Notre Dame coach Micah Shrewsberry charges at official after controversial call

A disputed call near the end of his team's 72-71 loss at Cal on Friday night caused Notre Dame men's basketball coach Micah Shrewsberry to lose his composure.

Shrewsberry charged off the floor in pursuit of referee Adam Flore as soon as the final horn sounded. Multiple players and staffers had to restrain Shrewsberry as the third-year Notre Dame coach continued to shout at Flore and point in his direction.

Another angle of Notre Dame HC Micah Shrewsberry chasing a ref after the loss to Cal:https://t.co/L7EwQoMHUrpic.twitter.com/SteSpRBFAZ

— Joaquin Ruiz (@WalkingRuiz)January 3, 2026

Flore became the target of Shrewsberry's rage when he controversially awarded Cal the chance for a go-ahead four-point play in the final seconds.

With Notre Dame leading by three and 9.9 seconds to play, Shrewsberry instructed the Fighting Irish to foul before Cal could attempt a game-tying 3-pointer. Notre Dame guard Logan Imes twice swiped at Cal guard Dai Dai Ames as he crossed mid-court but no foul was called. The third time, Imes got the timing wrong, reaching at Ames just before he rose and buried a 3-pointer from the left wing.

Flore initially ruled it an and-1 opportunity. Then the referees overturned that call and said the foul occurred before the shot. Then the referees huddled together once more and reversed the call a second time, deeming the basket good and sending Ames to the foul line to attempt the go-ahead free throw with 5.5 seconds remaining.

This is what prompted it: A foul on Logan Imes, ruled to be in the act of shooting.Notre Dame was trying to foul up three. The officials called this a shooting foul, reversed it and then reversed it back.pic.twitter.com/qkWGPcvqi9

— Jack Soble (@jacksoble56)January 3, 2026

"I thought there was a foul going up," Cal coach Mark Madsen told reporters after the game. "I saw the official signal it. They conversed a couple times and they allowed it. There's so much emotion in that gym, for the officials, for me, for the other team. I was grateful Dai Dai rose up and made the shot and I was grateful Dai Dai had the maturity and the huge presence of mind and the composure to knock down the free throw."

After Ames sank the go-ahead foul shot, Notre Dame had one final chance to win, but Braedon Shrewsberry's 3-point attempt clanked off the front rim.

In a statement released Saturday morning, Micah Shrewsberry apologized for his behavior after the final buzzer, calling his actions "inappropriate and not symbolic of the leader I strive to be and what Notre Dame expects of its coaches and educators."

"I will learn from this lack of judgement and be better in the future," he added.

A Statement from Head Coach Micah Shrewsberry:"I want to apologize for what took place immediately after the Cal game last night. My actions were inappropriate and not symbolic of the leader I strive to be and what Notre Dame expects of its coaches and educators. I will learn…

— Notre Dame Men's Basketball (@NDmbb)January 3, 2026

Shrewsberry apparently will avoid suspension for his postgame actions. The ACC called the matter closed on Saturday after publicly reprimanding Shrewsberry for violating the league's sportsmanship policy.

"Shrewsberry aggressively confronted a member of the officiating crew following the game," the ACC's statement said. "The unsportsmanlike behavior that was displayed is unacceptable and tarnishes the on-court play between these institutions."

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Rory McIlroy on Brooks Koepka in TGL: '(I) would love him to play'

Rory McIlroy said he has no qualms about the prospect of Brooks Koepka joining TGL.

And McIlroy's voice likely holds some water given that he is a co-founder of the indoor golf simulation league along with Tiger Woods.

As for Koepka, he has newfound availability following his departure from LIV Golf, the upstart circuit where he has played for the last three years. LIV announced on Dec. 23 that Koepka would be leaving the league because he was "prioritizing the needs of his family."

So would Koepka be welcome in TGL?

"I would say that's up to people that are more powerful and more important than me. But I am one of the founders. I would love him to play," McIlroy said on Friday after his Boston Common Golf team recorded a 7-5 win over Los Angeles Golf Club.

"If there's space on a team for Brooks to come and play, it only makes what we're trying to do stronger. He's a five-time major champion. He's been one of the best players of our generation. If he decides it's something that he wants to do, I'm sure we'll find a way to include him."

McIlroy's comments came on the heels of his appearance on "The Overlap" podcast earlier on Friday. He said on the podcast that he wouldn't object to LIV stars joining the PGA Tour.

"I think they've already paid their consequence. They've made the money but they've paid their consequence in terms of the reputation and some of the things they've lost by going over there," McIlroy said. "If it made the overall tour stronger to have Bryson DeChambeau back and whoever else, I would be OK with it.

"But it's not just me, and I recognize that not everyone is in my position. It would be up to the collective group of PGA Tour members to make that decision."

--Field Level Media

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Theo Johnson's appearance at Knicks game raises questions after Giants TE was ruled out of Week 18 with an illness

Early Friday afternoon, the New York Giantsreleased their final injury reportfor Week 18 and tight end Theo Johnson was listed as "out" with an illness for Sunday's game against the Dallas Cowboys.

Hours later, Johnson was shown on the Madison Square Garden scoreboard while attending theNew York Knicks game against the Atlanta Hawks. That appearance raised questions about how the second-year tight end could be out in public despite being set to miss the Giants' season finale in two days.

Theo Johnson here at MSG for the#KnicksgameHe's out for Sunday's#Giantsgame with an illness…pic.twitter.com/0PjjOBv2Qv

— Jared Schwartz (@jschwartz115)January 3, 2026

Johnson eventook to Instagram on Friday nightand posted a story with the caption, "I am not sick."

This wasn't a case of the tanking theory that the Giants were keeping players out for a second straight week in hopes of oflanding the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. According to the team, Johnson is dealing with a non-contagious infection, "not the flu or COVID, where being around other people is a risk."

Interim head coach Mike Kafka was asked Thursday about Johnson's week-long stay on the injury report with an illness. "So he's just still got a little bit of a sickness and just infection that we're just working through. So he's just kind of trying to clean it up, see where it goes,"he said.

Johnson was one of six Giants ruled out for Week 18, along with cornerback Cor'Dale Flott, safety Jevón Holland, offensive lineman Evan Neal, defensive lineman Rakeem Nuñez-Roches Sr. and wide receiver Wan'Dale Robinson.

The Giants needed to lose to the Las Vegas Raiders last week to secure the No. 1 pick. They did not,winning 34-10. Despite that, they still have a chance to own the top selection, but they need help in Week 18.

On Sunday, theGiants need to lose to the Cowboys, have the Raiders beat the Kansas City Chiefs, and get 1 1/2 combined wins (a tie equals half a win) from the Atlanta Falcons, Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns and Seattle Seahawks.

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Explainer-Was the US capture of Venezuela's president legal?

By Tom Hals and Andrew Goudsward

WASHINGTON Jan 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. captured Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in a military operation early on Saturday morning, culminating a months-long pressure campaign by President Donald Trump's administration that drew condemnation from some international leaders.

Maduro was on a warship bound for New York to face criminal charges, ​according to U.S. officials.

Below is a look at the legality of the U.S. action.

WHAT HAPPENED?

On Saturday, U.S. forces attacked Venezuela and seized Maduro, who has been widely condemned as ‌an illegitimate leader, and his wife Cilia Flores.

Trump had been urging Maduro to cede power and has accused him of supporting drug cartels that Washington designated as terror groups, alleging they were responsible for thousands of U.S. deaths tied to ‌illegal drug use.

Since September, U.S. forces had killed more than 100 people in at least 30 strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats from Venezuela in the Caribbean and Pacific, which legal experts said likely violated U.S. and international law.

HOW DID THE U.S. JUSTIFY THE ACTION?

U.S. authorities said the Justice Department sought military assistance to apprehend Maduro, who had been indicted by a New York grand jury along with his wife, son, two political leaders and an alleged leader of an international gang. They were charged with crimes related to terrorism, drugs and weapons.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said on social media that the defendants "will ⁠soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil ‌in American courts."

However, at a press conference, Trump blamed Venezuela for stealing U.S. oil interests and said Washington would take them back and planned to run Venezuela for a period of time, without offering specifics.

Experts in international law said the Trump administration had muddled the legal issues by claiming the operation ‍was both a targeted law enforcement mission and the potential prelude to long-term control of Venezuela by the U.S.

"You cannot say this was a law enforcement operation and then turn around and say now we need to run the country," said Jeremy Paul, a professor at Northeastern University specializing in constitutional law. "It just doesn't make any sense."

WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?

The U.S. Congress has the power to declare war but the president is ​the commander-in-chief, and presidents of both parties have justified carrying out military action when it was limited in scope and in the national interest.

Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told Vanity ‌Fair magazine in an interview published late last year that if Trump were to authorize "some activity on land" in Venezuela he would need approval from Congress.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Congress was not notified before Saturday's operation.

International law prohibits the use of force in international relations except for narrow exceptions such as authorization by the U.N. Security Council or in self-defense.

Drug trafficking and gang violence are considered criminal activity and do not rise to the accepted international standard of an armed conflict that would justify a military response, according to legal experts.

"A criminal indictment alone doesn't provide authority to use military force to depose a foreign government, and the administration will probably hang this also on a theory of self-defense," said Matthew Waxman, a law professor at Columbia University specializing ⁠in national security law.

The U.S. has not recognized Maduro as the legitimate leader of Venezuela since 2019, following ​an election the U.S. said was rigged.

IS THERE A PRECEDENT?

The U.S. has captured criminal suspects in foreign countries including Libya ​but it has sought consent of local authorities. While the administration describes Maduro as an illegitimate leader, Washington has not recognized another Venezuelan leader who could have authorized the capture of Maduro.

In 1989, the U.S. arrested General Manuel Noriega, then the leader of Panama, in similar circumstances. Noriega had been indicted on ‍drug-related charges and Washington said it was acting to ⁠protect U.S. citizens after Panamanian forces had killed a U.S. soldier.

The United States had also alleged Noriega was an illegitimate leader and had recognized as the country's leader the candidate who Noriega had claimed to have defeated in a recent election.

The former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, was extradited to the United States in 2022 and later ⁠convicted on drug-related charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison. Trump pardoned Hernandez in December.

Legal experts were skeptical that the United States would face any meaningful accountability for its actions in Venezuela, even if they were unlawful given the ‌lack of enforcement mechanisms in international law.

"It's hard to see how any legal body could impose practical consequences on the administration," said Paul, of Northeastern.

(Reporting by Tom ‌Hals in Wilmington, Delaware, and Andrew Goudsward in Washington; editing by Scott Malone and Michael Learmonth)

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Tears, relief and questions about what comes next: Venezuelans in U.S. celebrate Maduro capture

DORAL, Fla. — They came out in the middle of the night when they heard the news, some still in pajamas as they joined the crowd of revelers waving Venezuelan flags and dancing, singing and crying.

"Thank you, Lord, thank you president of the United States. I've been waiting for years — he's done so much damage. This has been horrible," said Yajaira, a Venezuelan American from the city of Maracaibo.

The newsthat the U.S. had attacked Venezuelaand captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife elicited a spontaneous celebration in front of El Arepazo, a restaurant in Doral, a city in Miami-Dade County nicknamed "Doralzuela" because it hasthe highest concentration of Venezuelansin the U.S.

"We've been here eight years, eight years already," Yajaira said, referring to how long she's been in the U.S. "They killed my older brother. It was so tough. They kidnapped my brothers. That was tough. I thank God for all of this because it's been tough," she said, her voice breaking as she looked up at the sky.

Throughout the morning, the growing crowds in Doral were chanting in Spanish, "The government is over, the government has fallen," amid the blasting car horns and music.

Venezuelans started coming to Florida and the U.S. in large numbers in the early 2000s after socialist Hugo Chávez rose to power. The situation deteriorated drastically when Maduro took over in 2013. Under Maduro, the country's oil-driven economyhas faced a decadelong collapseand an estimated 80% of residents live in poverty. Around 8 million Venezuelans have fled under his rule.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. is "going to run" Venezuela following Maduro's capture "until such time as a safe, proper and judicious transition can take place." He said Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez has been sworn is as president;she has called for Maduro's release.

Diana Monert, also celebrating in Doral, was asked what the recent events mean for Venezuelans. "Freedom," she said.

The relief and jubilation stretched across other parts of the country. In Cincinnati, Rosaly Navas, 43, a property manager, said, "My heart is racing — this is the biggest miracle that has happened in my lifetime. ... I have spent so many hours awake and I really want to contribute to recovering my country."

Questions over what happens next

Amid the relief among some Venezuelan Americans that Maduro was no longer in power, there were questions and concerns about what happens next, with several noting that other top officials in Venezuela had not been captured.

A young man celebrating in front of El Arepazo who did not want to give his name because he was worried about his family in Venezuela said it was "the biggest day we were waiting for. ... I'm really happy. We were waiting for the end of that dictatorship."

When asked how his family in Venezuela was doing, he said, "They're excited but at the same time they have fear, they're waiting for what's going to happen — what's going to be the next step."

Patricia Andrade, who helps newly arrived migrants through her Miami nonprofit Raices Venezolanas, said she has mixed feelings.

"I spent years waiting for the Chavez-Maduro regime to fall," she said.

While it has given her great happiness to see Maduro in U.S. custody, there are still many more Venezuelan officials to be arrested, she said.

Adelys Ferro, executive director of the Venezuelan American Caucus, a grassroots group working to amplify Venezuelan American voices and issues in the U.S., said she was celebrating that "justice is taking its course and that Maduro responds for all the crimes he's committed."

But she warned that "Venezuela is still not free from Chavismo," referring to the government's socialist rule started by Chávez. "I hope that the innocents, the good people in Venezuela, who are the majority, will be protected," she said.

Ferro added that she hopes "Trump understands Venezuelans here in the U.S. also fled and need protection. It's no time for more attacks and persecution of Venezuelan immigrants. Those people fled a dictatorship and they're not Tren de Aragua."

Ferro noted more than 6 in 10 Venezuelans in the U.S. came through temporary protected status, which the Trump administration has rescinded. She also urged Trump to recognize that there's a need for bipartisan support for Venezuelans. "What we need is support in this critical moment," she said.

'Something was coming'

In Venezuela, a resident who didn't want to be named for their own safety said, "We had different tips that something was coming, Trump had already announced something," adding the events reminded them of the late writer Gabriel García Márquez's novel "Chronicle of a Death Foretold."

Speaking hours after the attack, the Venezuelan resident said "nobody is in support of the invasion, the violence, but we aren't also in support of the people who didn't win the election," referring to Maduro, who remained in powerdespite credible evidence that his opponent won the 2024 election.

"We are humble citizens — we're caught. How is it possible that they took they took the president and his wife? Was it someone who betrayed him? There is so much uncertainty and so much fear," the resident said. "I'm very impressed that they just took him."

Yanire Lucas, a Caracas resident,told The Associated Pressshe was scared to even leave the house. "What is happening is unprecedented," Lucas said. "We're still on edge, and now we're uncertain about what to do. Stay safe at home, go out to look for food? I don't know."

Trump's statement that the U.S. would "run" Venezuela is opening up a host of questions over what will happen in the next few days and months.

But in Doral, before the president's statements, Yajaira was asked what message she had for other Venezuelans following the U.S. attack and Maduro's capture.

"Be strong, sí se puede [yes we can]" Yajaira said. "We're going to be a free, prosperous country."

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How the US captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro

WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, the U.S. military had been amassing a presence off Venezuela's coast and conspicuously blowing up alleged drug trafficking boats and killing the occupants.

At the same time, U.S. intelligence agencies were carefully studying the country's authoritarian PresidentNicolás Maduro, learning minute details such as his eating habits while special forces secretly rehearsed a plan to forcibly remove him.

Months of covert planning led to the brazen operation overnight, when PresidentDonald Trumpgave an order authorizing Maduro's capture. The U.S. plunged the South American country's capital into darkness, infiltrated Maduro's home and whisked him to the United States, where the Trump administration planned toput him on trial.

Trump, during a news conference Saturday at his Florida home, laid out the details of the strike, after which he said Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were flown by helicopter to a U.S. warship.

The operation termed "Absolute Resolve" unfolded under the cover of darkness, with U.S. forces holding fast in the region, awaiting the ideal weather conditions to give pilots clear routes into Caracas. The extensive planning included practice on a replica of the presidential compound, as well as U.S. service members armed with what Trump said were "massive blowtorches" in the event the steel walls of a safe room needed to be cut open to extract the pair.

"He didn't get that space closed. He was trying to get into it, but he got bum-rushed right so fast that he didn't get into that," Trump said an interview earlier Saturday morning on "Fox & Friends Weekend."

A carefully rehearsed mission

Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at Trump's news conference that U.S. forces had rehearsed their maneuvers for months, learning everything about Maduro — where he was at certain hours as well as details of his pets and the clothes he wore.

"We think, we develop, we train, we rehearse, we debrief, we rehearse again, and again," Caine said, saying his forces were "set" by early December. "Not to get it right, but to ensure we cannot get it wrong."

Trump said on Fox that U.S. forces had practiced their extraction on a replica building.

"They actually built a house which was identical to the one they went into with all the same, all that steel all over the place," Trump said.

Trump said in the television interview that U.S. forces held off on conducting the operation for days, waiting four days for cloud cover to pass. Caine said that on Friday night, "the weather broke just enough, clearing a path that only the most skilled aviators in the world could move through," adding that helicopters flew low to the water to enter Venezuela and were covered above by protective U.S. aircraft.

Trump said the U.S. operation "was dark and it was deadly," adding that "the lights of Caracas were largely turned off due to a certain expertise that we have," but giving no further details.

The attack, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described as part of "massive joint military and law enforcement raid," lasted less than 30 minutes. At least seven explosions were heard in Caracas, and Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who under law takes power, said some Venezuelan civilians and members of the military were killed.

In a televised address later Saturday on state television, she demanded that the U.S. free Maduro and called him the country's rightful leader. But Rodríguez also left open the door for a dialogue with the U.S. when she said, "We are willing to have respectful relations."

Yanire Lucas, a Caracas resident whose house sits pressed up next to a Venezuelan military base struck overnight, said she began to hear explosions next to her house around 1:50 in the morning.

Trump said a few U.S. members in the operation were injured, but he believed no one was killed. Caine said one helicopter was struck by fire as it closed in on Maduro's compound but it was able to safely fly on its return.

Months of escalating actions

Trump said Maduro and Flores were flown by helicopter to a U.S. warship and would go on to New York to face charges. He posted on Truth Social a photo of the Venezuelan leader, wearing a gray sweatsuit, protective headphones and blindfold.

The raid was a dramatic escalation from a series of strikes the U.S. military has carried out on what Trump has said were drug-carrying boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean since early September. On Dec. 29, Trump said the U.S. struck a facility where boats accused of carrying drugs "load up." The CIA was behindthe drone strikeat a docking area believed to have been used by Venezuelan drug cartels, the first known direct operation on Venezuelan soil since the U.S. began its strikes in September.

Few details about how the US will now run Venezuela

Though Trump had warned for months that the U.S. might conduct strikes in Venezuela, he gave little hint on Friday what was coming.

He spent the morning posting on social media defending his health and complaining about the impact of wind turbines on birds before he went shopping for marble and onyx for the ballroom he's building at the White House and a visit to his golf club.

Privately, he was readying to give the go-ahead for a military mission that already has generated criticism in the U.S. and abroad. Now, the president said the U.S. will direct the path forward for Venezuela, as questions have emergedabout the legalityof both those plans and Maduro's capture.

Trump said at his news conference that the group of officials standing behind him, including Hegseth, Caine and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, will "be a team that's working with the people of Venezuela."

The Republican president left open the possibility that U.S. troops would have a presence in the country. "We're not afraid of boots on the ground if we have to," he said, adding, "We had boots on the ground last night."

The U.S. will now "run" the country until a new leader can be chosen, Trump said.

"We're going to make sure that country is run properly. We're not doing this in vain," he said. "This is a very dangerous attack. This is an attack that could have gone very, very badly."

Kinnard reported from Chapin, South Carolina. Associated Press reporters Regina Garcia Cano and Juan Arraez in Caracas, Venezuela, contributed to this report.

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Bryan Rust and Yegor Chinakhov send the streaking Penguins past the Red Wings, 4-1

DETROIT (AP) — Bryan Rust and Yegor Chinakhov scored first-period goals and the Pittsburgh Penguins topped the Detroit Red Wings for the second time in three days, 4-1, on Saturday.

Rickard Rakell and Connor Dewar added empty-net goals to clinch Pittsburgh's fourth consecutive victory. Kris Letang's overtime goal gave thePenguins a 4-3 win over Detroitin Pittsburgh on Thursday.

Sidney Crosby extended his point streak to six games with two assists. Crosby, who scored two goals on Thursday, has four goals and six assists during that stretch and 53 points in 40 career games against the Red Wings.

Parker Wotherspoon had two assists and Stuart Skinner made 11 saves for the Penguins.

Alex DeBrincat scored his team-leading 22nd goal for Detroit. John Gibson stopped 27 shots for the Red Wings, who are 5-2-1 over their last eight games.

The Penguins led 2-0 after the first period. Rust lifted a shot over Gibson's left shoulder 3:44 into the game. Ben Kindel passed the puck out of his zone to Chinakhov, who got behind Detroit's defense and converted on the breakaway with 2:30 remaining in the period.

DeBrincat scored on a breakaway with 4:54 remaining in the second period. He clanged a shot off the right post during a power play later in the period.

Rakell and Dewar scored their empty-netters in the final minute.

Penguins: At Columbus on Sunday.

Red Wings: Visit Ottawa on Monday.

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