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Donaldson, 36, is coming off a 2021 season in which he posted a .247/.352/.475 slash line and 26 home runs in 135 games for the Twins. The three-time All-Star and 2015 American League MVP is moving onto his fifth team in as many seasons. He still possesses pop but has struggled with injuries, playing 52 games or fewer in two of the last four full seasons. Sporting News has the details of the five-player between the Yankees and Twins headlined by Josh Donaldson going to New York....

The Blue Jays third baseman had previously said he was growing out his hair like the characters on the History Channel series “Vikings,” and now he will have a guest spot on the show. MORE: 13 best baseball-themed TV episodes ever, ranked “I’ve been working on this beard and this hair for months,” Donaldson said in a promotion for the show. “Let’s raid.” His hair was long enough to braid into a Mohawk style back in December....

Why? Violation of team rules. Gordon, a wide receiver, missed a mandatory walk-through ahead of Sunday’s game against the Baltimore Ravens. Gordon’s season ends on the reserve/suspended list because was late for previous team functions, according to The Plain Dealer of Cleveland. Those incidents led to fines and warnings. SN PICKS: Vinnie Iyer | David Steele | Fantasy Source | The Linemakers Johnny Manziel was late for Saturday’s treatment on his bum hamstring, according to The Plain Dealer....

About a year later he was suspended indefinitely by then head coach Art Briles after he failed a drug test and tested positive for marijuana. This history is important, because in a new video for UNINTERRUPTED, Gordon talks about his past struggles, including how the Baylor coaches handled his initial encounter with police. The receiver says his coaches enabled him, and even helped him pass drug tests. So if his coaches were helping him, how’d he end up failing a test?...

A video of an argument between Mandel and audience member has gone viral on social media with over 130,000 views. The event was held at City-God Baptist Fellowship on East 152nd Street in Cleveland. The clip shows the moderator’s attempt to stop the argument from escalating between Mandel and the audience member, who is out of view. The full debate can be watched here. The moderator initially asked Mandel whether he would like to elaborate on comments he said previously, likening Black Lives Matter to thugs....

Norman, who was recently ranked No. 11 in the Top 100 Players of 2016 by his peers, played devil’s advocate with Tomlinson’s statement by saying there must not be any good running backs in the game. MORE: Andrew Luck will never play up to contract “If you say there are no shutdown corners, well, there’s no game-changing running backs today,” Norman said on NFL Network. “I was just with a guy named A....

Former Scandal star Malina has stated that he experienced “a sense of bemusement” on learning that Gibson is set to direct the fifth installment of Lethal Weapon, a movie franchise that helped cement the latter’s celebrity status. At issue, wrote Malina in an article titled “Cancel Mel Gibson,” are the accusations of anti-Semitism that Gibson has been subject to—behavior that he believes should have ended the star’s career by now....

Tashny Sukumaran, a Malaysia correspondent for South China Morning Post, detailed in a series of tweets that she went to a clinic called Nathan Skin in Bangsar, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, and was touched inappropriately during an examination. “The dermatologist, Ruban, touched my legs inappropriately. I am sharing this as a warning to others,” she explained. Sukumaran said she visited the doctor, Ruban Nathan, because she had already been diagnosed with a genetic condition called ichthyosis but wanted a second opinion....

Backed by his re-election campaign, Trump has initiated more than a dozen legal actions that seek to invalidate votes, undermine tabulation procedures and, ultimately, question results in the wake of his loss to Joe Biden. Last Saturday, major news outlets, including the Associated Press, named Biden the election’s projected winner. The weekend’s announcement came shortly after the AP called Pennsylvania for Biden, giving Trump’s Democratic opponent the necessary electoral votes to secure the presidency....

In a 5-0 ruling, justices in the Appellate Division of New York State’s Supreme Court’s Third Department, allowed a couple to retain joint custody of their biracial child but ordered the mother to remove the rock featuring the Confederate flag by June 1. “As such, while recognizing that the First Amendment protects the mother’s right to display the flag, if it is not removed by June 1, 2021, its continued presence shall constitute a change in circumstances and Family Court shall factor this into any future best interests analysis,” Justice Stanley Pritzker wrote in the ruling on May 6....

Justice N Anand Venkatesh was set to give a ruling at the Madras High Court in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on the case involving the couple, aged 20 and 22, who had fled their homes in Madurai to be together. The families of the couple opposed the relationship. Parents of one of the women filed kidnapping charges against Shiva Kumar, who runs the LGBT+ rights charity Nirangal in Chennai where the pair had sought refuge....

Roof and his attorneys appealed the death sentence in May of this year, arguing a trial judge ignored Roof’s delusions and he wasn’t competent to stand trial. A three-judge panel from the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court unanimously affirmed the trial judge’s original decision that Roof was competent. Authorities claim Roof opened fire during the closing prayer of a Bible study at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015....

Texas Representative Joaquin, the Democratic candidate’s brother, seemed to find about the fundraiser at the same time as the rest of the Twitterverse. Those two words seemed to be all Julian Castro needed to hear to begin a one-day donation drive, saying that if Joaquin shaves his head, he will claim the title of “better-looking twin.” Julian Castro has been open about his campaign fund woes. In an email to supporters, Castro said he needed to raise $800,000 by October 31 or he would be forced to drop out of the presidential race....

Castro, the last Latino candidate in the 2020 race, announced the end of his presidential campaign for the White House earlier this morning in a video message. His decision to leave the narrowing Democratic field comes roughly one month after Senator Kamala Harris suddenly ended her bid for the presidency despite being considered one of the top-tier candidates. “I’ve determined that it simply isn’t our time,” the former San Antonio mayor said in the clip....

Yes, the Patriots wide receiver stooped to that level Sunday. That’s where we are in the Kevin Durant free-agency courting. Edelman posted the picture on Twitter himself. He wants Durant to know how great Boston is for athletes, and apparently, he wants the star forward to see how his No. 35 would look in Celtics green and white. MORE: Durant’s decision will alter NBA future Tom Brady is in on the recruitment, too....

The man known as Dr. J was asked about the NBA Slam Dunk Contest and said the performances aren’t what they used to be. Why? Because the people inside those fuzzy team costumes have mad skills. MORE: LaVine throws down huge dunk | Mo’ne Davis spins by Kevin Hart | Cousins doesn’t respect Barkley “The mascots messed it up,” Erving said, via ESPN. “It was great seeing regular human beings, even though they were 6-foot-6, 250 pounds, running and dunking a basketball....

On Thursday night against the Vikings, the eight-time Pro Bowler picked off Christian Ponder and ran it back 50 yards for a touchdown, giving the Packers a 20-0 lead. More important, it was Peppers’ first opportunity to try the Lambeau Leap. MORE: Bridgewater sits

BY ZULHILMI ZAINAL Follow on Twitter Kuala Lumpur (KL) attacker Junior Aparecido Guimaro de Souza has had a less-than-stellar start to his stint at the promotional side, since joining them in the pre-season. Out of seven of the Hawks’ competitive matches this season, the Brazilian-born winger has made only four appearances without scoring any goals. Worryingly, he did not make any appearance in their three most recent matches, which all ended in victories....

And the Chargers aren’t a team to ignore in the open AFC … still. MORE: David Steele’s Week 4 picks | PHOTOS: NFL’s best-ever comebacks The weapons are there. Keenan Allen might be the best receiver Rivers has ever thrown to. He, Malcom Floyd, Eddie Royal, Ladarius Green and some guy named Antonio Gates combine for a target arsenal good enough to mask a temporarily handicapped rushing attack. The coaching is there....