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Look for our fantasy baseball starting pitcher rankings, hitter upgrades and downgrades daily to help you make smart fantasy baseball lineup decisions and for MLB betting tips. MLB game odds are provided by Caesars Sportsbook, and fantasy advice is geared towards ESPN 10-team leagues with standard scoring. Note: This file will be updated with any …
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The sports memorabilia market has been booming. Items from Tom Brady, LeBron James, Patrick Mahomes and Michael Jordan have sold for millions in recent years. A memorabilia record was broken Saturday. A mint condition 1952 Mickey Mantle card was sold by Heritage Auctions for $12.6 million. Anthony Giordano, a New Jersey waste management entrepreneur, originally …
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8:27 AM ET Eric MoodyESPN Close Former manager at a Fortune 100 financial services company, now living my dream creating fantasy and sports betting content about the NFL, NBA, and WNBA for ESPN. Read ESPN’s fantasy football daily notes every weekday to stay caught up on the news you need to know and get a …
8:00 AM ET Ryan Hockensmith Close Ryan Hockensmith is a Penn State graduate who joined ESPN in 2001. He is a survivor of bacterial meningitis, which caused him to have multiple amputation surgeries on his feet. He is a proud advocate for those with disabilities and addiction issues. He covers everything from the NFL and …
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JULIO RODRIGUEZ WAS barely 18, playing baseball in the United States for the first time, when he made his biggest impression on a Seattle Mariners franchise that now adores him. It wasn’t how he hit or how he fielded or how he ran — it was how he watched. Minor league spring training can be …
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EuroBasket is back! After a five-year layoff, EuroBasket 2022 is set to crown a continental champion from a field of 24 nations led by some of the NBA’s biggest stars. The tournament tips off Thursday with group stage games being played in four host nations, and the gold-medal game will be played on Sept. 18 …
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HENDERSON, Nev. — Clelin Ferrell was starting to feel like his old self when a familiar but unwelcome sensation hit. Pain. After an offseason and early part of training camp spent marinating in new defensive coordinator Patrick Graham’s scheme and beginning to apply what he learned onto the field, Ferrell’s right ankle went the wrong …
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Greetings from the Wilson family vacation, circa 2008. We’re on a luxury cruise ship in the middle of the Caribbean, sailing toward the island of St. Thomas. On board is a really cool basketball court, where Kenny Wilson and the three oldest of his four boys — ages 12 to 14 …
CHICAGO — As Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields was struggling through his debut as an NFL starter against the Browns last Sept. 26, his father, Pablo, went to a concessions stand in Cleveland’s FirstEnergy Stadium. A self-proclaimed “nervous wreck” during Justin’s games, Pablo won’t sit with anyone but his wife, JoAnn, during games, and he …
The concept of talent cores and competitive windows has been discussed a lot of late, with the Braves’ run of extensions to young players and the Padres selling the farm for Juan Soto and Josh Bell. So I used this as inspiration for a new way to rank talent by teams’ cores. The rules are …
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