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Making tough lineup decisions each week can be the most challenging part of the fantasy football process. When you’re torn between two similar players and simply don’t know who to start, start the player with the superior matchup.Ah, but exactly how does one determine the best (and worst) weekly matchups?All of ESPN. All in one place.Watch your favorite events in the newly enhanced ESPN App. Learn more about what plan is right for you. Sign Up Now The matchup rankings provide a schedule independent method to evaluate positional matchups each week, ranking all 32 opposing defenses in order of most…

The Buccaneers returned to practice Wednesday, and they ended it with 16 players on their injury report.Wide receiver Chris Godwin (ankle) and offensive tackle Charlie Heck (knee) were the only players on the list who were full participants.Quarterback Baker Mayfield (knee/right biceps) was among the nine players who did not participate. He was on the practice report last week with the biceps injury but had three limited practices before playing all 72 snaps. Mayfield was on the report in Week 3 with a foot/toe injury but was a full participant in all three practices.Cornerback Jamel Dean (hip), wide receiver Mike…

Jazz Chisholm Jr. went from not starting for the New York Yankees in their American League Wild Card Series Game 1 loss to the Boston Red Sox to calling his shot and being the hero of Game 2’s dramatic 4-3 win.Chisholm faced a red-hot Garrett Whitlock with two outs and nobody on base in the eighth inning and worked a walk before coming around to score on Austin Wells’ game-winning hit. To hear him tell it, he let Red Sox first baseman Nathaniel Lowe know he was going to score on a hit before it even happened.”I told the first baseman…

There was a pretty stark difference between the prior UFC Perth experience Tom Nolan had as compared to his most recent anecdotal happenings being on a Perth-based UFC event. Appearing on The Ariel Helwani Show, Nolan covered several subjects in the wake of his first-round rear-naked choke win over Charlie Campbell on the September 27th UFC Fight Night offering. ‘Big Train’ had previously fought in that Western Australia-based city in August 2024, when he secured a unanimous decision win over Alex Reyes. While there were similarities, insofar as he came out on the winning end of both of those MMA…

CLEVELAND — It wasn’t the “Guards Ball” we’ve grown accustomed to watching and marveling at, but maybe that’s for the best.On the brink of elimination against the Detroit Tigers in the AL wild-card series, the Cleveland Guardians’ offense exploded for five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning Wednesday in Game 2, supplying all the scoring required for a 6-1 victory to force a winner-take-all Game 3 on Thursday.AdvertisementAll season, the Guardians have struggled in nearly every facet of production at the plate. Getting on base consistently has been a chore. Crooked numbers have been rare. Slugging has been…

Getty Images Quentin Grimes is signing the qualifying offer to return to the Philadelphia 76ers after a long stalemate of restricted free agency, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania. Grimes will return to the franchise on a one-year, $8.7-million deal that will allow him to be an unrestricted free agent next summer.Grimes was one of a few notable restricted free agents in his class who waited weeks until after free agency officially opened earlier this summer to agree on a deal to return to his respective team. Grimes, 25, was traded to the 76ers at last season’s trade deadline from the…

Manchester City’s awayday blues haunted them again as Monaco snatched a late 2-2 draw in their Champions League league phase clash through Eric Dier’s controversial late penalty.City were seemingly heading for a deserved victory in the dying minutes when referee Jesus Gil Manzano was sent to the VAR monitor to review Nico Gonzalez’s high boot on Dier at a free-kick, which he eventually ruled a foul – with a number of visiting backroom staff sent off as tensions boiled over. Even without wanting to directly criticise the decision, Pep Guardiola took clear issue with the referee’s call, later telling TNT…

October 1, 2025 04:36 PM Kyle Dvorchak discusses the fantasy football impactions of the Browns benching Joe Flacco and naming Dillon Gabriel their starting quarterback, sharing why Cleveland may “lean on their ground game” against the Vikings.

In his weekly Tuesday press conference, San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was asked about the team’s challenging stretch of upcoming games, which features four road contests over the next five weeks, including three away matchups against teams that made the playoffs last season.Shanahan did his best to answer the question.”Um, I’m not sure,” he said. “I don’t even know who we have after the Rams.”Shanahan can be forgiven if he truly does not know that San Francisco plays the Buccaneers, Falcons, Texans and Giants in Weeks 6-9 because his team has a massive matchup this week: the Los Angeles…

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