ELLIOTT MIGHT PLAY SOME SNAPS SATURDAY

Ezekiel Elliott is likely to get a few preseason snaps before his six-game suspension is scheduled to go into effect. The Dallas Cowboys are poised to play last year’s NFL rushing champion Saturday against the Oakland Raiders. Elliott’s appeal of his ban under the NFL’s personal conduct policy, for alleged domestic violence against a former girlfriend, is slated for Tuesday. It’s possible his suspension, which is set to begin Sept. 2, could be reduced or vacated. He could also challenge it legally.

In his first live action since last year’s season finale, Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton completed both of his passes for 21 yards and a touchdown at the Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday. Newton had surgery in March to repair a partially torn rotator cuff in his right, throwing shoulder.

The NAACP hasn’t discussed the possibility of a boycott over free agent quarterback Colin Kae

pernick remaining unsigned, an official with the civil rights group told USA TODAY Sports. Gerald

Griggs, an attorney and vice president of the NAACP’s Atlanta chapter, told Yahoo it was his “belief that the coalition will call for a boycott of the NFL.” NAACP spokesman Mark

Russell said that the coalition Griggs was referring to was a local one not affiliated with the NAACP. BRIEFLY ... Once Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera wrestled New York Yankees catcher Austin Romine to the ground at home plate, an afternoon game at Comerica Park in Detroit collapsed into total chaos. The toll of Thursday’s fury: three bench-clearing altercations, eight ejections, one beaning and a lot of angry words in the Tigers’ 10-6 win. Marina Alex shot 5under-par 66 Thursday to take a one-shot lead in the LPGA’s Canadian Pacific Women’s Open at Ottawa Hunt. Manu Ginobili, 40, is returning for his 16th season with the San Antonio Spurs after the team resigned him Thursday. Ginobili averaged 7.5 points, 2.7 assists and 2.3 rebounds in

69 games last season.