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Make your MLB plans for the 2021 season with Yahoo Fantasy Baseball. Yahoo Fantasy Baseball is officially LIVE for the 2021 season, and we’re proud to once again be the official Fantasy Commissioner Game of MLB.com. We know many of you have been waiting to make your Fantasy Baseball plans for the upcoming season. The wait is over — sign up today! As for the 2021 version of our game, everything you love is back. New to fantasy? Need a refresher on how to play? We have you covered. Yahoo… Source link

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LeBron James’ timeless dominance is part of league fabric

I’ve come to appreciate the sheer fact of consistency, of availability. Not just day-to-day, though you can certainly expect that from LeBron James, but year-to-year. He is the rare timeless athlete, one of the few constants in my life — in anyone’s life. Eighteen years. LeBron’s career is old enough to be my drinking buddy, and it pretty much is. Memories are unreliable, frustrating narrators, but I remember moments involving him with perfect clarity. When James made his playoff debut… Source link

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Jose Mourinho on Tottenham atop the congested Premier League table

Tottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho knows the quality of his top-of-the-table side but also the many obstacles to staying there. Spurs again found a way to navigate the difficulties of a weekend in the Premier League after a Thursday in the Europa League, beating West Brom 1-0 on Sunday to stretch their unbeaten run to seven matches and summit the table early Sunday. [ RECAP: West Brom 0-1 Tottenham ] Spurs are now 5W-1D this season in weekend matches following a UEL fixture, and the draw… Source link

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Jose Abreu wins American League Outstanding Player award, becoming only 3rd White Sox player to earn the honor

CHICAGO — Jose Abreu earned the ultimate respect of his peers Thursday as the Chicago White Sox first baseman was named the American League Outstanding Player in the 2020 Players Choice Awards. Abreu, 33, joins Frank Thomas (1993-94) and Jermaine Dye (2006) as the only Sox players to win the award. Abreu batted .317 with 15 doubles, 19 home runs, 60 RBIs, and 34 extra-base hits in 60 games this season. He is under strong consideration to earn AL Most Valuable Player honors by the Baseball… Source link

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Three talking points from the Premier League

Another high-scoring Premier League weekend left the title race wide open as Liverpool suffered the devastating blow of losing Virgil Van Dijk to a knee ligament injury. The champions also dropped two points in a contentious 2-2 Merseyside derby draw as Everton remain in top spot. Aston Villa are the only side with a 100 percent record after Ross Barkley’s late winner beat Leicester 1-0. But Chelsea and Tottenham’s title credentials were again called into question after they managed to spurn… Source link

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Bayern begin Champions League defence in punishing European autumn

European football is reeling with stadiums largely empty and revenues down, but it is business as usual on the field for the continent’s biggest clubs this week as the Champions League group stage gets underway and Bayern Munich begin their defence of the trophy. Hansi Flick’s all-conquering team have a glamour tie to get things going, at home to Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid on Wednesday. It will be a fascinating contest, and as Bayern’s Thomas Mueller admitted after the draw was made, “the… Source link

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Yahoo Sports To Produce NBA Betting Content Featured On League Pass Broadcasts

Zion Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans kick off the NBA’s restart games in Orlando Thursday … [+] night. Starting next week, Yahoo Sports will be producing betting-focused broadcasts on League Pass. Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images Getty Images As part of a multi-year extension of their existing partnership, Yahoo Sports is now the NBA’s official gaming partner, an official marketing partner and will be producing league sanctioned betting… Source link

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European football and survival up for grabs in Premier League finale

London (AFP) – The Premier League will finally reach the end of its longest season on Sunday with plenty still on the line at both ends of the table. Manchester United and Leicester face each other in a shootout for a place in the Champions League next season with Chelsea also hoping to secure their place in the top four. Wolves and Tottenham are vying for one place in the Europa League. And at the bottom it could not be closer with one goal separating Aston Villa just outside the relegation… Source link

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