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.
Fenway Park on an April afternoon is not neutral—it rewards contact that carries just enough and punishes command that drifts just a little. That matters in a matchup like this, where the shape of the game is less about raw power and more about how cleanly each starter can navigate the first two trips through […]
April 3, 2026
Chicago finally gets to open at home, but the first week has already told you what this team is—and what it isn’t. The White Sox (1-5) return from a brutal road trip to face a Toronto club (4-2) that just played in October and now rolls in with Dylan Cease at the front of the […]
April 3, 2026
The Miami Marlins (5-1) head to the Bronx for the New York Yankees’ home opener against a fellow 5-1 club. This is a clean contrast game: Miami arrives with one of the league’s hottest early offenses, while New York has ridden elite run prevention to its record. Eury Pérez (RHP) faces Will Warren (RHP), and […]
April 3, 2026
Six games into the season and into the third series, the St. Louis Cardinals (4-2) head to Comerica Park for Detroit’s home opener against the Tigers (2-4). This matchup lands cleanly as early-season offense versus established pitching—St. Louis has shown more life at the plate, while Detroit leans on Framber Valdez and a stronger baseline […]
April 3, 2026
Stanford arrives at 20-12 with an offense that found real rhythm late in the year, while West Virginia comes in at 18-14 having spent the last month living inside low-possession, grind-it-out games. That makes this quarterfinal less about raw talent than about whose version of tournament basketball can actually take hold in Las Vegas. Below […]
April 2, 2026
Hinkle Fieldhouse becomes something different this week. And for this Final Four game, it’s a compression chamber for two No. 1 seeds that took very different paths to get here. National Invitation Tournament semifinal night strips everything down to execution, and both New Mexico (26-10) and Tulsa (29-7) arrive with credible claims. One brings control, […]
April 2, 2026
Chase Field has already turned this series into something unstable. Arizona has taken the first two—9-6, 7-5—both games hinging on late-inning avalanches, both games slipping once Detroit moved off its starter. That’s the texture: a series that has belonged to the Diamondbacks after the sixth, and a matchup tonight that sets up almost entirely before […]
April 1, 2026
For Lord of the Rings gamers, the drought has lasted long enough to become part of the mythology. The old high points are no longer just games; they are keepsakes—the bruising, improbably good movie-era rush of The Return of the King, the Battle for Middle-earth games that still get talked about like lost kingdoms, The […]
April 1, 2026
Houston comes in 4–2 and has spent the last four games grabbing the pen early, stacking 37 runs on 44 hits with 20 extra-base hits in the process. Boston is 1–4, dragging four straight losses and an offense that has been more sketch than painting so far, but this is the kind of afternoon where […]
April 1, 2026
The air is cold enough to thicken contact, the wind has a say in every deep fly, and the rhythm of the game tends to compress rather than sprawl. The Angels arrive at 3–3 having already played a 2–0 game in this series; the Cubs sit at 2–3 and are still searching for a clean […]
April 1, 2026
There are always a few underdogs on a full MLB board that are worth a longer look—not because they’re the better team on paper, but because the matchup is tighter than the price suggests. Tonight’s card has a couple of those spots. The numbers point to a few dogs with real offensive paths, manageable pitching […]
March 30, 2026