1. 2012 Fantasy Baseball Preseason Rankings: Top 50 Outfielders

    With Ryan Braun's 50-game suspension for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing drugs overturned , one thing is clear: It's a positive (no pun intended) to his fantasy value...

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  2. 2012 NFL Mock Draft 1.0: 4 Ex-Alabama Players in the Top 16

    More than in any other sport, getting things right in the NFL Draft is critical to a team's ability to create and maintain long-term success...

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  3. Fantasy Football Rankings: Super Bowl XLVI

    If you're in a fantasy league for the playoffs, hopefully you picked plenty of Patriots and/or Giants players as many playoff leagues limit postseason transactions...

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  4. Fantasy Football Rankings for Championship Game Round: Wide Receivers

    If the Giants and Patriots don't win this weekend to advance to the Super Bowl in a rematch of Super Bowl XLII, the alternative would be a rematch of the Harbaugh Bowl...

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  5. Fantasy Football Rankings for Championship Game Round: Tight Ends

    We noted how a quartet of tight ends posted monster stats in the divisional round. While one of those four tight ends (Saints Jimmy Graham) won't be playing this weekend, the other three play as home favorites in the AFC and NFC Championship games...

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  6. Fantasy Football Playoff Rankings for Divisional Round Games: Quarterbacks

    Three of the four matchups in this weekend's divisional round of NFL playoffs are rematches from the regular season. In the one game that is not a rematch (New Orleans at San Francisco), it features two teams that are polar opposites...

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  7. Fantasy Football Playoff Rankings for Divisional Round Games: Running Backs

    Of the 15 NFL running backs that rushed for 1,000-plus yards this season, only four of them will be playing this weekend. Three of them play in the AFC: Baltimore's Ray Rice , Houston's Arian Foster and Denver's Willis McGahee...

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  8. Fantasy Football Playoff Rankings for Divisional Round Games: Wide Receivers

    In the history of the NFL , a player has finished the season with 110-plus receptions 25 times and 120-plus receptions seven times...

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  9. Fantasy Football Playoff Rankings for Divisional Round Games: Tight Ends

    In the history of the NFL, only 30 tight ends have had 1,000-plus receiving yards. The two that did so this season became the first two to ever finish with 1,300-plus yards: Rob Gronkowski (1,327) and Jimmy Graham (1,310)...

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  10. Playoff Game Prediction(s): New Orleans Saints vs. Detroit Lions

    There were three quarterbacks that threw for 5,000-plus yards in the 2011 season. Two of them will meet in New Orleans...

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  11. Playoff Game Prediction(s): New York Giants vs. Atlanta Falcons

    If you are playing fantasy football in the playoffs, the two NFC games certainly have many more talented quarterbacks and receivers in the first round than the AFC does...

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  12. Playoff Game Prediction(s): Denver Broncos vs. Pittsburgh Steelers

    What a season it has been for the Denver Broncos ! In their fifth game, which turned out to be their fourth loss, they benched starter Kyle Orton for Tim Tebow , arguably the most polarizing player in the NFL ...

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  13. Playoff Game Prediction(s): Houston Texans vs. Cincinnati Bengals

    Heading into the wild-card round of the playoffs, both AFC home teams this weekend head into the postseason as losers of three straight games...

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  14. 2011 NFL Offseason Awards: Predicting the Winners

    Soon enough, the Associated Press will announce the winner(s) of various NFL awards. Technically, that will happen on February 4th from 9-11 p.m. on NFL Network...

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  15. The Weekly Blitz: Three Picks Against the Spread for Week 17

    It's already 2012 in many places around the world; here in the northeast U.S., we are less than 12 hours away from the ball dropping in Times Square to ring in the New Year...

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  16. Fantasy Football Week 17 Rankings: Wide Receivers

    Five top receivers play in the final game of the regular season, when the Giants host the Cowboys in an NFC East-deciding matchup. With both teams controlling their own destinies, there is plenty of incentive for both teams to play their starters...

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  17. Week 17 Fantasy Rankings: Running Backs

    Bengals running back Cedric Benson does not seem to have a favorable matchup in Week 17. His two best performances of the season came against the Browns. He had two of his three 100-yard games against the cross-state rivals...

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  18. NFL Fantasy Football Week 17 Quartberback Rankings

    Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been nearly flawless this season—as have the Packers, who have locked up home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs with their 14-1 regular season record...

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  19. Fantasy Football: Some Waiver-Wire Pickups for Week 17

    If you're reading this post, chances are your league has its championship in Week 17 and, more importantly, you're playing in it...

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  20. The Weekly Blitz: 3 NFL Picks Against the Spread for Week 16

    It's great to have a lot of meaningful football on Christmas Eve. And I'm here to deliver to you what former-49ers head coach Mike Singletary would have wanted for Christmas: " Winners ...

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  21. Fantasy Football: Start'em, Sit'em for Week 16

    If you own Packers tight end Jermichael Finley, you may be a little frustrated by his up-and-down production this season. One of the most talented players at the position, Finley has three games this season with only one reception (or less)...

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  22. Fantasy Football Week 16 Rankings: Top 30 Quarterbacks

    At this point, let's hope you either own him or won't have to face him in your fantasy football championship this week...

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  23. Week 16 Fantasy Rankings: Top 40 Running Backs

    Through the first 15 games of the season, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Carolina Panthers have allowed the most and second-most fantasy points to opposing running backs, respectively...

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  24. Week 16 Fantasy Rankings: Top 60 Wide Receivers

    Over the past three weeks, Broncos receiver Demaryius Thomas has been about as good as it gets. Although he did not score a touchdown last week, he finished with his second 100-yard ...

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  25. Week 16 Fantasy Football: Some Waiver-Wire Options for Championship Week

    Several of the players on last week's waiver-wire list had double-digit fantasy points in Week 15. One of those players was Bears running back Kahlil Bell , who led the team in carries (15) against the Seahawks...

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