The Baltimore Ravens come calling at a terrible time for the “Terrible Towels” of the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 5 of the NFL season.
Pittsburgh is reeling from a 30-6 loss at Houston and could be without starting quarterback Kenny Pickett after he suffered a bone bruise to his knee that took him out of action on the weekend.
With backup QB Mitchell Trubisky waiting in the wings, NFL Week 5 odds moved the Steelers from an opener of +3.5 to as high as +5 before the update on Pickett’s status for Sunday, bringing the spread back to the original post.
Baltimore knows a thing or two about playing through injuries. The Ravens’ roster has been ravaged by ailments to start the season, yet the team continues to march forward. Baltimore is an overti…
Week 17 of the NFL season is already here and since books can be a bit reluctant to put out many defensive player props on the final week of the regular season, this might be the last time we get a full slate of sack and tackle NFL odds to choose from.
So let’s make it count with some winning bets as I check out the Week 17 odds and bring you my best free NFL picks for sack and tackle prop picks — including betting on Kansas City’s Chris Jones to break out of his mini-slump.
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The San Francisco 49ers host the New York Jets on Monday Night Football at Levi’s Stadium. The reigning NFC Champions are 4.5-point home favorites as of Sunday afternoon over the Jets.
The 49ers had a few storylines following them throughout camp but both Brandon Aiyuk and Trent Williams ended their holdouts and are ready to go for Week 1.
Read on for my trio of NFL player props for our Jets vs. 49ers predictions on Monday, September 9.
Editor’s note: This article was written and published prior to the news of Christian McCaffrey being listed as inactive (calf).
49ers RB Christian McCaffrey is inactive tonight. His calf injury still is not fully right. pic.twitter.com/MOaENCVuA4
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The knockout stages of the Europa League have been thrown into disarray after two of the last-16 fixtures were postponed the day before the first legs were scheduled to take place as the coronavirus outbreak continues to take its toll on the football calendar across the continent.
While Manchester United’s fixture against the Austrian side Lask Linz and Wolves’ meeting with Olympiakos are still set to take place behind closed doors on Thursday night after the Greek side’s players all tested negative for Covid‑19, it is understood Uefa is considering what action to take to ensure the competition can still be completed despite the widespread disruption.
Arsenal players in self-isolation as Manchester City game postponed due to coron…
Manchester City have submitted a bid in excess of €50m (£42.7m) for Wolves midfielder Matheus Nunes on an eventful day at the club. Bernardo Silva has committed his future and signed a new contract with the club until 2026, while Aymeric Laporte has announced that his time at the Etihad Stadium has come to an end.
Personal terms have been agreed with Nunes, who turns 25 on Sunday and is a Portugal teammate of Silva’s, with the proposed fee taking in a package of add-ons. Nunes signed for Wolves just over 12 months ago from Sporting for £38m.
Silva was linked with a summer switch away from City but has ended speculation over his future for now by signing a new deal after his previous terms were due to expire in…
Ford Motorsports came tantalizingly close to winning its first NASCAR Cup Series race of the season last weekend at Talladega, but neither Michael McDowell nor Brad Keselowski could make it happen at the end. The two blue oval drivers will look to break the drought Sunday afternoon when they compete in the Wurth 400 at Dover Motor Speedway in Dover, Del., the 11th race on the 2024 schedule. And what a 2024 it's been so far for Ford Motorsports, huh? While the most casual glance at the win column reveals a bad start for the teams — 0-for-10 — taking the whole season into consideration is even worse. Ford failed to win in the season-opening exhibition race in California — The Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum — at the legendary Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as Denny Hamlin walk…
Will 2022 be the year that New York NFL football finally gives its metropolitan area something to watch on Sundays? Following double-digit victory seasons from the Jets in 2015 and the yacht club Giants in 2016, neither franchise has sniffed a .500 record since. At first glance, tri-state area residents waking up on a Sunday and even possessing mild confidence about ending the afternoon with a victory in recent years is naive. The best record that either team has recorded after their last winning seasons is the Jets’ 7-9 performance in 2019. These are two franchises with all of the eyeballs and no success, but maybe this week’s NFL Draft can change their fortunes. The Giants and Jets both have two picks not just in the first round, but within the first 10 picks of the draft. For two …
UPDATE: We have compiled all 50 items into one handy list, for your reading convenience. It is available here. Welcome to Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE YEAR awards! Our expert team has worked tirelessly to bring you this annual list of the sports and sports-adjacent figures who most intensely made us wish we had been shaken as infants. Within these rankings you will find all manner of dunces, dumbfucks, douchebags, and doofs. Each of these archetypes exist under the tentpole of idiocy, but they are not quite the same thing. So, before we begin our show, let’s explore the phenomenon a bit. What is an idiot? Is there any point to nailing down an objective definition, or can one only know it when they see it, like pornography? Can it be achieved in one grand flourish, or is it the sum of …
This picture is clearly Fenway Park, right? It may be covered in a giant American flag, but the big-ass wall in left field is a pretty big hint. It apparently was not a big enough hint for the company in charge of printing the Washington Nationals’ 2016 calendar: So what the hell happened here? According to MLB, it was all the calendar maker’s fault (via Boston.com): “Our licensee used an incorrect photo in its 2016 Nationals calendar, a product that the Nationals were not involved in producing. We are working quickly to rectify the situation including recalling the calendars from retail.” If they are looking for a new image to put on the cover, might I suggest this one? Photo via Getty [ Boston.com] …
If you needed any more proof that Philadelphia Eagles kicker David Akers is ready to take on all comers, we present David Akers … kickboxer! We suppose, if you're kicking for a living anyway, you might as well figure out how to kick, you know, humans. "If we're not striving forward, then we're coming back." So true, David: SO TRUE. …