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Were dealing with yet another abbreviated slate on Thursday, but on the bright side, weve seen some truly awful Thursday slates this season, and while this one isnt great, its not the worst weve seen. With a legitimate ace at the top and multiple mid-tier options also in play, this should add up to a decent little slate for DFS players.PitchingEliteMadison Bumgarner, as you might expect, is the top play of the day. He heads to Oakland, where hell have to face a DH instead of a pitcher. However, the O.co Coliseum is a pitcher-friendly environment, and while the As fare better against left-handers than righties, theyre still middle-of-the-road. Plus, Bumgarner is elite, so hes matchup-proof anyway. His 1.99 ERA is second in baseball only to Clayton Kershaw, and his 10.1 K/9 is a career best. Dont expect a lofty strikeout total, as the As are striking out an MLB-best 16 percent in June. That said, the floor here is high, and thats what you want in cash games.SolidNo team in baseball strikes out more against right-handed pitching than the Brewers, who fan 26 percent of the time. Add in the fact that they also dont do much damage when they do make contact (90 wRC+), and Kenta Maeda finds himself in a very appealing spot on Thursday. The right-hander is in play in both cash and guaranteed prize pool games.Despite a game score of 58 and a high-upside matchup against the Reds, Im going nowhere near Gio Gonzalez in cash games on Thursday. The lefty has surrendered five or more runs in five of his last seven starts, and most of those outings came against weak offenses (Padres, Brewers, Reds, Mets). Feel free to roll the dice with him in tournaments, though, as hes striking out more than a batter per inning and the Reds whiff at a 22 percent clip against southpaws.John Lackey is coming off his worst start of the season (7 ER in 4 1/3 innings against the Marlins), but hes in prime position to bounce back on Thursday. The veteran right-hander draws a Mets team thats striking out 23 percent of the time versus righties and put up a .299 wOBA in June. Prior to his last outing, Lackey had allowed three or fewer runs in each of his previous 10 starts, so I still trust him as a cash play.Like Lackey, Jordan Zimmermann is coming off his worst outing of the season. However, a road tilt against Tampa Bay might be too good to pass up. The Rays have done little against right-handed pitching this season and are fanning at a 25 percent clip, more than any team in the AL. Whiffs arent a big part of Zimmermanns game this season (5.7 K/9), but he owns a 7.3 career K/9 and should be able to rack up at least a handful of Ks in such a favorable matchup. Im still hesitant about Zimmermann given his recent struggles, but hes still in play as a potential SP2 if the price is right.Steven Matz, who is dealing with a bone spur in his pitching elbow, had his next start pushed back from Wednesday to Thursday. The bone spur is more of a red flag for season-long owners than DFS players, but a date with the Cubs naturally means sounding a note of caution with any cash recommendation. The Cubs are a top-five team against left-handed pitching and lead the majors in walk rate (11 percent), so the Mets lefty will have little margin for error. That said, the door is open for Matz as a high-upside tournament play. The Cubs are whiffing at a 24.3 percent clip in June, while Matz is striking out nearly a batter per inning.StreamersOne of the most enticing matchups of the day belongs to Carlos Rodon. The southpaw draws a home start against the Twins, who are one of the worst teams in the AL against left-handed pitching and strike out 25 percent of the time. For his part, Rodon is whiffing a batter per inning and has allowed more than two earned runs just once in his last seven outings. He makes for an appealing GPP play, and hes also a viable streaming option given his low ownership.Michael Pinedas 5.51 ERA is an obvious deterrent, but theres potential value here if you look for it. Not only does the 27-year-old sport a top-10 whiff rate (10.4 K/9), but hes also shown some positive trends in June, posting a 3.00 ERA over five starts. With the Rangers, a team thats below average against righty pitching, on tap, Pineda is set up to succeed on Thursday.Wei-Yin Chen and his fantasy owners caught a break, as the Miami Marlins lefty was pushed to Thursday to face the Atlanta Braves instead of facing the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday as originally scheduled. Look for Chen to take advantage, as the Braves are the second-worst team in terms of wOBA versus southpaws, plus they sport an above-average 22 percent strikeout rate in this scenario.AvoidThis probably goes without saying, but dont go chasing Chris Young and his 9.2 K/9 rate on Thursday. The right-hander owns a 7.79 ERA in June and a 9.70 ERA on the road this season. The Cardinals, who sport an MLB-best 119 wRC+ versus righties this year, wont go easy on him.HittingTommy Milone has made only six appearances (five starts) for the Twins this season, but they havent been pretty. Those six outings have resulted in a 5.33 ERA, 1.52 WHIP and five homers allowed in 27 innings. Right-handed boppers Jose Abreu and Todd Frazier should be able to take advantage, and Melky Cabrera, whos batting .340 off lefties this year, is also in play.Theres no way around it: Left-handed batters have absolutely bashed Chris Young this season. Hes faced 113 lefty hitters this year, and theyve put up a .364/.442/.867 slash line against him. With the Cardinals on the docket, Matt Carpenter is an elite play, and Brandon Moss and Matt Adams are both high-end options if theyre in the lineup.Reds lefty Brandon Finnegan has shown some good things this season. However, hes also struggled with his control (4.2 BB/9) and has allowed tons of hard contact (36 percent). On Thursday, hes running into a Nationals team that crushes left-handers (.345 wOBA and .202 ISO). There are plenty of Nationals bats worth consideration here, but Jayson Werth, who is batting .394-5-15 versus lefties this year, should be the top target.With soft-tossing lefty Dillon Overton on the hill for the As on Thursday, Buster Posey makes for an intriguing option behind the plate. Overton allowed three homers in his major league debut. Posey, meanwhile, is hitting .301/.388/.479 versus southpaws this season.Most likely to go yard: Matt CarpenterChris Young cant get left-handed hitters out, and Carpenter, who is on pace for 30 bombs, smashes righties. Lets not overthink this.Most likely to swipe a bag: Ian DesmondMichael Pineda has allowed 11 stolen bases this year (bottom 10), while catcher Brian McCann has allowed 34 baserunners to steal off him (bottom five). Desmond, who leads the Rangers with 13 swipes, must be licking his chops.Nike Shoes Black Friday 2019 . 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World champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia won the gold medal with 237.71 points, Moore-Towers and Moscovitch followed at 208.45 and Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov of Russia were third at 187.CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- For the University of Miami, probation is ending.Very little else will change.Miamis three-year NCAA probation largely stemming from the actions of rogue and now-former booster Nevin Shapiro gets completed on Friday. It satisfies one of the most damning sanctions the Hurricanes were issued, though some aftereffects -- scholarship reductions in football and mens basketball, most notably -- will remain felt for a few more months.Nothing really changes when probation ends, because weve already changed our approach, Miami athletic director Blake James said. Were not going to not be vigilant now. Were going to continue doing all we can to educate our students, our coaches, our fans on the importance of knowing and following NCAA rules to the intent of the law.A fairly standard end-of-probation series of events await Miami, which has had to file reports annually during the probation period to show how the school has continued taking corrective actions. Miamis final step was the sending of a letter from university president Julio Frenk affirming that all terms of the probation were met -- and once that is reviewed, if no issues remain, the NCAA replies with official word that probation is in fact over.What Miami does next is largely of its own accord. The Hurricanes self-imposed a number of additional stipulations to go along with the NCAA sanctions , including banning athletes from accepting invitations from boosters for occasional home-cooked meals -- something thats typically permissible.Another policy that James will revisit is the decision that has kept former football players from watching games from the Miami sideline.The date of when the probation ends, we have given no thought to, said Miami mens basketball coach Jim Larranaga, who has 10 scholarship players this year -- while most Diviision I clubs will have 13.ddddddddddddBeing on probation and being investigated since the day I arrived, thats more than five years that weve dealt with it. It has had a major impact. But now that its over with, I can see the difference in our recruiting.The Shapiro saga is one of the messiest chapters in Miamis history. The investigation took more than 30 months, going back to when Shapiro -- who is scheduled to remain in federal prison until 2027 for masterminding a $930 million Ponzi scheme -- first contacted the NCAA to essentially boast about his involvement with coaches and athletes at Miami and try to take down people he said betrayed him when he got in legal trouble.In reality, no one really knows when the sordid affair really started. Perhaps it was 2002, when he started interacting with Hurricane athletes, or 2009 when the school self-reported an internal probe over his actions to the NCAA, or 2011 when he took his story public. Miami elected to sit out two bowl games and an Atlantic Coast Conference football championship game while the NCAA probe crawled along.And the end of probation wont even end all the sanctions related to this tale.Shapiros attorney is scheduled to start a 91-day suspension from The Florida Bar later this year for cooperating with NCAA investigators, a partnership that also violated NCAA rules regarding subpoena usage in such probes and forced the governing body for college sports to remove some of its findings from the final list of allegations against Miami.The Hurricanes learned plenty of lessons from this mess, James said.The good news is Ive never gone through this before, James said. The better news is I never plan on going through this again. ' ' '