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-Sam Ouhaj, John Kalemkerian, Jamison Cook, Gehrig Smalstig, J.J. Post and Justice Mory | Tuesday, September 14, 2021
The first week of the NFL is in the books. Fans worldwide have gotten a feel for how their teams will be this season, including fantasy players. Now with a clear sense of how your fantasy team will perform, it is time to dive into who you can play, sit and add this week on
Jamison Cook, Justice Mory, J.J. Post, Gehrig Smalstig, John Kalemkerian and Sam Ouhaj | Tuesday, September 7, 2021
The National Football League is back! With the first game this Thursday between the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, it will be intriguing to see how the season will unfold. This is also the week where millions of Fantasy Football fans will begin to understand their lineup and see if they made the right
Gehrig Smalstig | Monday, September 6, 2021
As a college student at the University of Notre Dame, nothing gets me fired up like football season. While everyone knows that the college football atmosphere is unmatched, there’s not much that I love more than brushing away the Sunday Scaries with 10 straight hours of NFL football. With that in mind, I couldn’t think
Gehrig Smalstig | Friday, August 27, 2021
With the regular season winding down and postseason hype building, I figure there’s never been a better time to manifest a healthy finish for many of baseball’s biggest stars and offer up my picks for all of the most important awards in America’s pastime. AL MVP Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels This needs no explanation,
Gehrig Smalstig | Friday, May 21, 2021
The Notre Dame women’s golf team didn’t have the year that they wanted, and head coach Susan Holt would be the first one to acknowledge just that. “It was a tough year, we did not play very well, didn’t play to our ability,” she said. This sentiment was reflected in the outcomes of their competitions,
Gehrig Smalstig | Friday, May 21, 2021
“If I would have told you ‘Yea, we’re gonna finish second place,’ I would’ve been a liar.” Head coach Eric Mahone seemed to be in shock just looking back at how far the Holy Cross Saints women’s tennis team had come. “We didn’t win a match our first two years,” he said. “Every match we
Gehrig Smalstig | Monday, May 3, 2021
A couple of months removed from the Super Bowl and a couple of months away from the start of training camps, football fans still manage to get hyped up about the NFL when the draft rolls around. Position classes were deep across the board and teams were eager to move the needle towards a winning
Gehrig Smalstig | Friday, April 23, 2021
Tom Brady, Leonard Fournette, Rob Gronkowski, Tristan Wirfs, Antoine Winfield Jr. That’s the haul of starters that it took to push the Tampa Bay Buccaneers into Super Bowl contention, where they would ultimately emerge victorious. That is the result of a very busy free agency, accompanied by one of the better draft classes in the
Gehrig Smalstig | Monday, April 12, 2021
If you could travel back in time to April of 2016 and tell any Cubs fan that they would not have put Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo or Javier Baez on a long term contract by the year 2021, they would have called you crazy. The core that took them to their first World Series win