May, 2013 - XN Sports

Week 8 Fantasy Baseball Sleepers Stock Market: Kevin Gausman, Yasiel Puig, Justin Grimm

Entering the season, Kevin Gausman was a fourth-overall pick in 2012 with a grand total of 15 Single-A innings under his belt. He’s now pitched a total of 61 minor league innings, which still doesn’t seem anywhere close to how long most guys to develop. It’s possible that Gausman isn’t like “most guys”, he’s only […]

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NBA Eastern Conference Finals: Heat Win Overtime Thriller Over Pacers, 103-102

NBA / By Anson Whaley

The NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals got underway on Wednesday and Game one went down to the wire. LeBron James, as he has so often been, was the hero, scoring a game-winner as time expired in overtime. Here’s a recap of the thrilling series opener. Miami wins Game 1 over Indiana behind Lebron James’ game-winning layup

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Late Round Quarterbacks With The Highest Fantasy Football Ceilings

Fantasy Football, NFL / By C.D. Carter

If you’re willing to wait on drafting a quarterback as your fellow fantasy football fiends are drafting their backup signal callers, laughing as your supposed folly, you might as well ignore the fantasy downsides of the available quarterbacks. Focus on upside – ceilings – instead. The reason is fairly straightforward: the quarterback you draft in

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Storylines To Look Out For In Remaining Stages Of NBA Playoffs

NBA / By Bogar Alonso

Three small market teams in the NBA Semifinals doesn’t instantly feel like a recipe for dramatic success. But nothing could be more untrue. These 2013 NBA Playoffs have had a thick band of drama draped across their forehead before they even took to the court, and like LeBron’s headband, it is only getting thicker as

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Boston Bruins Ready Brooms With Game 3 Victory in New York

Boston, New York, NHL / By Chris Blanchard

Following a 2-1 victory on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden, the Boston Bruins look destined for a return to the Eastern Conference Finals. Now holding a very comfortable 3-0 series lead over the New York Rangers, the Bruins have finally hit their stride. Meanwhile, the Broadway Blue Shirts seem to lack any sense of

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Daily Fantasy Baseball Lineup for May 22

Fantasy Baseball / By Tony Consiglio

Tonight, my daily fantasy lineup at Star Fantasy Leagues features a few players who aren’t even regular starters, but that can happen on a night when there are only 8 games being played. But I’m still optimistic about what these guys will do. If you want to try to do better, head on over to

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2013 NHL Playoffs: Mid-Second Round Review

Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, NHL / By Michael Clifford

For whatever reason, it seems that the second round of the NHL Playoffs are always a bit of a let-down. It’s probably because fans are extremely excited for the playoffs to start and there are less games for out-of-your-seat moments to happen. The 2013 NHL Playoff second round is no exception. The games of all

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Fantasy Baseball Sleeper: Vidal Nuno

Fantasy Baseball, MLB / By Igor Derysh

When a player is called up to make a couple of spot starts while a regular starter recovers from a minor injury they make for good streaming options but not real investments. That isn’t the case with Vidal Nuno who was recently called up to temporarily take Andy Pettitte‘s spot in the rotation while the

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May 2013