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facebook twitter googleplus tumblr pinterest Editor’s note: Play one-day fantasy baseball for cash! FanDuel is hosting a $175,000 league for tonight’s MLB games, and first place wins $15,000. Starts at 7:05 p.m. ET. Enter now! Welcome to the free DFS MLB Playbook for Tuesday, June 9, courtesy of Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. Every day, the experts at FantasyAlarm.com, who just won the 2015 FanDuel Playboy Championship, will publish their top daily fantasy baseball plays at…

There are several top-notch MLB starters throwing on Tuesday, which makes picking just two in DraftKings daily fantasy contests all the more difficult.  Scoring big with pitchers becomes vital when there are so many quality arms available. Whether you’d like to spend for an ace or find a bargain and hope for the best, here are five of the leading options to choose from when selecting pitchers for June 9….

Pitcher Kyle Funkhouser ranks second all-time in U of L history with 26 wins and 281 strikeouts.(Photo: Matt Stone/The Courier-Journal) Kyle Funkhouser became the highest draft pick in the University of Louisville baseball program’s history on Monday when the Los Angeles Dodgers selected the right-handed ace pitcher with the 35th choice in the 2015 Major League Baseball draft. The pick was included in the compensatory part of the first round…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Serie A champions Juventus are preparing a £10m offer for 31-year-old Manchester United forward Robin van Persie. (Daily Star)  Chelsea are lining up a £30m offer for Napoli’s Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain, 27. (Sun – subscription required)  West Ham United hope to appoint their former…

BT says there will be one free match every round for CL and EL. But not each leg. So 26 free games, as opposed to 42 on ITV. — Ben Rumsby (@ben_rumsby) June 9, 2015 Of the 26 Freeview games, 12 will be Champions League, 14 Europa League. — Ben Rumsby (@ben_rumsby) June 9, 2015 Sky subscribers who have BT Broadband will be charged £5 extra a month. Customers who…

Pitcher Kyle Funkhouser ranks second all-time in U of L history with 26 wins and 281 strikeouts.(Photo: Matt Stone/The Courier-Journal) Kyle Funkhouser became the highest draft pick in the University of Louisville baseball program’s history on Monday when the Los Angeles Dodgers selected the right-handed ace pitcher with the 35th choice in the 2015 Major League Baseball draft. The pick was included in the compensatory part of the first round…

What a way for the super regional round to end. Six hours and three minutes after the first pitch, a throwing error at the plate gave TCU a walkoff 5-4 win in the bottom of the 16th inning and booked the final spot in the College World Series. Vanderbilt took down Illinois and Cal State Fullerton outlasted Louisville to fill out the eight-team field in Omaha. Sitting on…

BT Sport launch £897million Champions League coverage on Tuesday  Former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard unveiled as pundit for channel  He joins Rio Ferdinand – ex-Man United star is announced as lead analyst Gary Lineker also arrives at the channel as Champions League presenter  The broadcaster holds exclusive three-year deal to screen the competition  351 matches, inclusing Europa League, will be free for BT TV customers BT Broadband subscribers with Sky to be charged £5 a month…

While NFL pressure forced the cancellation of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo’s fantasy football convention, another group is continuing with its plans to host a similarly themed gathering in Las Vegas even though active players may be fined for participating. Free-agent wide receiver Brandon Stokley told FOX Sports that the Fantasy Sports Combine is “100 percent still on” for mid-July. The event is set for the Wynn Las Vegas and…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Serie A champions Juventus are preparing a £10m offer for 31-year-old Manchester United forward Robin van Persie. (Daily Star)  Chelsea are lining up a £30m offer for Napoli’s Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain, 27. (Sun – subscription required)  West Ham United hope to appoint their former…

There’s no one, single way to define Walter Iooss – the ultimate master of athletics photography, “a fixture in American journalism,” as dubbed by Steve Fine, Sports Illustrated magazine’s former director of photography, or “the poet laureate of sports,” as he’s been allegedly referred to. With over 300 covers of Sports Illustrated and iconic award-winning portraits of the world’s greatest celebrity-athletes, Iooss is an undisputed maestro of sports photography, boasting…

Something big is happening in the world of sports marketing. Lines are being crossed, roles are being redefined, and digital is challenging the status quo. Those who want to understand how the lines are being crossed are unlikely to find a better guide than Anthony Fernandez, of Athlete Promotions. Fernandez has spent many years as a traditional speaker’s bureau and now finds himself handling anything from corporate events to new…

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When the U.S. women’s soccer team launched its quest for a World Cup Monday night against Australia, there were 30,000 fans in the stands at Winnipeg Stadium— but not a single blade of grass on the field. Despite their protests, the best female soccer players in the world are being forced to play all the games of the 2015 Women’s World Cup on artificial turf. “It’s kind of a nightmare,”…

A 48-year-old woman died Saturday after suffering a medical emergency during the 25-yard backstroke competition at Special Olympics Maryland’s annual Summer Games at Towson University. Tresaraie Dalana Shavers was less than 10 yards from finishing the race when her jaw tightened, her head dipped below the surface and she stopped moving forward, longtime coach Phil Wetzler said. lRelated Maryland 45th annual Maryland Special Olympics Summer Games held in Towson See…

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The social media company WalletHub broke down the top 74 hockey cities for hockey fans, and Chicago was ranked in the top 10 for “Team and Performance.” And America’s obsession with hockey seems only to be growing. It’s currently the fourth most followed sport among U.S. adult fans and has climbed one spot in the top 10 every year since 2012. The NHL is in fact so popular that it…

In the video — a clip that, by Monday morning, had been viewed more than 4 million times — the white officer in McKinney, Tex., pushes a black teenage girl onto the ground, unholstering his weapon as her frantic friends try to approach. The girls in the chaotic scene are all wearing bathing suits. The setting, on a Friday evening in suburban Dallas, was a community swimming pool. As Yoni Appelbaum…

When the U.S. women’s soccer team launches its quest for a World Cup Monday night against Australia, there will be 30,000 fans in the stands at Winnipeg Stadium – but not a single blade of grass on the field. Despite their protests, the best female soccer players in the world are being forced to play all the games of the 2015 Women’s World Cup on artificial turf. “It’s kind of…

0 Shares Print SECAUCUS, N.J. — Shortstops were a big hit leading off the Major League Baseball draft. The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Vanderbilt slugger Dansby Swanson with the No. 1 pick Monday night, setting off a history-making run at the position. 2015 MLB draft: Round 1 pick-by-pick analysis Eric Longenhagen has live pick-by-pick analysis of the 2015 MLB draft, including profiles of those drafted in the first round and beyond….