Dominican Republic won the 2013 World Baseball Classic tonight at AT&T Park in San Francisco, topping Puerto Rico 3-0. With the win, the Dominican Republic becomes the second team to win, Japan having won in both ’06 and ’09. The American hosts were nowhere to be found. Like many of the games in this year’s […]
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Ruth Ann Steinhagen, the Cubs fanatic who shot Eddie Waitkus in 1949, died late last year. While that’s not much of a story in itself, some baseball writers have used her death to point out the similarities and differences between Waitkus and Roy Hobbs, the character he inspired in Bernard Malamud’s baseball epic, The Natural. In
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There’s nothing worse than having a guy like Kobe Bryant or Carmelo Anthony carry you through the season only to disappear to the sidelines come playoff time. Luckily, with plenty of injuries to go around, you can still pick up plenty of solid replacements to get you through your week until your stars return, let’s
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The Boston Red Sox have set themselves up for the future. The organization has built a strong farm system through the years via the draft and trades with players who are developing into potential stars. The plan, seemingly, is for those players to start breaking through later on this season with the 2014 roster starting
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We had some success at FanDuel and DraftKings last night. One of our FanDuel lineups scored 32.90 points and made it in the money in a $300 Mon Double Up. My first attempt at a Drafkings lineup scored 38.2 fantasy points and placed ninth in the one tournament I entered. If we got anything from
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You might want to bookmark this article and review it in six months time once you start making keeper selections for next year. But I felt it is important to write this now because this is the time of the season where those that are way out of leagues will start making trades to maximize
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After toying with our expectations for the better part of an NBA season, Andrew Bynum is out for good. This after news today that he will receive season-ending surgery on both of his ailing knees. It’s an especially heartbreaking loss for Philadelphia 76ers fans who were sold a team that was projected to battle for
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The waiver wire can get pretty crazy come playoff time. No one cares about finding a good investment for weeks to come because there’s a chance you won’t be there next week. Guys are either getting it done right now or they’re not, your days of speculative buys are over until next season. You also
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