Fantasy Billboard: Top picks for the breakout players for the 2023 NFL season
Welcome back to Fantasy Billboard’s third season! We begin the pre-draft analysis with a list of players who are primed for exploding stats but who your opponents may overlook. Last year, I recommended Daniel Jones (9th in QB scoring) and encouraged you to stick with the frequently injured Christian McCaffrey (2nd in RB scoring) as…
Stanford and Cal join the ACC: The third newcomer, SMU, could be the key to reducing travel demands on the West Coast schools
The bicoastal conference plans to get creative with scheduling for Olympic sports Cal and Stanford fans planning to travel with their teams beginning next fall will have the opportunity to visit the ACC’s big cities and storied college towns, from Chapel Hill, Tallahassee, and Charlottesville to Miami, Atlanta, and, err, Dallas. SMU and the Bay…
The Loop 2023 Fantasy Football Preview: Our favorites
As the NFL draft approached in April, most of the league’s bottom-dwelling teams wheeled and dealt in an attempt to feast on the glut of quarterbacking prospects. The Chicago Bears, on the other hand. Rather than tying their fortunes and No. 1 pick to Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young, Bears general manager Ryan Poles pulled…
Doctors and patients try to shame insurers online to reverse prior authorization denials
Sally Nix was enraged when her health insurance company refused to cover the infusions she required to alleviate her chronic pain and fatigue. Nix has been afflicted with a number of autoimmune diseases since 2011. Her symptoms were not relieved by brain and spinal surgery. Nothing worked for her until she began intravenous immunoglobulin infusions…
NFL’s RedZone channel will be available for streaming. But it’s going to cost you
The popular cable channel NFL RedZone, which shows every scoring play from the league’s Sunday afternoon games, is coming to a streaming device near you. The NFL announced in August that the RedZone channel would be available in the more expensive version of NFL+, the subscription-based streaming service it launched last year. The NFL Network…
Cal joins the ACC at discounted revenue shares: Will the deal pinch a budget that has always been tight?
The Bears depend on campus support; that arrangement won’t change Carol Christ, the chancellor of California, heard a loud knock on her hotel door before dawn Friday in San Diego, where she was scheduled to meet with donors. “I heard from the hotel that there was an urgent call, and I thought, ‘What catastrophe has…
A nanoengineer teamed up with Rihanna’s tattoo artist to make smarter ink
The ink is made of particles of dye, encased in beads of plexiglass — the same material in dermal fillers. BOULDER, COLORADO — Carson Bruns, a nanoengineer, has a lot of mad scientist moments. He tested his latest invention on his own arm a few months ago in his lab at the University of Colorado-Boulder and…
It may have just gotten harder to protect minority communities from pollution
Can state lawmakers remedy environmental racism without mentioning race? In recent years, some states have increased their investment in air quality monitoring, scrutinized permitting decisions, and directed cleanup funds to minority communities that have borne the brunt of pollution for decades. Following the recent decision by the United States Supreme Court to overturn race-conscious college…
Former California high school water polo players allege sexual abuse by ex-coach
Three former boys team players file a lawsuit claiming Harris groomed, harassed and molested them between 2002-10 Former El Segundo High School water polo coach and teacher George Harris Jr. sexually harassed and molested minor-aged male high school players between 2002 and 2010, according to a lawsuit filed by three former El Segundo players. According…
