Buyer beware: From Jonathan Taylor to Nico Collins, Round 2 is a minefield for fantasy football 2024

The third round of a fantasy football draft is such a veritable wasteland that we invented third-round reversal to balance things out. The belief was that there was maybe one clean player who could sneak through with the No. 25 pick so you couldn’t give …

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Novak Djokovic Seeks New Challenges: Can the U.S. Open Deliver?

NEW YORK — What motivates Novak Djokovic now that he has nothing left to fight for? The 24-time Grand Slam champion finally won his coveted Olympic gold medal in Paris this month. In so doing, he essentially completed tennis, sweeping up the only coveted …

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In Paris, the world beheld the joy of Steph Curry and it felt so familiar

PARIS — The atmosphere of the mixed zone for track and field, on the bottom floor of Stade de France, felt like a locker room and a pizza kitchen sharing a space. Hot and stanky enough to sweat while merely standing. Waiting became like a cruel prank. …

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With Olympic gold secured, could Team USA players potentially team up in the NBA?

SOMEWHERE OVER THE ATLANTIC OCEAN — Now for the question you know you’ve been dying to ask for three weeks about the Team USA men’s basketball “Avengers”: With their gold-medal mission accomplished , which players on this star-studded squad are going …

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What we learned from the Olympics: LeBron and Steph have juice, Jamal Murray may not and more

Bon travail, Paris . You did it. Hats off to perhaps the most memorable Olympic basketball tournament (and Olympic Games) ever. The U.S. men’s basketball team needed all it could muster from its aging (or should we say ageless ?) superheroes, and based …

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NBA 2024-25 schedule release: 35 games I’m looking forward to this season

I’ll admit I had my doubts the NBA could do it again. Ultimately, I knew my favorite league would come through, and guess what? It did. The NBA released another 82-game regular-season schedule for all 30 teams , proving the doubters wrong. The scheduling …

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‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin is racing toward a new frontier

GARDNERVILLE, Nev. — The south end of the Carson Valley is flexing. The still-rising sun pops in and out of sight between the leaves, and an insignificant breeze blows through these farmlands. Robins engage in a game of tag. The serenity at the base of …

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