Month: October 2024

The number one seed in the AFC, Baltimore Ravens, are getting a huge boost just in time for the AFC Championship game against the defending Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. Mark Andrews has been activated and will play in his first game since an injury in Week 11.

The Ravens are slight favorites in the Conference Championship odds and will be hosting their first-ever Conference Championship game in franchise history. 

We take a closer look at the Mark Andrews odds and give our best free NFL picks for Chiefs vs. Ravens on January 28. Be sure to keep up to date on the NFL odds and check out our Chiefs vs. Ravens predictions, along with our Chiefs vs. Ravens props and our Lamar Jackson odds spotlight! 

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The NFL Week 5 odds close out with a non-conference clash on Monday Night Football, when the Kansas City Chiefs welcome the New Orleans Saints to Arrowhead Stadium.

Kansas City is unblemished through four weeks but doesn’t look like its dominant self, especially considering it could be down one of Patrick Mahomes’ top targets. The NFL odds are still setting the Super Bowl champs as sizeable home chalk against a New Orleans team on a two-game tumble.

My Saints vs. Chiefs predictions dive into the spread and total and give my early NFL picks for October 7.

Saints vs Chiefs predictions

Early spread leanChiefs -5.5 (-110 at FanDuel)

My analysisThe Kansas City Chiefs were as big as -6 for this primetime matchup, b…

March Madness is just around the corner. Conference tournaments will be underway and soon enough, we’ll be down from 350-plus teams contending for a championship to 68. The high-level conference teams that’ll compete for a title have been well-documented and we’ll no doubt see some of them make it deep into March. There are also always those teams who come out of nowhere for their day in the spotlight. Remember Saint Peter’s last season? Or Loyola Chicago a decade ago? Who will become the Cinderella of this season? Here are the candidates to bust your bracket in a few weeks. And don’t say we didn’t warn you as upsets happen. And trust us, they will. College of Charleston credits: AP The lowly Colonial Athletic Association might get two teams into the NCAA Tournament. The …

New club records are on offer to the champions at Anfield – namely 64 home league games unbeaten and scoring in 39 successive top flight league matches at home – but Jürgen Klopp is unlikely to have given them a second thought during a damaging international break. Joe Gomez’s knee injury, Jordan Henderson’s groin scare and Mohamed Salah’s positive Covid-19 tests have increased Liverpool’s selection problems before meeting a Leicester team enjoying the club’s best start to a top-flight season. It was Leicester, incidentally, who ended Liverpool’s 63-game unbeaten run at Anfield in 1981. Andy Hunter

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Manchester City have been criticised by a skin cancer charity after fans were told they could not take sun cream to the Etihad Stadium.

City’s supporter services team responded to a fan’s inquiry on Twitter before Saturday’s 4-0 Premier League victory against Bournemouth, where temperatures reached 31C, by saying: “Sun cream will not be permitted on entry into the stadium. We advise supporters to apply this before coming and to bring a hat and water.”

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Melanoma UK, the country’s leading melanoma patient organisation, branded City’s policy “disappointing” and “very worrying”.

It said: “Really?…

The United States escaped defeat with an own goal in the sixth minute of second-half stoppage time, Haji Wright scored twice in extra time and the Americans rallied past Jamaica 3-1 on Thursday night to reach the Concacaf Nations League final.
Greg Leigh scored just 30 seconds into the game for the Reggae Boyz, and the Americans were on the verge of losing their third straight match, after successive defeats to Trinidad and Tobago, and Slovenia. Instead, Wright scored in the sixth and 19th minutes of extra time and the US will try to win the Nations League for the third straight time on Sunday.
Both of Wright’s goals were set up by Gio Reyna, who entered at the start of the second half after being limited to 42 minutes over four substitute appearances for Notting…

Six weeks remain in the MLB regular season, and playoff races have suddenly gotten quite tight.Multiple teams are starting to feel the pressure. You can see it in anomalies like the New York Yankees getting trucked by the 90-loss Chicago White Sox on Monday night or the Atlanta Braves going from a sure postseason ticket to just barely hanging on in mid-August.There’s a lot of excitement and a lot of value available, including our best bets for August 13.St. Louis Cardinals vs. Cincinnati RedsHunter Greene gives the Reds a chance to win every time he takes the mound. The Reds have now won four of his past five starts, and the one loss came because they didn’t get anything going against Tampa Bay. They also didn’t get anything going the last time Greene faced St. Louis, but they’re …

The modern Baseball pitcher utilizes myriad sleights of hand in his quest to fool and demoralize the slugger. Taunts, curses, incantations. Foreign substances added to the ball, including but not limited to urine and faeces (both human and animal) or reproductive fluids (both human and animal). Diving curvéd-balls which defy natural law and spit in the face of the one true God, YHWH. Various effete leg movements and kicks meant to distract the incorruptible batsman standing at the plate. Et cetera, dear reader. No doubt you have witnessed some or all of these deceptions if you have watched so much as a single inning of Baseball in the past century. These tricks, to be sure, are wicked, underhanded, and inexplicably condoned by the various shadowy forces which have turned our fair game in…