November 4, 2022 News and Notes

• Kyrie Irving has been banned at least five games by the Nets -- conduct making him "unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets", a team statement said last night.
• Dave Butz, two-time Super Bowl winner with Washington, passed at 72.
• Canadian monobob bronze-medalist Christine de Bruin has been banned for the near-remaining entire time between this Winter Olympics and the next one for drugs.  Three year suspension.  Ligandrol, an anabolic agent.
• FIFA wants it's players to shut up and dribble vis-a-vis this month's World Cup.