For empirical evidence, the Yankees could have observed their captain, Derek Jeter, after the morning workout, conducting his annual address on the first day of spring training.
Workouts conducted so close to the Derby are typically more controlled.
The Jets have already conducted workouts for Gordon, who last season averaged 8.9 yards on 29 returns for the Oakland Raiders.
They lacked helmets and pads, but they performed drills, like 7-on-7s, ran through plays and conducted workouts, basically the strike equivalent of normal.
The N.B.A. fined the Knicks $200,000 and one of their scouts $20,000 after concluding that the scout, Rodney Heard, conducted workouts of college prospects that violated league rules.
Most remarkable were his six-days-a-week off-season workouts, which he conducted entirely on his own.
Mediobanca had formulated a plan to push Fiat into bankruptcy, forcing its banks to accept a debt-for-equity swap combined with a long-term workout (to be conducted largely by Mediobanca itself) of the group's extensive assets.
The league determined that Heard conducted secret workouts before the camp, presumably to give the Knicks an edge in determining whether a prospect was worth drafting.
"That injury has healed up fine since last year," he said.... Wilson Chandler denied a Yahoo Sports report that linked him to illegal secret workouts suspected of being conducted by a Knicks scout.
While the pros conducted their workouts aggressively, the pace of their lives was leisurely.
