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Just because we don’t necessarily have a lot of high-quality potential pickups doesn’t mean we don’t feature a high quantity. Our full free agent list has players at every position, including some TE and D/ST streamers toward the bottom. Defense looks especially thin this week, so you might need to find a streamer. If you’re in the market for a new kicker (sorry, Younghoe Koo owners), then our Week 4 kicker rankings can help....

The DFS MLB Playbook PRO comes with comments on the top plays, a full top 10 at each position every day, optimal lineups for each DFS site, preferred team “stacks,” deep stats and daily projections, hitting and pitching strategies, a live DFS scoreboard to track your players and much more. So check out today’s top DFS picks below, and check out FantasyAlarm.com’s premium product when you’re ready to go PRO....

WEEK 22 RANKINGS: PG | SG | SF | PF | C Here is the early edition of The Daily Fantasy Basketball Playbook for Tuesday, March 24th. Make sure to check FantasyAlarm.com for an updated version before tip-off. Point Guards Shooting Guards Small Forwards Power Forwards Centers DRAFTKINGS: NBA $70K Sharpshooter $70,000 in total prizes; first place wins $5,000! - Free contest entry with first deposit using this link! Mark Kaplan is a fantasy basketball expert for FantasyAlarm....

The 26-year-old who joined Maurizio Sarri’s men from Saint-Etienne will remain a Napoli player until 2022, fending off interests from Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea. Ghoulam’s two goals [Hellas Verona and SPAL 2013] from his defensive duties helped the Light Blues to an impressive 14-game unbeaten streak - which was ended by Juventus. Although he remains on the sidelines owing to a cruciate ligament injury picked up in a Champions League tie against Manchester City in November, that has not stopped Ghoulam from expressing his delight having renewed his stay at Stadio San Paolo....

With temperatures in the 90s and even topping 100 in some places, U.S. farms have struggled to keep farm animals out of the heat and irrigation running as extreme weather has terrified farmers about what’s in store for August. One Massachusetts farmer described the industry as on the brink of “crisis.” “In July, when we’re getting the weather that we usually get in August, it’s pretty scary,” Todd Sandstrum, manager of Medway Community Farm in Medway, told WFXT in Boston....

Sorry, mom. your favorite leading man was leading a double life. “Dr. Kildare’s” Richard Chamberlain–who comes out in a new memoir titled “Shattered Love”–discusses his decades of deception with NEWSWEEK’s B. J. Sigesmund. Was it hard to lie for so long? No, I accepted it as an absolute necessity. I made a vow with myself to be as secretive about these matters as possible. I was young, and that was my life....

How do electoral politics shape decisions? Churchill was seen as a warmonger, and his re-election [to Parliament] was fought against the slogan “We cannot be the policeman of the world.” The dominating obsession was cost and troop numbers. The danger is that the U.S. is headed in the same direction. Why were both countries so seemingly unprepared? The Brits didn’t know Iraqi society because they wanted to keep costs down–they didn’t do a census....

Diagnostic sleep studies may show an altered pattern, and some brain imaging abnormalities may be identified with the disease. A genetic test can verify the condition. While there is no effective treatment that can reverse or prevent fatal familial insomnia, ongoing research may point to some progress in the future. Symptoms Symptoms of FFI generally begin at an average age of 56 (range 18 to 73 years). Despite the name, insomnia may not be the first symptom of the disease....

The Valley County Sheriff’s Office received a call on June 27 from the Idaho Division of Aeronautics about an “overdue” aircraft that had been expected to arrive at Johnson Creek Airstrip the night before. Dispatchers then learned that the single-engine PA-20 plane had taken off from the Lower Loon Airstrip on June 26 and never arrived at its destination, according to a statement from the sheriff’s office posted on Facebook....

The 58-year-old man and his 13-year-old daughter were suffering from pre-hypothermia or hypothermia when Pennsylvania State Police discovered them in what one authority called a miracle. The man and his teen daughter, whose names were not released, had been flying to the Pocono Mountain Municipal Airport after a brief stop at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport. The Associated Press reported that the FAA said their plane had disappeared from radar after a rapid descent....

The concept of a “dad joke”—a kind of joke that is purposely so unfunny or embarrassing it becomes funny again—has seen a rise in popularity and appreciation in recent years. There are a host of books that claim to offer the best (read: exceptionally bad) dad jokes, with several Twitter accounts dedicated to the format. One of the biggest, @Dadsaysjokes, currently has more than 295,000 followers on Twitter, and on the Facebook page Dad Jokes, celebrities have a “showdown” for who can tell the best dad joke followed by more than 1....

Symptoms According to a 2019 report in the journal Biological Research for Nursing, fatigue can be defined as an “overwhelming, debilitating, and sustained” exhaustion that makes it harder to carry out activities and function. Family practice physicians report that at least 20% of their patients report fatigue and up to 35% of adolescents report fatigue that occurs at least four days a week. Men and women will describe fatigue differently. For example, men may say they are feeling tired, whereas women may report their fatigue as a feeling of anxiety or depression....

According to a new Morning Consult/Politco poll published Wednesday, 62 percent of voters rated Dr. Anthony Fauci’s handling of the coronavirus “excellent” or “good,” compared with the 36 percent of voters who answered the same for Trump. The recent poll, conducted July 10 to 12, saw both men’s numbers fall slightly from mid-April when voters were asked the same question. But even then, Fauci, who serves as the top adviser on the White House’s coronavirus task force, was leading Trump in approval ratings....

The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) made the comments the day that pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Pfizer announced their respective COVID-19 experimental vaccines were entering their next phases. Moderna is working with the NIAID, and Pfizer with biopharmaceutical company BioNTech. Fauci told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “If we get a widespread uptake of vaccine, we can put an end to the pandemic and we can create a veil of immunity that would prevent the infection coming back....

Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and a public face of the White House coronavirus task force, said in an interview during NBC News’ Today show this morning he hoped to see a handover approved soon. Asked how concerned he was about the situation by host Savannah Guthrie, Fauci replied: “I’ve served in six administrations, so I’ve seen a number of transitions. And I know that transitions are very important to get a smooth, as I use the metaphor, [it’s] essentially passing a baton without stopping running....

Fauci made the remarks during an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box, when pressed on the possibility of further measures amid a surge of COVID-19 infections largely fueled by the Delta variant—and increasingly, the Omicron variant. “You’ve got to just take things one step at a time and take a look at how things evolve,” Fauci said. “I mean, obviously, if you are vaccinated, your family’s vaccinated, you have friends who are vaccinated and hopefully also boosted, you can still enjoy a social gathering generally in a home....

Despite the opposition of its city council members, D.C. recently lifted its indoor mask mandate. This move came as the country is seeing an uptick in COVID-19 cases, with an 18 percent increase in average daily cases in D.C. specifically over the last two weeks, despite hospitalizations being down 20 percent. In light of this news, Fauci told NPR’s Morning Edition that loosening mask rules “adds an extra degree of risk,” especially as cases and hospitalizations climb heading into the holiday season....

In a new poll from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), 40 percent of respondents said that Antifa, the largely unorganized movement of anti-fascist activists that President Donald Trump has repeatedly lobbied be designated a “terrorist organization,” was either “significantly” or “somewhat” responsible for the Capitol attack. Of that number, 27 percent believed that Antifa was significantly responsible. Trump, who has come under fire by many who say his rhetoric incited the riot, still received most of the blame in the survey....

The newly crowned South African Premier Soccer League (PSL) champions are set to lock horns with the Blaugrana for the second time in their history, in a match that will used to commemorate the 100th birthday of the fallen former state president Nelson Mandela. Ever since the announcement that Barcelona would be heading to South African shores, there has been much excitement, but one question on everyone’s mind was just what kind of squad would Barcelona bring to South Africa, considering that they still have a La Liga game remaining as well as it being a Fifa World Cup year, with the 2018 showcase event just a month away....

It added a second piece of silverware with its Supporters’ Shield win but fell short of its ultimate goal of a treble, falling to the eventual MLS Cup champion Seattle Sounders in the Western Conference semifinals. But Hunt intends to make sure the window for FCD to win trophies stays open as long as possible, something he’s trying to facilitate by spending to bring in reinforcements. “You don’t ever want the window to close, but yes we have expectations,” Hunt told Goal USA....