Dan Johnson has been an editor, writer, and analyst for DraftKings and DraftKings Network since 2024. He’s previously held editorial posts at The Paris Review, Macmillan Publishers, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, ASSIGNMENT Magazine, and FantasySixPack. You can find his various editorial work & writing (sports-related and non-) at all of the above.
The Dodgers open at home Thursday night with a matchup that should feel familiar all season: a deep, star-heavy lineup, a frontline starter on the mound, and a game where the offense has a real chance to set the tone early. Arizona is good enough to make this competitive, especially with Zac Gallen starting, but […]
March 26, 2026
Seattle opens the season against the Cleveland Guardians in a ballpark that still feels haunted by October. T-Mobile Park hosts its first game since last year’s ALCS, and that gives this opener a little more charge than a standard Game 1 of 162: two clubs trying to start clean, two right-handers with very different run-prevention […]
March 26, 2026
Opening Day at Great American Ball Park does not ease you into the season—it dares the ball to carry and asks whether your pitching can survive it. That is what makes this matchup so interesting. Garrett Crochet walks in as one of the few arms built to quiet a launching pad, coming off 205.1 innings […]
March 26, 2026
The Sweet Sixteen version of Iowa-Nebraska carries a little more voltage than a normal March matchup ever could. Nebraska comes in as the No. 4 seed at 28-6 after pushing through to the program’s first-ever Sweet Sixteen, while No. 9 Iowa is 23-12 and just knocked out No. 1 Florida to get here, which gives […]
March 26, 2026
Some revivals are built on nostalgia. The Comeback—as television artifact and at its narrative heart—has always been built on discomfort, timing, and the awful elasticity of show business. That is what makes this return feel earned instead of merely recycled. Lisa Kudrow’s cult HBO comedy first premiered in 2005, disappeared after one season, then pulled […]
March 21, 2026
Nebraska and Vanderbilt arrive here wearing different kinds of danger. Vanderbilt has the flashier silhouette—the SEC offense, the live-wire guards, the feeling that a seven-minute heater can turn the floor into a downhill runway. Nebraska feels heavier than that. The Huskers just authored the first NCAA tournament win in program history with a 76-47 dismantling […]
March 21, 2026
The Round of 64 wrapped on Friday, March 20 with a mix of chalk survival and a handful of mid-seed upsets, but nothing that truly detonated the seed line. No 13, 14, or 15 broke through. That matters now. It means the King of the Dogs target resets heading into the Round of 32—because the […]
March 21, 2026
The Round of 32 tends to expose the difference between a fun story and a team built to keep punching once the bracket gets louder. High Point arrives here as the last surviving No. 12 seed after its first NCAA tournament win in program history, an 83-82 shocker over Wisconsin. Arkansas walks in with a […]
March 21, 2026
The first Friday game for a defending champion is always a little theatrical. Everybody wants the ritual—an opening statement, a clean avalanche, a reminder that the machine still works. Florida walks into this one with that weight on its shoulders after a 26-7 season and an SEC run that mostly looked like a title defense […]
March 20, 2026
March comes for brands as often as it crowns them, and Kansas walks into this one carrying more burden than ease. The Jayhawks are 23-10, but the recent trail is choppier than a No. 4 seed usually wants: 2-3 in their last five, 70 points or fewer in four of those games, and a brutal […]
March 20, 2026
UCLA walks in at 23-11 after winning five of its last six before the Big Ten semifinal loss to Purdue, and the Bruins still profile like the cleaner tournament team even with the seed line flattening the difference. UCF is 21-11 and fully credible out of the Big 12, but its path here looks narrower. […]
March 20, 2026