Dez Bryant and the Cowboys after a nasty contract dispute reached a five-year, $70 million deal with $45 million guaranteed Wednesday, NFL.com was first to report, about an hour before the 4 p.m. deadline for franchise players to reach a long-term agreement. MORE: NFL’s 25 highest-paid players | Bryant’s career in photos Bryant receives $23 million of his guranteed money in 2015, and the rest becomes fully guranteed in March 2016, according to Pro Football Talk....

The DFS MLB Playbook PRO comes with a full top 10 at each position every day, optimal lineups for each DFS site, deep stats and daily projections, hitting and pitching strategies, a live DFS scoreboard to track your players and much more. So, enjoy the free sneak peek into the best DFS MLB plays for Wednesday’s day games below – look for the night-game Playbook later today – and check out FantasyAlarm....

Throughout the season, I’ll help you each week to differeniate your lineup in large GPP tournaments (guaranteed prize pool) with some contrarian, upside plays. In this article, we’ll look strictly at a couple strategies for cash game play on FanDuel. Editor’s note: The Sporting News Football Championship is coming! Hosted by FanDuel, this exclusive event will feature 10 weeks of qualifiers, culminating in a FREE Week 11 Final with $20,000 in prizes....

What are the things you’re doing to get better and make the right decisions? Are you taking advantage of all the advice and resources that are available to you? The best DFS players know how to use both data and intuition to maximize winnings. Below, you’ll find tips and strategy advice on all of the most important aspects of daily fantasy sports. While it’s fun to focus solely on picking lineups, picking the right contests – and know the different strategies that accompany them – and budgeting your money are equally vital to sustained DFS....

In the exchange diet, foods are grouped together based on the amount of carbohydrates they contain. The diet allows you to swap one food for another that had a similar “carb count.” This type of diabetes diet is no longer the standard for all people with diabetes. Instead, nutritionists and healthcare providers work to provide nutritional information to help people create personalized meal plans. Even with these new options, though, the exchange diet, or a version of it, is preferred by many people with diabetes....

This article will highlight the symptoms that occur at each of the stages, from mild nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy to proliferative diabetic retinopathy, It will also discuss what your options are at each stage. Stage 1: Mild Nonproliferative Diabetic Retinopathy In this early stage of diabetic retinopathy, also known as background retinopathy, there are not yet any symptoms. But when an eye doctor examines you, some tiny microaneurysms (bulges in blood vessels) may be present....

Causes Newborns and younger infants commonly have some matting in their eyes and may have a lot of tearing. Although often blamed on pink eye, watering eyes without symptoms such as red eye are more commonly caused by a blocked tear duct, something referred to as dacryostenosis. The most common cause of nasolacrimal duct obstruction in newborns is a failure of the membrane guarding the duct—the valve of Hasner—to open. Children can have a blocked tear duct affecting either one or both eyes....

The teams combined for four hit batters in Monday’s exhibition. Arizona pitchers were responsible for the final three. After the second and the third HBP, the D-backs pitcher and manager were ejected. MORE: Sports brawls you won’t forget Right-hander Allen Webster and skipper Chip Hale were tossed in the fifth inning after Webster plunked Justin Turner. In the eighth, Derek Eitel hit Dillon Moyer and was ejected along with acting manager Glenn Sherlock....

The portrait was painted by artist Nelson Shanks as a preparatory study for a much larger formal painting of Diana which she later hung on the grand staircase of her Kensington Palace apartment. The work was undertaken in 1994 which was a turbulent period in Diana’s life coming just two years after her separation from Charles and three years before her tragic death in a Paris car crash. The display of the portrait by British-based art dealers Philip Mould & Co....

Check out ESPN’s Dick Vitale’s “Are you serious” call as John Gillon drained a 3-pointer as time expired: MORE: Syracuse’s John Gillon hits buzzer-beater to stun No. 10 Duke Bring on March Madness.

Alexander Dugin is a political philosopher and commentator known for promoting Russian propaganda, sometimes referred to as “Putin’s brain” and “Putin’s Rasputin.” He has been credited with being an architect of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine that has drawn widespread condemnation. His daughter, 29-year-old Darya Dugina, was a journalist and political commentator who shared similar views. Russian state media reported that she was in a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado when it exploded near the village of Velyki Vyazomy on the outskirts of Moscow....

Abbott announced on Tuesday that a statewide mask mandate would be rescinded and all businesses would be able to open at full capacity effective March 10. He received widespread criticism from prominent political leaders in the state. The governor also took heat from those on social media, where a claim that he’d had received the vaccine shortly before making the announcement was gaining traction early on Thursday morning. Twitter user @Sundae_Gurl tweeted a photo of Abbott receiving the COVID-19 vaccine at around 10....

With the clock ticking down under 10 seconds, Herro came off a Gabe Vincent screen and isolated against Terence Davis at the top of the key. Davis played solid defense against Herro, getting a hand up on his initial gather, but Herro adjusted to make a difficult shot. SIGN UP TO WATCH EVERY GAME ON NBA LEAGUE PASS: U.S. and U.K. | All other countries On the ensuing play, Domantas Sabonis attempted to tie the game off a deep pass from Matthew Dellavedova, but he was whistled for an offensive foul as time expired....

MORE: UFC 261 date, start time, odds, PPV schedule & card for Kamaru Usman vs. Jorge Masvidal 2 Masvidal is ranked fourth in the welterweight division according to the official UFC rankings. Ahead of him are Colby Covington and Burns, who have also lost to Usman, and Leon Edwards, who lost to the champion early in his UFC run. Just behind Masvidal is Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson, who holds a win over Masvidal but failed twice in title opportunities against Tyron Woodley a few years ago, and Vicente Luque, winner of three straight fights with his last loss coming to Thompson....

The league, in a statement obtained by NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, said the onus of enforcing league-mandated protocols fell on teams. It also added that failure to properly enforce said protocols had resulted in discipline against other clubs in the past. MORE: Aaron Rodgers’ ‘immunized’ comments bite Packers QB after COVID-19 positive diagnosis “The primary responsibility for enforcement of the COVID protocols within club facilities rests with each club,” the NFL said....

The law has actually created confusion for law enforcement around the state, and the capital city of Columbus has stated it will not prosecute misdemeanor marijuana cases, according to WBNS 10TV. SB 57 allows Ohio farmers to grow hemp as a new revenue source. The law says hemp is excluded from the legal definition of marijuana—depending on the amount of THC—the chemical in marijuana that gets someone high. If a given sample has a THC level of 0....

Eleven-seed UCLA scored an 88-78 overtime upset of 2-seed Alabama in the Sweet 16 on Sunday; Crimson Tide senior Alex Reese sent the game to OT with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer, but the Bruins prevailed by outscoring the Tide 23-13 in the extra period. But Alabama fans — and some impartial viewers, too — were angry at officials when they didn’t call an offensive foul on Bruins guard Tyger Campbell late in regulation....

In the show, the ghost of Duke Ellington is a recurring character from Season 1. In Season 3, Ellington gets his own episode dedicated to his life. Early on in the episode, Ellington talks about how his early passion was playing baseball and he mentions former president Teddy Roosevelt used to watch him play. Immediately after sharing this news, Ellington broke the fourth wall and told the audience to Google it....

The Yankees shortstop was plunked in the right shoulder early in Sunday’s win over the Dodgers, prompting him to exit the game early. While there didn’t appear to be any structural damage, manager Aaron Boone was worried. The Yankees kept Gregorius out of Monday’s series opener against the Mariners, but the team got good news about Gregorius the same day. “So he came in (Monday) feeling better. Still pretty sore, though,” Boone said Monday, via the New York Daily News....

The Blues striker acknowledges that his frequent incidents with opponents were getting him into trouble and making him an easy target for Premier League referees. Costa has tried to curb his aggression in the 2016-17 campaign, collecting eight yellow cards in 33 appearances across all competitions. “The suspensions I received made me reflect,” the Spain international told Chelsea’s official website. WATCH: Costa chaos in Chelsea training “I stopped and thought about it....