Month: October 2019

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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His new counterparts, Trump believed, could be persuaded to help him pursue a longstanding fixation: discrediting the Russia investigation. Trump raised the matter in telephone conversations with both Britain’s Boris Johnson and Australia’s Scott Morrison over the summer, according to people familiar with the calls. ### Trump’s cultivation of the newly installed leaders as potential associates in his political agenda reflects his intent at using foreign relationships to go after domestic rivals. It’s continues a…

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“College GameDay” is sticking in SEC country for another week as it heads to Baton Rouge, La. for the headliner matchup between No. 5 LSU and No. 7 Florida. This is the second consecutive week the “GameDay” crew is on hand for the Florida game, after the Gators upended then-No. 7 Auburn 24-13 in The Swamp. It’s also the second time they’ve featured LSU this season, after the Tigers traveled to Austin in Week 2…

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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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The 2019 MLB playoffs began with a pair of appetizing wild-card matchups that followed intense races over the final weeks of the regular season. The Brewers and Nationals squared off in the NL, while the A’s and Rays duked it out in their own winner-take-all contest in the AL. Those games determined the full NLDS and ALDS brackets and set the stage for the rest of October. MLB POSTSEASON PICKS:SN’s experts make their pennant, World Series predictions…

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Week 7 of the college football season features four games between ranked teams. No. 6 Oklahoma and No. 11 Texas meet in the Red River Rivalry (noon, FOX), and No. 24 Texas A&M hosts No. 1 Alabama (3:30 p.m., CBS) in the afternoon slot. Primetime features a top-10 showdown between No. 5 LSU and No. 7 Florida (8 p.m., ESPN) and a Big Ten matchup between No. 10 Penn State and No. 17 Iowa (7:30…

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No. 7 Florida (6-0) and No. 5 LSU (5-0) meet in another top-10 showdown for the SEC, and this one will be at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La. LSU brings in the nation’s top-scoring offense, at 54.6 points per game. The hire of Saints passing coordinator Joe Brady has been the talk of the season, and quarterback Joe Burrow has 1,864 yards, 22 touchdowns and three interceptions. The Tigers can add another quality win…

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An SEC matchup featuring undefeated teams is sure to bring plenty of excitement of intrigue to this week’s college football slate as No. 7 Florida (6-0) heads to Baton Rouge to take on No. 5 LSU. Saturday’s battle welcomes an interesting quarterback duel with the Gators (6-0) operating under backup quarterback Kyle Trask and the Tigers (5-0) led by a Heisman candidate in Joe Burrow. Feleipe Franks opened the season as the starting Florida quarterback…

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The league’s two best regular season teams collided on Sunday with the hosts picking up a big first-leg win Throughout the regular season, the New York Red Bulls proved to be the only team that could handle Atlanta United as the two sides battled to MLS-record point totals. On Sunday it was Atlanta that came out on top in the first leg while all but ending their MLS Eastern Conference final clash. Goals from Josef Martinez, Franco Escobar and…

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Rafa Benitez’s side will be looking to make it three wins on the bounce when they visit Turf Moor on Monday night Burnley are to host Newcastle United in the final match of the latest set of Premier League fixtures on Monday. The Clarets are without a win since late September but manager Sean Dyche is insistent that his side are showing signs of returning to their best form. Both sides are level on nine points…

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