Month: October 2024

Caleb Williams’ first game for the Chicago Bears is right up there with “Deadpool & Wolverine” among the must-see events of the summer.

The first overall pick has hopes soaring in the Windy City and the NFL odds buzzing. The Bears have a season win total of 8.5 (Over -160) and look-ahead lines peg Chicago as a favorite in 10 games this year. To put that betting market into perspective, the Bears have been a favorite just 10 total times in the past three seasons.

Williams ranks among names like Manning, Luck, and Burrow as surefire franchise quarterbacks, and the Bears have given him one of the best receiving corps in the entire league to work with. However, it will take more than big names on the backs of those blue and orange jerseys to …

We’re past the opening third of the schedule with NFL Week 7 odds open for business.

Football bettors have a fun slate in store, starting with the “Sean Payton Bowl” when the Denver Broncos battle the New Orleans Saints on Thursday.

The New England Patriots and Jacksonville Jaguars go to war in Wembley Stadium on Sunday morning, followed by an NFC North showdown between the Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings. The main event of Week 7 is a Super Bowl rematch between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers in the 4:25 p.m. ET slot.

The prime-time schedule is packed with the New York Jets visiting the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night and a Monday Night Football double-feature, starting with the Baltimore Ravens at Tampa Bay Buc…

This is yet another division that seems to be perennially up for grabs between a couple of teams, at least on paper, but unlike the NFC North, this division is fresh and exciting. A rookie quarterback! An MVP quarterback that Bill Polian wanted to convert to wide receiver! An annual dogfight to the top! And … the Bengals! Okay, maybe not the Bengals. But there are at least two, possibly three, teams that could conceivably battle their way to the top of the division. The three biggest questions in the division all revolve around quarterbacks. Will Lamar Jackson be able to avoid a MVP hangover and build on last season’s monster output, despite a humbling loss to the Titans in the playoffs? Will a 38-year-old Ben Roethlisberger, coming off an elbow injury, be able to make one last run …

Harry Kane has said his message to his England teammates just before he leads them out to face Germany at Wembley on Tuesday afternoon will be to play with freedom.

For many in the side the match will be the biggest occasion of their careers yet Kane is adamant that all of them should express themselves. “The messaging will be what it’s been all week: be free, enjoy it,” the captain said. “We all want to win, that will naturally come out in our performance. We’ve had experience at international and club level now so we’ve just got to go out there and enjoy it and make the most of it.”

England’s previous match was last Tuesday’s final 1-0 group win over Czech Republic. “We’ve had a long time to …

It was not a great weekend for the Ligue 1 teams pushing for Europe. Lorient, who beat Rennes in a Breton derby on Friday, were the only side in the top seven to pick up three points. The biggest match of the weekend saw two of the top four – Marseille and Monaco – meet at the Stade Vélodrome for a scintillating 1-1 draw that was a tale of two halves.

Monaco went into the game with the second-best away record in the league, after Paris Saint-Germain. With just one defeat on their travels this season – which came in a wild match against a magnificent Lille side – Monaco have quietly edged back into contention for the Champions League, shaking off their bitter Coupe de France elimination to second-tier Rodez and winning three of their…

Before this visit of the greatest team in modern English football, a gaggle of excitable young West Ham fans were overheard discussing their side’s prospects for the afternoon. “No, but actually be honest,” said one boy to another. “What do you really think will happen?”

After a moment’s thought, he predicted a 3-1 defeat for the hosts, with Erling Haaland scoring two of the goals. A couple of hours later, his crystal ball had delivered almost the perfect forecast.

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Matches like these are peculiar beasts for supporters of opposing teams playing Manchester City, a club who continue to make a mockery of the supposed competi…

Micah Parsons will be doing what he does best for the Dallas Cowboys full-time during the 2023 season — rush the passer. Surely he will be depended on to use his linebacker skills to stuff running plays and drop into coverage from time to time, but his main job will be to chase after opposing QBs. Parsons is using this offseason to bulk up the can he is able to consistently hold his own against offensive tackles. He has already put on five pounds of muscle and is also doing boxing workouts to help with his hand fighting. “Just trying to stick in the run,” Parsons said via Calvin Watkins of the Dallas Morning News. “It’s hard battling 300-pound guys at 255 pounds every week. So I’m just trying to put on five pounds of muscle, just eating right, and living right.” I assume…

Thanks to Ryan Thibodaux’s diligent ballot tracking, we already knew that Jeff Bagwell and Tim Raines (thank God) were going into the Hall of Fame this year. Now that all of the ballots have been counted, we can see if anyone else will be joining them. Ivan Rodriguez made it! This is good, because Pudge is awesome. That’s it, nobody else made it. The other suckers will have to wait until next year. Here is how all the votes shook out: Which snub are you most angry about? Please tell me in your loudest possible voice. …