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Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh is facing punishment from the NCAA for recruiting violations. (Rick Osentoski/USA TODAY Sports)

Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh and the NCAA are working toward a negotiated resolution that is expected to see him suspended four games this season in penalties stemming from alleged false statements he originally made to investigators, sources tell Yahoo Sports.

The agreement is an initial version of the negotiated resolution and is not yet finalized. The resolution must now be approved by the NCAA Committee on Infractions, which could take several days if not weeks. The committee has authority to adjust penalties.

Michigans first four games are all at home, with three against teams from the Group of Five (East Carolina, UNLV and Bowling Green). On Sept. 23, Michigan hosts a Rutgers team that finished 4-8 last season. The Wolverines, who return several key major pieces from the team that finished 13-1 a season ago, are expected to begin the year inside the top five of the preseason rankings.

Harbaughs impending suspension is centered on an NCAA investigation into recruiting violations committed by he and Wolverines staff members. The NCAA enforcement staff alleged that Harbaugh was dishonest about the recruiting violations in his initial meeting with investigators. A quick resolution broke down in January after Harbaugh refused to admit that he lied to NCAA staff. The 59-year-old coach has maintained he didnt recall the events when first speaking with investigators but that he was never purposefully dishonest.

The University of Michigan did not immediately respond when asked for comment.

A previous Harbaugh staff member did not escape unscathed. Former defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald, now the defensive coordinator for Harbaughs brother John at the Baltimore Ravens, is expected to receive a one-year show-cause penalty. Show-cause penalties make it more difficult for coaches to land jobs in college athletics.

Two current Michigan assistants are also expected to receive sanctions, including offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore and tight ends coach Grant Newsome.

For Harbaugh, the negotiated resolution is a signal that the coach acknowledged some sort of dishonesty. The NCAA considers lying to investigators as a Level I violation, the most serious on the organizations scale. A Level I violation could carry with it a six-game suspension and significant recruiting restrictions, according to NCAA statutes.

Harbaughs alleged initial cover-up was worse than the crime itself from the NCAA's perspective. In a notice of allegations sent to Michigan last year, the association cited four Level II violations, including meeting with two recruits during a COVID-19 dead period, texting a recruit outside of an allowable time period, having analysts perform on-field coaching duties during practice and having coaches watching players work out via Zoom.

Harbaugh eventually acknowledged that the program committed the Level II violations but refused to sign any document or publicly state that he was ever untruthful with the enforcement staff.

The NCAA defines Level II violations as resulting in less than a substantial or extensive recruiting, competitive or other advantage. It further calls them systemic violations that do not amount to lack of institutional control. Punishments are usually minor.

However, lying to investigators is thought of as a much more serious matter. A resolution between the NCAA and Harbaugh seemed distant a few months ago. During two meetings in January, the NCAA and Harbaugh held firm and refused to back down from their positions. The NCAA said the coach lied. The coach said he merely forgot otherwise insignificant actions. An impasse resulted.

All of it occurred during an eventful time for the football program. The Wolverines lost to TCU on New Years Eve in the semifinals of the College Football Playoff. It capped a 13-win season that saw the Wolverines win the Big Ten and defeat Ohio State for the second consecutive year.

Within days, Harbaughs name emerged again for various NFL head coaching openings, including the Denver Broncos, with whom he spoke. Then news broke of the NCAA infractions case and Harbaugh remained coy about returning to his alma mater for a ninth season.

Later in January, Harbaugh and the university stated he would be back for the 2023 season, but the looming NCAA case remained.

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Colorado is headed back to the Big 12 conference next summer, and Oregon football coach Dan Lanning sounds completely unbothered by the move.

Lanning took a very clear, yet accurate, shot at the Buffaloes on Monday.

Not a big reaction, Lanning said when asked about Colorados plans to return to the Big 12.

"I'm trying to remember what they won to affect this conference and I don't remember. Do you remember them winning anything? I don't remember them winning anything."

Though thats harsh, he's not wrong.

Colorado has had just a single winning season since joining the Pac-12 in 2011. Outside of their 10-4 finish in 2016, in which they won the Pac-12 South Division, the Buffaloes never won more than three conference games in a single season. They went 0-9 in conference play in 2014, and have four seasons in which they won just a single Pac-12 game. Deion Sanders is Colorados fifth head coach since it moved to the Pac-12.

Based on that, its easy to see why Lanning and Oregon wouldnt care much about the Buffaloes plans.

Colorado officially voted to move back to the Big 12 last week. The Buffaloes decision to leave followed USC and UCLA opting to join the Big Ten next season. That will leave the Pac-12 with just nine teams. The Pac-12 still has yet to announce plans for a new media rights agreement thats reportedly coming later this week something that Colorado athletic director Rick George said played a part in their decision to leave.

The Pac-12 is clearly not in a good place, and it feels like it could fall apart at any moment. Arizona is rumored to be considering a jump to the Big 12, which would only complicate things even further for Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff.

But for now, at least publicly, Lanning and Oregon are fine with Colorado leaving the conference.

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Captain Lee Rosbach arrives at night one of the Television Academy's 2019 Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images)

As the writers and actors strikes rage on in Hollywood, entertainment continues to lean on reality TV more and more. Now, reality stars are starting to speak out about their compensation and treatment as well, including Captain Lee Rosbach from Bravos Below Deck. But it may not be quite the take you might expect. Yahoo Entertainment recently sat down with the longtime reality star and got his perspective on striking, but before we go there, a little scene setting is in order.

Recently, Bethenny Frankel, star of The Real Housewives of New York City and other related spinoffs for Bravo, made quite a splash when she began publicly exploring the idea that reality TV stars should go on strike to prevent increased exploitation during the ongoing SAG strike. Reality shows are unscripted and therefore not bound by Writers Guild of America rules, and the people appearing on the shows are, generally speaking, not members of the Screen Actor's Guild.

In a social media video post, Frankel called reality stars the stepchildren, the losers, the mules, the pack horses, the ones that the entertainment industry is going to rely on right now to carry the water and do the heavy lifting.

Now she has put her words into action, as it was reported by Variety on Friday that Frankel has teamed up with big-name attorneys Bryan Freedman and Mark Geragos. Freedman told Variety that he had heard from roughly 50 reality stars who claim they have been used and unfairly treated.

Is Rosbach in that camp? Sort of. Im not a very political person, Rosbach said. From my point of view, would I like to be paid better? Sure, who wouldn't like to be paid better? And would I like to be paid for all the reruns that there are? Yeah, of course, I would. I dont know anybody in their right mind who would say, no I dont think I want to get paid for that.

Rosbach has appeared on 10 seasons of Below Deck, and on a network that shows plenty of reruns of its original programming. However, even after seeing his face that much on TV, hes not ready to go all-in with Frankels ideas.

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As far as unionizing and going on strike, I think that's pretty harsh rhetoric, Rosbach said.

The reality star and yacht captain went on to say that hes worked on a couple of union shows in the past and knows how they are run. And it's already quite similar to his reality TV work.

In all fairness to our producers and our production companies, while they werent union, they did adhere to union standards, Rosbach said of the work he's done on Below Deck. They paid union scale to the camera operators and got their lunch breaks on time and paid the penalty if they didnt get their lunch breaks on time. So even though they werent union they got treated as if they were. So I thought our production company was pretty fair about that. And everyone I've worked with that has been non-union has been the same, they play by union rules.

Rosbach is currently taking a break from Below Deck but said he has other projects in the works with Bravo. And if all this talk about more strikes in the entertainment industry is enough to make a skipper queasy, Rosbach has also been working with Dramamine on a Ditch the Drama Sweepstakes, which will send winners on a drama-free dream vacation. And hey, there are no strikes on vacation.

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As Bethenny Frankel calls for reality show performers to strike, 'Below Deck' star Captain Lee is only partly on board - Yahoo Entertainment

Former Bengals cornerback Ken Riley died on June 7, 2020. He was 72. (AP Photo/Gary Landers, File)

The Pro Football Hall of Fame will formally welcome its Class of 2023 on Saturday. This week, Yahoo Sports is highlighting each member of the nine-man class, leading up to the big ceremony.

Although Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Ken Riley was never selected to play in an AFL All-Star Game or a Pro Bowl after the AFL and NFL merger, his impact on the game went beyond those accolades.

A four-year starter in college, Riley was a quarterback at Florida A&M who brought the Rattlers to three Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles and a 23-7 record. He also shined academically, earning Rhodes Scholar candidacy.

Riley was selected in the sixth round of the 1969 Common Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals, where he would spend all 15 years of his professional career. Hall of Fame head coach Paul Brown converted Riley to a cornerback since the Bengals selected quarterback Greg Cook with the fifth overall pick of the draft.

"We were stereotyped then," Riley told The Ledger in 2008 of Black players. "Everything down the middle the quarterback, the center, the middle linebacker those positions required thinking, so they didn't put us there."

However, Riley excelled at his new position.

Rileys impact on defense was clear he made his first career interception in his fifth game.

"Kenny was a splendid player and still holds the Bengals record for most interceptions over a career," team owner Mike Brown said in 2022. "It would be a wonderful thing if he were selected for the Hall of Fame."

Riley's team record of 65 career interceptions has yet to be broken. He also held other Bengals records, such as most seasons played (15) and most interceptions in a single season (nine).

"I don't know how you put a number on intelligence," Riley's former Cincinnati teammate Cris Collinsworth said. "And I don't know how many touchdowns he saved the Bengals because he knew what was coming."

"Ken showed tremendous leadership as a student and a quarterback, Florida A&M Sports Hall of Fame chairman Alvin Hollins said to the Tallahassee Democrat in 2020. The only regret is that he didn't get in the Pro Football Hall of Fame before he passed. Several of the players he coached made it to the NFL. We had great success with him as a coach and athletics director."

After his retirement from the NFL, Riley spent two years with the Green Bay Packers as an assistant coach. He eventually returned to his alma mater and served as Florida A&M's head coach from 1986-1993, earning two MEAC conference titles. Riley also served as FAMU's athletic director from 1994-2004.

He died in 2020 at the age of 72 from a heart attack.

Although this honor comes after his death, Riley believed that his work would eventually speak for itself. He never complained or sought public recognition.

"Your work speaks for you," Riley once said about the possibility of receiving the honor. "If it's God's will, maybe one day it will happen."

Rileys widow, Barbara, will represent him in Canton when he is officially enshrined.

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Denver Broncos wide receiver K.J. Hamler has a minor heart condition. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Denver Broncos wide receiver K.J. Hamler was diagnosed with "mild heart irritation" called pericarditis, he announced via Instagram on Monday.

In light of the medical condition, the Broncos are reportedly planning to waive him on a non-football illness designation. The move is procedural, with hopes to bring him back, according to a report from NFL Network's Mike Garafolo.

The 24-year-old was dealing with chest pains while working out before camp started, he said in his statement.

"I will be back on the field better and stronger than ever as soon as possible this season! I feel great physically and this is very frustrating for me to deal with," he wrote. "Its tough to deal with this when I was ready for a breakout year, but adversity is nothing new to me."

He's reportedly expected to miss weeks not months with the heart condition.

As noted by Garafalo, the move to waive Hamler allows for his return, whereas placing him on reserve or the non-football injury list could prevent him from playing for the entire season. The team also needs the roster spot, with wide receiver Tim Patrick also sidelined with an Achilles injury he sustained during training camp Monday.

Hamler underwent surgery in March for a torn pectoral injury he suffered while training on his own earlier this offseason. He was expected to need 4-6 months of recovery and landed on the active/non-football injury list a day before training camp began.

A "quick break" on the pericarditis treatment plan comes as the latest setback for the former Penn State standout.

The Broncos selected Hamler in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft. He sustained a hamstring injury before the season that kept him out for the season opener. Missing another game due to a hamstring issue, he ended the season on the injured reserve after a concussion.

In Week 3 of the 2021 season, Hamler tore his left ACL and missed the rest of the campaign. He also missed the final nine weeks of the 2022 season with a hamstring issue.

In three seasons with the Broncos, he has recorded 42 catches for 620 yards and three touchdowns in just 23 games. He notched all three scores during his rookie year.

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There is skill to reading a room, and not everyone is good at it. But it doesn't take a Harvey Specter-level ability at reading people and situations (thanks, Netflix) to realize that making sexist and demeaning jokes toward a female reporter, on the air, as a member of the Washington Commanders' flagship radio station, a week after a new ownership group came in with a mandate to clean up the toxic environment around the team, is an epically dumb idea.

And yet, here we are.

While broadcasting from Commanders training camp on Thursday, sports radio host Don Geronimo (real name Michael Sorce) called out to reporter Sharla McBride by referring to her as "Barbie girl" and later as "that chick." He also assumed the reporter was a cheerleader instead of a woman trying to do her job for WUSA-9, the CBS affiliate in Washington. Geronimo and Young were initially told not to come back to camp, and after a quick "internal review," iHeart Media D.C., which owns WBIG, fired Geronimo, who had recently announced a new contract that was to take him through 2026.

McBride has blond hair and is pretty, and Barbie is definitely having a moment this summer thanks to the blockbuster movie. But McBride is a career journalist who has been in the Washington market for three years and was awarded an Emmy last month for her work at WUSA. She was at Commanders camp to do her job: deliver the news of the day to viewers.

Washington's new ownership group, led by Josh Harris, took over little more than a week before Geronimo's comments. A big part of the reason the Commanders were even available to buy is because of the bravery of dozens of women who stepped forward to tell their stories, and what the NFL deemed gross mistreatment those women faced while employed in team offices during the megalomaniacal reign of Dan Snyder. Their courage led to two league-mandated outside investigations as well as the eyes of Congress. It ultimately led to Snyders exit from the NFL owners club, a group he appeared to care deeply about being part of.

With that as a backdrop, how could iHeart D.C., likely with pressure from the Commanders, not have fired him? Sending Geronimo packing was an easy win for Harris and one that Geronimo basically gift-wrapped for them.

Some of his longtime fans are bemoaning the decision, crying that everyone is too sensitive these days because they won't accept that being openly derisive toward a woman while on-air is unacceptable now, and really has been for years. It never should have been acceptable, but thankfully there has been some level of growth in this country that means in many corners women are expected to be treated with a basic level of respect.

This is Geronimos schtick, incapable of offering listeners anything more than tired, boorish "jokes." Incapable of reading the room, he gave the new ownership group a near-immediate chance to show the team's fans that they were different from Snyder. Just as Snyder finally had to face the music for his misdeeds, Geronimo was made to pay for his.

Harris and Co. will likely have a long honeymoon with Commanders fans simply because they are not the Snyders. Dan Snyder dragged the franchise through the mud with his litigious and, according to the NFLs final report on him, lascivious ways, his nearly 25 years of ownership producing little more than chaos and negative headlines.

There are questions about how successful the Commanders will be on the field this season, but it didn't take long for Harris to get his first win off it, one that was almost embarrassingly easy to claim.

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The evolution of the running back position has brought with it frustration for fantasy managers looking for certainty from the position. Gone are the days when Walter Payton averaged just under 335 rushing attempts for his 10 full seasons from 1976-1986 (1982 was a strike-shortened season). RIP, Sweetness, youre missed in so many ways.

Now, running back duos and trios are more en vogue, which has fantasy managers singing anything but a happy tune. Yet, a vast majority of fantasy football leagues still roster two starting running backs, so someone has to fill those spots. If Christian McCaffrey, Austin Ekeler and Nick Chubb are not available, what is one to do with running backs coming from teams that do not feed one primary runner?

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This week its time to take a look at five NFL backfields that have very muddy outlooks, with some of them having up to three running backs who are in contention for carries. It was not easy to decipher how the touches will be doled out, but here are some scenarios that could work for each.

The backfield of the reigning Super Bowl champions is anything but settled. Then again, the Chiefs won their crown with the backfield in a timeshare between seventh-round 2022 pick Isiah Pacheco and veteran free agent Jerick McKinnon. Pacheco was the banger, with 170 rushing attempts for 830 yards and 5 touchdowns. McKinnon, however, was a fantasy league winner, scoring at least once in Weeks 13 to 17, finishing as the RB2 in that span with an average of 23.2 fantasy points per game. The veteran back was ninth in both receptions (56) and targets (71) among running backs last year and has a stellar reputation as a pass blocker for Patrick Mahomes.

Could we get more of the same in 2023? Well, Pacheco is recovering from surgeries to repair a broken hand and torn labrum. The latter can limit upper-body training, which could lead to a slow start early in the season. McKinnon also started slowly last year, with only one game above 10 touches before Week 13. That leaves an opening for another back like Clyde Edwards-Helaire, who has a 2020 first-round pedigree, but was left off the Super Bowl active roster this past February and has battled injuries every season in the NFL.

Enter undrafted rookie Deneric Prince, who has been a revelation in Chiefs training camp, running with Pacheco-like violence and making plays in the passing game.

As of now, because he is still not at full speed from his surgeries, Pacheco appears to be a bit pricey at RB25 and an overall ADP of 66 overall. McKinnon at RB45 and 126.7 overall is very much worth rostering, if only for the trust that Mahomes has in him in the passing game. Edwards-Helaire is just a dart throw late in drafts, though with upside because of the high-powered KC offense. Prince is someone to keep an eye on, like Pacheco a year ago, but probably not worth drafting unless any of the other runners miss time at the outset of the season.

This is a team that appears to have a big rushing pie to carve up, with 558 total rush attempts in 2022. That was second in the league by a single carry. With a league-low 377 passing attempts, the run-pass ratio will likely get closer to even as Justin Fields enters his second year in the offense, which has added DJ Moore. Khalil Herbert is the only Bear who was on this offense in 2022, and he was operating as the RB2 behind David Montgomery, who had 201 carries for 801 rushing yards and caught 34 of 40 targets for an additional 316 yards.

Does Herbert take a step forward into the lead-back role in 2023? He did have 731 yards on 129 carries last year, with a pair of games in Weeks 3 and 4 where he had rushing lines of 20-157-2 and 19-77-0, respectively, subbing for an injured Montgomery. With free agent signee DOnta Foreman and rookie Roschon Johnson joining the fold, its more likely that this will be a committee.

The then-Panther Foreman was RB23 from Week 7 forward after Christian McCaffrey was traded rushing for 877 yards over the final 11 games. One concern is his pass blocking, which was graded last in the league at 14.8 by PFF. With an emphasis on protecting Fields, that could make Foremans time on the field limited on passing downs.

Johnson came out of Texas with dogged blocking chops, both in pass protection and as a lead blocker in 21 personnel, according to The Athletics Dane Brugler in The Beast.

Red-zone work figures to be split between the bigger backs Foreman (235 lbs) and Johnson (225 lbs), as Herbert gained just 7 yards on 8 carries inside the 5-yard line last year. Dont be surprised if the rookie Johnson gets more of the important touches in the back half of the year when the weather turns bitter cold.

With Fields such a factor in the running game fantasy managers can probably expect very little receiving work from any of these running backs. Herbert is highest in Yahoo ADP at RB35 and 102.9 overall, with Foreman at RB44 and 128.9 right behind. Johnson is a bargain at RB62 and 130.7 and needs to be stashed because his fresh legs, sturdy build and willingness to block may keep him on the field more on passing downs and in the red zone.

Miami had head coach Mike McDaniel come to South Beach from the 49ers with a reputation for creating an effective and bruising running game. The 2022 Dolphins ended up as one of the most pass-happy teams, rushing the ball just 390 times as a team. That was 31st in the league.

Returning are Jeff Wilson Jr. and Raheem Mostert, both of whom played for McDaniel in San Francisco, with rookie Devon Achane joining the mix as a third-round pick with 4.32 speed in the 40.

Sharing the ball among running backs has been a staple of 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan, as no running back has reached 1,000 yards since his tenure there began in 2017, with McDaniel having a big part in developing those game plans. That doesnt figure to change this season. Neither will the offensive emphasis on speed, with Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle catching passes. Among the veterans, Mostert is faster and more of a threat in the passing game, as the 31-year-old caught 31 passes for 202 yards and three scores on top of his rushing line of 181-891-3. Both Mostert and Wilson drew three rushing attempts inside the five after Wilson was traded to Miami in Week 9.

Achane is the wild card. At 5-8, 188 lbs, he does not project to receive a big workload. That wont matter, as McDaniel will design plays to utilize the rookies breakaway speed he caught 36 balls for 196 yards on top of 1,102 rushing yards last year at Texas A&M. Achane should see 10-12 total touches weekly, a good number of those being targets in space to give him room to use his extreme speed. Unless he scores from distance, dont expect Achane to get much usage in the red zone. That again should be shared between Mostert and Wilson, as will the heavy lifting among the rushing attempts.

Even with a shared workload, Wilson at RB46 and Mostert at RB50 could be bargains around the 11th round where their current ADP has them residing. Both will have spike weeks, it just will be hard to predict when those will happen. And since both have injury histories, the possibility of a larger workload is there for either one. Achane at RB53 and an overall rank of 150 is also priced low, most likely for workload and size concerns.

This group appears to be down to two main running backs in James Cook and Damien Harris, with Latavius Murray the 33-year-old veteran backing up in case of injury. Cook is more multi-talented, seeing 19 of his 32 targets in the final six games of his season. As a team, the Bills running backs drew 112 targets, tied for 13th in the NFL. That number was 16 more than the previous year.

Cook is a very dynamic player, but hes slight at 5-11 and 190 lbs. He has yet to carry the ball more than 14 times in a game, and at his size, its not as if hes suddenly going to be a banger inside the tackles. That will likely be for the 213-pound Harris, who in 2021 was tied for fourth with 15 rushing attempts inside the 5-yard line. He converted eight for touchdowns. Harris is not a threat in the passing game, as he has yet to draw more than 23 targets in a season. Hes also missed a combined 14 games the past three seasons, after basically redshirting his rookie year.

It stands to reason that Cook will see a good chunk of the 52 targets that Devin Singletary (now on the Texans) left behind. Nyheim Hines is out for the season, so there really is no other runner who is close to being able to see looks from Allen in the passing game. That could make Cook quite valuable in PPR leagues, and hes going off as the RB37 on Yahoo, with a rank of 93. I prefer that value to Harris RB32 and rank of 82.

With the acquisitions of DAndre Swift (trade) and Rashaad Penny (free agency), the Eagles have remade a backfield that was spearheaded by Miles Sanders, who had 1,269 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns last season. With quarterback Jalen Hurts rushing 165 times for 760 yards and 13 touchdowns, he was, for lack of a better term, the RB2 on the team. Now Philly has a pair of running backs to lead the rushing attack and possibly lessen the rushing workload on Hurts.

Swift was 10th in the league among running backs last year with 70 receptions, which easily outdid the 61 team targets that Philadelphia accumulated. The Georgia product does not look like a good bet to reach those target heights from last year in Detroit, and at the ADP of RB29 and the Yahoo consensus rank of 78, the draft price is pretty high. Penny is a slot ahead among running backs at RB28 and rank of 75 and appears to be over the broken tibia that knocked him out last year. Theyll be running behind the top offensive line in the league, according to PFF.

Kenneth Gainwell is a late-round stash. Keep in mind Gainwells usage during the playoffs, as he saw 13, 16 and 11 touches in the most important games for the Eagles. With his being RB43 (an ADP of 131.5), Gainwell is a good flier pick in the 11th round.

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The inordinate lust for wealth, fame and power, which is driving the youth crazy nowadays, has reached an alarming stage that silence has become complicity. That the get-rich-quick syndrome is corrupting the youth and dealing a death blow to the noble values on which society is constructed, is no longer news.

It is observable that the importance attached to material wealth is one of the major factors. This exaggerated value induces the youth into despicable acts such as gruesome killings, swindling, bizarre lifestyles and fetishistic rituals. It also robs the people of the consciousness of the proper dignity of labour. The hitherto respect for education and drive for knowledge suffer in result.

The people caught in this malaise throw money with callous abandon and spend it as if tomorrow no dey. Quick money through fraudulent means is so widespread that it challenges genuine growth and progress. Mahatma Gandhi was right when he enlisted wealth without work as one of the seven social sins. It corrupts and attacks society at its foundation.

The situation bespeaks surrender to the allurement of the goddess of mammon, by which a sector of society idolises money as a measure of success and greatness. Sadly, the effect of this celebration of noonday robbery and daylight fetishism is already telling on society. Without a doubt, the current nightmarish situation is difficult to abate because wealth and power are gripping. Their pursuit is bankrupting the residue of the noble values on which our society stands.

Since many parents accept, and some pastors bless, and numerous chieftains of towns and villages celebrate the ill-gotten wealth, the end is not in sight. It is a dawning of a new regime of money worship; people are silenced or bought off with money. So, many people resort to the principle of if you cannot beat them, you join them.

The effect of this Yahoo misadventure is that these bloodletting young people gruesomely and heartlessly sacrifice young ladies and sometimes their parents to pursue wealth. They engage in other bizarre acts and rituals like cannibalism, drug abuse, and sex with blood relations. They feast on peoples faeces, offer their relations in ritual sacrifices, strip themselves naked in public, and throw and spray money on people for ritual purposes.

But the list is not yet exhaustive. Stories of the victims abound and they are narratives of mysterious and premature deaths of casualties and their perpetrators alike. Nothing gotten through fundamentally evil means endures. The devil helps no one; he can only bet to get one into his fold. The signs that this delinquency is inflicting grave harm on society are the unimaginable atrocities committed in the name of Yahoo business and their consequences.

The dastardly evil of the Yahoo culture and its attendant criminal fetishistic practices and ritual killings is one more pointer to parents complicity and the failure of families and social institutions. The fake lifestyle it represents and feeds wrongly presents itself as human flourishing, which it is not. It is a nemesis to everyone who will not stand up to the government to provide jobs, teach morals to our children, and desist from celebrating materialism and luxury.

The whole society suffers when its young engage in evil practices. No one is free. Everyone is in trouble. They recruit young people and brainwash them that education is a scam, without practical positive value. The ostentatious flaunting of ill-gotten wealth attacks societys basic moral foundations. Many look helplessly while these unconscionable youth prowl around, looking for people and values to destroy.

The reality of Yahoo boys is symptomatic of the malaise in society. It advertises the total breakdown of the institutions that protect and promote societys mores and ethos. It is a failure of families and cultural and religious organisations to invest adequate energy, creativity and commitment in the formation of the youth. Unfortunately, our society is eagerly bent on bequeathing to the future an array of malformed, crooked and dangerous criminals and social misfits.

The path to solution includes knowledge and awareness of the nature and magnitude of the problem and mobilisation and deployment of social and spiritual resources against the bad situation. It entails solidarity of action by all institutions of society, and respecting the principle of subsidiarity, by which each institution operates in its sphere of influence without intimidation, disruption or domination.

With the above position, families will be galvanised as the most fundamental factor in rescuing society. If families had adequately acted as the basic education and character formation centres, this crisis would not have reached this alarming stage. Parents need to re-envision parenting beyond the provision of the material and mundane needs of their children.

They should realise that engaging in child-bearing contains an intimate responsibility of child-rearing, the ramifications of which include character formation and humanisation. Families focusing only on academic training most likely produce sophisticated evil geniuses and intelligent criminals. Such efforts that exclude adequate human, moral and spiritual formation distort the education of children. At best, it produces malformed and badly educated graduates whose consciences and consciousnesses are focused on satisfying appetites for power, pleasure and possession.

As a matter of urgency, social institutions must declare a state of emergency for youth formation. Families must wake up to their responsibilities, ditto cultural and religious organizations. The Church, for instance, is invited to reflect on her contribution to the formation of families to discharge their responsibilities, realising the peculiarities of these millennial and Gen Z youth. It is still possible to change the tide, but it requires creative engagement and total commitment to the crisis.

This piece is a silent scream to the entire society to wake up to her responsibility of salvaging society from the youth-turned-Internet fraudsters. It is an invitation to condemn the fraudulent practices and be intentional about rejecting the proceeds of such lifestyles.

Suppose society fails to divest honour and recognition from people of such evil character; in that case, the affirmation will be a compliment, and an encouragement and approbation. Through our actions and inactions, we have to withdraw the fuel that feeds this dangerous fire and make a bold statement that our society cannot bless fraud, approve of fetishistic lifestyles and beatify sin. We must stop the rampage and transform the evil Yahoo boys into good Google men. Fr Adimike wrote via: findfadachigozie@gmail.com

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Denver Broncos wide receiver Tim Patrick, left, chats with head coach Sean Payton while warming up during NFL football training camp at the team's headquarters, Thursday, July 27, 2023, in Centennial Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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Denver Broncos wide receiver Tim Patrick was carted off at practice on Monday with a non-contact leg injury. During the team's first fully padded 7-on-7 drill, Patrick slipped on the grass as he started to run and fell to the ground.

Head coach Sean Payton said later on that looked like Patrick had torn his Achilles.

Practice injuries like this are always tough, but in Patrick's case it's particularly brutal. He tore his ACL on Aug. 2 last year and missed the entirety of the 2022 season. Now, just when he was on the comeback trail, it looks like he's going to miss his second consecutive season with an injury he sustained in training camp.

Yahoo Sports' NFL team of Charles Robinson, Jori Epstein and Charles McDonald will be spread across the country in the coming weeks to cover it all. Follow Yahoo Sports on social, join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football League, and gear up for kickoff to the 2023 season Sept. 7 in Kansas City.

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The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to $1.05 billion Friday night after no ticket had all six of the winning numbers. That means theres still a chance 1 in nearly 303 million that someone could take home the grand prize after the next drawing, on Tuesday night.

Even though a person is more likely to get eaten by a shark than win the lottery, it hasnt deterred Americans from spending more than a few dollars in hopes of becoming rich overnight. In 2021, Americans spent over $105 billion on lottery tickets. In 2019, the average U.S. adult spent about $320 a year on them.

While lottery systems vary by state, a percentage of the revenue generated from lottery ticket sales is used to fund public programs, like schools, senior centers or infrastructure projects. Its worth noting that five states Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah dont have lotteries due to a mix of concerns over the impact on low-income families, gambling addiction or competition with existing gaming operations.

People who buy a lottery ticket may see it as a low-risk investment for a chance to win hundreds of millions of dollars, which can be life-changing if the right steps are taken.

Whether winning will change your life for the better, however, is the subject of fierce debate. Lottery skeptics note that, depending on the state, taxes and mandatory federal withholdings can chip away significantly at ones total winnings.

Theres also a laundry list of horror stories about big lottery winners whose golden tickets led to strained family relationships, bankruptcy, prison or even murder.

But research indicates that such anecdotes about the dark side of winning the lottery are the exception, not the rule.

In 2018, researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research who surveyed a large sample of lottery winners in Sweden reported that they found little evidence in support of the hypothesis that winners often consume frivolously following a win. In fact, the study found that large-prize winners appear to enjoy sustained improvement in economic conditions that are robustly detectable for well over a decade after the windfall.

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Another study by the Swedish Institute for Social Research at Stockholm University found that more than a decade later, winners of large lottery prizes were typically more satisfied with their lives than non-winners or those who had won smaller amounts. The same study notes that life satisfaction is not the same as happiness, and that the difference in happiness reported by large-prize winners and the other groups was not statistically significant.

These findings echo those produced in 1978 by one of the first studies on lottery winners, which compared happiness levels among winners, non-winners and paralyzed accident victims and found no significant difference.

After a California player took home the $1.08 billion Powerball jackpot in July, lotto enthusiasts nationwide are now looking ahead to Tuesday nights Mega Millions drawing, which could result in a winner of the fourth-largest grand prize in that games history.

The lottery will ruin your life

Winning the lottery is probably one of the quickest, most surefire ways to ruin your life were serious. Not to mention your odds of winning the lottery are slim to none. If youre looking for financial peace, youre not going to find it in winning the lottery. Dave Ramsey, Ramsey Solutions

Money wont buy happiness

If you weren't happy yesterday you wont be happy tomorrow. Its money. Its not happiness. American businessman Mark Cuban to Dallas Morning News

Winner beware: Be disciplined or lose the money

I know a lot of people who won the lottery and are broke today. If youre not disciplined, you will go broke. I dont care how much money you have. Sandra Hayes, a Powerball jackpot winner who split the winnings with co-workers, to Associated Press

Hey, big spender have a financial plan in place

We like to say it doesnt cost you to dream. But it does if your fantasizing about instant wealth robs you of a realistic plan to create financial stability for yourself and your family. Michelle Singletary, Washington Post

Financial stability can be achieved without winning the lottery

Daydream how the win would make your life better, and then figure out how you can create this change in your life even if you dont win. Ive spent nearly the last two decades working with sudden wealth recipients people who have come into a windfall overnight. Sudden wealth can radically improve a persons life, but its certainly not a requirement. Robert Pagliarini, Forbes

Money can buy happiness, sort of

Having more money makes people less stressed and more satisfied with their life. Money might not buy happiness, but it buys a lot of things that make the pursuit of happiness easier. Kelsey Piper, Vox

Actually, being rich is pretty awesome

Ive been rich and Ive been poor, and I like rich a whole lot better. Weve lived in big, fancy houses. I drive a Jaguar. Weve gone on cruises. I cant complain. Richard Lustig, a seven-time grand-prize lottery winner, to Time

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