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Normally, fantasy owners do not pay too much attention to the bye week period. However, with bye weeks starting in Week 4 and wrapping in Week 12, owners need to pay more attention to when players sit this season. It is smart to be prepared for your best player to miss a critical week. The last month of the fantasy regular season, 20 teams will have a bye week. Notable players such as Tom Brady, Travis Kelce, DeShaun Watson, Todd Gurley, Jarvis Landry, and Zach Ertz will miss a game in the final four games of the fantasy regular season. Most owners will feel the effect of these late season bye weeks. Best to be prepared for this problem instead of caught off guard. Week 4 - Carolina Panthers, Washington Quarterbacks - Cam Newton, Alex Smith Running Backs - Christian McCaffrey, Derrius Guice, C.J. Anderson, Chris Thompson, Samaje Perine, Robert Kelley Wide Receivers - Devin Funchess, Jamison Crowder, Josh Doctson, D.J. Moore, Paul Richardson, Curtis Samuel, Torrey Smith Tight End...

The 2018 NFL season is fast approaching, with training camp in full swing, and the preseason schedule kicking into gear. August is when fantasy football drafts take priority, whether you are drafting for a single year, or you’re in the deepest of dynasty leagues. Everybody has some kind of strategy when they head into their annual fantasy draft. And most everyone sees their strategy derailed at some point. Regardless, you will have tough decisions to make when it comes to younger players in the NFL. Rookies in particular are extra difficult. Until an NFL rookie takes his first steps on the field, we’re working off of collegiate accomplishments, situation, and opportunity. Let’s take a look at how those elements can help or hurt the top-20 rookies ranked below: The Giants could have drafted their quarterback of the future second overall, but instead they made it clear they are going to ride out the Eli Manning era as best they can. The team drafted Penn State running back Saquon Bark...

Sadly, the season’s final men’s major has already arrived. The 100th PGA Championship tees off this week at Bellerive in St. Louis. It’s the last time the PGA will be the final major of the year, or serve as “glory’s last shot,” that goofy promotional phrase that was fortunately put to rest. Next year, the PGA is making the big move to May. The Players is falling back to March, and the PGA will slot in between the Masters and U.S. Open . So the majors season will move even faster, with that Sunday at the British Open in mid-July serving as our farewell to golf’s most important events. While St. Louis in August is, uh, well, not the most palatable atmosphere, the actual championship seems set up well for a great one. First of all, we have the return of Tiger Woods after a three-year absence playing this major championship. That is a sentence we have written at each of the first three majors this season, along with many other tournaments sprinkled throughout this comeback. Tiger’s ...

Rapper and entrepreneur YG donated $150,000 to startup company GirlCodeLA to help usher in a generation of Los Angeles girl coders. YG is setting out to create more opportunities for future female entrepreneurs and that can be attributed to his close relationship with business partner Karen Civil . Though YG is readying the release of his hotly anticipated album, Stay Dangerous , the West Coast MC has still found time to uplift his community. “Gender bias plays a role in the amount of exposure students receive in regards to technology and coding, says YG. He adds, “This leads to influence future decisions within their field, creating smaller opportunities for diversity. With my donation, I hope they’ll be able to expand their reach of future female coders and programmers.” GirlCodeLA is an organization that is aimed to develop and continue to expose young women to computer science, business, and software engineering. All participants have the opportunity to lear...

Rapper and entrepreneur YG donated $150,000 to startup company GirlCodeLA to help usher in a generation of Los Angeles girl coders. YG is setting out to create more opportunities for future female entrepreneurs and that can be attributed to his close relationship with business partner Karen Civil . Though YG is readying the release of his hotly anticipated album, Stay Dangerous , the West Coast MC has still found time to uplift his community. “Gender bias plays a role in the amount of exposure students receive in regards to technology and coding, says YG. He adds, “This leads to influence future decisions within their field, creating smaller opportunities for diversity. With my donation, I hope they’ll be able to expand their reach of future female coders and programmers.” GirlCodeLA is an organization that is aimed to develop and continue to expose young women to computer science, business, and software engineering. All participants have the opportunity to lear...