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Preakness winner Exaggerator will run in the Belmont on June 11, trainer Keith Desormeaux confirmed. He’ll ship straight to Elmont, N.Y., from Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore instead of returning to Southern California in between races. Nyquist’s trainer, Doug O’Neill, said it’s a possibility the Kentucky Derby winner will race for the third jewel of the Triple Crown in a rubber match against Exaggerator. MORE: Watch the historic 2015 Belmont | Triple Crown winners...

Yes, the Triple Crown races are being run out of their traditional order for the first time since the early 1930s, but the Belmont Stakes specifically is experiencing significant change in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic pushed Belmont back two weeks from its original date, and the race will be a shorter distance — now 1 1/8 miles instead of the traditional 1 1/2 miles. “The way it fits in the calendar, it’s a completely different race than the traditional Belmont would be,” New York Racing Association president and CEO Dave O’Rourke said last month....

Due to an injury he suffered last season, the Steelers quarterback is now expected to miss four to six weeks after undergoing knee surgery on Monday, ESPN reported Wednesday. MORE: Week 7 picks against the spread Roethlisberger left Sunday’s loss in Miami before eventually returning in the third quarter to finish the game. It was later revealed he has a torn meniscus in his left knee that required what was described as a “clean up procedure” but wouldn’t keep him sidelined long....

Jordan Nolan had a goal and an assist. Justin Williams and Daniel Carcillo also scored goals for the Kings, who won their third straight game. Scrivens, acquired in a trade from the Toronto Maple Leafs in June 2013, made his first start of the season as regular goalie Jonathan Quick was given a rest. Scrivens last shutout was on Feb. 18, a 3-0 victory at Florida as a member of the Maple Leafs....

If you placed a bet that 76ers guard Ben Simmons would be traded to the Kings, which had the second-best odds at +400 odds heading into this season, well, we’ve got some bad news for you. (Note: Minnesota had the best odds at +300.) While Sacramento has been active in trade conversations recently, the franchise does not want to move guards De’Aaron Fox or Tyrese Haliburton, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania....

Critics slammed Stein over the weekend after he claimed that former presidents Donald Trump and Richard Nixon had been “kicked out of office.” His comments came while speaking with Lara Trump on her podcast The Right View late last week. “The thing that’s most apparent…is that both President Trump and President [Richard] Nixon were kicked out of office for doing exactly nothing wrong,” Stein told the podcast’s host. “It was just a lynch mob that was assembled on the words of some crank people who happened to be highly placed in the media....

Much like in the stories he told in the book, Utecht said, it caught him by surprise when he realized it, and that worried him badly. “‘Where in the world is this coming from?’” Utecht, in an interview with Sporting News, recalled asking co-author Mark Tabb. “‘I didn’t tell you this story.’" MORE: Faces of NFL’s head trauma crisis “Well, I got it in my interview with your mother," he was told....

That’s saying a lot, considering the seasons the Cardinals, Packers, Panthers and others are having. But 3-7-1 doesn’t lie. They haven’t won in more than a month, and since Oct. 1, they’re 1-5-1. The one win is over the no-win Browns. MORE: Bengals-Ravens stats, info, highlights They went into the year with five straight playoff trips. They began last season 8-0 and ran away with the title in arguably the most physically demanding division in the NFL....

Late in the second quarter, Bengals’ safety Shawn Williams stepped on the leg of Dolphins offensive lineman Solomon Kindley. Based on the sequence shown on the CBS broadcast camera, it appears possible that Williams intentionally stomped his foot on Kindley’s leg while the lineman lay prone on the ground. Here’s the footage: Williams (No. 36) initially stumbles over Kindley (No. 66) while falling over a pile of players. The first contact is definitely innocent....

In a high-profile Sunday afternoon matchup, the Bengals came out on top 27-24 in the battle of AFC powerhouses. That’s the score by which Cincinnati won the AFC championship game last season. Sunday’s game was a pivotal one in the AFC playoff picture, on multiple fronts. The Chiefs’ loss moved the Bills to the top seed in the AFC and dropped Kansas City to second. The Bengals stayed tied with the Ravens atop the AFC North and the Dolphins in the wild-card race ahead of a daunting stretch of games....

According to NFL Media, which cited an unidentified source, the Bengals have signed the running back to a two-year contract extension worth $10.3 million. The report noted Bernard will get a raise from $3.4 million to $5.9 million this season. The deal also includes a $600,000 bonus due in March. Bernard was set to enter the final year of his contract before the deal was finalized. Bernard, 27, was selected by the Bengals in the second round of the 2013 draft and has averaged 4....

On November 19, the city of El Paso categorized the incident as an “aggravated robbery.” Last Friday, Bernard Christmann, 50, was arrested in connection with the death of Juan Anzaldo, 49, who was standing by his car in the El Paso Airport parking lot after his work shift. Police identified the cause of death as “blunt force trauma” to Anzaldo’s head. In their investigation, police said Anzaldo was in a relationship with Christmann’s wife....

NEWSWEEK: You just returned from the United States. Tell us about the differences in the way the book was received there and in France. LEVY: In the States, the book’s reception was a lot more intense and emotional. American journalists carry the death of Pearl in themselves like an open wound. In France, Pearl is someone whose name people hardly remembered. In the United States, it’s as if I was coming to tell people about [the story of] one of their relatives, a brother, a son or a best friend....

Sanders has garnered 34 delegates and emerged as the clear front-runner after winning the popular vote in the first three Democratic presidential primary contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. A new CBS/YouGov national poll released one day after his decisive Nevada caucuses victory shows Sanders with 28 percent of Democratic voter support, Warren in second with 19 percent, and former Vice President Joe Biden in third with 17 percent....

Speaking to a crowd of mostly African Americans at the Young Leaders Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, Sanders described his family background as being Jewish and from Poland. “My father’s whole family was wiped out by Hitler and his white nationalism,” said Sanders, who is one of many Democratic presidential hopefuls in 2020. “Too many people have fought over the years, too many people have died against racism to let it resurface and flourish in America....

Sanders has been criticized during the Democratic debates for not fully explaining how he will pay for programs like his “Medicare for All” health care plan or his proposal to address climate change, commonly known as the “Green New Deal.” In advance of Tuesday night’s debate in Charleston, South Carolina, Sanders’ website includes more details on how he expects to fund his plans. If Sanders is elected, the candidate says the Green New Deal will cost $16....

Sanders, speaking remotely on Friday night’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, said American workers laid off or furloughed as a result of the coronavirus lockdown should “continue to receive 100 percent of your paycheck.” The Vermont senator said he and other members of Congress are currently putting together an “unprecedented piece of legislation” to save the U.S. from total economic and social collapse. He agreed with host Bill Maher that President Donald Trump is favoring states whose governors are “nice” to him by sending them more COVID-19 medical supplies....

Fortunately, our full free agent list features a few players you have heard of, including Kyren Williams, Treylon Burks, DeAndre Carter, Zay Jones, and Jameson Williams, but if those guys are still on your waiver wire at this point in the season, chances are you’re not too excited by them even if you should be. You might be more interested in our Week 13 streamer recommendations. There are just two teams on bye in Week 13 (Panthers, Cardinals), but we still have a good number of one-week fill-ins, especially at defense....

Our full free agent list is packed with potential streamers at QB, WR, TE, and D/ST because you never know the situations of owners who have made their title game. Every year there are unlikely heroes in Week 16, and this year, it could be O.J. Howard, Myles Gaskin, Steven Sims Jr., Greg Ward, Ryan Fizpatrick, or Kerryon Johnson, among others. You can find the QB, TE, and D/ST streamers at the end of the list....