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Marcus Mariota has graduated from sophomore slump to Mr. Public, rewarding his owners time and again during this midseason stretch. DraftKings unshockingly bumped his price up $1K with a trip to Indy ahead. We’ll see if the public hits Mariota again. Daily Fantasy Football Week 11: Quarterback Collective Ownership Report projects Kirk Cousins ($5800/QB11) for top ownership as of Friday. A meeting with the Packers defense will inflate ownership ownership for anyone these days, and Cousins’ consistency should enough people on board to clear 15 percent share of the quarterback field....

Keep in mind that most of the games are scheduled for Saturday this weekend, and that is the slate which we are using for our Week 16 optimal GPP lineup. This Christmas Eve, we are expecting to see plenty of gifts under the tree from the Patriots and Chargers. For additional tips, values, and lineups (including DraftKings lineups), bookmark the Sporting News Fantasy DFS page. WEEK 16 DFS: DraftKings cash lineup | Values | DFS lineup builder...

The games to exploit in DFS don’t have to be the ones with the highest totals, like the Saints-Giants game was. They don’t have to have close lines either. The week’s biggest favorite – which the Panthers were – can help you net DFS riches, and something like a Drew Brees-Eli Manning showdown can wind up being fool’s gold. Cam Newton, Kelvin Benjamin, Greg Olsen, Graham Gano and the Panthers defense was the winning GPP stack to have....

In January, the Daily Mail published an “exclusive” article reporting on rumors that Lindell had a “secret romance” with actress Jane Krakowski, best known for her role on the sitcom 30 Rock. Lindell and his attorneys quickly responded to the article by suing the British newspaper for defamation, describing the story as “thoroughly deceitful” and “bogus.” The tabloid fired back at Lindell’s defamation claim in a Monday memorandum, first reported by Law & Crime, dismissing the controversial businessman’s lawsuit by saying he has made numerous false claims....

Prescott continued his dynamic debut season in Dallas with a first for his ever hype-building young NFL career: an epic comeback that led to an overtime win. FANTASY: Best waiver wire pickups for Week 9 Sure, Prescott did rally the Cowboys from a 23-13 deficit to victory in the final 22 minutes. But it was how he dug deep to even put them in position that was more impressive....

With Dallas trailing 19-3 in the fourth quarter and the offense looking anemic, Prescott exited the game with the injury and went to the locker room shortly afterward. The injury occurred after Prescott made contact with Tampa Bay linebacker Shaquil Barrett twice in one drive. He went to the sideline and after the second instance and was examined by the Cowboys’ training staff before walking off the field. MORE: Cowboys dominated by Buccaneers in opener...

Then came a reminder as to why there’s any debate in the first place. Dak Prescott, the Dallas Cowboys’ rookie quarterback, reconciled what had been his worst performance to date by leading a pair of championship-caliber drives to fend off the first-place-minded Philadelphia Eagles in a 29-23 overtime victory Sunday night at AT&T Stadium. FANTASY: Best waiver wire pickups for Week 9 Prescott completed five of his 13 attempts in the first half, including an interception on second-and-goal from the Eagles 7-yard line....

One of the players expected to see fewer snaps is quarterback Dak Prescott, who has led the Cowboys to a 13-2 record with both loses coming at the hand of the Giants. But who will play in his place? Basic logic points to Tony Romo, the beloved fan-favorite that Jerry Jones has been hinting at starting ever since he returned from a preseason back injury. That, however, will not be the case....

The Pirates of the Caribbean actor’s severed finger has become a key anecdote in the highly publicized $50 million trial against his ex-wife. The 58-year-old alleges that the injury occurred in 2015 when Heard threw a glass vodka bottle at him during a fight, which led him to experience a nervous breakdown. Heard has disputed the claims. Depp starred alongside Johnson in the film Black Mass back in 2015 and one clip from the movie’s press tour is now racking up thousands of views online....

Earnhardt spoke to media members on Friday about his absence from NASCAR and his recovery from concussion-like symptoms. He answered questions at Watkins Glen, the upstate New York road course where Sprint Cup teams race this week. MORE: Junior’s good news | Defining moments | Scary health problems Dale Earnhardt Jr. addresses health issues. (Getty Images) Earnhardt has always been an insightful person, no matter the situation. He studies the history of stock car racing....

In the dream, NASCAR exec Steve O’Donnell was talking to Earnhardt over the radio in the middle of the Sprint All-Star Race, telling the driver the race was boring him. O’Donnell’s complaint: the green-lap runs were just too long. MORE: Starting lineup at Kansas | All-Star Race rules change After the second of the three All-Star Race segments, Dale and fiancée Amy decided to join O’Donnell in a bar inside Charlotte Motor Speedway....

That one, it seems, was a little unexpected. MORE: Starting lineup | Stress to the max | Talladega brings big, scary crashes Not because Jarrett couldn’t win at Talladega. Not because he didn’t know how to race the track, but because in the closing laps he didn’t think he had the car to win. So he planned to push Tony Stewart to victory. But as so often happens in races at Talladega, things didn’t go as planned....

LAS VEGAS – Let’s fire those engines up and begin the 2015 Sprint Cup season. The lack of January testing at Daytona and Las Vegas has left thousands of fans yearning for the sounds of NASCAR. Those cravings will start to be satisfied this weekend with the Sprint Unlimited, a 75-lap exhibition race, set for Saturday night. Only 25 drivers will be participating in the non-points race. Among the eligible drivers are last season’s Chase participants and pole winners, a well as past Daytona 500 pole winners and past event winners....

“The fold of this lies squarely on [former Governor] Rick Perry and the current governor, Greg Abbott,” Jenkins told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on Thursday. “They and their team passed the regulations to tell people whether or not they need to winterize. They chose not to tell companies to winterize—that need to winterize—which in a regulatory environment for a commodity is telling people not to winterize.” Jenkins added, “They consciously chose to do rock-bottom prices for large commercial enterprises....

The kicker? Neither of those have happened, and there are no clear signs that they’re going to happen anytime soon. Still, that hasn’t prevented Lillard’s name from being all over the news since Portland’s first-round loss to a short-handed Denver team in the 2021 NBA Playoffs. Lillard hasn’t been shy about responding to some of the rumors and has continued to show loyalty to the Trail Blazers. NBA League Pass: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial)...

With that said, it’s also worth noting that Lillard hasn’t hidden his frustration with how the previous campaign played out. The Trail Blazers fell to a short-handed Nuggets squad in the first round of the 2021 NBA playoffs, marking the fourth time in the past five seasons that they failed to escape the first round. So when Lillard, a six-time All-Star who has played nearly a decade in Portland, throws out comments like he did during an Instagram Live stream this week, ears tend to perk up....

New England lost Damien Harris to a hamstring during Sunday’s game against the Lions. It isn’t clear at which point Harris suffered the injury, but he exited the field early in the game and generated just 12 total yards on five touches. And on Tuesday, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported that Harris is expected to miss “multiple weeks” because of his hamstring injury. As such, the Patriots will have to rely on second-year back Rhamondre Stevenson to carry the load....

Cote, producer of “The Dan Le Batard Show,” announced last week that he was one of the hundreds laid off by ESPN in a cost-cutting measure, much to the dismay of fans of the long-running program. MORE: NFL picks, predictions for Week 10 On Wednesday, Le Batard announced that he was righting something of an injustice: Le Batard agreed to pay Cote’s salary (and even give him a raise), explaining that the lack of communication from management regarding Cote’s job status was the “greatest disrespect of his professional career....

However, Marie Francis O’Brien, known affectionately as Fran, is living proof that you are never too old to meet new people online. In fact, at 93 years old the Florida-based grandmother has become a viral star on TikTok with more than 120,700 followers. Her account, Fran_the_hip_gram, has surpassed 3.5 million likes and is crammed full of funny videos, fashion tips and light-hearted dance routines. “Anything you want to do, do it....