Olympic gymnast Simone Biles said she was pained to learn that she was left out of USA Gymnastics' initial investigation of former team doctor and convicted pedophile Larry Nassar.

Biles, a gold medalist who is widely considered the top gymnast in the world, was one of several athletes who expressed concerns about Nassar to USA Gymnastics officials in June 2015, according to notes collected in a U.S. Senate investigation. USA Gymnastics hired someone in July 2015 to speak to several national team gymnasts about their concerns and subsequently passed that information on to the FBI, who opened their own investigation into Nassar. Biles wasn't informed about either investigation until more than a year later. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Biles only learned of the investigations after returning from her gold-medal performance at the 2016 Olympic games.

"Can't tell you how this is to read and process," Biles tweeted in response to the Wall Street Journal story. "The pain is real and doesn't just go away... especially when new facts are still coming out. What's it going to take for a complete and independent investigation of both USOPC and USAG???"

Biles has previously expressed frustration and sadness with how she and other survivors of sexual assault have been treated by USA Gymnastics as she continues to work toward another Olympic appearance in Tokyo this summer. She said Thursday on social media that "numb is becoming a normal feeling."

Biles' concerns about Nassar came up in email conversations between former USAG president Steve Penny and women's national team director Rhonda Faehn during the summer of 2015. Penny said in that exchange that he would set up a meeting between Biles and private investigator Fran Sepler, but the meeting never happened.

Penny told the Wall Street Journal, through his attorney, that he was aware in July 2015 that Biles was one of the gymnasts that USAG "might want to talk to about Nassar." Penny also failed to mention Biles' name when he reported Nassar to the FBI that summer. Penny resigned from USA Gymnastics in March 2017 amid the fallout from Nassar's crimes. He was charged with tampering with evidence related to Nassar in October 2018 and has pleaded not guilty.

Nassar resigned from his role with USA Gymnastics in September 2015, but continued to see gymnasts and patients through his work at Michigan State University for another year. Nassar said he was retiring to spend more time with his family. USA Gymnastics did not refute his story or notify Michigan State that the FBI was investigating the doctor based on information that Penny had shared with them.

The FBI interviewed Olympian McKayla Maroney about Nassar on the phone in September 2015 then waited months before following up or contacting other national team members who were interviewed as part of USAG's internal investigation. A U.S. Senate report criticized the FBI for an investigation that "dragged on and was shuffled between field offices" while Nassar continued to see patients for more than a year. Dozens of young women and girls say they were sexually assaulted by Nassar during the 13 months between the FBI learning of complaints about Nassar and when he was fired from Michigan State in the wake of public accusations about his sexual abuse.

The Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General started its own investigation in 2018 to review the FBI's handling of the Nassar case. No results of that review have been made public yet.

A group of Olympic gymnasts, including Maroney and Aly Raisman, called on the Justice Department in an article published this week in the Orange County Register to share its findings. Maroney told the Register that she and others were "tired of waiting."

"Though progress has been made, so much truth has not yet seen the light of day," she wrote in an email. "Justice for myself and all my fellow gymnasts won't be served until that day arrives."

BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was resentenced Friday to 30 to 60 years in prison, the same penalty as before, for sexually abusing children.

Sandusky, 75, was sentenced by Judge Maureen Skerda at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte. He wore a yellow jumpsuit and entered court with his hands cuffed in front of him.

He again asserted his innocence, choked up twice in brief remarks to the judge and told his supporters he loves them.

A state appeals court this year turned down most of Sandusky's arguments seeking a new trial but said laws mandating sentence minimums in place at the time of his October 2012 sentencing had since changed.

Under the new law, according to Jacklin Rhoads, a spokeswoman for Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a jury would not have the power to go below the minimum sentence.

The Superior Court opinion in February cited a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said any fact that increases the sentence for a given crime must be submitted to jurors and established beyond a reasonable doubt.

Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of child sexual abuse in 2012 and sentenced to 30 to 60 years. Skerda's new sentence was the same.

Eight young men testified during the 2012 trial that Sandusky, who founded a charity for at-risk youth, subjected them to a range of abuse, from grooming to violent attacks.

Sandusky has maintained his innocence, and his lawyers in October initiated a federal court action seeking a new trial or release from prison.

His November 2011 arrest prompted the firing of Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno and the ousting of then-university president Graham Spanier.

The university has subsequently paid more than $100 million to people who said they had been abused by Sandusky.

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Chicago Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky (right hip pointer) practiced without restrictions for the third consecutive day on Friday and will start against the New York Giants on Sunday at Soldier Field.

Trubisky was not given an injury designation on the Bears' final report.

Bears coach Matt Nagy said Friday he was "a little bit" surprised that Trubisky made such a quick recovery, "because when he's in that much pain at the end of a game [like he was] last week, you never really know what will happen over the next couple of days. It doesn't surprise me that he's going to rehab, work hard and do everything he can to get that pain level down so he can play. That's what we feel good about right now."

Added Nagy: "I thought he threw the ball well in practice. ... It doesn't seem like anything is holding him back."

Trubisky injured his right hip before halftime versus the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday night but tried to play through the pain in the second half. Trubisky went 24-for-43 for 190 yards, one touchdown and one interception before Nagy made the switch to veteran backup Chase Daniel with 3:31 left in the fourth quarter.

"Yeah, [the pain from a hip pointer] is above the hip," Trubisky said earlier in the week. "It's like getting a charley horse or a dead leg on the quad, except it's above that area. It just makes your whole body tight -- running, and then obviously throwing, when you got to pull your right hip through. That motion, it just doesn't feel comfortable."

Besides the hip pointer, Trubisky suffered a dislocated non-throwing shoulder and torn labrum in Week 4. Trubisky missed just one game and returned to the Bears' starting lineup following the bye week on Oct. 20.

The second overall pick of the 2017 NFL draft, Trubisky has passed for just 1,580 yards, nine touchdowns and four interceptions in 2019. He is averaging a career-low 5.6 yards per pass attempt. The Bears' offense enters Week 12 ranked 28th in points scored, 30th in total yards, 30th in passing yards and 29th in rushing yards.

Trubisky, who played in the Pro Bowl last season, is the league's 29th-ranked passer in QBR.

THE LIGHTS WERE off and lasers were beaming in all different directions. The public-address announcer's voice boomed over the speakers at Staples Center as the LA Clippers' starting lineup was introduced for the season opener against the Los Angeles Lakers.

"At one guard, 6-1, in his eighth year, from the city of Chicago ... No. 21, Patrick Beverley!"

Beverley tapped his chest and pointed skyward. The Clippers guard does this before every game.

He waited for each Clipper announced, meeting them with personalized greetings: a fadeaway jumper with Landry Shamet, a hook shot with Ivica Zubac.

Unlike Beverley, his teammates were introduced using their college -- or in the case of Zubac, the nation where he played before joining the NBA. Only Beverley was introduced with the city in which he grew up.

"From Chicago," Clippers coach Doc Rivers said of Beverley's tenacity. "He gets rebounds that he has no business getting. I think a lot of that is just his grit. And he believes it's his ball."

Entering this season, Rivers wanted Beverley to continue to play with the anger and intensity that made him one of the leaders of the team. But Rivers made it clear that he wants Beverley to play with emotion, not be emotional.

"It means, I get called for a foul [and I used to say], 'What the f---, ref?'" Beverley said. "Save it. 'Good call.' Next play. The team sees me do that, now everybody else is cool. The team sees me like this, now everybody else is like this, you know? So this is just all about growing."

Channeling his emotion is something Beverley has been working on in recent years, but he has been growing since one fateful summer in Chicago.

When asked to consider what his life would be without professional sports, the Clippers guard doesn't hesitate: "I probably would've been the best drug dealer in the world."

K-TOWN SITS ON the west side of Chicago, between North Lawndale and West Garfield Park. Beverley was back home for a few months during the summer of 2008, in this area that got its nickname because all of its streets start with the letter K.

He had been suspended from the University of Arkansas basketball team for his junior year for plagiarism. Upon returning home, Beverley was faced with a dilemma -- pursue a pro career or try to survive by earning a living on the streets.

With a 2-year-old son and a newborn daughter, Beverley had a $5,000 advance payment from an agent but felt his choice was made.

"Mouths need to be fed, you know?" Beverley said. "Coming from where I come from, I didn't have the luxury of having a trust fund. Or money from generations. Or the luxury of hoppin' into the family business, you know?

"It's either hoop or you sell dope."

LISA BEVERLEY JUGGLED as many as three jobs trying to feed her son, Patrick, and pay for a one-bedroom apartment in inner- city Chicago as a single mom. While her mother, aunt and cousins took turns helping raise Patrick, Lisa worked for the Illinois phone company, then known as Ameritech, and was an overnight dispatcher for two trucking companies. Whatever few hours were left in a day after that, she squeezed in appointments doing nails.

Lisa got their first apartment on the corner of Parkside and Washington when Patrick was 4. She tried to shield her son from the realities of their unforgiving environment, like stepping over someone doing cocaine in the stairwell. But Patrick noticed more than his mother ever realized. He saw the drug-peddling boyfriends she dated for protection.

He learned how to push drugs.

"My mom had to do what she had to do to keep food [and a roof] over my head," Beverley said. "So the guys that she did date were all drug dealers. I got the schooling from all the guys that she dated, and that's the norm in Chicago."

One of them, Adlai "Dexter" Hood, was a dealer she dated for four years. He was shot eight times and killed in his car, according to Lisa. Patrick named his oldest daughter Adlaia after him.

Lisa had no idea that Patrick sold drugs after he left Arkansas; he told her only a few weeks ago. But he didn't tell her how he learned to push.

"Oh, Jesus!" Lisa blurted at Staples Center when told of Patrick saying he learned the tricks of dealing from some of her boyfriends. "It breaks my heart. I feel like I failed him."

BEVERLEY WAS MAKING good money selling marijuana, putting what he learned to use. He was doing well. But in August 2008, as a light flickered from red to green at an intersection, Beverley's white Dodge Magnum was struck by a vehicle running a red light.

His car flipped three times. Not wearing a seat belt and with the windows down, Beverley somehow was able to climb out without a scratch. Beverley remembers the EMT in the ambulance afterward telling him that he shouldn't be alive.

But it's what Beverley says he clearly heard in the car amid the explosion of twisting metal and shattering glass that has stuck with him to this day.

"I heard a voice saying we would be OK," Beverley said. "It had to be God."

He escaped physical trauma. But a few weeks later, Beverley suffered an emotional scar that has never healed.

"I probably would've been the best drug dealer in the world."

Patrick Beverley, when considering what life would've been like without pro basketball

Beverley grew up an only child, but to him, Donovan Morris was like his little brother. The two were three years apart but inseparable.

"They were raised like brothers," Beverley's mother said. "[His grandmother] adopted a lot of foster kids. Pat spent a lot of time there, so they were all raised in one house."

But on a Saturday night a few weeks after his car accident, Beverley drove Morris to West Kamerling Avenue in Humboldt Park. Something felt off.

He repeatedly tried to convince Morris to head back with him, to go eat at his grandmother's place as they had done so many times.

"Let's go, let's go," Beverley said to Morris, to no avail.

Not long after Beverley drove off, he got a call telling him that Morris was dead, shot multiple times at around 11 p.m. Beverley and his mother went to the hospital to identify the 16-year-old's body.

"I shouldn't have brought him over there," Beverley said, replaying the moment in his head like he has thousands of times before. "I should've grabbed [him]. Anything, you know?

"You Monday night quarterbacking, you can think of anything. I took that on the chin a lot."

Two days after Morris died, Beverley got a call to play overseas in Ukraine.

"I'm going to play basketball and not be in his shoes," Beverley said of what ran through his head 48 hours after Morris' death. "People talk about like, I don't know, sacrificial lambs and all that. And of course, I don't compare him to a lamb, but his sacrifice kind of woke up our family."

"It forced me to go hustle -- the right way."

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RIVERS HAS SEEN too many talented basketball players never make it out of Chicago, which also is where the coach hails from. For every Isiah Thomas or Derrick Rose, there are dozens of Chicago prodigies.

This year is the 25th anniversary of "Hoop Dreams," and Rivers remembers how one of the documentary's main stars, Arthur Agee, was once an inspiration to a generation of Chicago kids. Agee also was part of the documentary sequel -- "Hoop Reality" -- that focused on Beverley, another prep star to follow in Agee's footsteps at John Marshall Metropolitan High School.

While kids in Chicago today might want to be the next Anthony Davis, Rivers said there's another blueprint when reality hits -- and Agee agrees.

"[Beverley] is the new grit guy for these guys who always think they are going to come into the league and score 20 points and have an immediate impact. Patrick Beverley represents all those hard-nosed guys who had to go overseas and had to work," said Agee, who does public speaking and is working on a new documentary with "Hoop Dreams" co-star William Gates.

"He is the smallest version of Dennis Rodman," Agee added. "He is a point guard Dennis Rodman. And don't nobody else in the league play like him, pick up guys 94 feet and twist and turn guys."

But Beverley did something Agee never did: make it to the NBA. And he did so without a lottery pedigree or the help of a marquee basketball school, instead going from a second-round pick who was cut by the Miami Heat in 2010 to a two-time NBA All-Defensive Team selection who played himself into the three-year, $40 million contract awarded by the Clippers this past summer.

Beverley used part of that money to buy his mother a six-bedroom house at Sienna Plantation, not far from Houston, where Beverley played with the Rockets from 2013 to 2017. He also told her to go on a shopping spree, but she couldn't bring herself to do it.

"I said, 'No, no. What if something happens?'" she said. "'I still got to hold on and make sure.'"

After years of fighting to prove himself, Beverley's spot in the NBA is secure. He has carved out a reputation as an elite defender. And this season, he has taken another step forward as a rebounder: His 6.9 boards per game would be the second most by a player 6-foot-1 or shorter in NBA history.

Still, it's vital to Beverley to never forget his humble beginnings. He visits Los Angeles hospitals and gives food at area shelters, and he and his mother are a part of an initiative along with the Clippers and a sponsor, Honey, to provide affordable tickets on game days.

"Coming from the projects, we used to sneak into the United Center, watch some games; they chased us out and everything," Beverley recalled during the preseason. "[That] I am fortunately able to get people $10 tickets is crazy. Unbelievable feeling."

IT'S A WEDNESDAY night matchup against the Boston Celtics in L.A. as the Clippers' starting lineup is introduced.

"The other guard, 6-8, in his 10th season, from Palmdale ... No. 13 ... Paul George!"

"And the other forward, 6-7, in his ninth year, from Moreno Valley ... No. 2 ... Kawhi Leonard!"

Beverley is no longer the lone Clipper introduced using the town in which he grew up. But before the contest starts, he still taps his chest and points to the air. He does this before every game for Morris.

It's a nightly reminder of why he is here and not on some dark corner of a street in K-Town.

"I can't let myself down. I can't let my hood down, my area down," he said. "I can't let Chicago down. I got to put on for my city."

The New York Yankees intend to not pay Jacoby Ellsbury the remaining $26 million due under his contract, contending he violated the deal by receiving unauthorized medical treatment, sources confirmed to ESPN's Buster Olney on Friday.

According to multiple reports, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman sent a letter to Ellsbury and his agent, Scott Boras, informing them the team had converted his contract to a nonguaranteed deal.

The Yankees said Ellsbury, who has not played since 2017 due to myriad injuries, was treated by Dr. Viktor Bouquette of Progressive Medical Center in Atlanta without the team's permission, according to multiple reports.

The New York Post first reported that the Yankees didn't intend to pay Ellsbury, who had two years remaining on his $153 million, seven-year contract when he was released Wednesday.

Ellsbury and The MLB Players' Association can file a grievance challenging the conversion of the contract to nonguaranteed.

Ellsbury is owed $26,285,714 by the Yankees in one of their biggest free-agent mistakes: $21,142,857 for next season plus a $5 million buyout of a $21 million team option for 2021. If Ellsbury is not paid, that amount would come off the Yankees' luxury-tax payroll next year.

He was released Wednesday to clear a 40-man roster spot as the Yankees added seven players to protect them from next month's Rule 5 draft.

Now 36, Ellsbury hit .264 with 39 homers, 198 RBIs and 102 stolen bases in 520 games over four seasons with the Yankees. He spent his first seven seasons with the Boston Red Sox and was an All-Star in 2011, and he arrived in New York with a .297 career average, 65 homers, 314 RBIs and 241 steals for Boston.

Ellsbury injured an oblique muscle in his right side early during spring training in 2018, developed a bad back and had hip surgery Aug. 6 to repair a torn labrum in his left hip. He experienced plantar fasciitis in his right foot during his rehab program before spring training this year.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Chair Chris Clark “fully supports” new CEO’s appointment after allegations surface over her husband

UK Athletics chair Chris Clark has insisted he “fully supports” the appointment of new chief executive Zara Hyde Peters, who has been caught up in newspaper reports which have raised questions over whether or not her husband continued to coach young athletes after receiving a permanent ban from teaching following “an inappropriate relationship” with a 15-year-old.

The Times alleges Mike Peters managed and coached a team with Coventry Godiva Harriers which included athletes under the age of 18 following the incident and did so without the relevant disclosure checks. However, Hyde Peters, who was a coaching co-ordinator and vice chair at the midlands club, insists her husband only coached senior athletes.

The former international endurance runner will still take up her position as UKA CEO on December 1, with Clark saying: “I fully support Zara’s appointment as CEO and feel she will do an excellent job.

“There can be no compromise however on matters relating to welfare and safeguarding and it’s important we clarify the facts and processes undertaken as well as the decisions made in relation to the issues raised.

“The UK Athletics welfare team will work with all parties concerned and with my personal oversight as Chairman to review the matter fully and report back to me.”

A UK Sport spokesperson said: “We were not previously aware of any of the issues reported by The Times in relation to Mike Peters. Clearly the accusations laid out are extremely serious and we are in urgent discussions with UK Athletics to seek all of the facts relating to this issue.

“We treat safeguarding matters with the utmost importance and all our investments into national governing bodies are contingent on a sport meeting standards set out by the Child Protection in Sport Unit (CPSU) and the Ann Craft Trust (in relation to Adults at Risk).

“The integrity of the high performance system is paramount and so we will quickly but thoroughly establish the facts of this case before deciding on the appropriate response.”

LAKE ODESSA, Mich. – Chad Finley is turning his attention from NASCAR to dirt late model competition with the American Ethanol Late Model Tour.

Finley, who competed in four events in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series this year, has confirmed he’ll put all of his resources towards capturing the American Ethanol Late Model Tour championship next season.

“We sold all that stuff.  We’re going to go full-time dirt track racing next year,” Finley said when asked about his Truck Series team during the recent Horsepower Happening podcast.

Finley sighted the costs associated with operating the team, and his desire to run up-front despite the lack of funding in the team.

The discussion then turned to what exactly his plan will be for the 2020 season on the dirt. Finley, who captured the dirt late model track championship this year at I-96 Speedway in Michigan, said the goal is to pursue the American Ethanol Late Model Tour title.

“I think I’m going to do it full-time next year,” Finley said. “I think our chances are pretty good.”

Finley posted two podium finishes on the Tour in five attempts in this year – a runner up finish at Merritt Speedway and a third-place finish at I-96 Speedway.