A pair of NFC South rivals face off with plenty at stake today as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers host the New Orleans Saints. The Buccaneers can clinch the division title and a playoff spot with a victory, but the Saints could steal it if they win out and the Tampa loses again next week.
NFL odds for this Week 17 clash opened with the Bucs as 3-point home faves before slimming to -2.5. Here are my best free NFL picks for the Saints vs. Buccaneers on December 31.
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New Orleans Saints wideout Chris Olave was limited in practice with an ankle injury on Wednesday, but he was dealing with that last week and still snagged nine of 13 targets for 123 yards against…
It’s an AFC East showdown on Thursday Night Football with the Miami Dolphins hosting the Buffalo Bills at Hard Rock Stadium, and we’ve got you covered with our top NFL props for the Tua Tagovailoa odds.
Buffalo has largely held Tagovailoa in check for the past two years, and we’re expecting more of the same out of the Miami quarterback.
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The Fiver didn’t get where it is today – sitting in its smalls at the kitchen table getting evils from the cat and staring forlornly at a relentlessly blinking cursor in the top left-hand corner of an otherwise pristine rectangle of white – without maintaining a stiff upper lip in the face of a crisis. Luckily for us, the Head of News and Corporate Communications at the Premier League didn’t get where they are today – possibly also sitting in their smalls at the kitchen table getting evils from the cat but putting their blinking cursor to good use by having it drag a total of 272 words across their pristine rectangle of white to complete a media release that The Fiver is about to plunder mercile…
Tottenham have called on their supporters to “move on” from using the word “Yid” after concluding a thorough review with fans’ focus groups.
Many Tottenham fans chant the controversial word – a derogatory term for a Jewish person – at matches, arguing that it is a reaction to antisemitic abuse supporters of the north London club were once subjected to by opposition fans.
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However, a survey of 23,000 fans in 2019 found that 94% agreed that the use of the word could be considered racist. Among the key findings of a further review completed in 2020 were that many fans remained uncomfortable with the word being used …
Exactly a week after Spain won their second World Cup, the footballer who scored the goal that secured their first spoke out. On Sunday morning, Andrés Iniesta added his voice to those that had accumulated ever more rapidly over the previous days and hours, starting with the 23 players who had become champions in Sydney and the 12 who had not, ultimately sacrificing the moment of their lives for their principles, the pursuit of improvement. “We can’t tolerate the behaviour which has overshadowed this huge feat,” Iniesta wrote. “I can’t imagine how the players feel seeing that what is being talked about is not the great tournament they produced, or the fantastic football they showed us. It’s over.”
For Luis Rubiales, it is. Or …
The Wells Fargo Championship is the sixth of eight signature events on the 2024 season and begins Thursday at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte. The event features a $20 million purse and increased FedEx Cup points. It also provides the 69-player field an opportunity to compete without red-hot Scottie Scheffler to contend with ahead of next week's PGA Championship. Our golf experts preview the tournament and provide their favorite prop picks along with best bets to win this week. WELLS FARGO CHAMPIONSHIP Location: Wells Fargo Championship, Charlotte, N.C., May 9-12 Course: Quail Hollow Club (Par 71, 7,558 Yards) Purse: $20M (Winners: $3.6M) Defending Champion: Wyndham Clark FedEx Cup Leader: Scottie Scheffler HOW TO FOLLOW TV: Thursday-Friday: 2-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday…
The 2022 NBA Draft’s most enigmatic player has arrived. Leonard Miller’s blank 247 Sports and Rivals pages are a tribute to how little he was recruited or scouted until recently. His Rivals recruiting page might as well be a ‘404 Not Found’ screen. He has no Rivals rating, no national rank and his ranking among small forwards is nil. The only bio information available lists him as a lanky 6-foot-10, 210-pound forward playing at Fort Erie International Academy in Toronto. However, in the right-hand corner of the screen I noticed they’ve tabulated that he has 10 offers pending and the fan projection predicts he will be attending Kentucky. This has to be a long con. It’s not uncommon for some impetuous high school student-athlete to gin up attention for themselves by generat…
The phrase “out of an abundance of caution” is so 2020, but here we are in 2021, seeing it again. It’s “out of an abundance of caution” that the United States won’t play Australia in men’s basketball on Friday, after Bradley Beal was ruled out for the Olympics and Jerami Grant entered health and safety protocols. Meanwhile, Thursday brought a couple of dueling headlines: “COVID-19 infections in Tokyo hit 6-month high as post-Olympics surge feared,” from Kyodo News, and “Risk of COVID spread is ‘zero,’ IOC chief says, amid rising cases” from Reuters, a headline in which the protagonist is undermined, appropriately, before you can even take a breath. “Risk for the other residents of the Olympic village and risk for the Japanese people is zero,” Thomas Bac…
MLB Photo Day is the best source for photos of MLB players looking visibly uncomfortable. A small percentage of the players embrace the situation as best as they can, like Nick Swisher. Let’s look at some others. The Texas Rangers took their photos in front of a distracting, ornate background, so every player looks like he’s posing for an acoustic sessions album cover. Here’s Josh Hamilton: Luke Hochevar would like to say hello, even if it means ruining Ian Kennedy’s game-face picture: Justin De Fratus does something similar to Ryan Cook: Here’s your annual opportunity to stare at Max Scherzer’s heterochromia: Who dragged Colby Rasmus out of the woods and made him take this photo? Pablo Sandoval’s thinking about all the fat jokes he’ll receive at Fenway: …
CBS has ordered a pilot for Home Game, a sitcom about Mark Schlereth, ESPN analyst and former Broncos/Redskins guard. Why? It's unclear. Here's what Schlereth wrote on his blog: Somebody's a producer! What an unbelievable ride it's been since last July at the ESPY's…That's where it all started, the seminal event if you will, where an idea was born! I was swapping stories with Peter Sussman and Steve Levinson (Leverage) at an ESPY's after party, you know, guy talk, chalk full of false bravado and embellished half truths. We were constantly interrupted by current players with obvious intentions. "Hey Mark, I'm So and So from the whoever I play for," before I could get out the obligatory, " great to meet you So and So," they ha…