Dallas Cowboys star Ezekiel Elliott was granted another legal reprieve Tuesday night in the running back’s fight to avoid a six-game suspension over domestic violence allegations. A New York federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the league’s suspension, clearing Elliott to play Sunday at San Francisco. US District Judge Paul Crotty’s ruling came five days after a federal appeals court overturned a Texas court’s injunction that had kept Elliott on the field. Crotty granted the request for the restraining order pending a hearing before the presiding judge, Katherine Polk Failla, who is on vacation. The NFL was ordered to appear before Failla on or before Oct. 30 to argue why the suspension should not be blocked by a preliminary injunction — the next step in the legal process — until the court can rule on challenges the players’ union brought against the suspension.

Basketball

WNBA’s Stars off to Vegas

The San Antonio Stars are moving to the gambling mecca of Las Vegas after being bought by MGM Resorts International, the league said. The Stars begin play next season with home games at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. Bill Laimbeer will be the team’s president of basketball operations and coach.

Jefferson, Nuggets agree

Richard Jefferson will join the Denver Nuggets on a one-year deal, a person with knowledge of the negotiations confirmed to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the agreement hasn’t been disclosed by the team. ESPN first reported the deal, which it said is worth $2.3 million.

. . . The Miami Heat, which has held a charity golf tournament at PresidentDonald Trump’s Doral golf course for four consecutive years, will shift that tournament to another course in 2018. A spokesman who did not want to be quoted by name, declined to give a reason for the change.

Bulls Mirotic, Portis fight

The Chicago Bulls said forward Nikola Mirotic suffered multiple broken bones in his face as well as a concussion in a fight with teammate Bobby Portis during practice. Mirotic likely will need surgery and is out indefinitely. They say they are ‘‘evaluating disciplinary action’’ after Tuesday’s incident.

Colleges

Harvard tops Ivy media poll

The Harvard men’s basketball team, which went 18-10 overall and finished second in league play last year with a 10-4 record, has been tabbed as the favorite to win the 2017-18 Ivy League regular-season title, as selected by a panel of media representatives. The Crimson topped the preseason media poll for the first time since the 2014-15 season with 121 points and six first-place votes, finishing three points better than Yale, which garnered 118 points and eight first place votes . . . The University of Connecticut and Providence men’s basketball teams, which have not played since the old Big East conference split in 2013, will play an exhibition game Oct. 25 next Wednesday at Mohegan Sun Arena to benefit the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. The NCAA granted the schools a waiver provided the proceeds went to hurricane relief . . .No. 13 Notre Dame (5-1) will have quarterback Brandon Wimbush ready for Saturday night’s home game against No. 11 Southern California (6-1). Irish coach Brian Kelly said the junior was ‘‘100 percent’’ after he missed a 33-10 win at North Carolina with a foot injury.

Miscellany

Sharapova out in first round

Maria Sharapova was eliminated in the first round of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow after she was defeated by Magdalena Rybarikova, 7-6 (3), 6-4, ending Sharapova’s bid for a second title in two weeks after her victory in the Tianjin Open . . . Anthony Precourt, owner of the Columbus Crew SC, said the team is no longer sustainable and will move to Austin, Texas, the largest market in North America without a major league sports franchise, unless a new, privately-financed stadium is built in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Precourt, whose Precourt Sports Ventures has owned the Major League Soccer club since 2013, said the Crew need more fan and financial support to compete in the growing league, and a new stadium in the urban center is the only way to make it work. The team plays in a 17-year old stadium about 4 miles north of Columbus

. . . Canadian-born curler Erin McInrue Savage was forced to defend her sport last Sunday when an American Airlines employee at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport balked at allowing her to check her curling broom as sporting equipment for the standard $25 fee and instead charged an oversized sports equipment fee of $150. After an eight-minute exchange, McInrue was allowed to pay the standard $25 fee.