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It almost feels like Opening Day with so many aces on the mound. There will be no shortage of elite pitching options in Friday’s daily fantasy baseball contests, so the challenge will be picking the right ones and balancing your lineup to help you come out on top. Here is a look at the best and worst options across the board for August 28.   Players to Draft Michael Wacha, SP,…

According to ESPN.com, the MLB playoffs start on October 6. That means two things. One, playoff baseball is almost here! It’s less than 40 days until the ever-tense Wild Card Round begins. Eek! I’m giddy! Two, less than 40 days of full daily fantasy baseball slates remain. By now I’m sure you’ve figured out that there is more variation and, consequently, more value on the days when all 30 teams…

Sports by Kiley Kroh Aug 28, 2015 10:59am CREDIT: Jessica Mendoza Dave O’Brien, Jessica Mendoza, Dallas Braden in the booth during Monday Night Baseball. It may have come as a surprise to some fans tuning in to Monday’s match-up between the St. Louis Cardinals and Arizona Diamondbacks to hear a woman in the broadcast booth — the first woman, in fact, to ever be a Major League Baseball game analyst…

(Elsa Garrison, Getty Images) Leading off First game: All 15 contests will be played at 7:05 p.m. or later. You can edit every player up until his individual start time. Aces up every sleeve: It’s once again a loaded pitching day. Clayton Kershaw faces the strikeout-happy Chicago Cubs, but the offensive strategy below probably doesn’t allow you to choose his price ($9,900, 19.8% of cap), the highest on the docket today. There…

For as long as anyone can remember, Major League Baseball has been trying to improve the game. From newfangled divisions and wild-card formats to the designated hitter (“Now batting for the Red Sox, No. 25, Orlando Cepeda!”) and oldtimey-looking ballparks wedged into the urbanscape. But with the news this week NESN is saying goodbye to the enormously talented and likable Don Orsillo, with WEEI’s Dave O’Brien moving over to the…

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Clark Griffith explains why he thinks “Tom Brady will lose and baseball players win.” It’s because “in Major League Baseball, grievances are heard and decided by an impartial arbitrator. In the National Football League, the person who hears and decides grievances is the commissioner.” I want to focus on a more general question: Why has the Major League Baseball Players Association consistently negotiated more favorable contracts on a full range…

Michael McRobbie(Photo: Michelle Pemberton) Florida State President John Thrasher addressed his school’s football team in July after separate incidents of players striking women. Texas A&M is paying an annual salary of $130,000 to a “director of player development,” a life skills and counseling position for the football team. Image-conscious universities love the money, exposure and bonding that sports create. But school presidents know better than anyone that it has to…

NBA Darryl Dawkins, whose board-shattering dunks earned him the moniker ”Chocolate Thunder” and helped pave the way for breakaway rims, has died. He was 58. The Lehigh County, Pennsylvania coroner’s office said Dawkins died Thursday morning at a hospital. Later Thursday, Dawkins’ family said a heart attack was the cause of death. Officials said an autopsy was scheduled for Friday. Dawkins, the first player to go from high school into…

Benjamin Hochman can’t wait to get started in St. Louis, where he will bring a new perspective, which weaves commentary and humor, to the Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com. And that’s no joking matter. Hochman, a jovial Clayton High grad who likes to dabble in stand-up comedy, is eager to get going as he takes over for former sports columnist Bernie Miklasz. “I’m stupidly fired up,” he said. “I’ve been sitting around…

FOOTBALL GOSSIP Celtic have launched a bid for Inverness Caledonian Thistle midfielder Ryan Christie and hope a cash offer of £500,000 with a clause to loan the 20-year-old back to their Scottish Premiership rivals for the rest of the season can secure the midfielder’s signature. (Daily Star, print edition) Celtic first-team coach John Kennedy believes he is culpable for the defensive failings that led to…

The New Jersey public, not to mention Governor Chris Christie, wants to reinstate sports gambling in Atlantic City in the hopes of reversing the trajectory of a place that “totally cratered,” as Donald Trump memorably put it in the first Republican presidential debate. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit has said no — twice. The most recent decision struck down a state law that repealed the…

0 Shares Print 1. Carlos Torres, New York Mets: What a day for the Mets reliever. First, he pitched 2&frac13; scoreless innings to get the win in the Mets’ 9-5 win in 13 innings over the Philadelphia Phillies. He also participated in this amazing 1-3-1 putout, when the ball ricocheted off his foot to Daniel Murphy, who made a great flip to Torres to get the out. Torres then got…

FOOTBALL GOSSIP Celtic have launched a bid for Inverness Caledonian Thistle midfielder Ryan Christie and hope a cash offer of £500,000 with a clause to loan the 20-year-old back to their Scottish Premiership rivals for the rest of the season can secure the midfielder’s signature. (Daily Star, print edition) Celtic first-team coach John Kennedy believes he is culpable for the defensive failings that led to…

Dr. James Andrews is widely considered one the foremost sports orthopaedic surgeon in the game today, with Dr. Frank Jobe either equal to or a close second. Andrews was the man who performed the Tommy John surgery on Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish’s elbow, and the knee of Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III. If there is a high dollar athlete in America today that requires surgery, Dr. Andrews is…

Justin Gatlin could not get close to Usain Bolt in the 200m final in Beijing – but it appears he might have had better luck if he had been on a Segway and armed with a camera. Related: Usain Bolt beats Justin Gatlin again to win 200m world championship gold Bolt streaked clear of his sprint rival to complete another double at the World Athletics Championships and when he was…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Kevin de Bruyne is expected to earn about £200,000 a week when the 24-year-old Belgium midfielder finally completes his move from Wolfsburg to Manchester City. (Telegraph)  Chelsea will pursue signing 22-year-old France midfielder Paul Pogba from Juventus over the remainder of the transfer window. (Independent)  …

The adage has been said so many times that determining who the first to say it is difficult. Regardless, in many ways it’s the overriding principle of being a NASCAR team owner: “To make a small fortune in racing, you have to start with a big one.” Unlike other professional sports, NASCAR doesn’t have franchises or a structure in place to protect its owners and ensure some modicum of…

Follow @JJournalSports Earlier this summer, I wrote a column encouraging my readers to take a road trip to Cooperstown to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame. Many of you took me up on that suggestion. It’s been nice hearing comments from folks who went for the first time, and especially from those who haven’t been there in a while. It’s a beautiful little village and a must-see for baseball fans….