Sanders’ suspension from the Bucks will begin on Jan. 19, and he will continue to miss games until he is in complete compliance with the program. MORE: Malone hot commodity in coaching | Malone firing stuck with Kings players | Injury bug hits rookies Sanders also served a five-game suspension for marijuana use last season. The Bucks center has been an enigma since he signed a four-year, $44 million contract back in 2013....

RYAN: My first pick doesn’t have the best track record in the postseason (4.23 career ERA). I’m aware of that. The last time he made a playoff start (against the Cardinals in the 2013 NLCS), in fact, he faced 24 batters in four-plus innings and retired only 12. Ten of the 24 produced hits, two walked and seven eventually scored. I’m aware of that, too. But if I’m given the first choice for building a 2014 playoff rotation, I’m going with Clayton Kershaw....

Health experts across Eastern Europe worry that holiday gatherings will only exacerbate the situation, with officials in both Romania and Bulgaria saying to expect big surges in the new year. Bulgaria is the 27-nation EU’s least vaccinated nation with only about 32 percent having received two doses and even less having received a booster shot. Mariya Sharkova, a public health law specialist based in Plovdiv, told the Associated Press the country can expect a fifth wave by early next year....

At a regular Foreign Ministry press conference in Beijing, Zhao Lijian cautioned President Joe Biden’s administration against further contact with the democratic island, where public opinion of China has slid to an all-time low thanks to hostile rhetoric and bellicose military maneuvers in recent years. The Chinese leadership and its top diplomats have all but dismissed sentiments on the opposite side of the Taiwan Strait. Beijing is at least outwardly confident about its determination—and capability—to bring the island under its rule, in accordance with its own opaque timetable....

Instead of taking the traditional route and going with their best starter in Game 1 of the NLDS against the Rockies, Brewers manager Craig Counsell chose instead to ask his relievers to get 27 outs. The Crew’s bullpen wound up having to get three additional outs, but the Milwaukee’s 3-2, 10-inning victory turned out almost exactly as Counsell had scripted it. MORE: Watch MLB live and on demand with a fuboTV 7-day free trial...

Chicago has had multiple talks with Orlando, both about the No. 12 pick and shooting guard Arron Afflalo, and with Denver about No. 11, but a source told Sporting News that the Bulls have also engaged with the Kings in a potential deal for the No. 8 pick. Chicago’s focus in such a scenario would be Creighton star Doug McDermott, who averaged 21.7 points and shot 55.0 percent from the field (45....

A dating app user came across the shocking profile, and shared a snap to Reddit’s Tinder forum on Monday under the username Bigcatpratte. They captioned a screengrab: “I’m terrible but I found this hilarious.” Her Bumble bio said: “Dear husband, this is the last straw, when you see this you’ll know to pack your bags. “P.S. I’ve already seen your acct [account] and swiped right so we’d match.” And the finishing touch is the photo of her wedding day used as the main image on her profile....

A carful of youthful tourists cruises by, and a pretty girl leans out the window and takes a picture. ““How you doin’,’’ Jimmy says affably. A limousine with two snazzy blondes poking through the sunroof glides past. ““Elvis!’’ they scream. Jimmy gives them a movie-star wave. Apparently his sacrifice is worth the trouble: chicks still dig Elvis. Jimmy turns up the volume on his tape deck, and the triumphant sounds of Elvis’s 1972 live album, ““As Recorded at Madison Square Garden,’’ spill out of the car....

MORE: Sports recognizing tragedy | School prematurely celebrates state title No deaths were reported by The Indianapolis Star, though Griffith High School will have to postpone its 3A semi-state matchup at Marion High School after its bus overturned on Interstate-65. No players escaped without injury, however. Griffith coach Gary Hayes was among those injured by the bus crash; he suffered a cut on his head. He confirmed all players on the bus received at least some sort of injury, saying, “Everyone has something....

Oct. 15: “We’re dealing with Hitler revisited.” Oct. 20: “When Hitler’s war ended. there were the Nuremberg trials.” Oct. 23: Bush compares the alleged murders of Kuwaiti youngsters to actions by Hitler’s Death’s Head battalions. Nov. 1: “[Saddam is engaged in] brutality that I don’t believe Adolf Hitler ever participated in.” A noted German-born historian at Columbia University, Fritz Stern, called the last remark “an insult. . . to the [Holocaust] dead....

George Bush’s problem has been that he keeps doing more of precisely what got him in trouble with so many voters in the first place. His idea of fighting back has a shrill, frantic, unreassuring personal edge to it. It diminishes him every time. You can’t carry on like that and, at the same time, be saying: Hey, I’m the president with all the majesty and awe that inspires. It’s one or the other....

“We just keep going forward. We game-plan the way we normally do,” Panthers coach Ron Rivera said Thursday. “Everything that we put in is put into the game plan and he can run everything. “It makes game planning simple for the coaches, not having to set up two difference game plans.” MORE: Week 5 picks, straight up Anderson made two starts for an injured Newton in 2014 and both came against the Buccaneers....

“So far, the experiment is working,” Scott told ESPN.com. “We’re just going to keep at it and see how it turns out.” MORE: LeBron to miss two weeks | Cousins ejected for slamming Smart | Mock draft Scott rested Bryant for three Lakers games last week. Bryant is playing about 32 minutes per game in two game since being rested, which is roughly five minutes less than what he was averaging in October....

Sure, we all like to fly. But the economics of VLJs may be less than blue-sky. Current forecasts of global demand range wildly. The Federal Aviation Administration sees 5,000 in the United States alone by 2010. Britain’s Inflight Management Development Centre, however, predicts global sales of 850 by 2013. And skeptics like airline analyst Vaughn Cordle, based in Washington, D.C., doubt the market can support a dozen players. The key reason: two thirds of VLJ orders are expected to come from “air taxi” companies, which provide short flights on demand....

Caballero’s current deal expires in July and Goal understands City are yet to make contact with his agent about an extension. Goal have previously reported that Claudio Bravo has rejected several offers and is determined to remain at the Etihad Stadium beyond the summer. Bravo determined to stay at City Caballero had usurped Bravo from Pep Guardiola’s line-up earlier this year, and despite falling back down the pecking order recently he will play the remaining games of the season thanks to the Chilean’s calf injuy....

The Olympics website says the 24-year-old is the second-fastest 100-meter freestyle swimmer in history and the third-fastest 50-meter freestyler. The medal hopeful’s career has drawn comparisons with that of Michael Phelps, the retired swimming champion who smashed seven world records after winning eight golds at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, according to the website. An early July article on the Team USA website said Dressel is slated to compete in six or seven events at the Games, which could potentially see him become “the fourth swimmer in history to win seven medals in a single Olympic Games....

Nunn, 89, who died from complications of a recent stroke, was the chief scout for the Steelers in the 1970s when they drafted the core of the teams that won four Super Bowls between 1974 and '79. He was a key player in what has been heralded as the greatest draft in league history, the 1974 group that produced four Hall of Famers (Lynn Swann, Jack Lambert, John Stallworth and Mike Webster), all of whom won four rings in Pittsburgh....

The wills of the wealthy are always revealing, but this one especially so because of a complicated family situation and the growing sense that Paley hadn’t been the world’s nicest man. While family members cautioned that the art deal was not finalized, MoMA director Richard E. Oldenburg said the museum might take possession of the masterpieces as early as this week. One Picasso from 1906, “Boy Leading a Horse” (part of a previous delayed bequest, not the will itself), was estimated by art dealer Richard Feigen to be worth $100 million to $125 million alone....