A few links while honoring King Felix

Here's when fantasy baseball rips your heart out: Last summer, my buddy Hench and I were trying to win our...

Open Ice: Are you for real?

Sean Allen evaluates more than 20 players whose hot or cold starts to the season have us wondering: Are they for real?

Backstrom bails out Wild

On a night that saw seven of the 12 NHL teams in action fire more than 35 shots on net, Wild goalie Niklas Backstrom's nearly routine 24 saves in a 2-...

Philadelphia Flyers' Jeff Carter scores on Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jaroslav Halek, of Slovakia, during the second period of an NHL hockey game i...

Open Ice: Are the big three free agents worth roster slots?

Sean Allen analyzes whether free agents Brendan Shanahan, Mats Sundin and Peter Forsberg deserve roster slots, and more.

The Big Push

Poor Gary Bettman. If he didn't have bad luck he'd have no luck at all. Sure, his "new" NHL is a hit. Fans are back in record numbers and the rules ch...

Fantasy Forecaster: Belief in the Blackhawks

Tristan H. Cockcroft breaks down the weekly schedule, highlighting teams with the most games and the best and worst matchups.

Luongo's shutout streak (finally) ends

...if Luongo is the best in the NHL, he most certainly is the most valuable goalie in fantasy hockey leagues this season, right? I would argue that he hasn't been. When you drafted Luongo...

Point Shots: The benefit of using hits instead of penalty minutes

Jim Wilkie explains why using hits instead of penalty minutes (PIMs) is much more realistic. He also hits all the latest news.

Sports Czar is fired up, ready to go

Barack Obama could use a Sports Czar in his cabinet. Bill Simmons already has his platform and is ready to serve.

Wednesday, Nov. 12

Hey Dan, thanks for trying to take down a streak of 19 for me. Too bad your receiver can't catch a pass in crunch time. Battle of the Sexes on the L...

Open Ice: Dealing with disappointing starts

Sean Allen advises on how to deal with the disappointing starts of several big-name fantasy performers.

Leafs offense surpasses expectations

...albeit brief) of producing. Such a finish would easily make Antropov a strong No. 3 center in fantasy circles and Hagman a No. 2 left winger. It is easy to be bearish on both players...

Fantasy Forecaster: Eastern bias

Tristan H. Cockcroft breaks down the weekly schedule, highlighting teams with the most games and the best and worst matchups.

Point Shots: Substantiating the sophomore slump

Jim Wilkie looks into the sophomore slump to see if it is a threat to last season's rookie class.