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Valverde tested positive for Stanozolol, a banned performance-enhancing substance. MORE: MLB players with PED suspensions | Bonds, court case behind him, talks Cooperstown The 37-year-old Valverde, a three-time All-Star, has not pitched in the major leagues since a stint with the Mets in 2014. But the right-hander nicknamed “Papa Grande” collected 288 career saves in stops with the Diamondbacks, Astros and Tigers between 2003-2013. He led his league in saves in 2007, 2008 and 2011....

Gordon has been in and out of the league while battling substance abuse problems. He has missed three full seasons as a result of his suspensions and hasn’t played a 16-game season since his rookie year in 2012. Still, Gordon has made millions of dollars and he’s set to add to his total after agreeing to a contract with the Chiefs. The only question is about whether he’ll be able to stay on the field to collect it all before the end of the 2021 NFL season....

DAZN, the international sports streaming service, launched in the U.S. on Sept. 10 and will offer a stacked fall schedule, highlighted by a heavyweight clash between world champion Anthony Joshua and Alexander Povetkin on Sept. 22 at Wembley Stadium in London. That helps kick off a lineup of more than 70 headliners and undercards, many shown exclusively to American viewers live and on-demand following agreements earlier this year through Matchroom Boxing and Bellator MMA....

Smith was angered by Rock poking fun at his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s appearance by referencing the fact that her head is shaved. Smith suffers from alopecia, which causes hair loss. Apatow, who has directed comedies including The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, weighed in on the incident with several tweets, which were quickly deleted. However, some users captured screen-shots of them and criticized Apatow. The now-deleted tweets said: “He [Smith] could have killed him....

Adams County Judge Robert Adrian found 18-year-old Drew Clinton guilty of felony sexual assault in October before throwing out the conviction because he felt the nearly five months Clinton had spent in jail was adequate punishment and refusing to sentence Clinton to the mandatory four-year sentence for a sexual assault conviction. Wednesday, Adrian reportedly kicked Adams County lead trial attorney Josh Jones out of the courtroom, which Jones was in for a case unrelated to the sexual assault sentencing, according to the Herald-Whig newspaper in Quincy, Illinois....

Milton, 39, resigned from Nikola in September after allegations of fraud surfaced. But he doubled down, saying he would defend himself against accusations that Nikola made false claims about its vehicles. Investors included novices and people struggling financially during the pandemic. In an unsealed indictment in a Manhattan federal court, Milton was formally charged with securities and wire fraud. Milton was released on a $100 million bail after pleading not guilty, paid for by two Utah properties, Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn ruled that Milton must not contact investors unless he had an independent relationship with them....

Meyer ruled that the San Diego Unified School District’s COVID vaccine mandate, which was set to start on January 24, conflicted with state law and that the district does not have the authority to create such a mandate, according to KNSD-TV. An attorney representing the school district, Mark. R. Bresee, was disappointed with the ruling and said the district is looking into options regarding its response. The judge “concluded only the state can act regarding vaccinations, even though the law specifically allows and encourages local vaccination programs,” said Bresee in a statement....

Construction on the controversial pipeline began in 2016 and was completed in early 2017. According to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, an environmental impact report was not completed as required before the pipeline’s construction. Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must provide an Environmental Impact Statement for the pipeline to determine how much it will affect its surrounding areas....

Last term the court heard 74 cases, one of its lightest workloads since 1990, says Washington lawyer Tom Goldstein, who tracks the court. About a quarter of the opinions were closely divided 5-4 decisions. The court’s conservative majority held together in half of them. But Goldstein also found signs of difference. Justices Antonin Scalia and Thomas–often seen as voting in lockstep–disagreed more often than at any time in the past eight years, reaching complete agreement only 73 percent of the time....

The mother of Steelers receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, Sammy Toa-Schuster, posted on Instagram on Sunday that she’s received death threats recently. The post didn’t specify why, but Smith-Schuster has been under a lot of heat for TikTok dances on opposing logos during the Steelers’ three-game losing streak. “After weeks of so many hate messages to death threats … I can’t help but cry when my baby scored his TD,” Toa-Schuster wrote....

Posting on social media on Sunday, Castro said undocumented migrants paid more than $11 billion in state and federal taxes in 2014, while Trump paid $750 a year in 2016 and 2017. The Quote “Undocumented immigrants paid $11.7 billion in state and federal taxes in 2014. Trump paid only $750 the year he became president and only $750 the next year. He needs to stop freeloading off Americans.” At the time of writing, the former Obama administration official’s tweet has been liked and shared more than 100,000 times on the platform....

It was on July 19, 1982, that 75-year-old Hall of Famer Luke Appling hit a home run off fellow Cooperstown legend Warren Spahn in an old-timers game in Washington, D.C. It was quite remarkable. Have a look. WATCH: Highlights from every MLB All-Star Game since 1970 There are conflicting reports about how long of a bomb Appling hit. RFK Stadium was only used for football in those days and hadn’t hosted a baseball game in more than a decade, so the field had to be retro-fitted — which meant an auxiliary fence and stands in left field....

The original post—reading “Our country is better because of our freedoms, our unity, and our equality. #Juneteenth."—was replaced by a nearly identical one without “equality.” Juneteenth, celebrated every year on June 19, commemorates a crucial moment in African-American history when Union soldiers marched into Galveston, Texas, in 1865 to control the state and inform the remaining slaves that they were free. There were 250,000 enslaved people in Texas at the time, according to a report by the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts....

“Thank you for the amazing ride over the last five years,” Klinsmann said. “It’s been a huge honor to lead the team over the amount of time. We’ve had some amazing experiences together. It’s come to an end, and I obviously have to respect that. I just want to say thank you so much, especially to all the fans — ‘The American Outlaws.’” DECOURCY: Jurgen Klinsmann did himself in, and U....

Here’s a flashback: after a decade of being demonized and driven underground, the drug culture is suddenly back on display, buoyed by entertainers like Cypress Hill. A University of Michigan survey of college students and young adults found that in 1992, the most recent year studied, a 12-year decline in drug use came abruptly to a halt. Marijuana use increased very slightly, and LSD use rose for the third consecutive year....

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s marked me for life. At my all-white public school in Jackson, Mississippi, I pledged allegiance daily to the ideal of justice for all, while around me a fierce battle raged over a system of racial apartheid that made a mockery of that pledge. I went to law school to become a civil rights lawyer, dreaming of doing my part to dismantle Jim Crow....

The case was one of 148 filed by the Justice Department as part of the China Initiative, a national security program put in place by the Trump White House to stem Chinese economic espionage, CNBC reported. The department’s decision to drop the case is seen as a setback to the federal initiative’s goal of preventing Beijing from profiting off academic research at U.S. colleges and universities, according to the Associated Press....

Back then, the idea didn’t take. But in the days after the September 11 attacks Barr, now a private lawyer, once again floated it with top White House officials–and this time found allies arriving at the same conclusion. Last week President George W. Bush signed an order allowing the use of military tribunals in terrorist cases. The sweeping document, patterned after similar actions taken by FDR and Abraham Lincoln, gives the government the power to try, sentence–and even execute–suspected foreign terrorists in secrecy, under special rules that would deny them constitutional rights and allow no chance to appeal....