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What do the following Thomas Pieters, Tommy Fleetwood, Tyrrell Hatton, Ross Fisher and Alex Noren have in common? You guessed it: They are all committed to the European Tour. Therefore, they’ve found themselves exempt onto the PGA Tour from being in the top-125 in FedEx Cup points last season. This has earned them their membership for the 2018 season. You’ll notice that these players’ Official World Golf Rankings can be higher than their fantasy rankings via PGA.com’s fantasy page. This is because these players are hard to…

Alex Bregman: Alexander the Great Houston’s slick-fielding third baseman has been hitting bombs long before he was able to partake in postgame celebration beers. Bregman, who is entering his age-24 season, has already built up quite the name for himself. He was practically the playoff poster boy for the Houston Astros and their incredible World Series run. For the 19 million viewers across the country and the 43,000 there in attendance, very few will forget Bregman’s Game 5 walk-off hit against the Dodgers' Kenley Jansen in…

The coaching carousel is finally cooling down, bowl games have kicked off, and a big-named fantasy receiver declared for the draft. All of this and more in this week's installment of "This Week In Fantasy College Football." Coaching News Kent State Names Cuse's Sean Lewis the New Head Coach Kent State went offensive with their head coaching hire, and with good reasoning. The Golden Flashes finished the year with the nation's third-worst offense and a 2-10 record. Nate Holley's unfortunate injury did not help their…

The Red Sox have re-signed Mitch Moreland to a two-year, $13 million deal to likely play first base. I don’t get why Boston needed a $13 million backup plan for the possibility that they miss out on all of the other good free agent hitters that are still available. I don’t have to. I’m required to figure out Moreland's fantasy prospects. The 32-year-old hit .246/.326/.443 with 22 homers for the Red Sox last season. He’s not close to being a game-changing talent and is probably replacement level. His 22 homers were tied…

In usual fashion, running backs seemed to dominate during Week 15. Also emerging from the woodwork were a few surprise names at quarterback on Sunday, as well as a bunch of underwhelming wide receivers. We learned plenty more about the playoff picture this week, and perhaps who the frontrunners are for Fantasy Football MVP. Here's your recap: Rams/Seahawks Thumbs Up: Funny to think we once doubted Todd Gurley. His performance against the Seahawks was nothing short of remarkable, combining for 180 scrimmage yards and four…

GAMES PLAYED THIS WEEK BY TEAM 4 Games: ANA, BOS, CBJ, PHI 3 Games: ARI, BUF, CAR, COL, DAL, DET, EDM, FLA, LA, MIN, MTL, NSH, NJ, NYI, NYR, OTT, PIT, SJ, STL, TB, TOR, VAN, WSH, WPG 2 Games: CGY, CHI, VGK Streaming Selections It's the holiday season, which means there are a lot more games this week as schools are starting winter break and people are traveling home for the holidays. This is also a good time of the year to evaluate your hockey team and really determine if they can make it to the playoffs. Jesse…

The Kansas City Royals are currently in a spot they haven't been in years. They're likely going to lose the core that they've relied on for more than half a decade now. Many members of the 2015 World Series Champion Royals won't be with the team next year. While this will take some adjusting, it also opens the door for some new faces. It's possible that a lot of those faces will come from the Royals' farm system. 10. MJ Melendez, C Age: 19 Drafted: 2017, Round 2(52) - KC 2017 stats: (RK-AZL): 47 games,…

Fantasy owners rejoice! Kawhi Leonard is back to save our fantasy teams. But wait, what’s that I hear? Minutes restriction for a while? Oh phooey. Well, did we really think Coach Popovich was going to throw Leonard back into his usual 30+ minutes? Of course not. Leonard sat last night on the second night of a back to back, and that will likely be the status quo moving forward. With the Spurs having another back to back on Wednesday and Thursday, expect Leonard to miss one of those games as well. There are 17 teams with…

These past few seasons (roughly around midway through 2015, actually), we have seen a pretty meteoric rise in the number of home runs hit. You probably know this from the countless articles written about the topic. That, or you know it because Scooter Gennett hit four homers in one game this past season. Either way, from 2007 to 2015, the number of home runs hit in a season averaged between 4,186 (2014) to 5,042 (2009) for a true average of 4,748. In 2016, the total number jumped to 5,610, an increase of roughly 18% from the…