Ex-NFL star running back Le’Veon Bell made quite the accusation against his former head coach with the New York Jets, Adam Gase.

Gase, now the pass game coordinator under Jim Harbaugh with the Los Angeles Chargers, didn’t fare well in New York, owning a 9-23 record before being fired after the 2020 season. Bell and Gase both joined the team in 2019, when they went 7-9, but flamed out the next year.

Bell made an appearance on the “Respectfully” podcast with Justin Laboy, where he blasted Gase, calling him the “dumbest coach ever.” But that wasn’t the worst that was said.

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Le’Veon Bell accused his former New York Jets head coach Adam Gase of using cocaine at the team’s facility. (GETTY)

Bell accused Gase of using cocaine in his office.

Laboy asked Bell to go further after he said Gase “did a lot of s— in that office that coaches ain’t supposed to be doing.” Then, Bell said Gase was using “white girl,” a slang term for cocaine, and then did a snorting gesture.

“I’m like, bro, I ain’t just walk in the office and see my coach [snorting cocaine],” Bell explained to Laboy. “We’re about to go to practice, bro. We got practice in 28 minutes. We got walkthrough, bro. This is what you’re doing in here?”

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Bell doubled down, saying he saw Gase do it himself.

“It wasn’t just one time. That’s what it did, though. Everybody knows that. That’s what he did. But it was just crazy to me to actually see him doing it. I heard all the stories and s—.”

The Chargers did not immediately answer a request for comment by Fox News Digital.

Le’Veon Bell of the New York Jets runs with the football against the Arizona Cardinals at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Oct. 11, 2020. The Cardinals defeated the Jets 30-10. (Mike Stobe/Getty Images)

Bell’s last words there imply he heard from others that Gase allegedly used the illegal substance, though he didn’t go into further detail on that front.

Before Gase was hired by the Jets to be their next head coach, he held the same position with the Miami Dolphins from 2016-18, where he went 23-25. His best year was 2016, when the Dolphins went 10-6.

Since being fired by the Jets, Gase wasn’t on any coaching staff in the NFL, rather consulting from time to time. His father-in-law, Joe Vitt, works as a defensive assistant for the Denver Broncos, who he visited during the 2023 and 2025 offseasons to provide insight. Gase also spent time with The 33rd Team as a strategic advisor with Bill Belichick and Matt Patricia in 2024.

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Gase’s time in the NFL began with the Detroit Lions in 2003, working as a scouting assistant before a promotion to offensive assistant in 2005. He eventually worked his way up to quarterbacks coach in 2007 before a quick stint with the San Francisco 49ers the next season.

Gase then spent a large chunk of his coaching history with the Broncos from 2009-14, the last three seasons serving as the team’s offensive coordinator before the Dolphins gave him a shot as head coach.

Meanwhile, Bell’s career didn’t pan out the way he hoped after his contract dispute with the Pittsburgh Steelers ended with him missing the entire 2018 campaign. He eventually signed with the Jets, but after just two games into the 2020 season, he was released.

Head coach Adam Gase and running back Le’Veon Bell of the New York Jets talk before their game against the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md., on Dec. 12, 2019. (Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)

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In 2019, his first season back in the NFL, he rushed for 789 yards with three touchdowns, while catching 66 passes for 461 yards and one score. Bell saw time with the Kansas City Chiefs, Baltimore Ravens and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but never stuck with a team before leaving football in 2021.

Bell was a three-time Pro Bowler and two-time All-Pro with the Steelers, who took him 48th overall in the 2013 NFL Draft out of Michigan State. He rushed for 5,336 yards with 42 total touchdowns across his five seasons in Pittsburgh.

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Things have been going well for Manchester United recently, but Michael Carrick has suffered a painful injury blow during the clash with Brentford

Luke Shaw was forced to limp off during Manchester United’s home clash against Brentford. The England international has enjoyed one of his best campaigns when it comes to his fitness and injury record.

While there has been plenty of change this season at Old Trafford, with Ruben Amorim being sacked at the start of the year and Michael Carrick arriving, Shaw has been a constant. For the first time in his time at United, Shaw was on course to appear in every single Premier League match for the Reds.

He had already surpassed his best appearance tally, which came in the 2020-21 campaign when he made 31 Premier League appearances under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. However, Shaw may be about to spend another period of time on the side-lines.

There will be more to follow. We’ll bring you the very latest updates on this breaking news story.

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On the latest episode of “Baseball Bar-B-Cast,” hosts Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman checked in on one of this season’s most compelling early storylines:

Shohei Ohtani Cy Young watch.

The Dodgers’ superstar currently has a 0.38 ERA with 25 strikeouts and 6 walks in 24 innings across four starts. That is, notably, fewer starts and fewer innings than most of the other pitchers who are likely to be in the mix for the award. For contrast, Tyler Glasnow is up to 33 innings, and Nolan McLean is at 35.

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Ohtani is unlikely to catch up to other contenders in terms of workload but has the potential to make his case in other ways.

“He has been as stellar on the bump as we ever could have imagined,” Mintz said.

Another significant marker for Ohtani as we near the end of April: He has not allowed a home run.

Across his 24 innings, he has faced 92 batters without giving up a long ball. Ohtani’s teammate Justin Wrobleski is the league leader in innings pitched without a homer surrendered, having thrown 30 frames. The other pitchers ahead of Ohtani on that list are the Pirates’ Carmen Mlodzinski, the Blue Jays’ Dylan Cease and the Nationals’ Cade Cavalli.

Shusterman summed Ohtani up this way: “Good at pitching. Good at hitting. He’s amazing.”

The Minnesota Vikings 1st-Round draft pick from Thursday night, Caleb Banks, comes with some injury risk and an overall boom-or-bust profile. The team’s 2nd-Rounder, Jake Golday, might be a bit raw for Year No. 1 readiness, which is fine because the Vikings have plenty of off-ball linebacking depth. What does this mean? Well, the 3rd-Round selection of Iowa State nose tackle Domonique Orange takes the cake from a post-draft standpoint.

Minnesota needed a true interior run-stuffer, and Orange may have the cleanest rookie fit on the roster.

Big Citrus — his nickname because of his last name — is set up to succeed more than any Vikings draft pick in the immediate fallout of the event.

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The Big Citrus fan club has already begun.

An Immediate Roster Opening

So long as Orange doesn’t look like an idiot at training camp in July — he won’t — the large defender has a clear path to splash right away. On the pre-draft depth chart, 2024 7th-Rounder Levi Drake Rodriguez was slated for nose tackle duty in 2026. That all changed with the Orange selection.

It just makes more sense that Orange would play sooner rather than later, a sharp contrast to Orange’s new teammate, the aforementioned Banks, who will undergo a summer filled with injury questions about his game-readiness. That will not be the story for Orange. There will be some instant gratification regarding Orange.

SI.com‘s Will Ragatz on the pick: “Whereas Banks is a freak athlete with big-time pass-rush potential, Orange is a true run-stuffing nose tackle. Across four seasons with the Cyclones, he recorded one sack. He also had just seven career tackles for loss.”

“But at 6’2,” 322 pounds, the work he does generally doesn’t show up in the stat sheet. This is a guy who eats up blocks and is very difficult to move off of his spot, which creates tackle opportunities for others in the run game. Instant grade: B.”

Nose Tackles Are Set Up to Succeed

Drafting nose tackles somewhat high in a draft is like pepperoni pizza. Nobody from your group of hungry folks will complain about the selection — or Orange … or the pizza. Nose tackles have a higher rate of success in the draft, mainly because their job is slightly less complicated than pass-rushing DTs. Nose tackles are instructed to be “big and there.”

This is a similar situation to safeties: they’re just easier to hit on in the draft. Low risk, high reward.

The Scouting Report

Orange, an early-down option as his career gets off the ground in the big leagues, offers immediate help. At 6’2″ and 325 pounds, he boasts a quick first step, a solid anchor, and long arms evident on tape. He perfectly fits Minnesota’s profile for interior run stoppers.

However, his pass-rush game requires development. He primarily relies on positioning and leverage, rarely demonstrating the bull rush often seen from other defensive tackles in this class. Still, he possesses significant room for growth.

Generally speaking, the Vikings’ rookie DT roles are clearly defined: Banks will hunt the quarterback, and Orange will handle the interior “dirty work.”

NFL.com’s Lance Zierlein on Orange: “Orange is a sturdy nose tackle capable of muddying the middle of the field with his first-step quickness and take-on power. His reaction time makes it hard to reach-block him in zone and he has the anchor to play landlord over the A-gaps against double-teams.”

“He gets bounced around on contact but is excellent in recovery and winning the final phase of the rep. Orange is a non-factor as a pass rusher, but his value versus the run should attract teams.”

And The Athletic‘s Dane Brugler: “Orange is an ineffective pass rusher but has the frame and play strength to be an immovable, stout nose when he wants to be. He projects best as a one-technique or shade in a 4-3 scheme. Using his long extension, he creates powerful knockback, controls the point and eventually discards blockers, although his shed timing must improve.”

“Despite having a limited range of impact, he played lighter in 2025, and his conditioning is a critical factor in his on-field success. Durable — played in combined 50 games the past four years. Strong, violent hands to rid himself of contact. Trimmed down to 325 pounds and worked well with nutritionists in the program.”

First Real NT since Dalvin Tomlinson

Remember Tomlinson? Ironically, he’s probably the best NFL comp for Orange, and Orange just so happens to be the first genuine prospective starting nose tackle on the Vikings’ roster since Tomlinson left Minnesota after the 2022 campaign.

Before Tomlinson, Linval Joseph held down the NT fort from 2014 to 2019. Since Joseph’s departure, the Vikings have cycled through these NT or faux NT personnel:

• Sheldon Day
• Javon Hargrave
• Michael Pierce
• Harrison Phillips
• Levi Drake Rodriguez
• Shamar Stephen
• Taki Taimani
• Dalvin Tomlinson
• Khyiris Tonga
• Elijah Williams

So, yes, it’s a new day and a bit of a throwback for the Vikings to have Orange on the depth chart.

Orange turned 22 last month.

On Friday, Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Max Scherzer had a chance to make history, but fell short. Scherzer, who is only one strikeout away from hitting 3,500 career strikeouts, instead put up one of the worst starts of the season in a 8-6 loss to the Cleveland Guardians.

Now, Scherzer will have to wait a bit longer to try again. Toronto announced Monday that they have place Scherzer on the 15-day injured list with right forearm tendinitis and left ankle inflammation.

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To replace him, the Blue Jays have called up Chase Lee.

Away Game’s hectic two-year-old year from six seasons ago stands out among modern juveniles, making it understandable that Lady Catalina, foal of the current broodmare, has begun her career at a gentler pace.

Away Game tallied four wins from eight juvenile outings, claiming the 2020 Magic Millions Classic (1200m) and Percy Sykes Stakes (1200m), runner-up spot to Farnan in the Golden Slipper (1200m), and a credible fifth versus elder mares in the Robert Sangster Stakes (1200m).

On the other hand, her first track foal, Written Tycoon filly Lady Catalina, faces her sophomore start in the HMAS Sydney Handicap (1100m) at Randwick on Saturday.

Johann Gerard-Dubord, Ciaron Maher’s Sydney foreman who came aboard amid Away Game’s juvenile phase, observed that Lady Catalina took longer to come along but holds plenty of promise.

“She is a very different horse to Away Game. Away Game was very natural, very early,” Gerard-Dubord said.

“By this time of year, she’d had plenty of racing already.

“We’ve taken our time with Lady Catalina. She is a beautiful filly. She has changed a lot physically, she has grown. She has been in work a long time because we wanted to take her to the trials and the races when she was ready for it.”

Lady Catalina opened with a dominant 900m maiden win at Newcastle on March 31, following the leader before quickening away late.

The tight distance stretched her early on, but the added metres at Randwick should play to her strengths.

“Funnily enough, even though she had been showing us a lot of speed, she was actually at her top for most of the way there and late she was good, so stepping up to 1100 will be no issue,” Gerard-Dubord said.

“We gave her a tick over trial last week where I thought she was very good. She was just there to have a good day out and trialled very nicely.”

Expectations met could lead to the Listed Woodlands Stakes (1100m) at Scone in three weeks.

The Written Tycoon filly represents John Stewart’s Resolute Racing and provided Maher’s debut success for the owner at Newcastle.

Betting sites have opened racing betting markets for the HMAS Sydney Handicap at Randwick.

NEW DELHI: RCB skipper Rajat Patidar won the toss, and opted to bowl first against Axar Patel’s inconsistent Delhi Capitals in Delhi on Monday.

RCB went into the match with the same side and did not make any changes.

However, Delhi Capitals made three changes to their playing XI from the last match. Jamieson and Chameera came in, alongside opening batter Parakh.

“We will bowl first. This venue is a high-scoring ground, it will not make much difference, we will try to put them under pressure in the second innings. The most important thing is different players coming up and deliverying in different matches. We have played some good cricket and continue to carry that momentum. It is in the past, we are looking to play good cricket,” RCB captain Rajat Patidar said at the toss.

Meanwhile, DC captain Axar Patel said, ” I would have fielded if I won the toss. The ground dimensions are small, the pitch also gets better, so we would have chased as well. In the IPL, you score 264 and loss, but it is a long tournament is long, we had a good game with bat and ball, if we had held our chances then the result would be different. You need to keep continuing doing the work, even our best fielders drop catches, so luck is not on our side but we can sit around thinking about it. We have two fast bowlers – Chameera and Jamieson are playing. We have to strike in the powerplay, though Mukesh has done well, he needs a break and we are bringing in international bowlers.”

Teams:

Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Sahil Parakh, KL Rahul(w), Nitish Rana, Sameer Rizvi, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Axar Patel(c), Dushmantha Chameera, Kyle Jamieson, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Playing XI): Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar(c), Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Salam Dar