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A face-freezing wind whipped through Spartan Stadium and knocked the temperature down to 21 with the wind chill. Michigan State’s spring game felt more like a November homecoming outside, but Dantonio made sure to keep the competition as heated as possible inside those lines. On a third down in the second quarter, Dantonio tweaked a red-zone situation in a one-score game to give the offense an advantage, and he urged fans who validated their fan cards for the 2018 season through this spring rite of passage to get involved....

Starting running back Mark Ingram, who totaled 92 yards from scrimmage in the win, was twice denied a chance to score a touchdown when Sean Payton subbed Tim Hightower in to finish the job. Ingram, after the second Hightower score, was caught verbally berating his coach on the sideline before being ushered away by a teammate. The sixth-year veteran was fuming after the encounter, quickly pacing by the bench trying to calm himself....

Mark Sanchez underwent surgery Saturday to repair a torn ligament in the thumb on his left (non-throwing) hand, the team announced Monday. He hurt his thumb in the team weight room during a workout last week. MORE: Better to start or sit franchise QB? | Rookies eye vets’ jobs The timetable for Sanchez’s return is unclear, though the team expects him back sometime before organized team activities conclude June 13-16....

A home run off the bat of Marlins outfielder Marcell Ozuna landed in the pool of the Clevelander, a bar just beyond the left-field wall at Marlins Park. This enthusiastic fan dived in, but not before giving fans in attendance a free show. MORE: Must-see stats from MLB’s April The fan was beaten out by a fellow Marlins supporter, who chose to remain clothed, diving in from the right....

Jose Fernandez would be proud. Faced with unthinkable adversity, teammates of the late Miami Marlins ace played with the emotion and passion he exemplified on a daily basis. And in their first game since Fernandez’s tragic death Sunday, the Marlins honored the 24-year-old before, during and after a 7-3 win over the New York Mets at Marlins Park. After a moving pregame ceremony, Dee Gordon connected on his first home run of the season on just the third pitch of the game, crying as he rounded the bases before being embraced by his teammates....

Schick has hit three goals in his last four Sampdoria appearances to reach double figures in Serie A and the 21-year-old is regarded as one of the league’s hottest talents. Dybala: I’m not at Del Piero’s level But while Marotta said Schick is a player who is on Juve’s radar, he has refuted reports suggesting that the club have met with Sampdoria to agree a deal for the Czech Republic international at the end of the season....

The former running back is unfiltered in a video produced by DigitalTrends, in which he rides around with a host and tests cars. He was his full self in front of the cameras as he sat in the passenger seat while the vehicles went off-road and beyond. The first car they drove around was the Volvo XC90. NFC PREDICTIONS: Where will Seahawks finish? “Oh I wanna try too, bruh. Oh, hell yeah!...

America has always had a love-hate relationship with Martha Stewart, with her maddeningly perfect hand-carved ice wreaths and Scandinavian cloudberry cakes. But now the multimedia domestic goddess is serving up a tasty new dish the tabloids are devouring. Here’s the recipe for what the New York Post calls “Martha’s Stewing.” First, whip in the Wall Street scandal du jour: the arrest last week of Martha’s old pal, former ImClone CEO Samuel Waksal, for insider trading....

Arsenal and Madrid were wrong to snub Draxler The Frenchman impressed in his first season after joining from Monaco and was a rare bright light in an otherwise underwhelming 2015-16 campaign for United. He has struggled to build on that form this season, though, and has featured only sparingly under Jose Mourinho. The 21-year-old’s limited opportunities fuelled speculation he could move on, but United favourite Neville has urged the attacker – who scored one and set up the other in Saturday’s 2-0 win over the Hornets – to step up and prove his worth....

Essentially, Truex is the sheriff of a one-horse town, since his team has just one car, the No. 78 Chevy he pilots for Furniture Row racing. Can a loner win NASCAR’s championship? MORE: Drivers in trouble entering Kansas | Schedule, TV this week | Standings Let’s not jump to conclusions, but Truex has the bona fides to suggest he can do just that. Just so you know the caveat, Truex still must keep his position in the Chase’s top eight drivers through this week’s race at Kansas and next week at Talladega....

Shy has a conversational style that seems to bring the reader in the room with Rodgers. One feels that she is just chatting away, letting whatever comes out of her mouth go down unedited. [Not true: It was really edited and expertly so.] Rodgers comes off as a charming, highly intelligent and cultured Lucy Van Pelt, and 458 pages is hardly enough time to spend with her. I never met Mary Rodgers and have only seen a few video clips of her, but in these pages her voice comes across loud and clear....

The initiatives include actions for enhanced safety and enforcement measures, increased access to community resources and additional tools for educators and students. “Our Asian-American community is facing challenges worse than they have seen in decades,” Hogan said at a news conference. “The actions that we’re announcing here today are the beginning. We will use every tool at our disposal to help provide additional protection to those who are impacted by these crimes....

Disappointment ensued. No. 5 Virginia forced overtime, forcing the fans back to their seats to see if the Terrapins could rebound from the letdown to pull off an upset against the best team in the league. And that is precisely what happened. MORE: Conference Tournament Week schedule & results | Meet the auto-bids Maryland closed out its 61st and final ACC regular season in stunning fashion, outlasting the Cavaliers 75-69 in overtime Sunday to end Virginia's 13-game winning streak....

Where does that leave Maserati? The Modena, Italy-based company was recently collected up in the PSA Group-Fiat Chrysler Automobiles merger and sits as one of the luxury brands offered by the new Stellantis corporation. Its stable is aging, but a shining star emerged last year in the shape of the MC20 supercar. The coupe’s flashy lines and new-age aesthetic made enthusiasts sit up and take notice. This year at Pebble, the brand showed the car as a spyder - the MC20 Cielo - in an eye-catching Aqua Marina three-stage paint color....

All this, while Oklahoma State’s Mason Rudolph patiently awaits the opportunity to steal his spotlight. MORE: How Rudolph beat the ‘system’ at OSU Rudolph returned to Oklahoma State and the bevy of weapons he has at his disposal in Stillwater after toying with entering the 2017 NFL Draft, and has already shown he’ll be Mayfield’s primary competitor for the Heisman Trophy this season. Here’s a breakdown of what makes Rudolph such a dangerous quarterback:...

The union of lawyers represents two immigrant advocacy groups, Centro Presente and the Pioneer Valley Workers Center, who join together to claim that the Trump Administration’s new expansion of deportation powers are a violation of their clients’ due process rights. Lawyers for Civil Rights, established in the 1960s during the civil rights movement, reported that thousands of members of both Centro Presente and the Pioneer Valley Workers Center have been affected by the expansion of these laws, though they did not report if those members had been removed from the country....

Wildlife biologists at Fort Stewart captured an Eastern Indigo Snake, a Facebook post from the Georgia Southern University Department of Biology said. The snap, shared on Thursday, shows a man holding up the black serpent, which measured 7 feet 7 inches long. The impressive specimen was hailed by the team, who called it “undoubtedly one of the most magnificent animals in our region.” And despite its impressive size, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) confirmed the animals aren’t venomous, and are in fact “harmless....

The GOP congressman also told Fox News’ The Next Revolution that Trump had an “obligation” to file lawsuits against all “true” examples of election fraud, arguing that the Republican Party would not be able to win an election again if he didn’t litigate. The Quote “We’ve got to remember Donald Trump has built a great Republican Party. It’s a party that is doing better with Hispanics and African Americans than it has in a generation....

The allegations against Gaetz involve a possible sexual relationship with a 17-year-old, The New York Times reported citing anonymous sources on Tuesday. The allegations further accused Gaetz of paying for the individual to travel with him. Transporting a minor over state lines for sexual activity would violate federal sex trafficking laws. The publication stated that Gaetz was merely a subject of a broader investigation focused on Joel Greenberg. Greenberg is a former-tax collector in Florida and a supporter of Gaetz who was indicted last summer on charges involving child sex trafficking....

Penguins coach Mike Sullivan offered little detail after practice Tuesday other than to report the latest time frame for Murray’s injury. Murray was hurt in a second-period collision with Flyers forward Jakub Voracek. This is the fifth injury for the 23-year-old Murray in less than two years. Last year, he broke his hand during the preseason World Cup of Hockey, then suffered a lower-body injury during the regular season and another more serious lower-body injury – believed to be a torn hamstring – at the start of the 2017 playoffs....