Favre asked to repay welfare money
Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre is among people who are being asked to repay the welfare money that the Mississippi State Auditor's Office says they illegally received and spent.
The auditor's office sent a demand for $828,000 to Favre. He originally received $1.1 million of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds through the Mississippi Community Education Center for speaking engagements and other work.
Favre had pledged to pay back the money, but as of October, he had paid back only $500,000.
CHIEFS: Kansas City practiced without five key starters Wednesday, including wide receiver Tyreek Hill and pass rusher Chris Jones, adding a long list of physical ailments to their battered pride five games into the season.
Hill, who starred briefly for Oklahoma State, was sidelined with a bruised quad that he sustained in Sunday night's blowout loss to the Bills, when the Chiefs also lost running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire to a sprained knee ligament. Jones continues to deal with a lingering wrist injury.
Also missing practice was linebacker Anthony Hitchens (knee inflammation); defensive back Charvarius Ward (quad) and starting guard Joe Thuney
(broken hand).
Backup tight end Blake Bell, who played at Oklahoma, joined the long list of starters on the sideline with a sore back as the Chiefs, at 2-3 and in last place in the AFC West, prepared for their trip to Washington on Sunday.
ETC.: Jon Gruden is being dropped from the Madden NFL 22 video game after he resigned as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders because it was reported that he used racist, homophobic and misogynistic language in emails.
EA Sports tweeted Wednesday that it was “taking steps to remove” Gruden from the latest version of its popular pro football game and would “replace him with a general likeness via a title update in the coming weeks."