Since Monday is MLK Day, the NHL has an afternoon-heavy schedule. We have eight games on the slate, with the earliest beginning at 1 p.m. EST. Yahoo decided to treat the full-day slate as their main collection of contests, so I will do the same. Here are some players to target, and to avoid, for your DFS lineups from these eight games. GOALIE Alex Nedeljkovic, DET at BUF ($30): These two teams met in their last game, and “Ned” pitched a shutout. Over his last five contests he has a 20.3 GAA… Source link

Welp, that sure didn’t take long. After a season of magnificence, head coach Mike McCarthy and the Dallas Cowboys were supposed to be beyond this kind of thing, this flat playoff performance, rife with mistakes and poor decisions at the worst possible times. This Dallas team? It wasn’t supposed to lose at home to the sixth-seeded San Francisco 49ers, a club that came into the game with a starting quarterback they’re continually working to jettison. Anything contrary was supposed to be… Source link

Ben Roethlisberger all but announced his retirement from the NFL on Sunday night in Kansas City. After the Pittsburgh Steelers‘ 42-21 loss to the Chiefs in the AFC’s wild-card round, the longtime Steelers quarterback sounded like he had played for the final time in the league. “It’s tough. I’m proud to have played with these guys,” he told reporters postgame. “God has blessed me with an ability to throw a football, and has blessed me to play in the greatest city, Pittsburgh, with the… Source link

The divisional round of the NFL postseason is nearly set. (Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images) With wild-card weekend concluding with one final game on Monday night, the second round of the NFL postseason is nearly set. The league dropped the schedule for next week’s divisional rounds on Sunday night. The NFC is still up in the air slightly, depending on how the Cardinals-Rams matchup shakes out on Monday night. Here’s what you need to know for the second weekend of the… Source link

Dallas Cowboys fans were seething Sunday.  Apparently, so was Dak Prescott. After a chaotic NFC wild-card playoff game ended in disappointment for Cowboys fans, some of them rained down debris on the field as officials ran to the exit tunnel. From video shared by a fan in the stands, it looked like the items in play were mostly drinks and empty cups. One of them hit Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence as he approached the same tunnel. Cowboys fell short after frantic finish The video was… Source link

On Dec. 26, in a prime-time game, the Dallas Cowboys beat Washington by 42 points. While the hype after that game was out of control, it was justified. The Cowboys looked Super Bowl-worthy.  A few weeks later, that same team went one-and-done in the playoffs.   The Cowboys are on an improbable streak. They haven’t played in a conference championship game since the end of the 1995 season. This failure will linger for a long time. It’s a team that had the offensive and defensive stars to make… Source link

Russell Westbrook isn’t bothered by Magic Johnson’s opinion of his and the Los Angeles Lakers’ recent performance. Though he didn’t mention Johnson by name, LeBron James may have taken it to heart — as he actually apologized to Lakers fans on Sunday. Johnson ripped the Lakers after their 37-point loss to the Denver Nuggets on Saturday night, which marked the second-worst loss of LeBron James’ career. “After being blown out by the Nuggets 133-96, we as Lakers fans can accept being… Source link

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers answered many questions about their postseason preparedness with a dominant wild-card victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. On the flip side, following a 31-15 loss to the Buccaneers, the Eagles enter their offseason with major questions after they were outplayed in all phases of the game. Their biggest question is with quarterback Jalen Hurts. The Bucs have no such concerns. Tom Brady was his typically efficient self despite taking hits, completing 29 of 37 passes for… Source link

Former Alabama quarterback Jay Barker was arrested early Saturday morning on a felony assault charge after he allegedly tried to hit his estranged wife with a car. Barker was arrested by the Davidson County (Tennessee) Sheriff’s Office just after 4 a.m. on Saturday on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. According to the Tennessean, Barker tried to hit his wife, country singer Sara Evans, and another person with his car after a party early Saturday morning.  From The… Source link

The referees took center stage in Saturday’s AFC wild-card playoff game between the Las Vegas Raiders and Cincinnati Bengals, but it looks like no other teams will have to deal with that particular crew for the rest of the postseason.  According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, that referee crew, headed by Jerome Boger, isn’t likely to receive high marks for its performance in Saturday’s game, and isn’t expected to be assigned to work any other games in the playoffs this season. Boger’s crew became… Source link