Wenger hails Mesut Ozil as Dennis Bergkamp’s equal Arsene Wenger hailed Mesut Ozil as the best player in the Premier League and an equal of Arsenal legend Dennis Bergkamp following another influential display in a 2-0 win over Bournemouth. German midfielder Ozil made one goal and scored another at the Emirates Stadium on Monday to help Arsenal back […] Arsene Wenger hailed Mesut Ozil as the … [Read more...]
Good news, everyone: Hawks PG Jeff Teague is a wine glass now
Good news, everyone: Hawks PG Jeff Teague is a wine glass now You've spent this whole holiday season giving everyone else gifts; why not treat yourself to the present everyone really wants? I'm talking, of course, about a wine glass made in the image and likeness of Atlanta Hawks point guard Jeff Teague: [Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball] Take a moment … [Read more...]
Behold the gigantic hands of the Spurs’ 7-foot-3 Boban Marjanovic
Behold the gigantic hands of the Spurs' 7-foot-3 Boban Marjanovic With the legendary Tim Duncan sidelined by a sore right knee, the San Antonio Spurs needed to go a bit deeper into their big-man rotation for Monday's meeting with the Minnesota Timberwolves. They came back with a very, very big man — Boban Marjanovic, the 7-foot-3, 290-pound giant who joined the Spurs this summer. Just as he … [Read more...]
The Stew’s MLB Year in Review: Our favorite homers of 2015
The Stew's MLB Year in Review: Our favorite homers of 2015 No, we're not talking about Hawk Harrelson. For this installment of The Stew's Year in Review, we're looking back at our favorite home runs of 2015. Homer broadcasters, well, that's another topic altogether. You can measure home runs in a number of ways these days — distance, exit velocity, how many runs they brought home and how … [Read more...]
Daily Fantasy Hockey Playbook: Best FanDuel, DraftKings picks and values for … – Sporting News
Daily Fantasy Hockey Playbook: Best FanDuel, DraftKings picks and values for ... - Sporting News Welcome to the free edition of the daily fantasy hockey Playbook for Tuesday, Dec. 29, courtesy of Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. If you want to pay up for Jamie Benn, Tyler Seguin or Patrick Kane tonight, we've got some good value picks to help fit them in your DFS lineups. As usual, the … [Read more...]
2015 Reviews: Michael Waltrip Racing
2015 Reviews: Michael Waltrip Racing Welcome to our 2015 reviews. Instead of going driver-by-driver we're going to review teams this year. We're starting from the bottom of the standings and working our way up. Rest in peace, Michael Waltrip Racing. Drivers (standings in parenthesis): Clint Bowyer (16th), David Ragan (27th), Brett Moffitt (34th), Michael Waltrip (43rd), Brian Vickers (45th) … [Read more...]
NBA daily fantasy picks: Five players who could help your lineup for Dec. 29 – Sports Illustrated
NBA daily fantasy picks: Five players who could help your lineup for Dec. 29 - Sports Illustrated Monday night’s busy slate gives way to a Tuesday with just five games on the docket. The stars-and-scrubs approach is tough on such a night, not because there aren’t enough stars, but because there is a dearth of palatable scrubs. If you don’t do it, somebody else will, and you should probably let … [Read more...]
Waiver Wired: Waiver Wired: Week 17
Waiver Wired: Waiver Wired: Week 17 Welcome to the 17th and final edition of Waiver Wired for the 2015 season. If you are still reading this, you should seriously lobby your commissioner to push the championship game up a week, although this Week 17 should be as normal as they get with many teams still fighting for playoff seeding.Washington is the only playoff team with nothing left to play for … [Read more...]
John Wall on All-Star Game voting: ‘It’s a joke’
John Wall on All-Star Game voting: 'It's a joke' John Wall will be the first to admit that he’s had an up and down year. With that in place, he’d also like to be the first to shout out that Cleveland Cavalier guard Kyrie Irving has played fewer minutes all season than Wall played in October. [Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball] Wall is fifth in NBA … [Read more...]
Cashman: NY aware Chapman issues 'serious'
Cashman: NY aware Chapman issues 'serious' On Monday, the Yankees acquired Aroldis Chapman from the Reds for a four-prospect package that almost certainly would not have been good enough to land Chapman at the trade deadline. New York made a great baseball move. The Reds lowered the asking price for Chapman following an alleged domestic violence incident that occurred earlier this … [Read more...]