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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! 5 Things to Watch: 1. Here are the highest over/unders for Friday, provided by OddsShark… 2. While we finally get a game at Coors Field, but they play at 4:10pm (EST). That means, if you want some Rockies in your lineup, you…

Ahmed Khazaal, 12, shows his Barcelona team jersey, left, and the Real Madrid jersey of his brother, Mohaned Khazaal, 10, who was killed by a teenage suicide bomber in a village south of Baghdad. (Ahmad Mousa Qasem/For The Washington Post) ASRIYA, Iraq — The suicide bomber who blew up a youth soccer match late last month left barely a dent in the hard, dry earth, a faint scorch on a…

Rugby has the potential to rival soccer as an international sport as it returns to the Olympics this year for the first time since 1924, according to a new HSBC report. By 2026, HSBC predicts the number of global rugby players to hit 15 million, nearly double the current 7.6 million, as 150 countries embrace the rough-and-tumble sport. While that’s still well off the global reach of football, or soccer,…

Time has finally caught up with Grant Hackett at the Rio Olympic swimming trials in Adelaide, but there were no tears on Friday night and certainly no regrets. Hackett claimed he was finally at peace despite his 2016 Olympic dream ending after he failed to qualify for the 200m freestyle final at the Rio trials. Hackett – 36 next month – had hoped to become the oldest Australian swimmer to…

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Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers lost at home against their city rival, the Clippers, on Tuesday, 103-81. It was a game where the retiring NBA legend was off, scoring just six points on 2-of-12 shooting. So what did Kobe do when his team was getting blown out and he wasn’t having his best night? He switched sports, of course. Check it out as Kobe’s soccer skills were on…

Note: Don’t whiff on this special FanDuel offer. Win your first contest or get your money back (up to $10) to keep playing. Try FanDuel now! Trevor Story is unbelievable. And by that, I mean he’s doing things you can’t and shouldn’t believe. No other player in baseball history has begun his career by homering in each of his first three games, much less hitting four during that stretch. But…

With Major League Baseball season under way, don’t be surprised to see a sudden influx of political ads while you watch your favorite team up at bat on TV. Fox Sports, the sports broadcasting arm of parent company 21st Century Fox fox , is looking to tap into the campaigns of current presidential candidates and super-PACS for ads during baseball games, reported Bloomberg. The reason is simple: with primaries still…

Years ago I read the book A Reasonable Life: Toward a Simpler, Secure, More Sane Existence by Ference Matte. In this book, Matte laments the loss of simple pleasures, among them baseball. He compares the joys of a Sunday afternoon pick-up game to the intense, high stakes sport that kids play today. Maybe he has a point, but as the mother of a boy playing intense, high stakes baseball, I can tell…

11:12 AM ET print Baseball is awesome, isn’t it? Here’s how the already-insane 2016 baseball season roared out of the gates: Justin Verlander got a hit before Mike Trout. … Kenta Maeda hit a home run before Jose Bautista. … Mark Trumbo stole a base before Billy Hamilton. … Jeff Francoeur drew a walk before Joey Votto. If you saw this stuff coming, could you do me a favor and…

Rugby has the potential to rival soccer as an international sport as it returns to the Olympics this year for the first time since 1924, according to a new HSBC report. By 2026, HSBC predicts the number of global rugby players to hit 15 million, nearly double the current 7.6 million, as 150 countries embrace the rough-and-tumble sport. While that’s still well off the global reach of football, or soccer,…

Organizers on Friday unveiled four designs shortlisted to become the official logo of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The designs were selected from 14,599 entries in a contest open to the public. The Tokyo organizing committee said the public will have a week to 10 days to give their opinions of the designs either online or by postcard. Those opinions will be considered during the final review by the Emblem Selection…

RELATED: Gaughan talks strategy for Bristol heat races   FORT WORTH, Texas—Brendan Gaughan is aware of the talk that he might retire after the 2016 NASCAR XFINITY Series season. He even has that conversation every year.   “Every year, I almost retire,” Gaughan said at Texas Motor Speedway, site of Friday’s NASCAR XFINITY Series O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 (8:30 p.m. ET, FS1, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).   “When I closed my team down in 2007 and…

RELATED: Practice 1 results   Martin Truex Jr. rose to the top of an ever-changing leaderboard Thursday to lead the opening NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice at Texas Motor Speedway.   Truex, the Daytona 500 runner-up, powered to a best lap of 192.892 mph around the 1.5-mile track in the Furniture Row Racing No. 78 Toyota. His lap was significantly slower than the track qualifying record of 200.111 mph set by Tony Stewart in October 2014.   “We were…

Stewart-Haas Racing announced Thursday that Tony Gibson, crew chief for driver Kurt Busch and the No. 41 Chevrolet team, will miss the first two days of the race weekend at Texas Motor Speedway.   SHR said through its official Twitter account that Gibson, 51, will stay home in North Carolina to care for his wife, who is dealing with an unspecified illness. The team indicated that Gibson planned to rejoin the No. 41 team…

Well, that was fun, wasn’t it? The Mariners’ offensive eruptions in the eighth inning Tuesday and the ninth inning Wednesday capped a couple of Seattle victories in Arlington, Texas, that were gripping and highly entertaining. You haven’t been able to say that too often about the Mariners, have you? And as a new home season starts Friday night at Safeco Field against Oakland, that would be my No. 1 wish…

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Brace yourself, baseball fans: Documents at auction appear to show that Alexander Cartwright, Honolulu’s first fire chief, isn’t the founder of America’s favorite pasttime. Cartwright is buried in Hawaii and every year, baseball fans make a pilgrimage to the site. But the papers, titled “The Laws of Base Ball,” raise questions about Cartwright’s role: They lay out the rules of modern baseball a full three years earlier than the current recognized birth date. “This is…

6:16 PM ET print WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bad news for Bill Maher: Bryce Harper‘s all-for-fun and fun-for-all campaign isn’t just a one-and-done thing. Immediately following the Washington Nationals‘ season-opening win Monday in Atlanta, Harper, who homered in the game, addressed reporters while sporting a white trucker’s cap that read, “MAKE BASEBALL FUN AGAIN” in red, capital letters. This morning, comedian and political satirist — and New York Mets minority owner…

LSU used a shutout performance by junior southpaw Jared Poche and a seven-run third inning to overtake second-ranked Vanderbilt, 13-4 in the opening game of the Southeastern Conference Series Thursday evening at Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field. Poche’ fired seven innings of scoreless baseball to move to 4-3 on the season. The Lutcher, Louisiana native struck out eight to tie a career high and limited the Commodores to four…

Rugby has the potential to rival soccer as an international sport as it returns to the Olympics this year for the first time since 1924, according to a new HSBC report. By 2026, HSBC predicts the number of global rugby players to hit 15 million, nearly double the current 7.6 million, as 150 countries embrace the rough-and-tumble sport. While that’s still well off the global reach of football, or soccer,…