Create and share your own Hall of Fame baseball card Before Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, you too can put a Hall of Fame stamp on your baseball fandom. Beginning on Wednesday, fans that downloaded the free Rookies app from the Apple App Store can create a branded and personalized “Future Hall of Famer” baseball card. Those cards can … [Read more...]

Fantasy Reaction: Le'Veon Bell suspension News broke Friday morning that Steelers star running back Le’Veon Bell is reportedly facing a four-game suspension due to a missed drug test. Assuming the suspension stands, Bell would be absent for a quarter of the season. As a result, he’s dropped outside of the top-five players at the position in our consensus rankings. Going first overall in … [Read more...]

USA Basketball to livestream men’s, women’s exhibitions on Facebook Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant of the United States celebrate after the men’s gold medal basketball game at the 2012 Summer Olympics. (AP/Charles Krupa, File) Cord-cutting fans looking to keep up with the U.S. men’s and women’s national basketball teams as they prepare to push for another round of gold medals at the 2016 … [Read more...]

Watch Phil Kessel’s grandma chug booze from Stanley Cup (Video) Via @karikessel Phil Kessel winning the Stanley Cup is glorious for so many reasons. One of the primary ones, of course, is that he was able to take his time with the Stanley Cup and make the most of it. Last Sunday, Kessel had the Cup in Madison, Wisconsin. He took it to a children’s hospital. And then he partied with friends … [Read more...]

ESPN and ACC announce launch of TV network The ACC Network is real. Will it be spectacular? (Getty) The ACC Network is officially a go. ESPN and the conference announced the launch of the television network Thursday. “ACC Network Extra” will launch in the fall via streaming while a television network will be in existence by 2019. “We look forward to working with our longtime partners at the … [Read more...]

10 can’t-miss events in NBC’s official TV schedule Jamaica’s Usain Bolt (right) wins the gold medal in the men’s 100-meter ahead of United States’ Justin Gatlin (left) at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing. (AP) With the 2016 Rio Olympics only weeks away, summertime Christmas is almost here. But before that rolls around, we have summertime Black Friday. … [Read more...]

Closing Time: Koji Uehara hurt, Will Harris scuffling Does Koji need some DL time? Ride a painted pony, let the spinning wheel spin. If those lyrics were good enough for Paulie Walnuts, they’re good enough for us. Brad Ziegler was merely a depth acquisition for the Red Sox earlier this month — the idea wasn’t for him to close in Boston, even with Craig Kimbrel hurt. Koji Uehara seemed up to … [Read more...]

Juggernaut Index, No. 23: The San Diego Chargers If Keenan Allen remains healthy and Melvin Gordon isn’t awful and Gates is Gates, maybe the Bolts can surprise us. (Photo by Donald Miralle/Getty Images) The Juggernaut Index is our annual ranking and review of NFL teams for fantasy purposes — repeat: FANTASY PURPOSES. Here, we concern ourselves with a franchise’s likely contributions to the … [Read more...]

Albert Pujols able to smile and take base after pitch in the face Albert Pujols is one tough baseball player. The Los Angeles Angels designated hitter had already hit two home runs when he came to the plate in the seventh inning Tuesday night against the Texas Rangers. Tony Barnette was pitching for the Rangers and he came in high and tight catching Pujols off guard and striking him in the … [Read more...]

Three-Point Stance: Gauging Golden in a post-Calvin world Many are unsure whether Golden Tate will be a precious fantasy commodity in 2016. (Getty) Shoes fit for a giant. That’s what Golden Tate in the wake of Calvin Johnson’s retirement will attempt to fill. In this edition of ‘The Stance,’ Brad Evans and Liz Loza push the pedal to the metal, touching on the fantasy potential of Detroit’s … [Read more...]