The best way to help your fantasy football team right now; The best and worst fantasy football matchups for Week 6; The likely leading causes of the NFL’s significant TV ratings decline; Dan Woike: Keeping the Clippers together this season made sense; Dodgers beat Nationals, 6-5, in Game 4 to stave off elimination; Americans generally disapprove of players’ anthem protests but opinion divided along racial lines, poll finds; It would be chaos for SEC football if Florida and LSU win out. Cross your fingers.; ‘I was very disoriented…then I saw Tim’ Tebow: Fan on seizure at game; TBS in hot water for airing photo of burning river during Indians post-game show; Police investigating shooting death of LAPD detective looking into Derrick Rose case; Tom Brady won’t touch a question about Donald Trump and ‘locker room talk’; Abby Wambach is still skeptical of ‘foreign guys’ on U.S. men’s soccer team; Pelicans’ star Anthony Davis sprains ankle in China, may miss season opener; Caitlyn Jenner must use men’s facilities when in North Carolina, governor says; NBA player slammed for graffiti incident, told Great Wall of China is ‘not the toilet of your home’; Blue Jays announcer won’t use the Cleveland Indians nickname during ALCS; Raiders’ move to Las Vegas passes its first big hurdle; Browns, on track for a 3-13 record, should lose much more before they finally win; Fantasy football start/sit for Week 6: Sit both Ezekiel Elliott and Philip Rivers; Game 5 starter Max Scherzer has given up a ton of home runs. This might be why.
 
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‘I was very disoriented…then I saw Tim’ Tebow: Fan on seizure at game
All this on just the Mets farmhand's first day with the Scottsdale Scorpions!
TBS in hot water for airing photo of burning river during Indians post-game show
The joke did not go over well in the city.
 
Police investigating shooting death of LAPD detective looking into Derrick Rose case
Nadine Hernandez was looking into a claim that Rose and two others raped a woman in 2013.
 
Tom Brady won’t touch a question about Donald Trump and ‘locker room talk’
This is a real conversation-killer for the Patriots quarterback.
 
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Abby Wambach is still skeptical of ‘foreign guys’ on U.S. men’s soccer team
Wambach wants to sit down with dual-nationality players to discuss their patriotism.
 
Pelicans’ star Anthony Davis sprains ankle in China, may miss season opener
The injury, reportedly a Grade 2 sprain, occurred when he stepped on the foot of Nene.
 
The best way to help your fantasy football team right now
Waivers are picked over. Bye weeks are in full swing. Options are limited when it comes to finding valuable fantasy commodities, but here's one path that can bring you some future value.
 
Caitlyn Jenner must use men’s facilities when in North Carolina, governor says
Privately, the transgender former Olympian can do whatever she wishes.
 
 
The best and worst fantasy football matchups for Week 6
Jamaal Charles may get it rolling thanks to a favorable opponent.
 
The likely leading causes of the NFL’s significant TV ratings decline
There are a variety of factors, industry experts says, contributing to an 11 percent drop from last season.
 
NBA player slammed for graffiti incident, told Great Wall of China is ‘not the toilet of your home’
Bobby Brown of the Houston Rockets asks for forgiveness from Chinese citizens.
 
Dan Woike: Keeping the Clippers together this season made sense
The Los Angeles Clippers have remained together after years of coming up short in the playoffs. Beat writer Dan Woike says that, because of the team's regular season success, has been the right move to make.
 
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Dodgers beat Nationals, 6-5, in Game 4 to stave off elimination
Chase Utley hit an RBI single in the eighth inning to break a 5-5 tie, and Los Angeles pulled even in the NLDS as the series heads back to Washington. This is a developing story. It will be updated.
Americans generally disapprove of players’ anthem protests but opinion divided along racial lines, poll finds
Quinnipiac University survey finds that 74 of black American adults approve of the protests, compared to only 30 percent of white adults who approve.
 
It would be chaos for SEC football if Florida and LSU win out. Cross your fingers.
The postponed and likely canceled LSU-Florida game has borne many delicious fruits, plus another peek at the humorous seriousness of football and its money, money and money.
 
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