Week 1 of the fantasy football season featured plenty of notable performances. What should we make of them? Matt Bowen and Tristan H. Cockcroft are here with analysis on the biggest performers -- and duds -- of the week.
In Fantasy football, running backs take up an inordinate amount of the attention, so it's only fitting that the top early waiver-wire targets coming out of Sunday's action are running backs. That's just how this works — opportunity is king at the position, and ...
DENVER -- Albert Pujols hit his 660th career homer, tying the Los Angeles Angels slugger for fifth on the all-time list with Willie Mays. With the Angels trailing 3-2, Pujols launched a fastball from Colorado Rockies reliever Carlos Estevez into the empty seats in ...
Chicago 2, Everyone Else 0... That's the latest no-hitter tally here at Rotoworld, as Cubs right-hander Alec Mills stymied the Brewers on Sunday to join White Sox right-hander Lucas Giolito as the only pitchers in MLB to throw a no-no so far this season.
NEW YORK -- Dominic Thiem has been repeatedly knocked out in Grand Slam finals by the game's icons, but he's always popped to his feet and dusted himself off, eager try again. His persistence finally paid off in a big way as he won the US Open on an ...
SANTA CLARA -- The 49ers lost their opening game of the 2020 season at home to the division-rival Arizona Cardinals by a score of 24-20. The 49ers had every opportunity to win, but didn't. And now, the 49ers are in last place in the NFC West. Here are their ...
The Dallas Cowboys opened the 2020 season on Sunday night with their highest expectations in recent memory bolstering them. After all, with an all-new coaching staff and a slew of fresh and exciting talent on their side, Dallas was a trendy pick to make a ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Drew Brees and Tom Brady, the two leading passers in NFL history, couldn't muster vintage performances in the first NFL game featuring two starting quarterbacks in their 40s. But while Brees avoided game-turning mishaps with an ...
Seattle Seahawks fans, in an effort to convince their favorite team to open up its offense and allow quarterback Russell Wilson utilize the full range of his talents, popularized the hashtag "Let Russ Cook" during the offseason. Sunday, in their 2020 opener ...
At least 15 Rams players took a knee during the anthem. Poe said after he was signed by the Cowboys in the offseason that he would take a knee. He said he planned to speak with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones about his intentions, but it's unclear if that ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Playing with a starting quarterback other than Philip Rivers for the first time since 2005, the Los Angeles Chargers mustered just enough offense — and got just enough breaks. The Chargers got it done against the Cincinnati Bengals on ...
It's a tradition like no other. It's the now-annual "Monday Night Football" doubleheader on ESPN to open up the NFL season, only this year, viewers will have the treat of listening to some of the best voices of college football in Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler.
Had Clint Frazier said last year what he did Sunday it would have been easier to understand his defensive problems a year ago, when he was sometimes hesitant to charge balls and dive after them. This year Frazier has been very good at the plate and in the ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit a home run completely out of Sahlen Field and Hyun Jin Ryu made the early lead stand up, winning his fourth straight decision as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the New York Mets 7-3 Sunday. Santiago Espinal hit a ...
Head Coach John Harbaugh. (opening statement) "OK, I appreciate you guys being here. It's really, really different seeing you on the big screen Zoom instead of seeing you in our great room here. We're sorry for that, but this too shall pass. [I'm] really proud of ...
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Flights home from the NBA's bubble are planned whenever a team is on the cusp of elimination, just in case they're needed. Denver is in no hurry to board that plane. The never-say-die Nuggets pulled off another ...
Scottie Scheffler is out of the 2020 U.S. Open after testing positive for COVID-19. The USGA announced Sunday that Scheffler is asymptomatic and safe at home, but is no longer in the tournament out of concern for the field. "We are sorry to lose a member of ...
DENVER — Albert Pujols tied Willie Mays for fifth place on the career homer list with a two-run shot in the eighth inning, and the Los Angeles Angels rallied for a 5-3 win over the slumping Colorado Rockies on Sunday. Trailing 3-2, the 40-year-old Pujols lined ...
The Green Bay Packers third-year cornerback had just made a momentum-shifting play — what would wind up being the first of two such game-changers the brash Alexander would make during the first half of the Packers' 43-34 victory over the Minnesota ...
Call off the search party and take the team logo off the side of those milk cartons. LAFC, lost for most of the last two months, may have been found. Because if the light is bad and you squint real hard, the team looked somewhat like its old self for much of ...
A look at what's happening around the majors Monday: ___. DIVISION DUST-UP. The Padres and Dodgers open their final series this season, perhaps San Diego's best chance to close in on the eight-time reigning NL West champions. Los Angeles ace ...
Following a safety car period for a crash on the opening lap, the race at Mugello was red flagged on lap nine following a multi-car incident on the start/finish straight. Antonio Giovinazzi, Kevin Magnussen, Nicholas Latifi and Carlos Sainz were all caught up in ...
Cowboys linebacker Leighton Vander Esch fractured his collarbone in the first quarter Sunday, Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News reports. An X-ray revealed the fracture, and the Cowboys quickly ruled him out. He is expected to undergo surgery ...
The game in New Orleans will mark the 327th game of Brady's career, which will set the record for most games ever played by a quarterback, including the playoffs. Brady has played in 285 regular season games and 41 playoff games for a total of 326 so far.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Johnny Russell scored in the 80th minute and Sporting Kansas City beat Minnesota United 1-0 on Sunday night to take the Western Conference lead. Minnesota (5-4-2) listed seven players not medically cleared for the match. Sporting ...
Pau Gasol and his wife, Cat McDonnell, announced the arrival of a baby girl on Sunday in a post on Instagram: The delivery went really well and we couldn't be happier!! Elisabet Gianna Gasol , a very meaningful name for our super beautiful daughter!!
It may look a bit different, and most stadiums may be empty, but the NFL is back. With no preseason to whet the appetite, the 2020 season may be even more anticipated than usual. Most of us haven't seen anything resembling live NFL football since the Super ...
Following their 35-21 season opening win against the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, Louisville has jumped into both the USA TODAY Amway Coaches Poll and the Associated Press Top 25 Poll. The Cardinals (1-0, 0-0) come in at No. 16 in the Coaches Poll ...
Orchard Park, N.Y. — When Stefon Diggs made his drive to the stadium on Sunday for his first game as the Buffalo Bills new no. 1 receiver, he still felt some of the love from a passionate fan base longing to watch him in person. He saw fans starving for Bills ...
Coming into the previous series against the Milwaukee Bucks, the HEAT had plenty of inherent, structural advantages to point to. Under Erik Spoelstra's watch Miami has long schemed exceptionally well for teams built around the overwhelming talents of a ...
GRAND COLOMBIER, France — The Tour de France boiled down to a battle between its two star Slovenian riders Sunday as last year's winner Egan Bernal dropped out of realistic contention. Tadej Pogacar beat yellow jersey-holder Primoz Roglic in a ...
Veteran in-game leader Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo stepped down from the MIBR Counter Strike: Global Offensive starting lineup on Sunday after the organization announced it had cut players Epitácio "TACO" de Melo, Fernando "fer" Alvarenga and coach and ...
Since being drafted ahead of Deshaun Watson and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes in 2017, Chicago Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky has faced many struggles. With Watson taking the league by storm and Mahomes now having hoisted the Lombardi ...
RICHMOND, Va. — Brad Keselowski entered NASCAR's playoffs certain he has as good a chance at the Cup championship as favorites Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin. He even predicted he'd win at Richmond Raceway.
I was 19 when my therapist reached into the top-left drawer of her desk and handed me a pamphlet on suicide prevention. It was fall 2017, my freshman year at UF. If you placed the handout on a scale, it would have come in at less than an ounce. My hands ...
LONDON (AP) — Dominic Calvert-Lewin produced the goal and James Rodriguez provided the spark on his debut as Everton opened its Premier League season with a 1-0 win at Tottenham on Sunday. Calvert-Lewin rose above defenders Eric Dier and ...
PARIS (AP) — Neymar was among five players sent off in stoppage time Sunday as Marseille beat bitter rival Paris Saint-Germain for the first time in nine years. PSG star Neymar got a straight red in Marseille's 1-0 win following an altercation with center half ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — David Bingham made two saves to help the LA Galaxy to a scoreless draw against the San Jose Earthquakes on Sunday night. The Galaxy (4-3-3) stretched their unbeaten streak to six but had their four-match win streak snapped.
It was a tale of two halves for the Buffalo Bills as they kicked off the 2020 season against the New York Jets at Bills Stadium. In a year with no preseason games, there were some expectations for rust or sloppy football. However, the Buffalo Bills didn't look like ...
He wasn't among the top four favorites to win — at least according to the oddsmakers — but it didn't matter. Brad Keselowski felt like the favorite heading into Saturday night's NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond, and he competed like it. This was a ...
Frank Lampard has branded Jurgen Klopp's criticism of Chelsea's spending amusing. Chelsea have spent more than £200m on new recruits in a summer of Stamford Bridge rebuilding, but Klopp insisted Liverpool were different from "clubs owned by ...
The All Blacks could be forced to take several rookie first-five's to Australia for the Rugby Championship, with several of New Zealand's top players not keen to go. 1 NEWS. Richie Mo'unga and Beauden Barrett are two of the players who reportedly don't want ...
Receive this alert as RSS feed 
