September is the silly season for fantasy baseball. Rosters expand, for one thing, and a handful of non-contending clubs will turn the final month into community auditions. I'm sure some of the listings below will be altered or negated before the games are played. Let's be careful out there...
Adrian Peterson tore his ACL near the end of last season. Amazingly, he may very well be ready for Week 1. The superstar running back for the Minnesota Vikings is officially listed as a game-time decision.
Said Leslie Frazier, Vikings head coach: “We’ve got a lot of things we want to get done...
Alex Rodriguez is inching closer to returning to the New York Yankees. The latest news has Alex Rodriguez playing DH in the minor leagues for a couple games. Then, as soon as next week, Alex Rodriguez could be back in pinstripes.
Brian Cashman, the GM of the Yankees, admits that the return of...
The NFL and the refs union haven’t agreed to new contracts. As a result, the NFL will begin the 2012 season with replacement refs in Week 1.
This isn’t the first time NFL has used replacement refs. Back in 2001, the NFL used replacement refs for one week before finalizing their contract with...
The spec market for two-start pitchers is particularly messy this week, you guys. Scary. Fraught with danger. And in the A.L., it's really a minefield.
If you own a couple of this week's upper-tier N.L. starters, you're in good shape. But the rest of us are left to spin the wheel (hoping it...
Gender roles! Fun to talk about, even more fun to reverse, and extra super duper fun to argue about until you pass out from exhaustion. So let's do all three! More »
Millen doesn't have a clue? You don't say! Apparently, someone needed to tell ESPN that Matt Millen will generally enter a situation ill-prepared and ready to embarrass himself. So ... nobody at the Worldwide Leader remembers Millen's seven-year tenure as the team president and CEO of the...
That's Detroit starter Doug Fister pictured above, auditioning for another turn in your fake team's rotation. He's still available in a significant percentage of Yahoo! leagues (45 as of this writing) and he's coming off back-to-back excellent efforts. Just check the game log. Fister has struck...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —*Home, sweet home!
Actually, make that home, sweet second home. Stew Force One has landed on blessed Missouri soil and to say I'm excited about the next few days would be an understatement. As part of the vaunted Kansas City Star staff of the early '00s, I called the City of...
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are back in the City of Light! Fresh from their appearance at the BET Awards Sunday, the couple jet-setted to Paris and checked out designer Stéphane...
OK, so maybe we arranged them to be festive, but you can bet your booty that there will be a bunch of celebs rockin' the red, white and blue look this coming week in honor of the...
Hair and horns aren't exciting by themselves, per se, but when they're attached to Jennifer Lopez and Angelina Jolie, respectively... Now, that's hot stuff. And, as...
Sometimes, in the course of human friendship, we find ourselves faced with situations that are more intimate than we intend. And sometimes, well, we end up naked in our buddy's apartment all of the time. This is the latter case. More »
And on the seventh day, she broke.
The bat that Josh Hamilton used to hit eight of his nine home runs experienced a small crack during Sunday's 13-6 win over the Angels. *The Texas Rangers slugger reported the damage and the bat's retirement, but not before recording an RBI *single in the...
Some of my favorite airporn come from night launches on carriers. Here's a really beautiful shot of an F/A-18C Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron launching from USS Carl Vinson. That engine fire is just awesome.[Flickr] More »
Week in Pictures: Kim Kardashian & Kanye West, Cory Monteith & Lea Michele, Ryan Gosl
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, Lea Michele and Cory Monteith and Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes? That would be one awesome triple date in real life, right? Well, even if they weren't...
Olivia Wilde! If anyone can withstand seven minutes of awkward conversation in a closet it's her, right? At least let's hope she does! Because then she might be willing to do it again someday, with you, near a beach. Kidding! That'll never happen. More »
I have had a Mariana (IUD) in since December 2010..so almost a year and a half. Well. I got it only because my periods were so heavy. I RARELY have sex. But one week ago I did have sex and we did not use any protection and he c*me in me but like I said I have the IUD. Well I have not had my...
Week in Review: Jessica Simpson's Baby, Kim & Kanye Marriage Rumors Already, RIP Adam
This week eerily served as a microcosm of the bigger picture. You know, the really big picture. We started off celebrating the arrival of Jessica Simpson's baby and ended it paying...