The schedule for the 2013-2014 NHL season was released today which is pretty big news for hockey writers in the middle of July. The first thing that is noticeable is that they finally came out with the new division names. To refresh your memory a bit, the NHL announced last year that there would be […]
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Is it just me, or does it feel like it’s been forever since a regular season MLB game has been played? Thanks to the All-Star break, every team was given four full days off. But, finally, the games are back. And with that comes the return of building a Star Fantasy Leagues daily fantasy baseball
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Prospects are baseball’s greatest mystery. Many enter the league with tons of hype and fanfare, only to disappoint. Others enter with little attention paid to them and go all Jose Iglesias on the league. The important thing to keep in mind is that prospects develop quickly. Some might take years, but others might take just
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As I had mentioned in the first installment of the Las Vegas League portion of the 2013 NBA Summer League, we’ll be covering player development instead of the games. We now have a pretty good sample size of games to evaluate certain player performances from each team. I’m trying to look for positives so a lot of
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*Accumulative points are not the basis of these rankings. Week to week consistency combined with uncertainty and anticipation of changes, for better or worse, were applied to the order of the tiers. Too often at this time of the summer, we are guilty of looking forward and back at the upcoming season and prior season’s stats in their entirety. Tier 1
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If you read my article on Wednesday about 2-QB fantasy football auction draft strategies, hopefully you remembered me mentioning a live 2-QB auction mock draft that fellow Sports Jerk Rich Hribar and myself were putting together. We wanted to test out his 2-QB quarterback auction values and see how a live 2-QB auction mock draft would
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In our last installment of our MLB Biggest Losers’ series, we’ll take a look at a trio of nine-loss pitchers. There were seven starting pitchers with nine losses on their record that were considered as “qualified” in terms of obtaining a certain amount of innings pitched. I originally wanted to evaluate nine pitchers for this project, so of
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Bud Norris isn’t a household name, but he has quietly become one of the best pitchers available on the trading block this year. Ignore Norris’ 6-8 record – the right-handed starter is having a career year and there are plenty of reasons teams are keeping a close eye on him. First things first: Norris
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