Month: October 2019

The Giants have a great Week 7 matchup for fantasy football purposes as they host the fast-paced, defensively challenged Cardinals. That means the status of Saquon Barkley and his teammates Evan Engram and Sterling Shepard have a big effect on waiver pickups, rankings, and start ’em, sit ’em decisions for Week 7 fantasy lineups. Barkley and Engram look to be closer to returning, but Shepherd is reportedly a long way off. Even with Patrick Peterson’s return,…

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Our Week 7 fantasy football busts are headlined by two players smack dab in the middle of timeshares at running back. Aaron Jones scored four touchdowns in Week 5, but in Week 6, it was Jamaal Williams who had the better game as Jones made multiple costly errors. The writing was on the wall before Williams got hurt that there would be a split in Green Bay, but maybe not as dramatic as we just…

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Professional boxer Patrick Day died Wednesday, four days after suffering a traumatic brain injury in a fight vs. Charles Conwell in Chicago. He was 27. Day’s management company, DiBella Entertainment, announced that the fighter succumbed to the injury while surrounded by family and friends. “Boxing is what Pat loved to do. It’s how he inspired people and it was something that made him feel alive,” DiBella Entertainment said in a statement. MORE: Notable sports deaths…

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Wide receiver injuries leave fantasy owners grasping at thin air. Amari Cooper, Emmanuel Sanders and Josh Gordon all failed to complete their Week 6 games. If they’re out, that’s a big hole in any fantasy football lineup (and our WR rankings) heading into Week 7. The problem is that WR injuries don’t usually present any obvious waiver wire claims and pickups. The best hope is just that the wideouts get healthy and are active come…

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Football can be a cruel game, and fantasy football owners are just at the mercy of what happens on the field. Will Dissly sustained what looks to be a season-ending injury Sunday, and he’ll go from waiver-wire darling back off fantasy rosters for the second-straight year. Things don’t look as bad for James Conner in Pittsburgh, but we don’t really have a great idea yet of whether he’ll miss time, which would make Benny Snell…

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Washington topped St. Louis for a third straight time Monday, claiming an 8-1 victory in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series. The Nationals now lead the series 3-0 and are nearing a sweep, making their unexpected playoff run even more impressive. The Cardinals’ backs are against the wall, and they have little time to turn things around. Here are three takeaways from Washington’s win: Stephen Strasburg was electric Stephen Strasburg was flat-out dominant against St. Louis…

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No. 1 Alabama (5-0) and No. 24 Texas A&M (3-2) return from a bye week and meet in a key SEC West matchup on Saturday at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas. The Crimson Tide are heavy favorites again, and with Tua Tagovailoa (23 touchdowns, 0 INTs) playing even better than last season with a group of fantastic receivers that’s hard to argue against. The Aggies, meanwhile, are trying to avoid a third loss against…

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It took more than 24 hours after rain delayed the Talladega race, pushing its last two stages from Sunday to Monday, but we finally got a result for the fifth race of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. And it was worth the wait. After a massive crash with seven laps to go set up a green-white-checkered to finish the race, a wild last two laps ended with Ryan Blaney beating Ryan Newman to the line in…

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Bulgaria’s prime minister has called for the resignation of the Bulgarian Football Union president after the country’s 6-0 loss to England in Monday’s controversial Euro 2020 qualifying match. Prime minister Boyko Borissov described the loss in Sofia as a “shameful” result and condemned the the racist abuse directed at England players that forced two stoppages in play in the first half. Click Here: Fjallraven Kanken Art Spring Landscape Backpacks The first break prompted an appeal…

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It looked like the top Week 7 fantasy waiver wire pickups and free agent adds were going to be another mediocre bunch, then Jamaal Williams and Allen Lazard took over Monday Night Football…making it slightly less mediocre. The former is much more of a priority pickup than the latter, but both could have value next week when the Packers play the Raiders. Either way, they added a little life to an otherwise uninspiring group of guys such as Auden…

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