Clemson tight end returns from year-long drug suspension maintaining, ‘I did nothing wrong’

Clemson Coach Dabo Swinney raises the ACC championship trophy after the team's win over Virginia on Dec. 7. (Ken Ruinard/the Independent-Mail/AP)

Clemson sophomore tight end Braden Galloway will suit up for the No. 3 Tigers in Saturday’s Fiesta Bowl against No. 2 Ohio State after serving a year-long suspension for failing a drug test ahead of last year’s College Football Playoff.

Galloway and two other players, defensive lineman Dexter Lawrence and offensive lineman Zach Giella, tested positive for ostarine, a muscle-growth supplement banned by the NCAA, and were forced to sit out the Cotton Bowl and national championship game. All three have maintained their innocence and said they were uncertain how the substance entered their bodies.

The Top Songs, Artists, Playlists, and Podcasts of 2019

This year was a big one for podcast growth on Spotify. There are now more than 500,000 podcast titles available, and our podcast audience has grown by more than 50% since the start of the year. We’ve also seen a 39% increase in podcast hours consumed by listeners quarter over quarter. People are clearly loving podcasts, tuning in the most to Spotify Original The Joe Budden Podcast with Rory and Mal, followed by My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark and Germany’s Gemischtes Hack. The most-streamed podcast genre of 2019 was comedy, showing that laughter is truly universal.  

Can’t get enough of the chart toppers? Check out our lists of the top artists, songs, albums, groups, podcasts, and more below—and don’t forget to tune in later this week to the Wrapped microsite to see your personal favorites and receive a playlist based on your tastes. Plus, we’ve also created the ultimate Playlist of the Decade: the biggest songs of the past 10 years according to fan streaming.

Spotify’s Global Top Lists 2019:

Most-Streamed Artists

Post Malone

Billie Eilish

Ariana Grande

Ed Sheeran

Bad Bunny

 Most-Streamed Female Artists

Billie Eilish

Ariana Grande

Taylor Swift

Camila Cabello

Halsey

Justin Timberlake publicly apologizes to Jessica Biel

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel attend the Louis Vuitton Womenswear Spring/Summer 2020 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on October 1, 2019 in Paris, France.

Justin Timberlake publicly apologizes to Jessica Biel for PDA pics with co-star: 'I drank way too much that night'

Justin Timberlake has addressed photos and video that surfaced last month showing him holding hands with a woman who wasn’t Jessica Biel.

Cameras recorded the singer holding hands with actress Alisha Wainwright, his co-star in the upcoming movie Palmer, in New Orleans, where they’re filming. Britain’s The Sun published a series of images of the two being overly friendly as they sat together at a Bourbon Street bar.

Timberlake didn’t speak about the incident until Wednesday, when he apologized to his wife of seven years and their 4-year-old son, Silas.

“I stay away from gossip as much as I can, but for my family I feel it is important to address recent rumors that are hurting the people I love,” Timberlake wrote. “A few weeks ago I displayed a strong lapse in judgement — but let me be clear — nothing happened between me and my costar. I drank way too much that night and I regret my behavior. I should have known better.”

Counter-Strike New Characters

CS:GO's first operation in two years unveils new Master Agents.

For 20 years, Counter-Strike players have worn generic character skins into their minutes-long matches. In-game terrorist factions like the "Phoenix Connexion" or "Elite Crew" have fought spec-ops groups like GSG-9 and the SAS. Through the immeasurable repetition of CS, these drab default outfits embedded themselves in the identity of the game. With Operation Shattered Web, that's changing.

"For the first time in CS:GO, unlock all-new T and CT-sided characters equippable on any map," writes Valve on a microsite announcing the update. "All-new CT Operators and T Agents are available as mission progress rewards. Complete missions and earn Stars to unlock them and equip them for deployment. Or equip the default Local Agent or Operator to use the pre-existing map-based characters."

Casey Affleck's Wife Summer Phoenix Files for Divorce

The actress, model and designer, who is also Joaquin Phoenix‘s little sister, is asking for joint physical and legal custody of their children — sons Indiana, 12, and Atticus, 9 — as well as spousal support, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE on Monday.

The couple separated in November 2015 after nearly 10 years of marriage and 16 years together. They announced their split publicly last March.

Kathy Griffin Is Bald

Comedian Kathy Griffin is back in the headlines again today, but this time it’s for her hair — or lack thereof. The actress, 56, has shaved her hair in support of her sister’s battle with cancer.

Stephanie Seymour, 49, Poses Nude for Love Magazine

Love magazine is notorious for pushing celebrities out of their comfort zones, whether having them recreate risqué pop culture scenes or making models pose sexily with obscure objects. But for its latest editorial with supermodel Stephanie Seymour, they kept things simple, giving her a fuzzy blanket — and nothing else!

Top Shots (Week of July 23, 2017)

Amy Poehler, Aubrey Plaza, Rhetta, and Chris Pratt

Amy Poehler, Aubrey Plaza, Rhetta, and Chris Pratt

It was a Parks and Recreation reunion when the gang reassembled to support Plaza at the premiere afterparty for her new movie, Ingrid Goes West. (Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

World's longest pedestrian suspension bridge opens in Switzerland

Spanning an awesome 1621 feet and rising as high as 279 feet, the newly opened Charles Kuonen Suspension Bridge in Switzerland has broken the record for the world's longest pedestrian suspension bridge, according to Zermatt Tourism. The bridge offers hikers views of the Matterhorn, Weisshorn and Bernese Alps.

Lindsey Morgan at Comic-Con 2017

 Here’s some pics of The 100‘s Lindsey Morgan at a Comic-Con party. She is very attractive and has nice breasts. She apparently has already been cast as Batgirl in Joss Whedon’s Batgirl flick. Maybe. That’s a rumor. This would mean that JK Simmons would be her movie dad, so the mom would have to be a level of hot that we’ve never seen before. Hopefully CGI improves before the movie comes out.

Microsoft's new Surface Pro

Microsoft's new Surface Pro is a powerful machine with a slight drawback

When it launched back in 2012, Microsoft’s (MSFT) Surface was little more than a reference design for the company’s Windows 8 operating system. Unfortunately, Windows 8 was a disaster. But the Surface hardware proved to be a diamond in the rough thanks to its simple, 2-in-1 laptop-tablet design.

AMD unveils high-end Ryzen Threadripper CPUs and Vega GPUs

Advanced Micro Devices unveiled new high-end processors and graphics chips for gamers at its Capsaicin event ahead of the Siggraph graphics show in Los Angeles.

Tesla 3 Specifications

Model 3 is a smaller, simpler, more affordable electric car. Although it is our newest vehicle, Model 3 is not “Version 3” or the most advanced Tesla. Like Model S, it is designed to be the safest car in its class.

Film Review: ‘The Emoji Movie’

The cartoon ideograms from your smartphone get their own animated adventure, but do they deserve it? Actually, they deserve better than this witless 'Inside Out' knockoff.

YouTuber Stevie Ryan Commits Suicide

Actress Stevie Ryan has died in what the L.A. County Coroner’s Office has ruled a suicide by hanging. She was 33.

What is celebrated on Independence Day - 4th of July

American children of many ethnic backgrounds celebrate noisily in 1902 Puck cartoon

Independence Day, also referred to as the Fourth of July or July Fourth, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence 241 years ago on July 4, 1776. The Continental Congress declared that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as a new nation, the United States of America, and were no longer part of the British Empire. The Congress actually voted to declare independence two days earlier, on July 2.

Celebrities on 2017 Summer vacation

OLIVIA MUNN
The actress takes a break from the heat to enjoy a snack while in Turks and Caicos.

Who is Jeremy Meeks?

‘World’s hottest felon’ convicted for gang-related charges who snogged Topshop heiress Chloe Green

The 27 most interesting new features in iOS 11

If there were one big lesson from the announcements at Apple’s developer conference Monday morning, it’s this: It’s getting harder and harder to add Big New Features to a phone operating system.

When iOS 11, the new, free iPhone/iPad OS upgrade comes this fall, you won’t gain any big-ticket feature. Instead, you’ll get a wholllllle lot of tiny nips and tucks. They seem to fall into five categories: Nice Tweaks, Storage Help, iPad Exclusives, Playing Catch-Up, Fixing Bad Design.
Nice Tweaks

Expectations set? OK—here’s what’s new.

Lauren Stoner Bikini Pictures

If I remember correctly, this Lauren Stoner hot chick is Kim Kardashian’s former protegee and the only thing I can conclude from these pictures is that she’s learned her lesson well from her mentor: if you want to get famous, just keeping heading to the beach in a bikini. And here she is enjoying the beach while vacationing in Miami and looking fucking damn hot. This girls body is just freaking hot and tight. Now, all we need are some Lauren Stoner nude photos to keep her in the celebrity branch. I’m sure she already knows that… I’m waiting.