Month: October 2024

Super Bowl 58 between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers is shaping up to be the most-viewed NFL championship game of all-time. NFL odds for the official viewership set by one sportsbook is 117.5 million viewers with the Over heavily juiced. That same book sets the female viewership share at 46.5% thanks to the expected appearance of Taylor Swift.

The game attracts many causal observers who, quite frankly, do not come to talk about the Chiefs’ pursuit of a dynasty or what their Super Bowl odds are. They don’t care about the schematic edge inherent to Christian McCaffrey’s mere presence. If you find yourself watching the game with some of these “fans” you can debate when to kick a field goal or when to go for…

The winless Jacksonville Jaguars host the Indianapolis Colts in an AFC South showdown at EverBank Stadium on Sunday.

Jacksonville rookie Brian Thomas headlines our Colts vs. Jaguars predictions, with Jags quarterback Trevor Lawrence and the air attack set up for success against a weak Indy pass defense in Week 5.

Find out more in our NFL picks for October 6.

Colts vs Jaguars prediction

My best betBrian Thomas Over 50.5 receiving yards (-135 at BetMGM)

My analysis

Jacksonville Jaguars rookie Brian Thomas has been a lone bright spot through the first four weeks, boasting 17 receptions for 275 yards and a pair of scores on just 26 targets. His 12.8 aDOT and 10.6 yards per target are high-end marks, and he’s c…

J.T. Poston shot an 8-under-par round of 63 to build a three-shot lead after Thursday's morning wave of the first round of the RBC Heritage on Hilton Head Island, S.C. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler carded a 2-under 69 at Harbour Town Golf Links four days after claiming his second Masters title. Scheffler, who is seeking his fourth win in his past five starts, rebounded from a double bogey on the third hole to sink four birdies on the day and record his 37th consecutive round of par or better. "I felt like I played a lot better than my score," he said. "I tried to give myself a little bit of grace today, just because I was a bit tired. I shanked that bunker shot today on 3 and I was kind of like, ‘OK, that's a bit unusual. I think maybe mentally I might not qui…

Zlatan Ibrahimovic took some time off from co-hosting the Sanremo Music Festival to watch Milan draw with Udinese on Wednesday. After weeks of anguished speculation about how his involvement in the event might affect his team’s title push, the Swede had picked up a thigh injury that ruled him out of this game regardless.

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Nevertheless, after appearing on stage for the festival’s opening night on Tuesday, he made the 170-mile return journey to sit with teammates on the bench. Ibrahimovic could do nothing to help as Milan coughed up another two points in a title race that is starting to slip away from them.

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Bob Dylan once had a piece of advice for aspiring artists: write 10 songs a day, and then discard nine. In a way this also appears to be Todd Boehly’s approach to improving English football. He is just putting stuff out there, you see. Running ideas up the flagpole and seeing if anyone salutes them. Throwing them out on the stoop and seeing if the cat licks them up. Not necessarily good ideas. Or practical ideas. Or popular ideas. Or ideas that really bear the weight of a moment’s logical thought. But ideas nonetheless.

As such it is not necessary at this stage actually to engage what the Chelsea owner said on stage at Bros, Brews and Brunch business conference in Jerky Falls, Connecticut last week. Spoiler: none of this is actually goin…

With 96 minutes gone in this agreeably fevered north London derby a small, stricken-looking man in a tracksuit could be seen leaping across the touchline at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, arms waving furiously, before being dragged back off the pitch by the fourth official.

Arsenal’s Nicolas Jover has been a pioneer of the fashion for set-piece coaches to pop up at every designated opportunity and assume a look of urgent command, apparently convinced that their presence sightly closer to the pitch, their personal voodoo, their revolving index fingers, will somehow affect events on it.

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On this occasion it seemed entirely justified. Frankly, as Guglielmo…

AFC North division preview 2024 predicted order of finish, record Cincinnati Bengals (11-6) A healthy Joe Burrow should have Cincinnati back in the playoff hunt for the third time in four seasons. The contract dispute with wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase could be a distraction. The Bengals have enough talent to overcome that challenge. Baltimore Ravens (11-6) Two-time MVP quarterback Lamar Jackson and newly-signed four-time, Pro Bowl running back Derrick Henry will be a formidable duo in the run game. The defense will be solid but the biggest question is with the offensive line, which has three new starters. Cleveland Browns (10-7) Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett leads one of the NFL's toughest defenses, which allowed a league-best 270.2 yards per game last seas…

So here's something that took us back a bit: Sacramento Kings guard/forward/madman Ron Artest is apparently on tour right now to support his modestly titled album "My World" — TRU WARIER! — and he's clearly playing the most amped up, crazy venues. How do we know? He's playing the Assembly Hall in Champaign, Illinois, home of our Fighting Illini! (And our graduation proceedings in 1997; our speaker was Diane Sawyer!) OK, so he's actually opening for Ludacris — star of the Oscar-winning, and SO COMPELLING Crash! — and Yung Joc, and it's this Friday, tickets still available. It's Ron Artest, in the home of REO Speedwagon. What more could you want? But for heaven's sake, don't throw water on him. Ron Artest At Assembly Hall [Asse…