Month: October 2024

Super Bowl 58 is mere minutes away, and the anticipation surrounding the Big Game is at an all-time high so here are some last-minute Super Bowl picks to grab before kick-off.

The San Francisco 49ers enter this game looking for their first Lombardi Trophy since 1995, while the Kansas City Chiefs are on the precipice of a dynasty, looking for their second-straight title and third in five years. 

Super Bowl odds leading into kick-off have the 49ers -2-point favorites with the total sitting at 47.

With a plethora of betting options available, our Super Bowl predictions give you a chance to wager on the best markets with as much value as possible. 

If you are looking for a full game breakdown, be sure to check out our Chiefs vs. 49ers predi…

The Dallas Cowboys will host the Detroit Lions at AT&T Stadium on Sunday in a rematch of a controversial December contest that saw Dallas prevail 20-19.

Detroit is 3-1 this year and off a bye, but my Lions vs. Cowboys predictions are betting on its defense to get carved up in Week 6. Here are my best free NFL picks for this NFC showdown on October 13.

Lions vs Cowboys prediction

My best betCowboys team total Over 24.5 (-105 at BetMGM)

My analysisThe Dallas Cowboys are coming off a 20-17 win on the road against the Steelers and their stingy defense. The score could easily have been more lopsided than that since they rolled up 445 yards, but went 1-4 in the red zone and had three turnovers on a rain-soaked field. 

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One thousand yards on the ground or through the air has long been a benchmark of success in the NFL. Having a 1,000-yard season under your belt makes any defense have to account for you when game-planning. Sure, there are some lesser-known players who had a career year or two surpassing 1,000 yards — Brian Hartline, Harry Douglas, Kenny Britt, CJ Spiller, Peyton Hillis, Chris Ivory… you get the point — but it takes more than just luck to reach that milestone. It takes skill, consistency, and a system that plays to its players’ strengths. Halfbacks have had a much harder time reaching this milestone in recent years. In the 2000 NFL season, 23 players eclipsed 1,000 yards on the ground. That number fell to just nine in 2020. Since 2015, only once have more than 12 players hit the …

Leicester must beat Tottenham and realistically hope Liverpool fail to beat Crystal Palace to qualify for the Champions League. A disappointing state of affairs after allowing Jürgen Klopp’s side to sneak ahead and, when compared to a first FA Cup finally sitting in the trophy cabinet, ending up in the Europa League will not sting at all. Spurs, meanwhile, will be desperate for a win of their own to avoid a classic St Totteringham’s Day if Arsenal beat Brighton. To slip below the Gunners would be particularly painful after leading them for the whole season and, indeed, the entire league for a minute earlier on. Graham Searles

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USA midfielder Gio Reyna has responded to reports that he was almost sent home from Qatar for a perceived lack of effort during the team’s preparations for their World Cup opener against Wales.

The Athletic reported that Reyna was “walking around” while the rest of the team trained intensely in one session a few days before the Wales match, USA’s first game at a World Cup since 2014. It was not clear whether the 20-year-old’s performance was due to injury or disappointment that he was unlikely to start against Wales. The Athletic said senior US players spoke to Reyna about the situation several times before he eventually apologized to his teammates, and the matter was considered to be settled.

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Ivory Coast lost their second group game at this year’s Africa Cup of Nations and followed it up by losing their third, 4-0 to Equatorial Guinea. They were, by any realistic assessment, on their way out of a tournament they were hosting, especially when Ghana went 2-0 up against Mozambique, which seemed to close off the possibility of the Ivorians going through as one of the four best third-place teams.

But then Mozambique scored twice in injury-time, Ivory Coast snuck through, sacked their manager and, after equalising with an 86th-minute penalty against Senegal, and equalising in the last minute when down to 10 men against Mali, the rest was history.

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“Flyover Country” in the American League contains history’s greatest home-run squad (Minnesota, somehow), perhaps the league’s most exciting team….and then three teams not even trying. This is pretty much the norm in baseball these days, a division that has one or two teams fighting over actual prizes and then three in the corner, pocketing the hors d’oeuvres, finishing drinks other guests left behind, and then ducking out the side door during a toast. credits: 2019 AL Central Standings The Twins golfed 307 Titleist baseballs over various walls last year, while amassing the second-highest slugging percentage as a team at .494. And they did that while only having one known slugger. The White Sox have accrued the most desirable young corps of players anywhere, but it feels li…

Happy holidays, you filthy animals, and welcome to Deadspin’s annual IDIOT OF THE YEAR extravaganza. Within these hallowed slides are 50 of the year’s least bearable dorks, whose transgressions range from “just kinda silly,” to “dangerously stupid,” to “Trevor Bauer.” The IDIOT OF THE YEAR selections ahead were voted on by an expert team of Deadspin staffers, whose first round of balloting was thrown out after they’d unanimously picked themselves No. 1. With that conflict of interest loophole sewn up, the team tried again. This list is the product of that scrupulous process. The qualities considered included, but were not limited to: Volume/Wrongness Coefficient: Look, nobody cares if you’re wildly off the mark about everything in private. But please don’t shout a…