Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, he told a congressional committee Tuesday.

Favre made the disclosure as part of his testimony about a welfare misspending scandal in Mississippi. Favre, who does not face criminal charges, has repaid just over $1 million in speaking fees funded by a welfare program in the state and was also an investor in a biotech company with ties to the case. The biotech firm has said it was developing concussion treatments.

The former football star, 54, told the committee that he lost his investment in the company that he thought “was developing a breakthrough concussion drug I thought would help others.”

“As I’m sure you’ll understand, while it’s too late for me — I’ve recently been diagnosed with Parkinson’s — this is also a cause dear to my heart,” Favre said.

What causes Parkinson’s disease is unknown, and it is unclear if Favre’s disease is connected to his football career or head injuries.

Home address of Lions head coach posted online following team’s playoff loss >> A classmate of Detroit Lions Head Coach Dan Campbell’s daughter reposted the family’s home address on social media following the team’s January playoff loss, according to police reports obtained by The Detroit News.

The incident was among others that included people stopping by the Bloomfield Township home uninvited and preceded the family’s move earlier this year to another home purchased by a limited liability company, the newspaper reported.

Campbell and wife, Holly, listed the 7,800-square-foot Bloomfield Township house for sale this month at $4.5 million. “It’s just that people figured out where we lived when we lost,” Dan Campbell told Crain’s Detroit Business.

Fields will remain at QB for Steelers >> Mike Tomlin is in no hurry to announce Justin Fields as the starting quarterback in Pittsburgh.

While Fields will again get the nod on Sunday in place of the injured Russell Wilson when the Steelers (3-0) visit Indianapolis (1-2), Tomlin stopped short of giving the job to Fields on a full-time basis, mostly because there’s no need at this point while Wilson rehabs from a calf issue he aggravated a few days before the season opener earlier this month.

“When Russ gets to an appropriate point of health and we have a decision to make, I’ll make it and I’ll announce it and I’ll be really transparent about it,” Tomlin said Tuesday.

Panthers’ Thielen placed on IR >> The Carolina Panthers will be without wide receiver Adam Thielen for at least four weeks after the veteran was placed on injured reserve Tuesday with a hamstring injury.

Thielen was injured while extending to make a diving touchdown catch near the end of the second quarter of Carolina’s 36-22 win over the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday. The 34-year-old did not return in the second half.

Colleges

Pac-12 files a federal lawsuit against Mountain West over $43 million in ‘poaching’ penalties >> The Pac-12 is suing the Mountain West over what it calls an unlawful and unenforceable “poaching penalty” that would cost the rebuilding conference more than $40 million for adding Boise State, Fresno State, Colorado State and San Diego State, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court.

The antitrust complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California and is seeking a declaratory judgment by a judge.

“The action challenges an anticompetitive and unlawful ‘Poaching Penalty’ that the MWC imposed on the Pac-12 to inhibit competition for member schools in collegiate athletics,” the lawsuit said.

Soccer

Bay FC announces plans for a training facility >> Bay FC and San Francisco announced plans for a dedicated training facility for the National Women’s Soccer League club on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay.

The complex on the island off the Bay Bridge will include three training fields as well as team offices and other facilities. It will be designed to complement existing and planned youth recreational facilities on the island.

Originally built for the World’s Fair in 1939, the island later became a naval base, which closed in 1997.

Bay FC plans to break ground in 2025 and begin operating the facility in 2027, pending approval of the lease from the Treasure Island Development Authority and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Bay FC, which joined the NWSL this season, plays its home games at PayPal Park in San Jose.

Ten Hag worried about ‘almost unavoidable’ risk of injuries in congested schedule >> Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has warned of more injuries to top soccer players because of a growing number of games on their schedule.

Man City midfielder Rodri limped out of Sunday’s English Premier League clash with Arsenal because of a knee injury, while other top players Kevin De Bruyne and Martin Odegaard have been sidelined in the early weeks of the season.

“There are too many games. It’s clear. Too many competitions,” ten Hag said. “For the top players, they are overloaded and this is not good for football. It’s almost unavoidable that players get injured because of the overload from so many games.”