Month: October 2024

Just two teams remain on the NFL Playoff bracket! The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers have advanced to the Super Bowl; which teams will come out victorious in Las Vegas?

NFL playoff bracket

The teams are set for Super Bowl Sunday.

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The Pittsburgh Steelers host the Dallas Cowboys in Week 5’s Sunday Night Football showcase. 

The Cowboys are missing some key players on defense, which has my Cowboys vs. Steelers predictions backing Justin Fields’ NFL player props in this Sunday nightcap.

See why I’m also betting on Pittsburgh running back Najee Harris and fading Dallas RB Rico Dowdle with my best free Cowboys vs. Steelers NFL picks for SNF on October 6.

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The NFL is a small-sample league. Before you can even blink, 18 games have flown by and we’re left trying to make sense of everything that happened. It means that luck can play a massive part in whether a team succeeds or fails, with a few bounces of the ball defining the entire story for an entire season. That being said, that doesn’t mean all NFL moves are immune to scrutiny. There are absolutely some bone-headed, moronic decisions that can derail a season from the beginning. Single moves can be so bad that they squander seasons, change legacies, and cost people their jobs. Brace yourself, as we get through the biggest blunders of the 2023 NFL season. Deshaun Watson’s contract truly rearing its ugly head source: Getty Images This somewhat falls between the last two years, but …

ANOTHER NIGHT, ANOTHER CITY

The Fiver didn’t get where it is today by stealing catchphrases from characters in 1970s sitcoms about a man named Reginald Perrin who fakes his own death out of boredom. No, The Fiver got where it is today by showing a willingness to improvise and adapt in a bid to overcome adversity, much like Diego Simeone at Atlético Madrid. While the Argentinian’s pitch-side attire remains as Johnny Cash as ever, he has in the past year completely changed his team’s approach to the game. Whether it’s changing his formation or slotting assorted square pegs into round, triangular or hexagonal holes, the man once renowned for the rigidity of his thinking about how the game should be play…

Paul Pogba is a major doubt for the World Cup in Qatar as he requires surgery on a knee injury sustained in pre-season with Juventus.

The 29-year-old has yet to feature this campaign and the Juventus head coach, Massimiliano Allegri, revealed on Monday that the midfielder will now undergo an operation to fix the problem. “We will realistically get him back in January,” Allegri added on the eve of his side’s Champions League opener at Paris Saint-Germain.

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Pogba played a key role in France’s World Cup triumph in 2018. The first match of their title defence comes against Australia on 22 November, with their other Group D games coming …

For more than three decades, English football media was a Winter wonderland. An eternal Winter. Winter extending an icy grip over the landscape. But even Winter, it seems, can end up being frozen out. Given the cold shoulder. It’s time to wrap up for Winter, now this particular Winter’s tale has reached its final chapter.

That, with apologies, was the opening paragraph to a column about Henry Winter’s dismissal by the Times, written in the style of Henry Winter for the Times. On the other hand, it’s entirely possible you haven’t the faintest idea what, or who, I’m talking about. Which to an oblique and probably self-defeating extent is actually the point.

Winter is the chief football writer of the…

The 2024 FedEx Cup season comes to a dramatic conclusion with this week's Tour Championship at the redesigned East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. Only the top 30 in the standings made it to the third and final leg of the playoffs, but how many players have a legitimate shot of hoisting the trophy and claiming the $25 million bonus check come Sunday? World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler arrived in Atlanta as the top seed and owning a two-stroke lead for the third consecutive year, but he has yet to go on to win a FedEx Cup title. Our golf experts preview the event and share their favorite prop picks along with best bets to win this week. TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP Location: Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 29-Sept. 1 Course: East Lake Golf Club (Par 71, 7,490 Yards) Purse: $100M (Winner: $25M) Defending Champio…

After more than six months of incarceration since her February arrest for having less than one gram of cannabis oil in her luggage at a Russian airport, eight-time WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison on Thursday for drug possession and smuggling. That harsh but expected final decision on Griner’s case is her final scheduled court appearance. How long Griner will stay in a Russian prison is now solely dependent on diplomatic relations between America and Russia. As noted by the Associated Press, a conviction is usually a prerequisite to arranging a prisoner exchange and also allows the WNBA star to apply for a presidential pardon. A swap between the countries freeing Griner and former US Marine Paul Whelan, detained under accusations of espionage, in e…