Новости за 14.11.2016

NEW YORK — The filmmaker and playwright Kenneth Lonergan, a self-described “ultra-naturalist” whose eloquently empathic stories tremble with the richness of daily life, began his writing career, surprisingly, awash in science fiction.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Matt Johns will be Virginia’s starting quarterback on Saturday at Georgia Tech.

ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia’s upset of then-No. 8 Auburn gave fans and recruits a much-needed glimpse of where first-year coach Kirby Smart hopes to take the program.

LAKE FOREST, Ill. — The NFL has suspended Chicago Bears receiver Alshon Jeffery four games without pay for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances, another big blow for a struggling team.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Nick Saban doesn’t want to leave Alabama’s fate in the hands of a committee.

NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump is promising restraint on Twitter but showing few signs of letting up on the tweetstorms that served as a pillar of his winning White House campaign, an approach to social media that could take presidential discourse into unchartered territory.

Financial security isn’t a number or a threshold. It has to do with what you spend, and save, relative to your income.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The Indiana Hoosiers spent the first eight games taking expert care of the football.

President-elect Donald Trump said in a Sunday interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” — taped Friday — that he would be “very restrained” when it comes to Twitter. But he has offered a variety of messages on the social media site since then, raising questions about how restrained he might be on Twitter when he becomes president in January 2017. Here’s a look at some of Trump’s tweets in recent days:

PITTSBURGH — As a general rule, Pittsburgh kicker Chris Blewitt tries to steer clear of social media. He logs onto Facebook only occasionally, joking he likes something every couple of months so people know he’s still alive. Twitter is pretty much out. Consider it an act of self-preservation to avoid the all-too-convenient puns that pop up whenever one of his kicks sails wide of the mark.

NEW YORK — A man imprisoned for 20 years for a killing he said he didn’t come within 1,000 miles of committing got the case dismissed Monday, though he didn’t get the vindication he wanted.

LINCOLN, Neb. — A big win over Minnesota seemed to lift the cloud that had settled over No. 19 Nebraska.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The pregame coin toss each week has provided insight into the injury problems that have hampered Tennessee all season.

AMES, Iowa — Establishing the run has been something Iowa State has wanted to accomplish all season.

LOS ANGELES — The TV lovers in your life deserve holiday gifts that recognize their passion.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Colts enjoyed a perfect bye weekend.

Players spent time with their families. They got a chance to relax a bit and ponder this season’s final sprint.

Now it’s time to get back to work — and back in the playoff hunt.

“We have to win,” safety Mike Adams said Monday. “You look around the league and playoff football has already started. So we have to do what we have to do to win.”

It sure hasn’t been easy to do that this season.

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BARCELONA, Spain — Everybody is talking about Lionel Messi’s possible departure from Barcelona when his contract expires in 2018.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Alex Smith was held to less than 200 yards passing with an interception, Spencer Ware was plugged up on the ground and the rest of the offense was rendered entirely ineffective.

“Ray & Joan” (Dutton), by Lisa Napoli

In 2012, journalist Lisa Napoli did a story about a peace monument in Santa Monica, California, that had fallen into disrepair. She soon learned the identity of the anonymous donor who had paid for it years before: Joan Kroc, heir to the McDonald’s hamburger fortune. Curiosity piqued, Napoli went looking for a biography of the philanthropist, only to discover that none existed. So she decided to tell the story herself.

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BISMARCK, N.D. — Officials locked down the North Dakota Capitol on Monday after opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline gathered there, one day before groups planned more than 200 protests at Army Corps of Engineers offices and other sites across the country.

JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. — Carson-Newman coach Ken Sparks has retired, ending a 37-season career in which he won 338 games to rank fifth on the NCAA’s all-time list.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A spokesman for Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry says he has been released from the hospital one week after having heart bypass surgery.

QAYARA, Iraq — On the main shopping street of the town of Qayara, murals put up by the Islamic State group that told people how to dress and behave have been hastily painted over. New signs touting nationalism and unity now line a main highway since Iraqi forces drove the extremists from the Tigris River Valley town in August.

Syracuse coach Dino Babers says he’s still awaiting the results of more tests on injured quarterback Eric Dungey.

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is visiting Turkmenistan, an energy-rich ex-Soviet Central Asian nation, for the first time.