. The trove of documents included voicemails, text messages and photos that related to the alleged surveillance of former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch by Giuliani associates, which is believed to have occurred before her employment was terminated by Trump....

Parnas, who became a central figure in the scandal resulting in Trump’s 2019 impeachment, made the remarks to author and investigative journalist Vicky Ward. In the interview, published in Ward’s Substack newsletter, Parnas said the U.S. and Eastern Europe would look different had Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy bowed to Trump’s pressure to open an investigation into Biden over the business dealing of his son, Hunter Biden. “That Zelensky didn’t fold, I think, saved Ukraine and saved the world,” said Parnas....