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For those who are unfamiliar with my thought process, I aim to add as many home run hitters as possible to my daily fantasy baseball lineups. One way of doing that is to look at a player’s isolated power numbers (ISO). The ISO statistic removes singles and provides a larger weight for each extra-base hit. I also use the weighted on-base average (wOBA) metric. This stat takes every positive outcome into consideration. Last year,…

On Sunday morning, the New York Yankees announced that Alex Rodriguez would play his final game for them this Friday. The 22-year veteran infielder and designated hitter departs with a star-crossed legacy. Rodriguez was amongst the top 10 professional athletes, in terms of pure talent, of the past two decades. Yet none invited more scorn throughout the better half of their careers—not even Tiger Woods. As the 14-time All-Star takes…

1. Basketball. Olympic basketball has typically devolved into overfed American basketball players bringing down 200 pounds and at least six and a half feet of national greatness onto opponents’ heads. I would have a problem with this, but a.) there’s more competitive parity in international basketball than ever before, and b.) I am American. VINCE CARTER OWNS EIGHT HUNDRED SQUARE FEET OF HIS CHOICE IN THE LOUVRE AND ALWAYS…

i Gold medal winner Lilly King, right, seen here celebrating with her U.S. teammate and bronze medalist Katie Meili, won the 100m breaststroke over her rival, Russia’s Yuliya Efimova. Adam Pretty/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Adam Pretty/Getty Images Gold medal winner Lilly King, right, seen here celebrating with her U.S. teammate and bronze medalist Katie Meili, won the 100m breaststroke over her rival, Russia’s Yuliya Efimova. Adam Pretty/Getty Images…

Former NFL quarterback and current ESPN broadcaster Tim Tebow is actively pursuing a career in professional baseball and plans to hold a workout for Major League Baseball teams later this month, according to his agents Jimmy Sexton and Nick Khan. For almost the past year, Tebow has been training in Arizona and Los Angeles to hone his play as a professional batter and outfielder in a sport he has not…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. –  Marine veteran Joyce Ralph sometimes stays at home in Massachusetts instead of going for a bike ride or doing other things she likes to do. She feels too anxious because of her post-traumatic stress disorder. Army veteran Paul Miosek sometimes feels isolated at his home in New York. No one else he knows is in a wheelchair. The two were among a group of about…

In the end, the most compelling drama took place in a press conference room in the bowels of the aquatics centre. At one end of the table sat the new Olympic breaststroke champion Lilly King from the United States. Further down sat her controversial Russian rival, the silver-medallist Yulia Efimova, keen to explain why people should have more sympathy over her previous 16-month ban for taking steroids. As a symbol…

Today, women living in Saudi Arabia cannot participate in state-organized sports leagues, national tournaments, or even attend their national team’s games as spectators. Of the 150 official sports clubs, none are open to women. While boys’ schools have mandatory gym classes, the majority of girls’ schools do not include a physical education curriculum. Women cannot exercise in fitness studios with men, and female-only facilities are often denied licenses or shut…

City have made John Stones and Raheem Sterling the two most expensive English players in history Manchester City have signed John Stones from Everton for £47.5m, making him the world’s second most expensive defender. The 22-year-old England international has signed a six-year deal and is City boss Pep Guardiola’s eighth signing. Stones was earlier named in City’s official Champions League squad, published on the Uefa website before the transfer was…

<!– Daniel Ricciardo is currently third in the Formula 1 drivers’ championship Tuesday, 8 August Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo never seems to have too many concerns and he is currently enjoying the summer break in Los Angeles. “All my friends have a lowrider,” he wrote on Instagram. World championship leader Lewis Hamilton says his likely engine penalty later this season means Mercedes team-mate and Formula 1 title rival Nico Rosberg…

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There are 28 Olympic sports and dozens of different disciplines within most of them. The sporting cornucopia is why people are so drawn to the Summer Games. You can watch something that’s always in the public consciousness and one you follow year-round or you can immerse yourself in a sport you don’t see unless it’s the Olympics. It’s what makes these two weeks so wonderful. But of all the sports and races and…

Indiana native Steele Johnson won a silver medal in the 10-meter synchronized diving on Monday, inching closer to conquering a sport that nearly killed him. Johnson was just 12 years old and going through a routine diving practice at Indiana University in Jan. 2009 when he attempted a difficult 3 and 1/2 somersault dive. It would later become his favorite move, but that day it was too far advanced and…

Image copyright EPA Image caption The Russian Paralympic Committee is considering whether to appeal against its ban The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) gives details of anti-doping activities in its annual reports. The report for 2015 is due out in the next few weeks, so the most recent report we have is the 2014 one. In the year covered by that report, 1,013 tests were conducted for IPC sports (which include…

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We’re on the ground in Rio covering the 2016 Summer Olympics. Check out all our coverage here. While Michael Phelps’s winning of his 19th gold medal may be the feel-good story of the swimming pool not involving Yusra Mardini so far, the most significant development of the opening weekend of swimming is surely the sport’s renewed assault on the record books. More Sports The ban of full-body non-textile (“LZR”-style) swimsuits…

It may be set in the world of baseball, but Fox’s new fall drama Pitch is not a baseball show. Pitch follows a young female pitcher (Kylie Bunbury) who defies the odds when she becomes the first woman to play in the major leagues. “It’s a show about a young woman coming of age,” executive producer Dan Fogelman told reporters at the Television Critics Association’s press tour on Monday. “It’s…