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You’re a smart fantasy football manager. You’ve been scouting all summer, thinking about skills and roles and strategies and the like. You’ve been dreaming of that championship at the end of the year, the glory and the parade.Let me introduce another word for you: leverage.AdvertisementAny large journey begins with small steps, and that’s my goal for today — small steps. I prefer to attack fantasy football with a microscope, not a telescope. It’s such a snow globe league, sure to look radically different in a few months. So my initial aim is to consider what I know right now and…

Katherine TerrellAug 26, 2025, 02:52 PM ETCloseKatherine Terrell came back to ESPN to cover the New Orleans Saints in the summer of 2022. She left the company in 2019 after joining in 2016 to cover the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is a graduate of LSU and a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native, and she has covered the NFL since 2013.METAIRIE, La. — The New Orleans Saints will start quarterback Spencer Rattler against the Arizona Cardinals on Sept. 7, the team announced Tuesday.Rattler was chosen as the starting quarterback over rookie Tyler Shough after a lengthy competition that spanned more than three months.…

During the event, both athletes conducted Q&A’s with a group of more than 50 students, then joined educational breakout sessions before splitting up into teams for the afternoon kickball game! “It was a great opportunity to spend the afternoon with the kids here at Shaq’s Boys & Girls Club,” said Zalal. “These kids have a lot of positive energy, and it was amazing that I was able to share my story with them. We had a lot of fun, and I was able to play in my first kickball game! I can’t wait to come back and visit.” Since opening,…

Gianluigi Buffon has expressed his support for Italian players moving abroad, particularly to the Premier League, but feels that Serie A ‘is no longer the reference point it once was’.The Italy and Juventus legend spoke in-depth on a number of topics, including on the national team, the appointment of Gennaro Gattuso, his potential selections, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Sandro Tonali during an appearance at a conference in Milan on Tuesday.Buffon on Gattuso and DonnarummaHe feels that Gattuso is already growing in confidence in his new role as CT of the Italy national team, and feels that visiting all Serie A clubs’…

NEW YORK  — The Phillies have pressed pause on Jordan Romano’s torturous season. Romano, their biggest offseason bullpen addition, who was supposed to be a steady late-inning presence but authored one of the worst seasons by a reliever in Phillies history, was placed on the injured list Tuesday with what the team described as right middle finger inflammation.The transaction could signal the beginning of the end of Romano’s time in Philadelphia. He has an ERA of 8.23, a number that ballooned when he surrendered four more runs Monday in the Phillies’ blowout loss to the New York Mets.They made Romano,…

The war of words between Roy Jones Jr. and Floyd Mayweather has shown no signs of slowing down over the summer, as the legends clearly don’t like each other. However, Mayweather’s uncle Jeff tried to calm things down after Jones accused the undefeated legend of lacking respect for the greats who came before him. Speaking to Ring Champs, Jones criticized Mayweather for comments he made about Muhammad Ali, questioning Floyd’s respect for boxing’s pioneers. Roy Jones on Floyd Mayweather “One thing I don’t like is that he does not respect elders. You talk about Muhammad Ali getting beaten by an…

Jim McCormickAug 26, 2025, 12:55 PM ETCloseJim McCormick is a contributing writer for fantasy football and men’s basketball at ESPN.With the WNBA playoffs just a few weeks away, the fantasy playoffs have begun for most leagues. This doesn’t spell the end of working on your roster. Rather, each move means even more during these final days of the season.Your League, Your RulesCreate a league and customize league size, scoring and rules to play in the league you want to play in.Create a league today! Injuries are influencing several rotations around the league, such as the wave of starters missing for…

There is some positive news on Chargers running back Najee Harris as the club goes down to 53 players. Via NFL Media, Harris is being placed on the active roster off of the non-football injury list. Harris has been on NFI with an eye injury suffered in a fireworks accident over the summer. He has been running and doing some work on the side, but to this point has not been practicing with the team. If Harris had remained on the NFI list, he would have had to miss at least the season’s first four games. Chargers General Manager Joe…

A current PFL champion received a pleasant surprise from Joe Rogan during the UFC 319 broadcast. It isn’t often that someone from PFL gets a mention on a UFC show, but that’s exactly what happened during the ESPN portion of the UFC 319 prelims. During a strawweight clash between Loopy Godinez and Jessica Andrade, Rogan mentioned Liz Carmouche’s 2025 PFL Women’s Flyweight Tournament win. “By the way, shout out to Liz Carmouche,” Rogan said. “First woman to ever enter the UFC Octagon, and at 41, won the PFL tournament last night. Yes, sir, by KO. Shout out to Liz.” It…

Daizen Maeda missed a sitter and a penalty as woeful Celtic crashed out of the Champions League to Kairat Almaty.The Hoops failed to score over 210 minutes against a team ranked 311th in Europe as they are left to settle for a place in the Europa League. Maeda passed up a brilliant chance to win it as extra-time loomed in a disappointing display in Kazakhstan, with the Japan international then missing the Hoops’ decisive spot kick after Adam Idah and Luke McCowan also missed from the spot.The fans chanted ‘Sack the Board’ after the first leg in frustration at the…