Month: October 2024

The Super Bowl matchup is set, with the San Francisco 49ers taking on Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.

Super Bowl odds have flooded in, including one of the more increasingly popular Super Bowl props: Betting on the exact final score of the game and team point totals.

While an inherent long-shot bet, with the shortest odds at 60/1, wagers on the exact score do have some historical trends, as some results are far more common than others — get the low-down with the latest Super Bowl 58 score odds so you can make the most informed Super Bowl predictions possible.

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It’s Week 5 in the NFL, and with October in full swing, it’s time to monitor the weather before betting on any Over/Under numbers.

Wet weather is just one factor why I’m taking the Under in Sunday’s game between the Colts and Jaguars, and I’m also betting the Under on the Monday Night Football clash between the Saints and Chiefs.

That said, it’s never fun to root for Unders, so my NFL Week 5 totals bets are also playing the Over in an NFC West showdown between the Cardinals and 49ers. Here are my best free NFL picks.

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South Carolina might be one victory away from cracking the Top 25 for the first time since that famous 2016-17 season when the Gamecocks reached the Final Four. Riding a huge wave of momentum after upsetting No. 6 Kentucky, the Gamecocks will try to continue their surprising success when they face Missouri on Saturday afternoon in Southeastern Conference play in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina (16-3, 4-2 SEC) pulverized Kentucky 79-62, holding the nation's leading scoring team to 29 points below its previous season average. It also marked the highest-ranked team the Gamecocks have beaten at home since defeating a top-ranked Kentucky team 68-62 on Jan. 26, 2010. That bunch of Wildcats included stars John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins. Confidence is high with the Gamecocks winning nine o…

Everton are feeling good following a first win at Anfield since 1999, planning permission for a new stadium and a new contract for Lucas Digne – all in the space of five days – but major improvement is required at Goodison Park to give it more foundation. Carlo Ancelotti’s team have lost four of their past five Premier League home games, including 2-0 defeats by Fulham and Newcastle, and Southampton offer another test of what the Italian suspects is complacency among his players when facing struggling sides. Ralph Hasenhüttl’s team are sliding towards trouble after eight league games without a win. Andy Hunter

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The Sheffield United manager, Paul Heckingbottom, praised his substitutes Rhian Brewster and Reda Khadra after their late impact produced a 1-0 victory at Swansea. Brewster and Khadra combined in the fourth minute of stoppage time to extend the Blades’ lead at the top of the Championship to four points.

The former Swansea loanee Brewster set up Khadra and the on-loan German kept his composure to score his first Sheffield United goal. “You’ve got to make the most of them when you win a game like that, we’re going to enjoy it,” said Heckingbottom.

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Manchester United will push back against new proposals that would change the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules (PSR), creating the possibility of more discord within the competition.

The club is understood to be strongly opposed to the introduction of “anchoring” for the top flight, a system whereby the biggest spenders in the league would be tethered to the income of the last-placed club.

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The idea behind anchoring is to limit the gap in spending between richer and poorer clubs, with the aim of creating a more competitive division. The policy has been mooted within the Premier League for some time, with …

We made it. We. Finally. Made it. The start of the college football season ushers in a full slate of games on tap for Saturday, and plenty of opportunities to find some value to kickstart your extended weekend.An opening-week tip: It’s a good idea to go into who needs the result, and more importantly, what kind of result they need. A team that needs to build momentum? They are trying to put up a big number in the first week. A team with a tough draw next week might look to ease off in Week 1, focusing on being healthy for the meaningful matchups.With this in mind, here’s a look at some of our best bets for Week 1.Bucknell vs. NavyOn the basketball court, Navy and Bucknell are considered equals. On the football field, that is definitely not the case. The Midshipmen are head and shou…

The NBA announced Saturday the finalists for the 2018 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class, and it’s a pretty sweet group: the 13 finalists include Steve Nash, Jason Kidd, Grant Hill, Ray Allen, and Chris Webber, among others: The complete list of nine finalists from the North American Screening Committee includes: players Ray Allen, Maurice Cheeks, Grant Hill, Jason Kidd, Steve Nash and Chris Webber; coaches Charles “Lefty” Driesell and Rudy Tomjanovich; and referee Hugh Evans. The four finalists from the Women’s Screening Committee includes: players Katie Smith and Tina Thompson, coach Kim Mulkey, and Wayland Baptist University as a team. I tend to take a more expansive view of sports halls of fame, and so it certainly looks to me like all 13 finalists should go i…