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Richard Legon, president of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, said the composition of the Maryland commission on its face appears sound.
"I think if you have a former a member of Congress, a former governor, other prestigious leaders who are connected or not to the institution, what you can get to is an outcome with a high degree of credibility," he said. "At the end of the day, credibility allows the board to put greater stock into the recommendations and take whatever actions they're going to take."
The web of relationships surrounding the Maryland probe is thorny and highlights several areas of possible concern. The eight commission members, who will be compensated for their work, either declined to comment or did not respond to requests to comment.
Loh made Alex Williams, a well-respected retired U.S. District judge, one of his three initial appointees to the commission. Williams is the founder, chief executive and namesake of a center focused on justice and ethics housed within the university's school of behavioral and social sciences.
Prior to joining the commission, Williams had served as a pro bono personal advisor to Loh following the death of Richard Collins III, a 23-year-old student at nearby Bowie State University, who was killed on Maryland's College Park campus in May 2017.
Don Scheeler, past president of the Terrapin Club, left his name off a letter in support of Durkin that was sent last month to the regents from the Champions Club, a group of high-level sports boosters. His brother, Charles Scheeler, was another of the three commission members appointed by Loh.
Charles Scheeler is a Baltimore-based attorney at the law firm DLA Piper, who previously served as the "independent monitor" charged with tracking Penn State's implementation of recommendations made in the report that followed the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
He also was a top deputy for Sen. George Mitchell a decade ago in the exhaustive investigation into performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. Scheeler and his associates at DLA Piper have done much of the commission's investigative legwork behind the scenes.
Asked about the inclusion of Williams and Scheeler, a spokesman said in a statement to The Post: "Both have the objectivity and talent to contribute greatly to an impartial investigation of the culture of the University of Maryland, College Park football program.
"But they are only two of the eight member independent commission, which is comprised of individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences, from both in Maryland and outside the state," the statement continued. "The commission's membership is sufficiently large, fair-minded and diverse in perspective to effectively follow the facts wherever they may lead."
In addition to Ehrlich and McMillen, the other commission members are retired U.S. District Court Judge Ben Legg; Doug Williams, the former Redskins quarterback who serves as the senior vice president of player personnel for the team; Bonnie Bernstein, an alumnus of the school and veteran sports broadcaster; and Frederick Azar, the chief of staff at Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics in Memphis.
It's not known how hands-on all eight of the commission members have been. Two of the eight commission members live outside the area, and others have demanding, full-time jobs.
"I think the vast majority of them will have had some hands-on experience," Caret said in an interview last week. "I don't know if they've met face to face or not. I know they've all talked."
A spokesman for the regents said that once the commission has completed its examination, it will share its findings with the board of regents, which will then "make whatever decisions are necessary to better safeguard and support all students and student-athletes." The board of regents is made up of 17 unpaid members who oversee Maryland's system of 12 colleges. With the exception of one student representative, each member is appointed by the governor and can serve a maximum of two five-year terms.
Barry Gossett is a vice chair of the board of regents and also one of the most influential athletic boosters the school has ever known. He donated $10 million in 2007 to build the football program's "team house," which bears his name, and this spring pledged more than $21 million - one of the largest donations the school has ever received - to a center focused on athletes' academic studies.
"From a donor standpoint, I kind of stand behind DJ and his program and what he has been doing," Gossett told The Post in an interview before the university placed the coach on leave.
Gossett did not respond to requests to comment last week. He had been tending recently to his wife, Mary, who died Monday. The couple have been donors to the school since 1971, championing causes both in and outside of athletics.
"Barry Gossett is a highly regarded member of the Maryland community who has served, and continues to serve, the state in countless ways," a spokesman for the board of regents said in an email last week. "At the same time, he is only one of 17 members of the Board of Regents, which will receive the findings of the independent commission."
Like Don Scheeler, Gossett left his name off the Champions Club letter supporting Durkin.
The board doesn't typically play a role in personnel decisions at the system's schools, though it does have oversight over Loh, who has led the state's flagship university since 2010.
"The board obviously can have influence on the president," Caret said.
Stephen Ross, a Penn State sports law professor who directs a cross-campus center on sports issues, said the pre-existing relationships on these investigative bodies aren't usually as important as the underlying motivation behind the appointment.
He says there are scenarios where those pre-existing ties could undermine an investigation but others in which they could lend credibility, diversify the commission and appease stakeholders in the event of a critical report.
"To me, an ad hoc committee designed to deal with a major public relations problem is itself an exercise in strategic communication," he said.
There is no rulebook for such investigations and schools can pursue them on their own terms. Similar external examinations have been conducted at schools such as Ohio State, Michigan State and Penn State, facing widespread criticism from some corners unhappy with different facets of the respective probes or findings.
The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges issued a formal statement to schools in 2009 saying "it is time for all [governing] boards to re-examine how they exercise their oversight responsibilities." The organization urged governing bodies, such as Maryland's board of regents, to refrain "from fostering personal relationships with the athletics director or coaches," and urging them to "exercise appropriate oversight while avoiding micromanagement, viewing athletics with a dispassionate perspective."
"We don't want them running college sports,"Legon said, "but we want them to recognize the buck stops with them."
(Trinidad Guardian) It has been 42 days since Gan­gad­har Hanooman, 49, has been miss­ing and rel­a­tives in re­new­ing their calls for help in find­ing him, have al­so called on Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith for a “per­son­al” in­ter­ven­tion in the in­ves­ti­ga­tions sur­round­ing the case.
Hanooman of Roys­to­nia, Cou­va, was last seen on Sep­tem­ber 1 at about 6.30 pm near a mi­ni mart close to his home in Roys­to­nia in Cou­va.
His car—a sil­ver Nis­san B14—was found aban­doned near a man­grove ad­ja­cent to two veg­etable gar­dens in Fe­lic­i­ty, Ch­agua­nas two days af­ter on Sep­tem­ber 3.
The car was found by a search par­ty or­gan­ised by fam­i­ly mem­bers who act­ed on spir­i­tu­al guid­ance giv­en to them by a pun­dit (a Hin­du leader). Speak­ing with the T&T Guardian, Gan­gad­har’s wife, who was too scared to give her name or be pho­tographed, said she re­mains hope­ful that her hus­band will re­turn to her. She be­lieves that some­thing ter­ri­bly went wrong that day as she was told “strange things” maybe “clues,” “He went by a broth­er of his and I had called him and told him to stop and buy some veg­eta­bles when he was com­ing home. About 8.30 pm I called him and asked him where he was.
“Then af­ter a while, I called him and asked him where he was and he told me to call his broth­er that his car get stick up,” she added.
An­oth­er rel­a­tive fur­ther ex­plained that many times be­fore in con­ver­sa­tion, Gan­gad­har, when talk­ing about crimes would not say the word “hi­jack” but would say “stick up” which she said meant some­one be­ing hi­jacked or hi­jack­ing. “So…think­ing about it that could have been an­oth­er clue that he was try­ing to give, maybe?” the rel­a­tive said.
It is said that dur­ing a call to Gan­gad­har’s cell­phone on one oc­ca­sion that night, male voic­es were heard in the back­ground as though a quar­rel was go­ing on at the time. There was al­so mu­sic heard play­ing be­lieved to be com­ing from the car’s ra­dio. In that call, Gan­gad­har did not say any­thing. The phone sud­den­ly hung up and calls af­ter that went straight to the voice mail record­ing.
Gan­gad­har’s car, which was sub­se­quent­ly im­pound­ed at the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion, was re­cent­ly re­leased to the fam­i­ly and is now parked up in Gan­gad­har’s back­yard. With sad­ness in her eyes, oc­ca­sion­al­ly “drift­ing” in her thoughts, Gan­gad­har’s wife for eight years stood next to her hus­band’s car in dis­may dur­ing an in­ter­view with the T&T Guardian.
An­oth­er rel­a­tive said she strong­ly be­lieves that in­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cers at the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Squad could do more in their at­tempts to find Gan­gad­har.
“He went miss­ing two days be­fore Na­tal­ie Pol­lon­ais and they were able to use all the tech­nol­o­gy to find her, why they couldn’t use that same pro­ce­dure to find him?” the rel­a­tive said.
Any­one with in­for­ma­tion on his where­abouts or oth­er in­for­ma­tion con­cern­ing his dis­ap­pear­ance can con­tact the po­lice at 555, 800 TIPS or the near­est po­lice sta­tion.
in French). Nov. 19 at 3:30: "Walkabout" (1971, Nicolas Roeg). Nov. 20 at 1 and Nov. 22 at 4:40: "Mean Streets" (1973, Martin Scorsese). Nov. 20 at 3:15: "Christmas in July" (1940, Preston Stur- ges). Nov. 20 at 4:45: "Mouchette" (1967, Robert Bresson; in French). Nov. 21 at 1 and Nov. 23 at 4:45: "His Girl Friday" (1940, Howard Hawks). Nov. 21 at 3 and Nov. 22 at 9: "I Walked with a Zombie" (t). Nov. 22 at 7, Nov. 23 at 8:45, and Nov. 25 at 2: "Scarface" (1932, Hawks). Nov. 23 at 1: "I Was Born, But. . ." (1932, Yasujiro Ozu; si- lent). Nov. 23 at 3: "Not Reconciled" (t). Nov. 23 at 6:45 and Nov. 25 at 4: "The Lineup" (1958, Don Siegel). A tribute to Frank Sinatra. Nov. 19 at 8:30: "Some Came Running" (1958, Vincente Minnelli), introduced by Adrian Wootton. "Golden Silents." Nov. 21 at 7: "The Docks of New York" (1928, Joseph von Sternberg; silent). A Tribute to Pierre Clémenti. Nov. 25 at 6:15: "Les Idoles" (1968, Marc'o; in French). READINGS AND TALKS MCNAllY JACKSON BOOKS The sixties vets Ed McClanhan, the author of the newly published autobiographical short -story collec- tion "0 the Clear Moment," and the novelist Robert Stone take a look back at the consequential decade. (52 Prince St. No tickets necessary. Nov. 19 at 7.) CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK The poet and memoirist Mark Doty reads from his work. (Graduate Center, Fifth Ave. at 34th St. No tickets necessary. Nov. 20 at 7.) BARNES &amp; NOBLE The actor Christopher Plummer offers selections from his memoir, "In Spite of Myself." (Broadway at 66th St. No tickets necessary. Nov. 21 at 7:30.) SOlAS St. Mark's Bookshop runs a reading series at this watering hole, which is just around the corner from its East Village home. On Nov. 24 at 7:30, it pre- sents the novelist Junot Díaz and the science-fiction master Samuel R. Delany. (232 E. 9th St. No tickets necessary. ) ABOVE AND BEYOND ON THIN ICE The American Museum of Natural History is open- ing a skating rink outside its doors on Nov. 22. The rink, which is a hundred and fifty feet by eighty feet, can accommodate up to two hundred people; at its center is a seventeen-foot-tall polar bear made of stainless steel, boxwood boughs, and lights. But what really makes the rink special is its surface: instead of ice, it's made of a special global-wanning-proof plas- tic. (Central Park \XZ at 79th St. For more informa- tion, call 212-769-5200. Through Feb. 28.) AUCTIONS AND ANTIQUES With the two-week Impressionist -modern-postwar- contemporary smackdown over and done, the auc- tion houses settle back into their new everyday busi- ness-trying to sell expensive works of art in the midst of a bear market. This week, that means works by Latin-American masters. The painter Rufino Tamayo, who ably combined elements of Cubism and Surrealism with Mexican themes and a keen sense of color, is represented by six works in Sothe- by's Latin-American sales (Nov. 18-19). The most important is a monumental canvas from 1955, "America," which for the past fifteen years has been on view at the Dallas Museum of Art. The Tamayos will share the podium with works by the Uruguayan- born modernist Joaquín Torres-García and his fol- lowers (known as the School of the South) and by several female Surrealist painters, including Reme- dios Varo and Leonora Carrington. (York Ave. at 72nd St. 212-606-7000.) Christie's Latin-American sale (Nov. 19-20) also features a smattering of Tamayos, the most highly valued of which, "Sere- nata a la Luna," depicts a solitary figure serenading the glowing night sky with a guitar. But the leading lot in this sale-which also includes works by Car- rington, Matta, and the Argentinean artist Emilio Pettoruti-is by Torres-García, a stained-glass-like composition entitled "Tres Figuras." A few days later, the house shows a more playful side in a pop- culture sale devoted to punk and rock-and-roll items and designer toys (Nov. 24); fans can bid on one of Bob Marley's guitars or on the portable organ played by John Lennon at Shea Stadium in 1965, as well as vintage posters and flyers for the Ramones and the Clash. (20 Rockefeller Plaza, at 49th St. 212-636-2000.) For its upcoming auction of mod- em and contemporary editions (Nov. 23), Phillips has gone all out, printing a special catalogue help- fully entitled "Collect This Catalogue," which in- cludes four original prints by the artists Hilary Hark- ness, James Hyde, William Pope.L, and Kay Rosen. The sale itself contains some striking pieces, includ- ing two lithographs by Jean Dubuffet from his "As- semblages" as well as the whimsical engraving "Score for Ballet 0-100" by Alexander Calder. (450 W. 15th St. 212-940-1200.) NEWYORKER.COM Visit the Goings On blog, at www.newyorker. com/go/goingson, for additional cultural cover- age and commentary. /' <=I "-.."'"1 "" " -- .. '" ., . --_ /' ':ìf tij' , I , /' / ON THE HORIZON MOVIES COLD TURKEY Nov. 28-30 As a welcome corrective to Thanksgiving-weekend sentimentality, Walter Reade presents three days of rain on your parade, with the series "Problem Child: A Cinematic Display of Bad Behavior." The program includes such bilious classics as "The Exorcist," "The F "" M . D " ury, ommle earest, and the rare "Tomorrow, the World!," from 1944, about a teen-age Nazi in >- an American college town. z (212-875-5600.) ,/ I / \ )) .- 4'f \ .- i q \ .- / ART TESTING HIS METAL Dec. 9-Mareh 1 Alexander Calder is best known for his mobiles, but he was a prolific jewelry maker as well. A hundred or so whimsical brass, silver, and gold pieces-some set with beach glass or found bits of wood in lieu of gems-will be exhibited at the Met in "Calder Jewelry." (212-535-7710.) NIGHT LIFE TIN MAN Dec. 9-18 Ten years ago, Howard Fishman, a local singer and songwriter whose 36 THE NEW YORKER, NOVEMBER 24, 2008 -;-" . , / J JI j/ V , ,,/ \J ' .. 1 interests range from swinging small-group jazz to Bob Dylan's "Basement Tapes," made his début at the Algonquin Hoters famed Oak Room. In celebration of that anniversary, he's appearing there and at many other clubs in Brooklyn and Manhattan. (www. howardfishman.com.) CLASSICAL MUSIC STRIKING TWICE Dec. 9, Dec. 11-13 When the Bang On a Can composer Michael Gordon and the visual wizards of Ridge Theatre got together in Brooklyn in 2004, the result was the . thrilling musical film " D ." h iT ecaSla ; now t ey Oller "Lightning at Our Feet," a song cycle inspired by Emily Dickinson, at the BAM Harvey Theatre. (718-636-4100.) THE THEATRE DATE NIGHT Dec. 16 Gina Gionfriddo's new comedy, "Becky Shaw," comes to Second Stage. Peter DuBois directs the play, in which a newlywed couple try their hand at matchmaking. (212-246-4422.) "Lightning at Our Feet, " at the BAM Harvey Theatre.
Maureen Hancock is an internationally renowned Spirit Medium, intuitive, teacher, lecturer, Holistic Healer, and author of the bestselling book, “The Medium Next Door: Adventures of a Real-Life Ghost Whisperer.” She is the star of the Style Network documentary, Psychic in Suburbia.
Hancock has been interviewed by national television, radio, and print publications, including CNN, Associated Press, VH1, Martha Stewart Living magazine & radio, The Boston Globe, Coast-to-Coast radio, ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX Television programs all over the country.
She has spent decades demystifying the overwhelming subject matter of death, and helping individuals to flex their intuitive muscle, and tap into messages from spirit. Maureen’s work has brought comfort, hope and healing to the masses. She has taught workshops on intuition building to law enforcement, medical professionals, financial experts, and the “Average Joe.” She spends much of her time giving back by assisting those with terminal illness, sitting with newly bereaved parents, aiding law enforcement- including the FBI, and motivational speaking about life after death, stress management, intuition, and perspective building.
Maureen was a reoccurring guest on the Ricki Lake Show, and recently filmed a Television pilot for a major network with the hopes of having a nationally syndicated talk show in the near future.
She sent us her newest predictions for our readers to ponder.
Trump will stay in office, despite Mueller’s thorough, and fact-filled investigation, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the President was involved in a number of illegal activities, including campaign finance violations, back deals with Russia, The Saudi Prince, and more. February is a volatile time politically. Trump will NOT be reelected. Multiple indictments will be issued within days of the end of his term.
–Joe Biden will win the Democratic nomination for President. He will ask Beto O’Rourke to be his Vice President on the ticket.
Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke will be ever so close in the bid for the Democratic nomination. Joe Biden will win the nomination. Trump supporters will slide over to Biden with his “knock-him-out” old fashioned style tough talk. O’Rourke, with his Kennedy look-a-like persona will take the country by storm. However, his lackluster policy ideas, and not signing the bill for Social Security, as well as non-support of the bill for Medicare for All, will hurt him.
Trump will go neck-and-neck with Romney for the Republican nomination. I feel Trump will win the nomination.
I predict Joe Biden will be the next President of the United States.
The stock market takes another serious dive in February around the 14/15th. March shows improvement as a new deal with China is reached. Stocks soar to an all-time high with the China trade deal by April 1st.
The housing market: Mortgage rates will rise to 5.5% by June. Home prices will increase slowly, and inventory for new home buyers will go down. New construction will be at an all-time low by spring. June is peak time for the market to show these changes. This spring is a Seller’s market.
The end of 2019 shows signs of a recession.
Tensions remain high with Russia. March brings increased tensions with Putin due to a devastating military action in the Ukraine.
North Korea launches a missile test around May/June, causing increased tensions with the US (South Korea & Japan).
More troops will be deployed to Afghanistan by May/June due to increased tensions and military actions.
Trump will pull troops out of Syria beginning in March, and by summer he will have to order troops back, in larger numbers, due to an overwhelming attack on the Kurds.
–The winter will bring unexpected amounts of snow and Nor’easters to the whole East Coast, with the biggest surprise impact in February from Maryland to the Carolinas. Over 2 ft. of snow will fall on the Boston area around Feb. 6th, and the whole North East will be crippled by an even larger storm around Feb. 14/15th.
June brings a trifecta to California. an Earthquake, 6.2 scale or greater, followed by mudslides, and devastating drought brings wildfires the end of June.
A natural disaster in the form of an earthquake and volcano eruption for Italy around August.
Prince Harry & Duchess Meghan will give birth to a baby girl, with an “A” name (like Amelia) the end of February/beginning of March (not late March April as announced).
Prince Philip’s health declines significantly with a heavy gloomy feeling on November/December.
Taylor Swift will announce her engagement to Joe Alwyn around April.
Selena Gomez will undergo a serious medical procedure (possible stem cell transplant) by the summer.
Miley Cyrus will announce her pregnancy in June.
Jennifer Anniston adopts a baby by the fall.
Brad & Angelina talk reconciliation come summer.
Sofia Richie & Scott Disick announce their engagement this spring! Sofia will be pregnant by summer.
Bill Cosby has renal failure in prison. He might not make it through the treatment.
Venus Williams announces engagement to Nicholas Hammond by the summer. She will be pregnant soon after the quick wedding!
What are the Top Five Action Games?
(Reuters) - U.S. ride services firm Lyft Inc is in talks with an advisor for a targeted March or April 2019 initial public offering, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
An initial public offering for Lyft would amplify Uber’s[UBER.UL] troubles. It would be an opportunistic way for the company, which was valued at $7.5 billion in its last funding round, to capitalize on its larger rival. Fresh capital for Lyft would merely compound the frontrunner’s injuries.
Samoas and Thin Mints and Tagalongs, oh my! It's time to celebrate those little cookies that make diets shut right up and give you reason to shell out hundreds of dollars to your co-workers' kids each year.
If the world were run properly, we would all be asking politicians and potential life partners, "Thin Mints or Do-si-dos?" because Girl Scout Cookie preferences are just so telling.
But did you know that along with those sweet treats comes an interesting evolution? Turns out, the cookie names we all live and die by vary from state to state, and, at one point in history, girl scouts had to swap cookies for calendars.
Mashable rounded up 10 of the most surprising facts about those boxes of sinful deliciousness. But, be forewarned: You will so strongly be craving cookies by the end of this video that you may start having Thin Mint hallucinations.
Skivenes posted this as part of the hashtag #WhatInstagramMeanstoMe.
Advocates for government accountability were alarmed to learn Gov. Jared Polis was undecided on whether to veto a bill to expand police transparency in Colorado.
But Polis spokeswoman Maria De Cambra set the record straight late Wednesday.
The signing is slated for 10:50 a.m. Friday at the Capitol, and it will be open to media, De Cambra said.
Polis is allowed to wait 10 days to sign bills, which gives him until Saturday in this case. In an earlier call Wednesday, De Cambra had said that the governor was still undecided.
The bill — HB-1119, sponsored by Democratic Denver Rep. James Coleman — would require Colorado law enforcement agencies to open the files on completed internal investigations into a wide range of police interactions with citizens, including alleged incidents of excessive force.
This would mean the public, media, lawyers and any other interested parties would, through open records requests, get a glimpse at how Colorado cops police themselves. As it stands, the Denver Police Department is the only Colorado law enforcement agency that consistently releases comprehensive information following internal investigations.
The bill passed the House and Senate and has been sitting on the governor’s desk for about a week, awaiting the final signature needed to make HB-1119 state law.
Upon learning Polis was not necessarily on board with the bill, the Colorado Press Association — one of the primary backers of the bill — sent out an email to its members that called the situation “urgent” and implored journalists and editorial boards to speak out now in support of HB-1119.
Media in the state have heralded the bill as a key step toward transparency from an institution that shrouds much of its accountability system in secrecy. The Denver Post’s Noelle Phillips testified in support of HB-1119 this year.
The effort’s other supporters include the ACLU and Colorado Common Cause, the libertarian Independence Institute and media groups such as the Colorado Broadcasters Association and the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition. Colorado Independent Editor Susan Greene testified last year in support of a version of the bill.
If it were ever possible to cram all the glittering boy-meets-girl, high-school-love-story stereotypes into one movie, A Cinderella Story does it in spades. The 2004 movie stars Hilary Duff, whose father dies in an earthquake, forcing her to work in a diner for her evil stepmother who keeps her from chasing her college dreams. She meets a boy (Chad Michael Murray) online, but he’s in the cool crowd and she doesn’t fit in (even though she’s beautiful and smart). They agree to meet on the school dance floor, where she wears a mask barely covering her eyes so he magically can’t tell who she really is (even though you can see her entire face). Duff’s performance in the movie snagged her a Razzie nomination in 2005 for Worst Actress. Did anyone expect anything more?
MADRID: As Cristiano Ronaldo enjoyed his time off at the French Riviera, his Portugal team-mates were busy handing Italy another disappointing result in the UEFA Nations League.
Portugal did not need Ronaldo, who skipped international duty to recharge after a busy summer, to beat Italy 1-0 in Europe’s newest soccer competition.
Elsewhere, Turkey mounted a remarkable comeback from two goals down against Sweden, while Kosovo made history with their first competitive win since being admitted to UEFA in 2016.
The European champions easily outplayed Italy, which had opened its Nations League campaign with a disappointing 1-1 home draw against Poland in its first competitive match under coach Roberto Mancini.
Andre Silva scored on a counterattack early in the second half to give Portugal the Group 3 win in the top-tier League A. The hosts had several chances to extend their lead at the Stadium of Light in Lisbon, while Italy created little and relied mostly on set pieces.
The Nations League gives UEFA’s 55 member countries competitive games and eliminates friendlies. The winners of the League A groups featuring the highest-ranked countries go into a final-four competition in June.
Santos did not call up Ronaldo after talking to the player and saying he needed more rest following the World Cup and his transfer from Real Madrid to Juventus. Ronaldo also didn’t play in the team’s 1-1 draw in a friendly against Croatia last week.
Social media photos showed Ronaldo and his family enjoying time off in Monaco in recent days.
It was Italy’s second competitive match since last year’s World Cup playoff loss to Sweden.
Two goals five minutes apart early in the second half gave Kosovo a historic 2-0 win over the Faroe Islands in Group 3 of the fourth-tier League D.
Kosovo, the Balkan republic which was accepted by UEFA and FIFA two years ago, had opened with a 0-0 draw at Azerbaijan.
Turkey bounced back from an opening loss to Russia by coming from two goals down to defeat Sweden 3-2 thanks to two late goals by Emre Akbaba.