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Last week we endorsed Zack Grienke as a big-time daily fantasy baseball value, and all he did was pull down two wins with a 14 K/1 BB ratio and just four earned runs in 15 innings. It’s safe to say Greinke is back on track and his salary will once again return to high-end status. Strategy-wise, it’s time to adjust. Ben Zobrist was good, but not worth his high salary as predicted,…

Buy Photo Defibrillators are not required at Little League fields. Shown here is a New Albany Little League game in 2014.(Photo: IndyStar file photo)Buy Photo The baseball hit with a thud to his lower chest, right by his heart. The second baseman for the Carmel Hounds youth travel team — who didn’t see the catcher’s throw coming his way — collapsed on the field Sunday at Grand Park in Westfield. As he lay motionless on the ground,…

Our daily fantasy baseball picks continue with starting pitcher rankings, strategy, and advice for Tuesday’s MLB slate (minus the early game). Chris Sale goes for his 10th straight win to start the season and is obviously the top choice on the mound today. If you choose to fade him, however, there are still plenty of aces, namely Stephen Strasburg (vs. NYM) and Jeff Samardzija (vs. SD), who are in great position to match…

Media playback is not supported on this device Dan Roan reports on the scandal that has engulfed Russian The Russian Olympic Committee has said 14 of its athletes at the 2008 Beijing Olympics tested positive for doping during re-tests of their samples. Sports minister Vitaly Mutko said the news of the positive tests “certainly doesn’t look good”. But speaking to BBC sports editor Dan Roan in Moscow, Mr Mutko said…

Golf waited 112 years to make it back to the Olympics. With Rory McIlroy suggesting the Zika virus may keep him from making the trip to Rio to compete in the summer games, it can surely wait another four. McIlroy, following Sunday’s Irish Open victory, conceded that what experts are predicting could be a “full-blown global health disaster” due to the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil have him “monitoring”…

British Cycling’s interim performance manager, Andy Harrison, was forced to issue a swift apology and ‘clarification’ to his riders after appearing to suggest that their places at this summer’s Olympics might be in jeopardy if they spoke negatively to the media about their experiences on the programme. In an email at 5.05pm on April 29, at the end of the week in which technical director Shane Sutton resigned amid claims…

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Fourteen of the 31 athletes found to have doped at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing are Russian, according to the country’s state media. A report by Tass suggests that the majority of those 14 individuals compete in track and field events, putting Russia’s athletics participation at Rio 2016 in further doubt. An International Association of Athletics Federations taskforce has already been set up to decide whether Russia’s athletes will be…

Buy Photo Christian Brothers Academy, led by standout senior right-handed pitcher Luca Dalatri, remains ranked No. 1 in the Asbury Park Press Baseball Top 10..(Photo: MARK R. SULLIVAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAP)Buy Photo On Tuesday the annual Gatorade State Baseball Players of the Year were unveiled and the list of 50 honorees featured CBA’s Luca Dalatri. The senior right-hander is no stranger to being recognized among the nation’s best, as Dalatri also represented…

Caption Close There’s been plenty written about what has gone wrong this season for the Houston Astros. Here’s a short synopsis: It’s the awful hitting. It’s the awful pitching. It’s the overly aggressive base-running. It’s the sloppy defense in the outfield. Anyone who has watched games this year, knows that –at times, at least – it’s been every single one of those things. Somehow, a team that was supposed to…

The 2016 SEC Baseball Tournament gets underway today at the Hoover Met. Today’s format is single elimination. The top four seeds (Mississippi State, Texas A&M, South Carolina and Florida) have byes today. Four teams will go home. Every game will be televised on the SEC Network, and on WatchESPN. Here is a look at the times, matchups and projected starting pitchers for Day 1 of the SEC Baseball Tournament. Tuesday:…

Buy Photo Nyack’s Devin Samparani slides into first base ahead of the tag from Harrison’s Andrew Zink during a Section 1 playoff game at Harrison High School on May 23, 2016. Harrison beat Nyack 5-4. (Photo: Leif Skodnick/The Journal News) RESULTS FROM THE SECTION 1 QUARTERFINALS ON MONDAY, MAY 23 ICYMI: My column on the biggest takeaways from an eventful first round on Saturday Class A John Jay 4, Byram Hills…

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Sports Authority, in planning to close all of its stores, is set to launch its going-out-of-business sales this week, according to court documents. In shutting down, the 463-store chain becomes the latest casualty among rivals for the sporting-good business. It follows the recently announced closure of the Sport Chalet chain, based on the West Coast. While sporting goods and athletic wear sales are growing, traditional retailers like the two chains…

British Cycling’s interim performance manager, Andy Harrison, was forced to issue a swift apology and ‘clarification’ to his riders after appearing to suggest that their places at this summer’s Olympics might be in jeopardy if they spoke negatively to the media about their experiences on the programme. In an email at 5.05pm on April 29, at the end of the week in which technical director Shane Sutton resigned amid claims…

Nobody’s ever going to accuse Josh Donaldson, the American League’s reigning MVP, of playing with the game without emotion. He’s a fiery competitor and he’s prone to outbursts just like he’s prone to hitting the ball out of the park.  [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] But after an ugly exchange Sunday, even Donaldson is saying baseball’s unwritten rules about beanballs are out of control and the league…

Ellen Galles Updated: 05/24/2016 7:01 AM Created: 05/23/2016 6:11 PM All summer long there will be pick-up baseball games going on in 9-year-old Tanner Feyereisen’s backyard in Hammond, Wisconsin. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS was invited to the family’s opening day ceremony, for which practically the entire neighborhood gathers. Meanwhile, the kids play for something bigger…

The decision last week by bankrupt sporting goods chain Sports Authority to close all of its remaining stores, including the one at Glenwood Meadows, could well leave Glenwood Springs and other West Slope markets without a general sporting goods outlet. That is, unless a buyer such as Dick’s Sporting Goods, the nation’s largest sporting goods retailer, sees value in taking over what…

History was made this year by the Golden State Warriors. The team ended the regular season with 73 wins, and Warriors’ superstar guard Stephen Curry was elected the league MVP by unanimous vote—neither of which had ever happened previously in NBA history. This week, however, the Warriors could make history for quite a different reason: Their opponents in the Western Conference Finals, the Oklahoma City Thunder, won Game 1 of…

Mourinho was surrounded by media outside his London home on Tuesday Jose Mourinho’s representatives will meet Manchester United officials on Tuesday as the Portuguese moves closer to becoming the club’s next manager. Mourinho’s agent, Jorge Mendes, flew into London on Tuesday morning and will lead the discussions. A deal is unlikely to be announced on Tuesday but confirmation that Mourinho will take over is expected this week. Louis van Gaal,…