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When putting together your lineup this week, the first question you need to answer is whether you’re willing to pay up for Travis Kelce. If the answer is “no”, then you’re basically punting TE despite Rob Gronkowski’s name value. That’s certainly fine – especially if you buy into the narrative about the Patriots taking away the other team’s top weapon and you think that’s Kelce – but if you spend down at TE, you better not miss at other positions....

On Saturday, Baylor at Texas Tech, Louisiana at Louisiana Monroe, Arizona State at Arizona and Oklahoma State at TCU should all provide options to round out your lineups. WEEK 12 NFL DFS: Values | Stacks | Lineup Builder Your college DFS research should start by checking out the highest Vegas totals. That’s what the CFBDynasty writers do when putting together their college fantasy player rankings and college DFS rankings, as they know the higher the over/under, the more chances players have to rack up yards and touchdowns...

Here are two money-line picks for this week’s college football card: Mississippi State (3-0) @ LSU (3-0) The LSU Tigers head into Week 4 for their first SEC matchup of the year as they host the Mississippi State Bulldogs. Past trends are fully in favor of coach Les Miles and LSU. He is 9-0 against Mississippi State, while Bulldogs coach Dan Mullen has been within 10 points of the Tigers just once in five matchups....

Trust me, it could have been worse. In our Week 2 Picks Against the Spread, we whiffed on the first eight picks. That led to a 5-11 record ATS in Week 2, something we’re not proud of. Fortunately, Week 3 offers several chances at redemption, including three games involving ranked teams. No. 1 Alabama meets No. 11 Florida in a rematch of last year’s SEC championship game. No. 22 Auburn travels to No....

Wait, that’s not much of a defense, is it? Well, weak defense is kind of a theme for Alabama this fall. The Tide are allowing 335.4 yards per game, which ranks just 30th among teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision. They allowed 46 points to LSU in defeat, spotting the opposition a 33-13 halftime lead the Tigers were able to string out to the end of 60 minutes. MORE: What CFP committee’s placement of Georgia over Alabama really means...

There were no top-10 upsets in Week 8, but there were plenty of statements. Alabama, Penn State and TCU all covered big spreads and solidified their playoff position. MORE: It’s Penn State’s time to show it’s big-game ready There’s still a long way to go. Sporting News will break down the College Football Playoff picture each week, with the four teams we think are in and the field behind them....

The new trophy will replace the “crystal football” which had been given out to the BCS title game winner since its inception in 1998. The crystal football will live on to a degree however, as one will be part of the AFCA Coaches Trophy, awarded to the team that finishes No.1 in the Amway coaches poll. That trophy was also revealed on Monday. The national championship game at AT&T Stadium on Jan....

There are no ranked teams facing each other, but two top-25 teams are playing rivalry games, with No. 13 Penn State welcoming Pitt and No. 19 Iowa visiting Iowa State. Here is the full schedule for teams in the AP Top 25 (all times Eastern). MORE: Watch select college football games with fuboTV (7-day free trial) College football schedule Week 2: What games are on today? Here’s the full schedule for Friday and Saturday’s top 25 college football games in Week 3, plus final scores and how to watch every game live....

All season, we’ve been waiting for these Top 25 showdowns, and they won’t disappoint. No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Michigan face off with Big Ten and College Football Playoff implications, and No. 13 Auburn is looking to spoil No. 1 Alabama’s perfect season. Then we have the Apple Cup, where No. 5 Washington and No. 23 Washington are vying for the Pac 12 North title, and No. 14 Florida State and No....

No. 12 West Virginia travels to No. 25 Texas Tech for a noon game before a primetime slate that includes No. 7 Stanford at No. 8 Notre Dame, No. 4 Ohio State at No. 9 Penn State, No. 20 BYU at No. 10 Washington and No. 19 Oregon at No. 24 Cal. It’s a wonderful week for college football, and Sporting News has its picks against the spread. MORE: Week 5 picks, straight up...

Only five games involving top-25 teams have spreads of fewer than 10 points, and the best game on the schedule might be No. 21 USC traveling to No. 17 Washington (10) in a battle of Pac-12 teams trying to avoid a College Football Playoff-eliminating loss. No. 10 Notre Dame (-11) hosts No. 18 Virginia in the only other matchup involving two ranked teams. MORE: SN Week 5 college football rankings...

Tennessee broke its 11-year losing streak to Florida on Saturday and took control of the SEC East. But the rest of the Top 25 matchups weren’t all that exciting. Well, this week should be a whole lot different. We’ve got three games between top 10 teams: No. 7 Stanford at No. 10 Washington, No. 8 Wisconsin at No. 4 Michigan, and No. 3 Louisville at No. 5 Clemson. This’ll be fun....

The retirement of Danielle Collins after losing the first set 6-3 handed Bacsinszky her first victory at this level since beating Kristina Kucova in the second round of Wimbledon in 2017. Thigh and hand injuries curtailed the Swiss’ previous season and after slipping to 761st in the world this July, she began rebuilding her confidence on the ITF Pro Circuit. Bacsinszky’s next test will be against Misaki Doi, who overcame Yulia Putintseva 6-0 3-6 7-6 (8-6)....

Gisdol has signed a contract that runs until June 2021 and replaces the recently sacked Achim Beierlorzer, who returned to work on Monday with German top-flight rivals Mainz. Beierlorzer lost his final four games at the helm to leave Cologne 17th and at risk of relegation from the top tier. Gisdol will be joined by a new sporting director in Heldt, who has also penned a one-and-a-half-year deal, in the hope major changes can lead to an upturn in fortunes....

Dubbed the COLORFUL iGame GeForce RTX 3080Ti, the card packs a powerful punch. Powered by Nvidia’s Ampere technology, the card will support the ray tracing features found in newer titles, like Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, which is becoming a baseline feature in a lot of triple-a games. The store page doesn’t seem to be live on Colorful’s website yet, though, for those looking to upgrade immediately. RELATED: Red Dead Redemption 2 Getting Nvidia DLSS Support...

The Redskins quarterback has been recovering from a broken leg, which ended his season early last year, and coach Jay Gruden said Tuesday during a conference call McCoy might practice this week. “It’s a little ways away,” Gruden said when addressing the timetable for McCoy’s return. “But I’ll be anxious to see him practice, hopefully Thursday.” Gruden, however, also admitted McCoy still has “a lot” to show before he appears in a regular-season game....

Colts owner Jim Irsay said he wants the outside linebacker to be 100 percent healed before he plays in a game, which could be as late as October. MORE: Training camp injuries taking toll on teams | Best moments in Baltimore Colts history “It’s hard to say,” Irsay said, via the Indianapolis Star. “We want to make sure the doctors feel he’s ready. And that reinjuring and that sort of thing is not going to be a problem....

Quintana says he caught Levy Marroquin with the same spinning elbow in their respective June 2017 fight, but that it didn’t faze Marroquin as much. Join DAZN and watch Combate 34: Flores vs. Marroquin on April 12 Whether that signals anything about the fighters’ durability remains to be seen this weekend. That’s when Flores (15-2) will look to get back into the win column when he faces Marroquin (12-2) at Combate Estrellas Monterrey (Combate 34) at the Arena José Sulaimán in Monterrey, Mexico on Friday night, live and exclusively in English on DAZN....

At least part of the problem is a clash of management cultures. American colleges tend to be democratic institutions, with decisions made jointly by trustees and administration officials, with input from faculty, alumni and students. But in Japan, Okinaga, 58, runs Teikyo like a family business. He founded the school in 1966 and built it into one of Japan’s five largest universities. In recent years Okinaga saw that many Japanese students were eager to learn English, so he took his school multinational....