Making tough lineup decisions each week can be the most challenging part of the fantasy football process. When you’re torn between two similar players and simply don’t know which to start, start the player with the superior matchup. Ah, but exactly how does one determine the best (and worst) weekly matchups? Our matchup rankings provide...
Liz LozaOct 7, 2025, 07:16 PM ET Close Liz Loza is a writer for fantasy football, women’s basketball and betting at ESPN. Liz also appears on “Fantasy Football Now” and contributes to the Fantasy Focus Football podcast. Sometimes waiting for someone to show up or for a situation to develop becomes a waste of time,...
Brian WheelerPolitical reporter Standing ovation as Badenoch says Tories would scrap stamp duty The next Conservative government would abolish stamp duty on the sale of main homes, Kemi Badenoch has said, in a surprise announcement at the end of her first conference speech as party leader. Badenoch received a standing ovation from Tory activists in...
Right as Google’s Wear OS is hitting its stride—now feature-rich with robust smartwatches that can go toe-to-toe with the Apple Watch—luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer has decided to ditch the operating system altogether for its latest Connected Calibre E5 smartwatch. Instead, it runs a proprietary “TAG Heuer OS” (still based on Android). But unlike many of...
Last Friday, during an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, CNN commentator and former Obama adviser Van Jones claimed that Iran and Qatar are running a disinformation campaign to manipulate young Americans into caring about Gaza. To make his point, he crudely imitated what he said appears on their social media feeds:...
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois in an escalation of his extraordinary attacks on political opponents. “Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!” Trump posted on social media. “My goal is very simple. STOP CRIME IN...
“There are two types of politician,” Tony Blair observed in 2012. “Reality creators and reality managers.” While postwar politics was generally a matter of steady management, he claimed, the emerging order called for more creativity, “both in the economy and foreign policy”. Only a particular type of visionary leader was fit for the task. More...
Fall has officially arrived, and so has Amazon Prime Big Deal Days. In case you weren’t aware, Amazon now has two special Prime Day events a year. The last one was a four-day event in July, and these next two days are round 2. Anyway, one of the smartest things to keep an eye out...
Calling all creators. Gap Inc. has launched a “creator affiliate and advocacy” platform to elevate the profile of creators who through social media will help amplify the retailer’s brands and their campaigns, and connections to culture. The new platform marks “the next step in the company’s digital-first strategy and brand reinvigoration journey,” the San Francisco-based...
Jeremy Fowler Close Jeremy Fowler senior NFL national reporter Jeremy Fowler is a senior national NFL writer for ESPN, covering the entire league including breaking news. Jeremy also contributes to SportsCenter both as a studio analyst and a sideline reporter covering for NFL games. He is an Orlando, Florida native who joined ESPN in 2014...