ring the welfare of children. They await trial in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.Spanier

PITTSBURGH -- Now that LeVeon Bell is back in the lineup, he plans to stay there.The Pittsburgh Steelers running back has started back-to-back seasons on the NFLs suspension list for violating the leagues substance abuse policy, but hes eligible to play Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs.The personal issues are behind me, Bell said.There shouldnt be any more off-the-field issues. I apologize to everybody for that, said Bell, a free agent in 2017. I just want to move forward. Im ready to get back on the field and show people what Im able to do.Bell, who leads the NFL with 119 yards from scrimmage per game since 2013, missed two games in 2015 for a possession DUI charge that resulted in probation. He missed an additional three games this season for missing league-administered drug tests.Bell said he is working to improve in some off-field areas, including taking care of himself and his body and whatever it takes for me to be on the field.After missing 10 games last season with a torn medial collateral and posterior cruciate ligaments in his right knee, Bell said he is 100 percent healthy.Im not a perfect person. I never will be. Im not going to try to be, Bell said. I understand there are some things I can get better at, and Im going to shoot to get better at them.Bells ability as a receiver -- he caught 83 passes for 854 yards in 2014 -- will be welcome after the Steelers averaged just 5.8 yards per pass in a 34-3 loss at Philadelphia.Bell stayed in Pittsburgh to rehab, train and lift weights while suspended, and though he said it sucked to watch the Steelers from a television, he said he is a smarter player than in 2014, when he posted 2,215 yards rushing and receiving.Once they plug me in, I feel like Ill go out there and help the guys move the football, Bell said. 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It was just business as usual for the Thunder at home. Durant scored 32 points and the Thunder beat the Bulls 107-95 on Thursday night for their eighth straight win.BELLEFONTE, Pa. -- Former Penn State President Graham Spanier testified Thursday that he issued a statement the day two of his top lieutenants were charged in the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal, calling the allegations against them groundless, because he had developed deep trust in them.Spanier took the witness stand in former assistant coach Mike McQuearys lawsuit against the university. McQuearys lawsuit alleges the former presidents statement made it appear McQueary was a liar.Spanier said he came to trust vice president Gary Schultz and athletic director Tim Curley after working closely with them for years.This was an unbelievable injustice, that these two guys, who are like Boy Scouts, would be charged with a crime, Spanier said. And thats what was in my head as I was giving this opinion.Spanier began drafting the statement about a week earlier. He said thats when the universitys then-general counsel got a tip through the attorney generals office that Sandusky, Curley and Schultz would be charged.At issue was how Curley and Schultz responded after McQueary described to them in 2001 that he saw Sandusky sexually abuse a boy in a team shower.Spanier told jurors he directed the lawyer to share a draft with Curleys lawyer as a courtesy before it was published.Two of the people holding among the most important leadership positions in the university were going to be charged, Spanier said. And with my belief that after working daily with these individuals for about 16 years, and knowing their honesty, their integrity, believing that they never withheld information from me, and recollecting rather clearly that meeting from 2001 ... and what they described to me at the time, that it merited my unconditional support.Spanier was forced out by the board of trustees a few days later, and the next year he also was charged over his handling of the Sandusky matteer.dddddddddddd A state appeals court this year threw out several of the charges against all three administrators, but they remain accused of failure to properly report suspected abuse and endangering the welfare of children. They await trial in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.Spanier, who remains a Penn State faculty member, testified he had no knowledge of a 1998 police investigation into Sandusky showering with another boy on campus and had limited recollection of responding with Curley and Schultz to the 2001 incident McQueary said he witnessed.When the first set of charges was announced in November 2011, Spanier said he took the draft statement that day to about 30 of the universitys senior executives. He said he told them that if they were falsely accused of a crime, he would issue the same type of statement on their behalf.Everybody in the room worked with them for years and had exactly the same sentiment I had, Spanier testified.He said he wasnt thinking about McQueary when drafting the statement and didnt realize McQueary was a key figure in the investigation and an unnamed assistant described in the grand jury presentment used to help charge Sandusky.I was not casting aspersions on anybody else, because when that statement was drafted, I hadnt read the grand jury presentment, Spanier testified. My entire knowledge base was from a short conversation a decade earlier, and my focus was on these two individuals who I knew and worked with.McQuearys defamation, whistleblower and misrepresentation lawsuit is seeking more than $4 million in lost wages. The trial is expected to continue into next week.Sandusky was convicted of dozens of counts of child sexual abuse in 2012 and is serving a lengthy prison sentence but maintains hes innocent. ' ' '