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Front Office

Today’s NBA daily fix features a couple players at each position that I highly recommend for tonight’s 11-game NBA slate. It’s going to be a tough one with all of the elite players active tonight including LeBron, Durant, Unibrow, Harden and Cousins. All of those guys are between $10,700 and

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Preseason rankings are always fun. And futile. Everything a ranker thinks he know, seems to go out the window soon after the first pitch of the season is thrown. Sure, any ranker will get some right. And they’ll undoubtedly get some wrong that seem stupid in retrospect. As humans we

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

With time being of the essence, and a vacation on the horizon for this guy, I’ve jumped ahead to the rankings that have brought home the proverbial bacon for me the last two seasons. Without trying to sound like I’m gloating, I’ve been money ranking starting pitchers in consecutive years,

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

Last Wednesday my catcher rankings were posted, and today we move on to first base. The position is, obviously, substantially deeper than catcher and Fantasy Fix colleague Landon Jones made the case for waiting to draft one last Thursday. I’m not here to discuss strategy, though, but I do intend

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2014 Fantasy BaseballFantasy Baseball

The first of my positional rankings pieces is finally published for your reading pleasure. They were created with a 5×5 rotisserie format in mind. Pertinent 2013 stats are included with each player, and the stats are from the highest professional level that player played at last season. After the rankings,

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Fantasy HockeyJosh Kay

Week Twelve of the NHL season is upon us and so it’s time to once again update our Fantasy Hockey rankings. These rankings reflect a standard ESPN.com league that uses “Goals, Assists, Plus/Minus, Average Time on Ice, Penalty Minutes, Power-play points, Shots on Goal, Wins, Save Percentage, and Goals against

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Fantasy HockeyJosh Kay

The biggest goaltender news this past week was the injury to Detroit Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard. The 29-year-old net-minder from Syracuse, New York, is expected to miss 2-4 weeks with a knee injury. The first question that arises from this is: “Has Howard been hurt all along?” The former second-round pick is having

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Fantasy HockeyJosh Kay

Rankings: Forwards: 1.(1) Sidney Crosby 51.(72) Clarke MacArthur 2.(2) Alex Ovechkin 52.(51) Thomas Vanek 3.(3) Evgeni Malkin 53.(52) Max Pacioretty 4.(5) Corey Perry 54.(56) Milan Lucic 5.(9) Ryan Getzlaf 55.(49) Derek Stepan 6.(10) Patrick Kane 56.(47) Brent Burns 7.(4) John Tavares 57.(55) Jeff Carter 8.(5) Henrik Zetterberg 58.(57) Patrice Bergeron

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Fantasy HockeyJosh Kay

This past week in the National Hockey League saw two serious goaltender injuries surface. The first was Edmonton Oilers goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov, who left Sunday’s game against the Dallas Stars after suffering a concussion late in the game. Bryzgalov, who signed with the Oilers on a one-year deal, in an attempt to resurrect his

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Fantasy HockeyJosh Kay

Week Ten of the NHL season is upon us and so it’s time to once again update our Fantasy Hockey rankings. These rankings reflect a standard ESPN.com league that uses “Goals, Assists, Plus/Minus, Average Time on Ice, Penalty Minutes, Power-play points, Shots on Goal, Wins, Save Percentage, and Goals against

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