Until now. The Jays clinched a spot in the 2015 playoffs Friday, ending baseball’s longest drought. In fact, the Blue Jays were the only team that had not participated in October baseball this century. MORE: Best Blue Jays ever | Memorable stars of the ’90s A lot has changed in that time, so let’s take a look back at that magical year of 1993, when Bill Clinton began his first term as president, Bryce Harper was an infant and MLB had 28 teams, no interleague play and no wild cards....

He’s even more self assured today, thanks to a random drug test administered Saturday by Major League Baseball. MORE: Baseball’s nine most fan-friendly contracts Price passed the standard test and later took to Twitter to thank the league for the “boost of confidence.” The 29-year-old Price has been everything the Blue Jays hoped for when they landed him in a deal with the Tigers one day before the trading deadline....

The undersized pitcher, who tore his ACL in spring training, shared a secret he will take with him to the hill Friday in Game 2 of the ALDS against the Rangers. FAGAN: Blue Jays all the way? | MORE: Jays’ logos, uniforms over the years “I pitch with a lot of hate and anger and emotion in my heart,” Stroman said during media availability on Thursday. “It’s just something that I’ve always kind of built myself on....

A strong second half by the Blue Devils made for a hotly contested matchup that included bad calls by officials on both sides, as is typical in any college basketball game. MORE: J.J. Watt and Caroline Wozniacki at title game | Roy Williams’ incredible gesture for Bo Ryan | Must-see photos Badgers coach Bo Ryan saw it differently. Speaking with CBS reporter Tracy Wolfson after the game, Ryan used descriptive language to implicitly complain about officials:...

MORE: Messi takes flight FIFA ‘15 trailer | Soccer WAGs | Beautiful fans When these two sides were paired up for group stage clashes once more, and with CSKA Moscow thrown into the mix for a second successive season, many immediately drew the conclusion that the two games between the favorites would prove just as superfluous to the group outcome as they were 12 months ago. However, this is a group of an entirely new context to the one Pep Guardiola faced in his debut season at the Allianz Arena....

NYRA released a statement Monday afternoon saying Baffert is temporarily suspended from entering any horses or occupying any stall space at Belmont Park, Saratoga Race Course and Aqueduct Racetrack. “In order to maintain a successful thoroughbred racing industry in New York, NYRA must protect the integrity of the sport for our fans, the betting public and racing participants,” said Dave O’Rourke, NYRA president and CEO. “That responsibility demands the action taken today in the best interests of thoroughbred racing....

It has been just short of 20 years since Cincinnati Bearcats superstar Kenyon Martin set a simple down screen in a Conference USA Tournament game at the Pyramid in Memphis, got his legs tangled with an opponent and went down with a leg fracture that ended his season and Huggins’ best shot at an NCAA championship. It has been more than 17 years since Huggins suffered a heart attack while traveling through the Pittsburgh airport on a recruiting mission, which led to him being treated in an ambulance by a cousin of his friend and rival John Calipari....

U.S. National Park Service (NPS) biologists began tracking the female bobcat more than a year after the Woolsey wildfire that devastated the Santa Monica Mountains in November 2018, burning tens of thousands of acres of land. In April this year, the biologists began suspecting that the bobcat, labeled B-370 due to her tracking collar, had made a den in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) because they noticed she had been repeatedly returning to the same spot....

Authorities continue to investigate the cause of death at the scene, thought to be in a vehicle parked at the Walmart on Cibolo Valley Drive. Newsweek has contacted the Cibolo Police Department, which has announced there is no continuing danger to the public, following the discovery in the afternoon of Tuesday, September 7. Police have (at the time of writing) released no identifying details about the individual. Pearl River County Coroner Derek Turnage, also contacted by Newsweek, confirmed officials continue to investigate the scene....

Looking almost as if he had never gone to jail in disgrace, Boesky wore a dark “power” suit. Gone were the flowing beard and long hair he grew I while serving much of a three-year prison term. His manner–abrupt amd testy–was vintage Boesky. His testimony came at the securities-fraud trial of a once close friend, John A. Mulheren Jr., a stock trader. Reprising his own illegalities, Boesky told how he had aides stuff $800,000 in a briefcase as a payoff to convicted tipster Martin Siegel....

The WSJ cites an account from a stadium security guard who said the staff frisked the attacker and found the vest as he or she tried to enter the stadium 15 minutes into the match. The attacker had a ticket to the exhibition match between the French and German national teams. MORE: Horrific scenes in Paris | Reactions: U.S. college football | NASCAR | UFC French police suspect the attacker aimed to detonate the explosives in the crowd to “provoke a deadly stampede” inside the 80,000-seat stadium, the report says....

Primary bone cancer is actually a broad category, consisting of many different types of malignancies, some of which are very rare; however, of these, osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, and Ewing sarcoma are among the most common. Known Causes Although the causes of bone cancer are not precisely known, changes in the DNA of the cancerous cells are known to be important. In most cases, these changes happen by chance and are not passed on from parents to children....

Joan, who was eight, and Mimi, who was four, shared a bedroom on the second floor of the Baez’s family’s clapboard house in Menlo Park, California, near Stanford University, where their father, Dr. Albert Baez, thirty-seven, worked in a cold war program to teach physics to military engineers in training. Their older sister, Pauline, ten, kept to herself in her own small room, a converted closet, and their mother, thirty-six, for whom Joan was named, tended to the house while listening to classical music on 78-rpm records a salesman picked out for her....

In a similar vein to America’s freebie-seeking Napster enthusiasts, this novel dismisses the music business as a place so corrupted by the almighty dollar that good tunes have become secondary. “A & R” (that’s industry lingo for “artists and repertoire”) skewers both the business and its money-hungry execs. Flanagan is an insider if there ever was one. As a former rock critic, editorial director at VH1, and the brains behind the network’s popular Storytellers and Legends, he is not only armed with industry savvy but is a gifted satirist too....

Well, I take it back. Now that I’ve tested two new devices, the idea of reading a book displayed on a screen makes sense. Millions of us are already comfortable reading text off a computer monitor, whether it’s from a Web page or an Excel document. Reading an electronic book is more or less the same experience, except that you can do it anywhere using one of these portable devices....

NEWSWEEK: Emerging markets have grown extraordinarily well in the last four or five years. Why is this happening now? Ruchir Sharma: In the 1970s, we hit a very broad inflection point. Never before in the history of development had so many people lived in such poverty. The most populous countries in the world—China, India, etc.—were following economic models that were yielding very poor economic results. Since then, we’ve had a turning point, especially with China....

Liverpool are 10/11 to achieve a top-four finish Mane has been out of action since suffering a hamstring injury in the Merseyside derby with Everton in April, while Ings has not played since undergoing knee surgery in November last year. Both players will train in full at Melwood for the first time in pre-season and will join the rest of the first-team squad when they fly out to Germany on Wednesday....

The event was held again last Thursday, but under much darker clouds: a Nasdaq that’s down 17 percent since the beginning of the year, with a whopping 42 IPOs withdrawn or postponed since the beginning of April. In the intimate, hilltop conference room, with a brilliant view of Silicon Valley splayed out below, 140 start-up execs gathered to hear market predictions and gauge the viability of their companies –and get a generous dose of bitter medicine....

The account, detailed in emails obtained by CNN, was written by an agent reporting his coworkers for making the migrant hold a sign that said “Me gustan los hombre(s),” while he walked through the detention center. The agent at the processing center, located in El Paso, said he witnessed an agent give the sign to the migrant and then told him to walk in front of a group of other migrant men while holding it up....

The latest offering in ““the gene for…’’ sweepstakes is ““happy DNA.’’ In the current issue of the journal Nature Genetics, molecular biologist Dean Hamer of the National Cancer Institute reviews studies suggesting that one’s baseline level of happiness–the very small range within which one’s happiness level fluctuates–is ““largely a matter of heredity.’’ Identical twins (who have exactly the same genes) are alike in their happiness level 44 percent of the time, according to studies at the University of Minnesota....