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Subscribe for free!: iTunes | RSS | Stitcher | TuneIn Rotisserie drafts can be challenging. Latest mocks, tiers, rankings and more You need saves. You need batting average. You need steals, and so on. On this episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today Podcast we’re reviewing our recent Roto draft and discussing how we constructed our teams, keeping in mind position scarcity and category needs. Here’s some of what we talk…

Hey everyone! The Super Bowl is over and that means it is officially baseball season! Regardless of how you feel about last night’s outcome, the thought of baseball returning should instantly put you in a good mood. Pitchers and catchers report in just over a week. It’s time to get ready for an exciting 2017 season. Our wonderful Adam Gresch made a video that should get you in the spirit….

The Athletics announced on Monday that the club will honor Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson by renaming the Coliseum field “Rickey Henderson Field.” The dedication ceremony will be held on Opening Night, scheduled for April 3 against the Angels. Additionally, the Athletics have scheduled Rickey Henderson Day for July 15 which features a Henderson jersey giveaway. Henderson, 58, was inducted into the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association…

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Atlanta sports fans are eternal pessimists, and for good reason, bad things keep happening to their teams in dramatic, devastating ways. Just when they think it can’t get worse, it does. No matter how big the late-game lead is, time appears to slow down to crawl, allowing the opponent to stage a comeback. This keeps happening to Atlanta — regardless of how many times fans say to themselves, “Maybe this…

The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express are the latest inductees in the WWE Hall of Fame’s Class of 2017, CBS Sports has confirmed. The tag team of Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson thrilled fans for years as one of the most successful babyface tandems in the world. They were one of the National Wrestling Alliance’s hottest acts in the 1980s with eight reigns as NWA world tag team champions, four between…

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Danica Patrick has a favor to ask: Anybody got $15.2 million to spare? It’s kinda important, and time-sensitive. With Speed Weeks right around the corner in Daytona the following weekend, Patrick has been left in the lurch by her primary sponsor, Nature’s Bakery. The company, based in Nevada and specializing in healthy products like fig bars, is reneging on its NASCAR Monster Energy Cup sponsorship deal with Patrick, who drives…

On Sunday night, the New England Patriots pulled off a stunning and historic comeback to beat the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI. It was the first ever Super Bowl to go to overtime. All the Super Bowl coverage you need is right here. Baseball players, like millions of others, were sitting at home watching Tom Brady and Patriots complete their comeback. And, like millions of others, they were in…

Team looks to improve after eighth place ASC finish in 2016 season UTD’s baseball team is preparing to start the new season with a revamped starting line up. As the team practices for its first games of the season, a double-header on Feb. 10, it’s looking to fill the starting positions left vacant by graduating seniors. Head coach Shane Shewmake only has three starters returning — the centerfielder, infielder and…

A mini-autobiography: After several years as a full-on, gung-ho NBA writer and analyst, I was suddenly asked last July to pitch in to help with the endless furor for Chicago Cubs content. It wasn’t a totally out-of-left-field proposition; I was a baseball guy before I was a basketball guy. After a period of reacclimation, I was lucky enough to help cover the sports story of a lifetime, all the way…

Improved pace of play has been a priority for MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, who is entering his third full season running the game. That the average contest lasted about four minutes longer in 2016 than 2015 undoubtedly irked Manfred. Unsurprisingly, some rule changes could be coming down the pipe that should shorten games. The most commonly suggested tweak — installing a pitch clock, similar to the one implemented throughout the…

Owners maintain the right to spend or not spend, make arbitrary decisions on personnel — essentially, do whatever the heck they want. Owners also maintain the right to decline comment to reporters who seek explanation for their strategies, leaving fans to wonder what the heck is going on. The Nationals’ owners cannot be called cheap, not when they supported the game’s fifth-highest payroll as recently as 2015. Their decision-making, though,…

Super Bowl LI was an absolute classic. Somehow, some way, Tom Brady and the Patriots erased a 25-point deficit to come away with a thrilling 34-28 overtime victory over the Falcons. Here are Sunday’s 10 best Super Bowl performances, ranked from good to great. Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. AP

I’m probably The Verge’s most ardent follower of e-sports — video games played competitively for vast sums of money and in front of big crowds — but I have to concede that the Super Bowl that just happened was something altogether different. It delivered, in its resplendent reversal of fortunes, an experience that even the finest and wildest of online matches can’t replicate. And the magical ingredient was that it…

Netball received the biggest award as their national team prepare for the 2019 World Cup in Liverpool Sport England has awarded a further £101m of National Lottery and government funding to the governing bodies of 25 sports, including netball. The latest investment follows the £88m announced in December for 26 sports to deliver grassroots schemes. Netball will receive £16.9m, while rugby union, table tennis, tennis and athletics are also beneficiaries….

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) – Vietnamese gamblers will soon be allowed to place bets on international soccer competitions under a pilot project. Under the decree signed by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc that takes effect by the end of March, Vietnamese over 21 years of age will be allowed to place bets of up to $44 a day, with a minimum bet of 44 cents. The government will allow only one…

Improved pace of play has been a priority for MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, who is entering his third full season running the game. That the average contest lasted about four minutes longer in 2016 than 2015 undoubtedly irked Manfred. Unsurprisingly, some rule changes could be coming down the pipe that should shorten games. The most commonly suggested tweak — installing a pitch clock, similar to the one implemented throughout the…

It euphemistically was known as “Black Ball,” a style of baseball that was loose and athletic and fun, and that attracted enthusiastic crowds everywhere it was played during the first half of the 20th century. It was, in large part, a product of big cities, baseball centers such as Chicago, New York and Philadelphia, but it was a phenomenon shared across the nation. Cedar Rapids, though nowhere near…