The Packers running back and fellow running back Alonzo Harris both were out past curfew on Wednesday night, according to ESPN.com, citing sources. The Packers cut Harris hours before kickoff, while Lacy fell behind James Stark on the depth chart. MORE: 2015’s most questionable calls | Week 13 predictions | Fantasy RB rankings Lacy saw only 19 snaps and only touched the ball six times, gaining one total yard. Rookie John Crockett ended up taking Lacy’s place behind Starks in the second half....

The duo combined for five points in Saturday’s 5-4 overtime loss to the Dallas Stars and is now producing at 3.77 points per game, having already combined for 83 points through 22 games this season. Edmonton is also benefiting greatly, as the team leads the Pacific Division with a 13-6-3 record and 29 points on the season. “[Draisaitl’s] a fun guy to play with,” McDavid said earlier in the season of his linemate....

August has been kind to Encarnacion, who extended his hitting streak to an MLB-leading 24 games, which is also the fifth-longest in Blue Jays history. Encarnacion also joined Roy Howell as the only other Blue Jay to have nine RBIs in a game. MORE: 10 greatest Blue Jays of all time | Blue Jays home run montage set to Johnny Cash is awesome Encarnacion has seven home runs and 25 RBIs this month and has raised his average from ....

The 28-year-old, who made his 16th appearance this season for the Hibs, with Adam Barton’s own goal gifting them the win. The Nigerian, who has continued to enjoy a regular place in Neil Lennon’s squad, missed a great chance to score but he promised to take his opportunities next time. “It was a great win for us and I feel very happy and proud of the performance of my teammates with the result,” Ambrose told Goal....

“This is a dark comedy,” said Hamdeen Sabahy, an opposition M.P. in the People’s Assembly and head of the Nasserist Karama Party, as he walked away from the protest. “We are all simply actors in a play of democracy,” he said. “A poorly directed play,” added a fellow parliamentarian. It’s a drama that will enter its denouement earlier than expected, as Egyptians head to the polls on Monday for a rushed referendum on amendments championed by five-term Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak....

Conceivably, Chirac and his allies might win a parliamentary majority, which could stabilize the government, but if they fall short, they might be tempted to forge coalitions with Le Pen’s partisans. The worst-case scenario? France could find itself with a Parliament so divided that no clear majority exists and no lasting coalition can be formed. The president will be able to appoint a prime minister and cabinet, but legislation would require ad hoc coalitions for every measure, and under the Constitution no new elections could be held for more than a year....

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred told MLB Network recently that the technology for a computerized strike zone has improved and would be rolled out in the minors next season, the report says. “Here’s our thinking on the automated strike zone: The technology exists. We have the technology,” Manfred said on MLB Network. “We’re actually going through a big upgrade of that piece of our technology during this offseason. I think we need to be ready to use an automated strike zone when the time is right....

In an open letter for The Players’ Tribune, the Mystics star revealed she felt “hurt” after a panel of physicians denied her request to opt out of the 2020 WNBA season for medical reasons. Delle Donne suffers from Lyme disease and says she must take 64 pills each day in order keep herself healthy enough to continue playing the game she loves. “Longterm, taking that much medicine on that regular of a regimen is just straight-up bad for you,” Delle Donne wrote....

NFL Combine inquiries are often stupid, yes, but calculated. An attempt to measure a man in the places untouched by the physical exams, the drills, the body-probing cattle call. And no matter the intention of the Falcons assistant who asked Apple, “So do you like men?” — to rib him, to rattle him, to test him, to out him — the repercussion remains the same: The question was asked, and any gay or bisexual NFL prospects will fairly wonder, “Why?...

The Broncos quarterback hasn’t exactly gotten off to the best start in Denve. Wilson has thrown just two touchdowns to an interception through three games as the new-look Denver offense has sputtered to put points on the board, or even move the ball in the early goings. Well, Eli Manning has taken notice of the Broncos’ offensive woes and is wondering about a certain reallocation of resources surrounding Wilson’s contract....

I know from experience — the play, once dubbed the most dangerous in sports, was the bane of my high school football career, some of which was spent as a front-line pin waiting to get bowled over in the return wedge. My job, literally, was to absorb a member of the kickoff team whose job, literally, was to slam as hard as possible into me in an effort to break the wedge....

But the greatest Elizabeth I may well be Cate Blanchett, who became an international star with her 1998 portrayal in Shekhar Kapur’s “Elizabeth.” Now she’s back on the throne in the second installment of Kapur’s potential trilogy, “Elizabeth: the Golden Age,” playing the monarch at middle age, in full command of her intellect, wit and subtle ability to manipulate her courtiers—if not in full control of her heart. That the story of a queen dead for 400 years still captivates our imagination might be surprising—until you realize that here in the Colonies, we’re just coming to grips with the possibility of the first woman president....

Sanders denied making the statement, calling it “incomprehensible.” “Well, as a matter of fact I didn’t say it,” Sanders said. “Anybody who knows me knows that it’s incomprehensible that I would think that a woman cannot be president of the United States. Go to YouTube today. There’s some video of me 30 years ago talking about how a woman could become president of the United States.” Sanders then told the audience how he “stayed back” during a 2015 movement to draft Warren into the election....

The former Democratic primary candidate also said the GOP was trying to appoint Barrett before election day to “advance an extremist agenda” beyond 2020. The Quote “Senate Republicans have better things to do than pass a relief package, things like steal a Supreme Court seat. “Here’s the ugly truth: Donald Trump and his Republican buddies know that confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the nation’s highest court is their path to advance an extremist agenda, long after the country is fed up and disgusted with their failures....

In said clip, taken from his win over Dmitry Popko on Saturday, Benchetrit asks the ball girl to peel a banana for him. The tennis umpire, John Blom, apparently tells him to peel it himself. It appears as if the two have a brief back-and-forth before Benchetrit eventually just peels it himself. MORE: Serena Williams powers through first round of Australian Open Several users on social media reacted to the clip with one saying, “Too right....

This figure is the total combined value of Big Tech that has been wiped off this week amid stock market losses as tech companies reported poor earnings, according to a briefing by TradingView, a social network of traders and investors. However, Apple managed to achieve revenue and earnings that exceeded analysts’ expectations. Meanwhile, Meta, Facebook’s parent company, reported a decline in its profit margins amid a decrease in advertising revenue and rising costs....

The world’s richest man has acquired a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, worth about $2.89 billion at Friday’s closing price, according to a Forbes report. Twitter shares surged by 25 percent. Conservatives wasted no time in calling on Musk to reinstate Donald Trump’s Twitter account. On March 25, Musk held a Twitter poll and shared it with his 80.2 million followers. “Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?...

In a brief Twitter exchange with Portnoy, Musk insisted that he had “not sold any” of his own Bitcoin and that the fact that Tesla sold off 10 percent of its holdings recently, which the company disclosed in a first-quarter 2021 earnings release, had been intended to prove the cryptocurrency’s ability to be used as a liquid asset instead of traditional currency. “So am I understanding this correctly? @elonmusk buys #bitcoin....

Tesla’s CEO plugged his appearance next week on Saturday Night Live by tweeting, “The Dogefather SNL May 8.” The media yelped, yowled and howled in response. And Dogecoin’s price jumped 20% to $0.32—almost as satisfying as a tasty bone, but still 28.89% below its record high of $0.45 reached earlier this month. For all but the joke coin’s true believers, its hefty percentage increases in the past aren’t statistically significant because it’s off a small base....

The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX made waves in the worlds of business and technology when Bloomberg reported that he had acquired a roughly 9 percent stake in Twitter. According to a regulatory filing released on Monday, the investment was made on March 14, making Musk the largest single outside investor in the social media giant. Later in March, Musk polled his massive Twitter following, asking if they believe Twitter “rigorously adheres” to free speech principles....