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Week 23 of the Fantasy Baseball season begins Monday September 14, 2015. The playoffs are in full swing and the Roto Leagues are beginning to wind down. If you need Starting Pitching or waiver wire options this week I have some early week suggestions for you to consider. Week 23 Interleague Matchups Toronto Blue Jays at Atlanta Braves (3 games, Tuesday-Thursday) New York Yankees at New…

Prepped Blog Post Preps photos Prep, stats, roster, schedule EATON — Accustomed to celebrating Colorado’s most successful high school baseball program, this small town now finds itself divided over the drama entangling its beloved coach. Jim Danley has spent the past 45 years raising young men on Eaton’s ballfields while building a dynasty. But recent complaints from parents about his leadership and his Eaton High staff have led the school…

Red Sox designated hitter David Ortizbecame the 27th player to hit 500 career home runs:   Continue reading below Boston’s best The top five home run hitters with the Red Sox:   Left the yard Baseball’s top lefthanded home run hitters:  x — active

Matt Kenseth took the checkered flag in the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond International Speedway in the last race of the regular season Saturday night. It was Kenseth’s third win in the past six races as he moved into a tie for first place in the Sprint Cup standings. With its being the last opportunity to get into the Chase for the Sprint Cup, 20 drivers began the…

Prepped Blog Post Preps photos Prep, stats, roster, schedule EATON — Accustomed to celebrating Colorado’s most successful high school baseball program, this small town now finds itself divided over the drama entangling its beloved coach. Jim Danley has spent the past 45 years raising young men on Eaton’s ballfields while building a dynasty. But recent complaints from parents about his leadership and his Eaton High staff have led the school…

Floyd Mayweather kneels after the final round against Andre Berto #Mayweather #TMT pic.twitter.com/zTREdtyayC — Boxing Insider.com (@BoxingInsider) September 13, 2015 ‘I’ve been in this sport 19 years, been a world champion 18 years, broke all the records. There’s nothing else to prove in the sport of boxing. “My 49-0 is part of boxing. Records are made to be broken. Hopefully, some day we can find the next Floyd Mayweather.” He…

This much is for certain: The road to the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship goes squarely through Joe Gibbs Racing, which after Saturday night’s crushing victory by Matt Kenseth at Richmond International Raceway has now won seven of the last nine races and 11 overall. NASCAR’s 26-race regular season ended under the lights Saturday at RIR, where Kenseth led 352 of 400 laps, JGR drubbed the entire field yet…

Prepped Blog Post Preps photos Prep, stats, roster, schedule EATON — Accustomed to celebrating Colorado’s most successful high school baseball program, this small town now finds itself divided over the drama entangling its beloved coach. Jim Danley has spent the past 45 years raising young men on Eaton’s ballfields while building a dynasty. But recent complaints from parents about his leadership and his Eaton High staff have led the school…

He has been easy to overlook because of all the talent that has entered the room these past few weeks and months. David Wright and Travis d’Arnaud returned, to great fanfare. Yoenis Cespedes and Tyler Clippard arrived to great acclaim. Yet it is Curtis Granderson who has been the steady, regular influence in the Mets’ lineup, at the top of the batting order. The one guy who was there in…

You’ve seen the ads. You probably have signed up for the games. As you read this, you likely are considering daily fantasy lineup changes of your own (because that $4,400 Davante Adams just looks too good to pass up at DraftKings). But on Tuesday, when the games are over and you have several cold, lonely football-less days staring you down, you may be tempted to return to the sites and…

In Southern California, where three teams play within driving distance, a kid can attend a Major League Baseball game just about every day, dreaming about playing on the field in front of him. We tend to forget about the kids scattered hundreds or thousands of miles from the nearest ballpark, and the dreams confined to television and, perhaps, a family vacation. Carlos Correa was 8 when the major leagues came…

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NASCAR heats up in the final regular season race of 2015, with berths in the Sprint Cup Series championship on the line. The Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. Central Time. The race will be on live TV at the NBC Sports Network. If you can’t catch the race on television, there are plenty of ways to keep track of the action on…

Prepped Blog Post Preps photos Prep, stats, roster, schedule EATON — Accustomed to celebrating Colorado’s most successful high school baseball program, this small town now finds itself divided over the drama entangling its beloved coach. Jim Danley has spent the past 45 years raising young men on Eaton’s ballfields while building a dynasty. But recent complaints from parents about his leadership and his Eaton High staff have led the school…

In attempting to build a bullpen for the 2016 Red Sox, Dave Dombrowski won’t have a lot of choices, but there are enough to piece together something reasonable and allow the team to compete for the playoffs. Dombrowski’s successes and failures in this area in Detroit were certainly well documented. Todd Jones, Jose Valverde, and Joe Nathan didn’t work out. Joaquin Benoit wasn’t bad. Continue reading below One of the…

When incoming Phillies President Andy MacPhail was asked Thursday what kind of criteria he would use in choosing the next general manager, owner John Middleton interrupted. “I’ve told Andy what he needs to do,” Middleton said. “He needs to hire himself.” That response made me flash back to 1999, when I was in the TV booth during a rain delay of a Cubs-Giants game and Chip Caray asked what the…

Think wagering $20 to win $1 million by picking a winning combination of NFL players for a fantasy team this Sunday is gambling? The league says it isn’t. So do fast-growing daily fantasy sports companies like DraftKings and FanDuel that offer the games and advertise with the long gambling-adverse pro football organization. But as the lucrative NFL betting season ramps up and advertisements from DraftKings and FanDuel are as hard…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Former Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard, 35, claims Tottenham, Paris St-Germain and David Moyes’s Real Sociedad wanted to sign him before he decided to join Los Angeles Galaxy. (Daily Mail)  Gerrard also says he cried uncontrollably in the back of his car after Liverpool lost out on the chance…

View gallery . Flavia Pennetta of Italy (R) holds her U.S. Open Trophy next to compatriot Roberta Vinci during the award presentation … NEW YORK – Flavia Pennetta finished her Grand Slam career in amazing fashion. The first-time Grand Slam finalist is the first Italian woman to win the U.S. Open, defeating countrywoman Roberta Vinci 7-6, 6-2 on Saturday afternoon.  As she finished her on-court interview, she announced that this would be…