I always wait until the final game of the NBA season is in the books before handing in my postseason awards ballot, and the reason is twofold: If the deadline is not until Thursday afternoon, what’s the hurry? (This is how journalists work when it comes to deadlines. Most of us, anyway.) The second is because you always want to wait and see if something happens on the final night of the season to change either your ballot or your
The Masters gets under way at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, and you could win a million bucks at DraftKings. Enter today! My picks, including Bubba Watson $11400 and Jason Day $11600, were posted here on Monday. [Read more…]
The team that passed on Stephen Curry oh so many years ago got beaten in the NCAA championship game by what else? A 3-pointer. You have to believe the folks at Davidson, especially one particular ex-student, took a little extra gratification from Kris Jenkins’ title-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer that lifted Villanova over North Carolina. Because it was Davidson, you may recall, that benefited most from the decisions by North Carolina and Duke to take a pass on the player who
The NBA regular season is winding down, MLB has just begun and the biggest professional sport this week is golf. The Masters gets under way at 6:00 a.m. on Thursday morning, and you could win a million bucks at DraftKings by entering a huge fantasy tournament. [Read more…]
As the NBA regular season winds down, we’re turning our attention to other sports for daily fantasy fun and profit. Major League Baseball begins on Sunday with a three-game slate. [Read more…]
Game of the night features James Harden $10400 and the Rockets, locked in a three-way tie for the final two playoff spots out West, against Pau Gasol $7300 and the desperate Bulls, who will miss the postseason unless they make up two games over their final eight. [Read more…]
A superb matchup between Stephen Curry $10500 and Chris Paul $9700 is as exciting in daily fantasy as it is in real life. CP3 and DeAndre Jordan $7700 have dropped three of four on this disappointing road trip, while the Warriors never lose at home. [Read more…]
We publish these rankings roughly twice a month, an exercise in futility tantamount to being a 50-year old on a beach in Panama City looking to re-live his conquests of the mid-1980s back when Fort Lauderdale and The Button were the hot spots. So now that I have revealed my Easter weekend plans (not really, but it is not 100 percent out of the question), I will reveal my mid-April plans: I am going to fill out my MVP ballot, and