A coast-to-coast battle headlines Sunday Night Football in Week 11 when the Pittsburgh Steelers cross the country to take on the Los Angeles Chargers.
The NFL betting odds have L.A. as 5.5-point home chalk at time of writing with Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger being activated in order to return from COVID-19 protocols after missing last Sunday’s tie game with Detroit. The Chargers are in dire need of a course correction with only one win in their last four contests.
Check out our free NFL picks and predictions for Steelers at Chargers on November 21.
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One of the most highly-anticipated matchups in Week 3 of the NFL is an AFC East showdown between the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins.
These are two of just six teams remaining in the NFL that have yet to lose a game. Buffalo is the current Super Bowl betting favorite while the Phins are surging up the futures board after an incredible performance from Tua Tagovailoa last week.
The Bills are 5.5-point road favorites for this contest with the Over/Under sitting at 53. Here are my best free NFL betting picks and predictions for Bills vs. Dolphins on September 25.
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A Thursday night clash between the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers kicks off Week 3 in the NFL.
The 49ers have looked like world beaters in the first two weeks, winning by a total score of 60-30 in two road games. McCaffrey leads the league in rushing with 268 yards on the ground and will get to highlight his talent in primetime for the first time this season.
The 49ers are big home favorites in the Week 3 odds, but will McCaffrey be able to continue his torrid run against the Giants stout defensive line?
We break down the Christian McCaffrey odds, the TNF odds and give our best free NFL picks, for Giants vs. 49ers on Thursday, September 21.
Don’t forget to also look at our full-game Giants vs. 49ers predictions, …
The Indianapolis Colts welcome the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to Lucas Oil Stadium on Sunday. The Colts are 5-5 and looking to stay in the playoff race while the 4-6 Bucs will hope to snap out of a skid that has seen them drop five of their last six games.
NFL odds opened with Indy as a slim 1.5-point favorite before shifting to -2.5. Here are my best Buccaneers vs. Colts free NFL picks and predictions for November 26.
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Colts quarterback Gardner Minshew hasn’t looked great lately, but head coach Shane Steichen does a good job of taking what the defense gives him, and the Buccaneers defense gets burned through the air. In fact, the Bucs are actually first in the …
The Kansas City Chiefs face the San Francisco 49ers tonight in Super Bowl 58. While it’s a rematch of Super Bowl 54, a lot has changed in four years — starting with the 49ers being led by quarterback Brock Purdy.
The “Mr. Irrelevant” of the 2022 NFL Draft, Purdy has become a star in San Francisco and was the MVP front-runner until he threw four picks against the Ravens in Week 16.
Purdy’s Super Bowl odds are expected to be a highly debated option in the NFL player props market. While he’s surrounded by game-changing weapons, an inexperienced signal-caller facing one of the league’s top defensive units still adds an element of uncertainty.
I break down the Brock Purdy odds and give my best NFL picks and predictions for how he’ll perform …
The Commanders vs. Ravens battle in the early window of NFL Week 6 is a must-see matchup pitting Rookie of the Year frontrunner Jayden Daniels against reigning NFL MVP Lamar Jackson. Both teams are hot going into this one, with Washington rattling off four straight victories and Baltimore boasting a three-game win streak.
My Commanders vs. Ravens NFL picks will attempt to extract value from the NFL player props for this game, so let’s get right into my favorite Commanders vs. Ravens same-game parlay with a generous potential payout.
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On Friday, the Qatari national soccer team did what it had never done before, beating Japan 3-1 in the final of the Asian Cup to claim its first continental trophy ever. Qatar steam-rolled the entire competition, going undefeated in group play with a goal difference of +10 before nipping by perennial contenders Iraq and South Korea in the first two rounds of the knockout stage. Then they put four goals on the hosts, the United Arab Emirates, leading to UAE fans pelting the Qataris with shoes and bottles of soda. No matter, because Qatar then defeated top continental power Japan in the final, thanks to not one but two incredible goals. The first came 12 minutes in, from Sudan-born Qatari striker Almoez Ali; watch him control the ball with some ridiculous touches before firing off a no-l…
As a child Kasper Schmeichel could have mistaken the FA Cup for a shiny heirloom. The final represented an annual family jamboree that sometimes ended with the trophy being paraded around his house. His dad, Peter, won it three times with Manchester United. Young Kasper dreamed of winning it himself one day.
On Saturday, at the age of 34, he will lead Leicester out at Wembley in the hope of fulfilling the ambition he has long nurtured, though not quite as long as Leicester, who yearn to get their hands on the Cup in their 137th year of trying.
“My story might be slightly different to others,” says Schmeichel. “I obviously followed Manchester United and my father in the FA Cup and it was always a special occasi…
In a World Cup that has teased and confounded expectations, England march mercilessly on. A familiar blend of the Stakhanovite and the sublime saw off Senegal, the champions of Africa. Now France, the reigning world champions, await in the quarter-finals next Saturday – along with the world’s most thrilling player, Kylian Mbappé.
England will be underdogs there, for sure. But the ruthlessness and efficiency of this 3-0 victory against Senegal, and the way they emerged from a sticky start to dominate, has laid down a significant marker.
Along the way, England also punctured the “curse” of playing on ITV. Since 1998, they had won just three of 16 World Cup games on the channel, a miserly 19% – compared with…
Once again Didier Deschamps made changes, once again they had a negligible effect, once again France advanced – rinse and repeat. That is the story of Les Bleus’ Euros so far as they played to type in their latest victory, over Portugal on penalties.
Dysfunctional diamond
The diamond was ditched by Deschamps against Belgium, despite deploying it in training on the eve of the last-16 game. However, his solution, moving Antoine Griezmann to an unfamiliar position out wide in a 4-3-3, did not get the best out of the Atlético Madrid forward, nor did it solve the continued issue of finding balance in midfield.
So it was no surprise to see Deschamps twist again against Portugal. In all five…