As usual, the experts at FantasyAlarm.com will publish their top daily fantasy hockey picks at each position across various DFS sites in the Playbook. This is a great place to start your NHL DFS research for the day, but there’s much more with Playbook PRO. Playbook PRO members get even more daily fantasy hockey picks, along with detailed analysis and strategies, suggested team “stacks” and optimal daily fantasy lineups. Also, PRO members get access to all the DFS Playbooks and tools for every sport, including NFL, college football and NBA, with one subscription....

As usual, the experts at FantasyAlarm.com will publish their top daily fantasy hockey picks at each position across various DFS sites in the Playbook. This is a great place to start your NHL DFS research for the day, but there’s much more with Playbook PRO. Playbook PRO members get even more daily fantasy hockey picks, along with detailed analysis and strategies, suggested team “stacks” and optimal daily fantasy lineups. Also, PRO members get access to all the DFS Playbooks and tools for every sport, including NFL, college football and NBA, with one subscription....

Yet those who subscribe to the theory that actions speak louder than words would be fair to question whether Prescott will get the long-term contract he has been all but promised. MORE: Here are the NFL’s highest-paid players The 27-year-old quarterback is content playing out the 2020 NFL season on the franchise tag, which makes him the highest-paid player in the NFL this year on base salary. Prescott, who has started all 64 games of his four-year career after Dallas selected him in the fourth round of the 2016 NFL Draft, essentially bet on himself when he reportedly refused the Cowboys’ latest contract offer in the spring and signed the franchise tender in June....

After a Week 1 loss to the Giants, Prescott has led the Cowboys to five straight wins. He has only thrown one interception all season, leaving many to believe he should remain the starter even after Romo is healthy enough to return. MORE: Week 7 picks against the spread At the very least, Dallas can be patient with Romo after he suffered a fractured bone in his back during the preseason....

Earnhardt, who has won NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver award a record 14 consecutive years, tweeted what appeared to be his response to racing’s sudden involvement in a national debate around protests during the playing or singing of the national anthem at sporting events. Tweeted Junior: “All Americans R granted rights 2 peaceful protests … Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable-JFK.” PHOTOS: National anthem moments around NFL...

The award is voted on by a panel of 17 American motorsports journalists and covers all forms of racing. MORE: Harvick son celebrates | McMurray: NASCAR went too far with fines | Montoya to return Earnhardt is off to a fast start, winning NASCAR’s biggest race and scoring five top-five and six top-10 finishes in the first nine races. He is fifth in the Sprint Cup standings, 32 points behind leader Jeff Gordon....

Earnhardt was leading when the race was red-flagged because of rain and was declared the winner just after 11:40 p.m. ET. Kevin Harvick finished second, followed by Joey Logano, Kyle Busch and Jimmie Johnson. MORE: 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup winners The bigger story, though, was the four drivers who advanced to the championship race next week at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and the four who didn’t. Jeff Gordon, who finished sixth, was already in the championship race by virtue of his win two weeks ago at Martinsville....

Dale Earnhardt Jr. and third-generation driver Kerry Earnhardt will pilot the No. 3 that beat Bobby Labonte by 0.01 seconds at the end of the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 500. MORE: Gordon’s children serving as grand marshal | Seven-year-old raps about Sprint Cup season Labonte will have his chance at payback at the festival. He will drive Austin Dillon’s No. 3 DOW Chevrolet through the nine-turn, 1.16-mile hill-climb course....

The Dallas Cowboys made it clear Friday they are only interested in who’s already on their roster. “We like our young guys,’’ Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett said in The Dallas Morning News. “We’re trying to develop those guys. We feel like they made progress.” There will be video footage available for teams that will not send someone for self-evaluation of Kaepernick. The video will be a backup plan for the Cowboys, who have Dak Prescott as its starting quarterback....

On a first down play, Prescott scrambled toward the first-down marker and was tackled after a 9-yard gain. Prescott immediately waved to his sideline that he needed help. The team training staff went to his side, and not long after, his team was near his side — on the field. A cart was brought out to field, and the team’s franchise player was taken into the bowels of AT&T Stadium....

NBA League Pass: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) Injuries, inconsistent play, and a poor record on the road (2-8) has seen the Blazers get out to a slow start this season, with their road record tied with the rebuilding Oklahoma City Thunder and only the Orlando Magic and Detroit Pistons owning worse records. MORE: Should the Blazers consider trading for Ben Simmons? The Blazers’ saving grace was their stellar play on their home floor, however, after starting the season with an impressive 10-1 record at Moda Center, they have now lost their past four games at home and past five overall, dropping to 11th in the Western Conference at 11-16 on the season....

So maybe it’s not exactly a coincidence that Lillard is doing the kinds of things that Kidd and Payton did when they were establishing themselves as future Hall of Famers. MORE: Best active NBA player of every age, 19 to 39 “With those three guys, I don’t know if it’s Oakland, but there is a similar thread that goes through them,” said Portland coach Terry Stotts, who coached Payton in Seattle when he worked for George Karl, and later won a title under Rick Carlisle in Dallas when Kidd played a prominent role in helping Dirk Nowitzki get his championship in 2011....

The 30-year-old starting pitcher has a guaranteed rotation spot from at least three American League teams, according to Fancred Sports. He will weigh his options over the next week or two and decide where he will sign after that. Other suitors could still emerge as well. MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whip-around show on DAZN Straily was released by the Marlins on Monday just before the start of the regular season....

MORE: Greatest U.S. Olympic athletes | Team USA portraits Vollmer, the top seed and defending Olympic gold medalist in the event, led Kelsi Worrell to the turn at the halfway mark but appeared to fade the last 15 meters as Worrell charged to the finish with a time of 56.48, good for second fastest in the world this year behind only Swedish world record holder Sarah Sjostrom. Vollmer added nearly three tenths of second from her semifinal swim but touched second with a time of 57....

White — a week ahead of Conor McGregor’s return to the Octagon for a rematch with Dustin Poirier — met with the undefeated fighter from Dagestan to figure out if he can get another fight out of the champion. Unfortunately, it appears that he’s come up short. For now. MORE: Holloway vs. Kattar time, TV channel, live stream White appeared on the “UFC on ABC: Holloway vs. Kattar” broadcast to reveal what came out of his closed-door conversation with Nurmagomedov....

A future without Messi & Ronaldo The right-back has agreed a two-year deal with the Premier League side but they are yet to make an announcement. But the 34-year-old confirmed his departure from the Serie A champions on Instagram, posting a picture of him waving to fans. “I would like to thank all the Juventus fans for the year I’ve had, to my team-mates who welcomed me like the professionals they are, for a club that wins and reaches finals,” he wrote....

So Patrick attempted to retaliate, running Gilliland toward the wall — a move that caused her to spin out. She then rammed Gilliland’s car under caution. As a result, NASCAR fined Patrick $50,000 and docked her 25 points for retaliating. MORE: Why Kenseth had to retaliate | Kenseth learns hard lesson about NASCAR | Martinsville: In-car audio “You know, NASCAR felt like they had to do what they had to do....

Most of them are at Stewart-Haas Racing, which had a miserable day at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday. MORE: Earnhardt gamble fails | Keselowski wins | Results | Menard finishes third Several drivers struggled to get a handle on NASCAR’s new aerodynamic rules at Las Vegas, but none more than the SHR gang. Our winners and losers from the Kobalt Tools 400: Winners Brad Keselowski — Keselowski had a lot of things to be happy about Sunday, but the main one was this: “We’re locked into the Chase so we don’t have to hear that crap all year about not being in the Chase....

There’s a pretty simple reason for that, she said. It’s no disrespect to the seven-time Cup champion and possibly the sport’s biggest ambassador. “You can’t try any harder in the car,” Patrick said Thursday during NASCAR Media Day. “I think that’s something every driver would tell you. When someone questions our effort level, you can’t try any harder. “You’re doing everything you can. Maybe subconsciously there’s some motivation, but I can’t tell....