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But when a position is thin, you can throw out the fantasy rankings and cheat sheets because you’re going to have to do some reaching. This year, the shortstop position is especially tough to handicap because you’re dealing with three top-six players who have less than 100 games of major league experience. Beyond that, you’re dealing with two-category players, injury risks or players with limited ceilings. 2016 FANTASY BASEBALL RANKINGS:First | Second | Short | Third | Outfield | Catchers | Starters | Relievers | Prospects...

The list of the 21 selected players follows below: GOALKEEPERS: Dheeraj Singh, Prabhsukhan Gill, Sunny Dhaliwal; DEFENDERS: Boris Singh, Jitendra Singh, Anwar Ali, Sanjeev Stalin, Hendry Antonay, Namit Deshpande; MIDFIELDERS: Suresh Singh, Ninthoinganba Meetei, Amarjit Singh Kiyam, Abhijit Sarkar, Komal Thatal, Lalengmawia, Jeakson Singh, Nongdamba Naorem, Rahul Kannoly Praveen, Md. Shahjahan; FORWARDS: Rahim Ali, Aniket Jadhav. This selection of India U17 players is the first to have received such an extensive amount of monetary and technical support, far greater than any age-group national teams in the country....

Defending Champions North Korea remain the most successful side in World Cup history claiming two titles with the inaugural edition in 2008 New Zealand and the previous edition in 2016 Jordan. Japan, South Korea, and France have been victorious in the World Cup once. France did not qualify this year after Finland edged them out in the qualification stages with a superior goal difference. India had failed to qualify for the AFC under-17 finals tournament after finishing third in their group in the qualification stages behind South Korea and the Philippines....

Fnatic vs Cloud 9 Game 1 A very important game to deal the first blow, Licorice for Cloud 9 picked Ekko to counter Bwipo’s Viktor. An early gank in the top lane went horribly wrong for Cloud 9 as Svenskeren died to Bwipo under turret while Licorice died to a counter gank. A couple of early visits by Broxah to the mid lane enabled Caps to get ahead. The game really snowballed from there as all the three lanes were losing for Cloud 9....

At the moment, the New Orleans Saints appear to be the most well-rounded team. Drew Brees is still in top form, but the clock is ticking for the 39-year-old quarterback. The Atlanta Falcons and the Carolina Panthers have some work to do on offense, with the former hoping to get back the explosiveness it had in 2016 and the latter looking to be more consistent behind Cam Newton and Christian McCaffrey....

Today, on the 200th anniversary of its discovery, glaciologists say the continent is approaching a tipping point. Pass it and nothing will prevent the glaciers from shrinking and the sea ice from melting—even if we cut out all greenhouse gas emissions overnight. What we’re seeing now is “a trivial drop in the bucket,” Kurt Cuffey, a geography professor and the Martin Distinguished Chair of Ocean, Earth and Climate Science at the University of California Berkeley, told Newsweek....

With analysts like these, who needs enemies? What bruises less than a mugging but hurts more than losing in Las Vegas? Acting on a stock-brokerage analyst’s “buy” recommendation. During the bull-market mania, these people used back-of-the-cocktail-napkin calculations to place triple-digit price targets on companies with lower revenues than your niece’s lemonade stand and that had to go public simply to stay in business. The ones who are willing to say “sell” risk the pink slip....

The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve has maintained a more or less similar layout for quite a few years now. It has the shortest lap time among all tracks – of around 75 seconds – although that is mainly due to the long straights and hence the fast nature of the circuit. With no large radius fast corners, teams look for a low to medium downforce setup to make full use of DRS down the two straights – start/finish and the back straight....

Dec. 20: Gildan New Mexico Bowl: UTEP vs. Utah State, 2:20 p.m., ESPN | Preview Dec. 20: Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl: Colorado State vs. Utah, 3:30 p.m., ABC | Preview BENDER: Reason to watch every bowl game Dec. 20: Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: Western Michigan vs. Air Force, 5:45, ESPN | Preview Dec. 20: Raycom Media Camellia Bowl: Bowling Green vs. South Alabama, 9:15 ESPN | Preview Dec. 22: Miami Beach Bowl: BYU vs....

But as we’ve seen time and again, athletes aren’t exactly the best-dressed people on the planet. Here’s our rundown of the different wardrobes at the 2014 ESPYs: Erin Andrews (Fox reporter) and Chrissy Teigen (Sports Illiustrated swimsuit model): DeMarcus Cousins (NBA Kings center): Clint Dempsey and Jermaine Jones (U.S. men’s soccer team): Kevin Durant (Thunder star): Lolo Jones (U.S. bobsledder, track star): Sydney Leroux (U.S women’s soccer): Damian Lillard (Trail Blazers):...

Argentina had started strongly thanks to point guard Pablo Prigioni, who quickly netted 15 points, but after the first quarter the Brazilians took control as shooting guard Raulzinho Nieto began to exert his authority on the game hitting nine out of 10 attempts at field goals Sunday. Meanwhile, Tiago Splitter and Anderson Varejao took control under the hoop, limiting the effectiveness of Luis Scola, who for once was off the mark, scoring just two out of 10 field goal attempts....

Cooks moved into the first-round discussion after a strong NFL Combine in which he had the fastest 40 time among receivers at 4.33. At 5-foot-10, Cooks could factor in as a slot receiver right away. OTHER WRS: Watkins | Evans | Beckham He put up video-game numbers at Oregon State last season (128 catches, 1,730 yards, 16 TDs), and he did a lot of his damage when the Beavers were trailing (69 catches, 811 yards, 7 TDs)....

MORE: 2014 NFL Draft first-round recap | Manziel to Cleveland Browns However, there are a few picks that make too much sense in retrospect. Some of these selections were popular to different degrees in mock drafts while others caused a bit more surprise. This is not necessarily deeming success or failure, just that it seems more predictable in retrospect. North Carolina tight end Eric Ebron to the Detroit Lions at No....

Hard or soft, sunny or dark, the Norwegian just keeps on winning. For Bode Miller and the rest of the U.S. Ski Team, however, this World Cup season has been a different story in downhill. While Miller's form has improved in recent weeks, he took a step backward Sunday when he finished 35th in a race won with a perfect run from Svindal. "This wasn't good for my confidence," Miller said....

This is Mirza’s best showing at the final slam of the year having lost in the last four a year ago. The Hyderabadi lost in the Women’s doubles semifinals yesterday, but her form has been tremendous in New York. Mirza and Soares beat Taipei’s Yung-Jan Chan and Britain’s Ross Hutchins 7-5, 4-6, 10-7 on Wednesday, in just over 90 minutes in the semifinal. Their opponents Spears and Gonzalez defeated Donald Young and Taylor Townsend of the United States 6-3, 6-4 to book their place in the final....

The opening game proved to be fairly easy affair for the Indians as after racing away to an early 4-1 lead, they continued to chip away with the points not letting their opponents any chance to come into the contest and sealing the game 21-10. The same game proved to be a lot more even affair, but Gutta and Ponnappa began to assume control from the 8-8 mark and didn’t let that advantage slip, leading consistently by a minimum of 4 points throughout to eventually take the game 21-18 and progress through to the 3rd round....

The New York Yankees acquired Castro in a trade this offseason, opting to take a shot on his youth (26 on opening day) and talent (ranked as Cubs’ top prospect in 2010). Will fantasy owners do the same when looking for a 2016 middle infield sleeper? MORE FANTASY BASEBALL: 31 draft-day sleepers | Early mock draft | 2016 Fantasy Alarm Draft Guide It’s easy to feel sour toward Castro if you look at last year’s full-season numbers (11 HR, 5 SB, ....

Prannoy and Wang have always had gritty duels. Both times they played prior to this meeting, their matches went the distance. This time too, there was no exception. A great start to the game by Prannoy Prannoy made a spectacular comeback in the opener, saving a game point after surviving some early aggressive play from his Chinese Taipei rival. Wang had the game in his grip till the mid-game interval at which point he had built a massive 11-4 lead....