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Cleveland Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase has been placed on non-disciplinary paid leave as part of a Major League Baseball investigation into sports betting.Clase, a three-time All-Star, becomes the second Guardians pitcher to be placed on leave in connection with a sports gambling probe. Luis Ortiz also is on non-disciplinary leave through Aug. 31.It was unclear if the cases were related in any way. The Guardians said in a statement that they “have been informed that no additional players or club personnel are expected to be impacted.”The 27-year-old Clase is 5-3 with 24 saves in 48 games this year, but he…

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — New York Jets quarterback Justin Fields returned to team drills Monday, four days after dislocating a toe on his right foot.Fields participated in 7-on-7 drills at training camp Saturday as the team eased him back into practice. Coach Aaron Glenn had said Fields had “a ways to go” before fully returning. But after a day off Sunday, Fields ran the offense during 11-on-11 drills — and on the first day this summer the Jets wore pads.“He was limited, but he was limited the way that we want him to be limited,” Glenn said after practice.…

Although her grandfather had dementia when he died, Kristin Richardson hadn’t worried much about her brain until a lab test revealed that she was positive for APOE4, a gene that has been linked to a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. That was seven and a half years ago.Richardson, now 51, remembers crying when she got the news. “I was terrified,” she said. “It’s a horrible, horrible disease with no cure.”So Richardson, a business owner in Richmond, Virginia, decided to make whatever changes she could to reduce her risk of the disease. “I do what I can to get enough…

Astronomer, a once little-known tech company, looked to the stars to turn a viral disaster into a marketing opportunity.The company was introduced to the world after a “kiss cam” at a Coldplay show caught its now-former CEO, Andy Byron, embracing its now-former head of human resources, Kristin Cabot, before the pair ducked for cover.The video ricocheted around the world, and the executives resigned days later.Astronomer then moved to shift the narrative, and it did so by working with two A-list Hollywood stars: Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Reynolds.Reynolds started the viral ad agency Maximum Effort in 2018. It has promoted the “Deadpool”…

Brigette Muller wasn’t a big fan of caffeine for most of her life. Just a few sips just made her jittery and never seemed to have any upsides. But, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Muller started drinking Olipop’s “healthy soda,” she tells Yahoo. She especially loved the Vintage Cola flavor with prebiotics. “I became addicted to Olipop, and I loved it, and I was like, ‘I feel so good and energized!’” On a whim, Muller checked the ingredients and found a surprising explanation for her love of the soda: 50 milligrams of caffeine. “I accidentally started drinking caffeine,” she says.By then,…

As tech companies across the industry get more hardcore and focus on efficiency, Snowflake is doing the same in the age of AI.Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy spoke with Business Insider about the company’s plan to become more operationally efficient while building more AI products. He said Snowflake increased the focus on metrics, made changes to the sales team, and was planning to hire more early-career talent to be more efficient.In May, the cloud data warehousing company reported that it hit its first billion-dollar quarter and doubled its profitability to 9% from 4%. And over the past year, Snowflake’s stock has…

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Those chants of “sell the team” that rang from every corner of the Coliseum during the Athletics’ final seasons in Oakland are noticeably less obvious these days as the club plays the first of three scheduled years at a Triple-A ballpark in California’s capital region.Not that all the negative feelings have been cast aside. There is still plenty of ill will toward the team that moved some 90 miles north.During a recent Braves-A’s series, two supporters showed up in “Forever Oakland” T-shirts, while another fan from Fresno arrived at Sutter Health Park wearing a “Rooted…

Shaquille O’Neal knows exactly how much refurbishing a basketball court can mean to a community and the kids who play on it.He learned first-hand from his former Boston Celtics teammate Marquis Daniels. He was a teenager three decades ago when O’Neal was playing with the Orlando Magic and rebuilt a court in the inner city area where Daniels was growing up.“It was big. He was somebody growing up that I looked up to, he was the tallest person I had ever seen,” Daniels told The AP. “He was playing with my home team the Orlando Magic and giving back to…

“Shark Tank” star Mark Cuban said on Saturday that the White House should “make it illegal for AI models to offer advertising.”Cuban said in an X post addressed to David Sacks, the White House’s AI and crypto czar, that the administration should “examine referral fees as well.””The last thing we need is to have algorithms designed to maximize revenue driving LLM output and interactions,” Cuban wrote.”They are already recommending brands and we don’t know if they are getting paid for it. We need to have learned our lessons from algos in social media,” he added.Cuban said in a subsequent post…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Since his release from a Russian prison in April, Stanislav Tarnavskyi has been in a hurry to build the life in Ukraine he dreamed about during three years of captivity.The 25-year-old has proposed to his girlfriend, bought an apartment and adopted a golden retriever. And that was just what he accomplished one week in July.But as busy as he is rekindling old relationships and creating new ones, Tarnavskyi cannot shake the trauma he and thousands of other Ukrainian soldiers experienced as prisoners of war. The U.N. says many endured beatings, starvation and humiliation at the hands…