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Welcome to today’s daily fantasy post! Remember that you can find our posts on the brand-spanking new DFS home page, as well as the fantasy page. Bookmark those sites now! Let’s get to today’s interesting facts, using DraftKings prices. Five Things to Watch: 1.   Here are the three highest projected over/unders, provided by OddsShark… PHI/COL 11.5 MIN/TEX 11.5 TB/BOS 10.5 2. Weather: Keep any eye on thunderstorms in the Mets game, but we should…

NPR’s Lynn Neary speaks with Andrea Kremer of HBO’s Real Sports, about the European soccer finals happening Sunday, and whether Cristiano Ronaldo can win the trophy for Portugal.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment DALLAS — U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson withdrew from the Rio Games on Friday because of concerns over the Zika virus, costing golf three of the world’s top four players for its return to the Olympics after a 112-year absence. Jordan Spieth is the only player from the top four who has not said whether he is going to Brazil. A decision could come…

For summer baseball players residing in Madison, the Home Talent League is not an option, as no teams are able to draw athletes from the city. But there is another choice for high-level amateur baseball: The Rock River League, where the Madison Rockers are dominating the Southwest Division with a 9-2 record. They lead other area teams like the Janesville Aces and Madison Black Sox by 3.5…

NASCAR’s youth movement his hitting on all eight cylinders right now. Thursday night at Kentucky Speedway, 18-year-old William Byron won his fourth NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race in just 10 career starts. In the NASCAR XFINITY Series, the current points leader is 24-year-old Daniel Suarez. And at the top of the sport, two rookies and one third-year driver are in championship contention. With nine races left in the NASCAR…

Two years ago, Gabby Douglas moved to Columbus, Ohio to train at Buckeye Gymnastics under the gym’s director, Kittia Carpenter. Carpenter has been by Douglas’ side through every competition since, from the 2015 World Championships last October, where Douglas earned an all-around silver medal, to the P&G Championships in late June. Carpenter has also been heavily featured on Douglas Family Gold, the Oxygen docu-series that has followed Douglas’ journey to the Rio…

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The seemingly endless flow of top golf talent pulling out of the 2016 Rio Olympics has been well-documented here, but it was still a harsh blow for the United States and the sport in general when, late Friday, the No. 2-ranked golfer in the world announced that he would also be withdrawing his name for consideration from his country’s national team. Dustin Johnson, winner of back-to-back tournaments including his first…

NASCAR on Friday announced the dates and locations of the post-season championship banquets for all three of its national touring series. For the eighth consecutive year, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards banquet will take place at the Wynn Las Vegas, with the date set for Dec. 2. The complete lineup of talent and activities for NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion’s Week will be announced at a later date. “We…

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NASCAR’s youth movement his hitting on all eight cylinders right now. Thursday night at Kentucky Speedway, 18-year-old William Byron won his fourth NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race in just 10 career starts. In the NASCAR XFINITY Series, the current points leader is 24-year-old Daniel Suarez. And at the top of the sport, two rookies and one third-year driver are in championship contention. With nine races left in the NASCAR…

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There will not be a change in the aerodynamic package for this year’s Chase for the Sprint Cup, NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competition Scott Miller told FOXSports.com in an exclusive interview Friday morning. This weekend at Kentucky Speedway, NASCAR is testing a new low-downforce package that was also used four weeks ago at Michigan International Speedway. If this test is successful, the Michigan/Kentucky specs will form the basis of…

RELATED: Get live weather updates   Inclement weather has altered Friday’s on-track schedule at Kentucky Speedway.   Nearly 30 minutes into the day’s first of two scheduled NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practices, a severe thunderstorm warning had officials sending Sprint Cup Series cars into the garage. Denny Hamlin had posted the fastest speed at the time, with Jimmie Johnson — who later smacked the wall solidly — sitting in second….

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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,…

The Phillies farm system is the richest it has been in quite some time, and that was evident on Friday morning when six of the team’s prospects were named to Baseball America’s Midseason Top 100 list. Here is a look at the Phillies prospects who made the cut: 3. J.P. Crawford, shortstop. Crawford entered Friday batting…

Three strikes per at-bat, three outs per inning, three divisions per league and three wins in four games for the A’s over the Giants, not exactly indicative in this lopsided season by the bay.

Wasserman, a 15-year veteran of Sun Valley, also weighed in on the hot topics among the business leaders here. The vote on Brexit will have an impact on Wasserman’s business, which is global, representing athletes and brands around the world. “I think the challenge of Brexit is there’s a lot of unknowns still today. In the sports world there’s a lot of things that depend on the movement of talent,…

High-quality local sports coverage isn’t dead. At least that’s the premise upon which The Athletic is building its business. The young startup, part of Y Combinator’s Summer 2016 class, is trying to reinvent local sports media – an industry that has been on the decline ever since newspapers realized that advertising revenue wouldn’t be enough to support a team of writers to cover local sports teams. So when regional newspapers began to cut costs the…