Thursday Night Football DraftKings Picks: NFL DFS lineup advice for
Week 10 kicks off with a Thursday Night Football showdown between the Ravens and Dolphins. The Ravens are road favorites, laying 7.5 points at several Las Vegas sportsbooks, and the total opened as high as 48.0. This has the makings of another dominant Baltimore performance, and it’s why we’re going to break our DFS budget to…
Yahoo DFS Picks Week 4: NFL DFS lineup advice for
Last week was an unusual one for daily fantasy football, but that's in the rearview mirror. Time to look toward and build the best Week 4 Yahoo DFS tournament lineups. Because of the boom-or-bust nature that often accompanies at least a few GPP picks, we have a play at wide receiver that might shock you, but…
Fantasy Defense Rankings Week 4: Who to start, sit at
Rank Team 1 Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ NE. Mac Jones and the Patriots had been pretty good at limiting fantasy points to D/STs through two games, but all hell broke loose against the Saints. New Orleans racked up three INTs, two sacks, a blocked kick, and a defensive TD in Week 3. That obviously won't happen…
Barnwell: How Jon Gruden’s roster-building left the Raiders in terrible
As you've surely heard by now, the Las Vegas Raiders and Jon Gruden parted ways on Monday. It goes without saying that the emails uncovered as part of the NFL's investigation into Daniel Snyder and the Washington Football Team were abhorrent and unbecoming of a leader. My colleagues have addressed Gruden's resignation, and what's now…
How do Alex Morgan and Taylor Swift know each other?
With Taylor Swift being one of the world's best-selling female musicians and Alex Morgan holding her reputation as one of the most recognisable faces of women's soccer, it's no secret that the two are friends. The pair are known to hold a mutual admiration and respect for each other, but, considering they hail from two completely different…
De Bruyne, Guardiola views about burnout are right: We need
Kevin De Bruyne played with painkilling injections at the Euros. There has to be a better solution to avoid players being worn out due to the grueling club and country schedule. Meng Dingbo/Xinhua via Getty ImagesLast April, Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola sounded the alarm, complaining that UEFA and FIFA were "killing" the players by scheduling…
Liverpool and Manchester City hurl everything at each other in
Mo Salah blows past João Cancelo en route to scoring at will.Photo: Getty ImagesIt’s rare that games between the top-table inhabitants of soccer can live up to the billing. They usually cancel each other out, the fear of losing greatly outweighing the benefit of winning, and you might get the odd goal here or there…
Week 8 takeaways, big questions: Cowboys win without Dak, a
Oct 31, 2021NFL NationESPN Week 8 of the 2021 NFL season had some close Halloween matchups, including the Cowboys edging the Vikings with Dak Prescott sidelined and quarterback Cooper Rush making his first start. The Titans and Colts went to overtime after a wild pick-six for Tennessee in the final two minutes followed by a…
Which NFL teams are most, least analytics-advanced? We surveyed 22
The Cleveland Browns have taken over the title of the NFL's analytically advanced franchise from a division rival.When we surveyed analytics staffers across the league a year ago, they voted the Baltimore Ravens as the most analytically advanced -- defined by a combination of the level of data-driven work produced and the degree to which…
The biggest star every top European team has traded
Neymar moved from Barcelona to PSG in 2017. EPA/CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSONThe most recent transfer window was unlike any other, with world-class players like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo moving clubs. But that got us thinking ...Drawing inspiration from David Schoenfield's look at the biggest star every MLB team has traded, we scanned the world of soccer…