Absent a win Saturday night on the high banks of Daytona, Chase Elliott will miss the Cup Series playoffs for the first time in seven years.
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Good morning, I’m Kyle Wood, subbing in for Dan Gartland. Today concludes Fantasy Draft Week at Sports Illustrated, but you can stick with us throughout the NFL season and beyond. Get the best of our fantasy advice and betting analysis by subscribing to the Winners Club newsletter.
In today’s SI:AM—Fantasy Football Edition:
💯 In pursuit of a perfect draft
🏈 Predictions for every NFL game
💤 Late-round sleepers to snag
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Drafting for perfection
Pulling off a perfect fantasy draft sounds like quite the tall task.
Who’s old enough to remember the WTA’s Big Three (Iga Świątek, Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina) distancing themselves from the field? Who’s old enough to remember Coco Gauff’s janky forehand and stagnating career? Who’s old enough to remember when the WTA pulled out of autocratic countries citing ethical concerns? The plots change fast in tennis. Within the next week, the WTA is likely to announce that, having left China, it is heading to … Saudi Arabia to stage its year-end soiree.
The great Charles Barkley joined the SI Media With Jimmy Traina podcast this week and spoke about a number of different topics, including how much longer he wants to keep working for Turner Sports.
Speaking of working for Turner Sports, there’s one big-name announcer that Barkley love to have join the team – Jeff Van Gundy.
Van Gundy, of course, was a part of the ESPN layoffs earlier this summer. He had been the lead analyst on the No. 1 NBA booth and worked 16 NBA Finals alongside Mike Breen and Mark Jackson.
Pole vaulters Katie Moon and Nina Kennedy’s decision to share a gold medal Wednesday at the World Athletics Championships in Hungary has created an uproar among some observers who believe there needed to be a single winner. However, the athletes are standing by their choice.
Moon posted a statement to social media defending the move, and she responded thoughtfully to those whom she says called the two “cowards” and “pathetic.
The Dodgers’ deadline moves weren’t exciting but they were effective. That’s especially the case with Lance Lynn and L.A.’s surging rotation.
Here are all of the best moments from the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
Ludvig Aberg eyes a shot during the second round of the 2023 D+D Real Czech Masters. | Photo by Octavio Passos/Getty Images
The D+D Real Czech Masters is a big event on the DP World Tour calendar. Many European stars, including Ludvig Aberg, are playing well.
The leaderboard of the 2023 D+D Real Czech Masters is loaded with top European players through 36 holes.
Nicholai Højgaard of Denmark leads the pack at 12-under after he carded a 5-under 67 Friday to sit atop the field.
Teams competing in Okinawa, Japan ahead of the 2023 FIBA World Cup had a rude, very early wake-up call on Wednesday in the form of an emergency siren that rang out in the city at around 4:00 AM. The siren was raised due to North Korean missile activity, which certainly caught the attention of NBA star and Slovenia international Luka Doncic.
Doncic was asked about the missile alert later in the day, and put things in quite the perspective about what it’s like to wake up to something saying ‘missiles are coming.’
“Oh yeah, the alarm was crazy,” Doncic told reporters.
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The AlphaTauri driver was spotted holding his arm after hitting the barrier in practice
Daniel Ricciardo’s second practice session at the Dutch Grand Prix came to an abrupt end on Friday when his AlphaTauri AT04 hit the wall, and Ricciardo was taken to the medical center for evaluation.
Following the crash, which occurred moments after Oscar Piastri hit the wall in front of him, Ricciardo was spotted holding his left arm as he was helped from his AT04.