Month: October 2024

Ladies and gentlemen, for the final time this season in the NFL odds, it’s teaser time!

With four games to choose from in the Divisional Round odds, we don’t have a lot of those traditional teaser pairings where you get to cross the key numbers of three and the seven, but that approach blew up in my face with the Cowboys last week, so maybe that’s not a bad thing!

Thankfully, fewer games also allow us to spend a bit more time with each game, so let’s dig into our latest NFL picks as the Super Bowl odds continue to narrow down!

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It’s an NFC East showdown on Thursday Night Football, with the Dallas Cowboys heading to MetLife Stadium to face the New York Giants. 

The two teams are tied in the division basement with 1-2 records, and our top NFL picks for Dak Prescott odds expect an efficient showing through the air from the veteran quarterback.

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Four points races, four different winners. That speaks to the competitiveness of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series, where Christopher Bell added his name to the list last weekend following a win in the second Duel at Daytona last month. The series leaves the West Coast and heads to Tennessee for Sunday's Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, where Bell is also the defending champion. However, this year's race will have a distinctly different feel with it being held on the track's concrete surface rather than the dirt that covered it for the past three spring races. "I love racing at Bristol," Bell said. "It's literally my favorite race on the schedule. I'm very thankful we get to go twice this year. It's been a track we have excelled at the last …

Crystal Palace are set to win the race to sign Eberechi Eze from Queens Park Rangers after making a bid worth £19.5m for the forward.

Eze has been targeted by Aston Villa, Fulham, Leeds, West Ham and West Bromwich Albion this summer but Palace have tracked him heavily over the last 12 months and are hopeful of concluding a deal before the end of the week. It is understood that negotiations with the 22-year-old over personal terms will not be an issue.

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QPR have been holding out for a high fee for their best player and rejected a £12m bid from Palace earlier this month. However Palace have maintained their interest in Eze, who s…

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Kieran Trippier is keen to join Bayern Munich and, despite Newcastle turning down an initial bid from the Bundesliga club, there is a growing feeling that they may yet be persuaded to part company with their England right-back.

Although Eddie Howe is extremely reluctant to lose Trippier, the 33-year-old has been allowed to talk to Bayern and is understood to have agreed provisional personal terms.

Trippier had a transformational effect, on and off the pitch, after joining from Atlético Madrid two years ago but has latterly been out of sorts and unsettled. He has made it clear that a reunion with his former Tottenham teammates Harry Kane and Eric Dier in Bavaria appeals.

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They needed 22 seasons to do it, but the Detroit Lions at last claimed their first NFC North title in 2023.Since they’re at the top of the heap already, why not stick around to become the final division club to win a repeat title?The Green Bay Packers have accomplished the feat with two three-peats and a four-peat, while the Chicago Bears (2005–06) and Minnesota Vikings (2008–09) also enjoyed runs early in the North’s history.Detroit likely won’t cruise to a three-game cushion as it did last season, but the returning personnel (don’t write “restored roar,” don’t write “restored roar”) will be enough to give the Lions the edge in a tight race.Here's how the North stacks up, with last season's records in parentheses.1. Detroit Lions (12-5)Yeah, yeah, Lions fa…

We all look very forward to 2020 being over. 2021 won’t be unique, in that it will start with Notre Dame having their asshole pulled through their nose once again on a national stage. Other years have had that jumpstart. But it’s hard to argue that it won’t be a nice fillip for everyone after the dark, damp, putrid tunnel that 2020 has been. Every so often we do this dance. Notre Dame strings together a few wins when no one’s looking, because Notre Dame has only really been sporadically relevant for a couple of decades, if that. But occasionally their hand-picked schedule doesn’t throw up a roadblock, NBC goes out of its way to sound its Fighting Irish bullhorn in the hopes of getting everyone or anyone to look. Then your friends dig through the closet to pull out the ND jacket…