Welcome to The Playlist: my weekly column that lets you know who and what to play — music-wise or other things in my rotation — for the week ahead in fantasy basketball.Each week you’ll see a compilation of the pickups you need to make, roster notes (who’s in and out of rotations), followed by takeaways on the schedule.Press play and browse the latest fantasy basketball news.🎧 Who is part of my rotation: waiver of pickupsAs a general strategy note, look in the waiver pool for players with the INJ designation. Collect them and store them in an IL location (if…
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Oct. 21 — ROCHESTER — Last year marked 26 of 27 years since Mayo qualified for the women’s national tennis tournament.It is a dynastic mark. But before 2023, the Spartans were never good enough to do what they coveted most: win a state title.Those days are now over. It was a thirst that was finally quenched last season, with Mayo beating Edina 6-1 in the Class 2A state championship dual.Now that they’ve done it once, they want more.Mayo is the top-ranked team in a state tournament scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday at the University of Minnesota’s Baseline Tennis Center. The…
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The New York Jets have, once again, grabbed the headlines of the NFL season despite not actually being a good football team.After a 37-15 beat against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday Night Football, the Jets find themselves in familiar territory at 2-5 with the season wrapped up before they can really get going. What adds an extra pinch of salt to their wounds this year is that they have spent a lot of resources on being in this position and still can’t seem to get any wins on the board. At best, this is a mediocre team with a high…
Former Buffalo Sabers defenseman Tyler Myers reached a career milestone this past weekend. The current Vancouver Canucks defenseman played his 1,000th career NHL game when the Pacific Division club faced the Philadelphia Flyers.See the original article to see the embedded media.It’s always a big deal when an NHL player hits the 1,000 game mark, and that’s exactly what Myers did. The 6-foot-8 defenseman has built a solid career, and this latest accomplishment only builds on that.Myers was drafted by the Sabers with the 12th overall pick in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. In 365 games over six seasons as a…
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Lakers coach JJ Redick will be in the spotlight in Tuesday’s season opener, his first regular season game as a head coach at any level. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)For someone who reveres Ernest Hemingway enough that he named his podcast after “The Old Man and the Sea,” the Lakers rookie coach JJ Redick should be familiar with one of their favorite author’s mantras.“The first draft of everything is s—.”It’s unclear how much of this Lakers season is a continuation of the draft they filed a year ago – with possessions routinely ending in stagnant isolation for LeBron James Or Anthony…
Clayton Kershaw deserves a parade. Los Angeles too.Let’s do this, okay?Four years ago, the The Dodgers won the World Seriesbut one pandemic canceled the parade.These Dodgers are four wins from a parade, four wins from a civic celebration that would toast the greatest pitcher of our generation and a golden age in the history of a legendary franchise, four wins that would let slip a chorus of raucous joy from players and fans deprived of a proper celebration, four victories with more than a million people gathered to celebrate were delayed far too long.“The fans really deserve it,” Dodgers owner…
Chargers rookie offensive tackle Joe Alt takes the field before a season-opening victory against the Raiders on September 8. The Chargers look to win an important game against the Cardinals on Monday night. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)If chargers struggled to contain Denver’s rookie quarterback Bo Nix, Kyler Murray could easily turn into a nightmare.The dynamic Arizona Cardinals quarterback is the main concern for the Chargers’ top-ranked defense for Monday’s prime-time game at State Farm Stadium as the Cardinals (2-4) attempt to shake off from a rut of three defeats in four weeks.A 50-yard touchdown run by Murray was a highlight…
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