Month: October 2024

After six long months, the NFL is finally back on Thursday night with the annual Hall of Fame Game, featuring the Houston Texans taking on the Chicago Bears. 

Both teams boast hopeful superstar quarterbacks looking to turn these franchises around from recent failures, but given the preseason climate, my Texans vs. Bears predictions look towards team depth. 

Let’s get into the best NFL picks for the Hall of Fame Game on August 1. 

Texans vs Bears prediction

My best betFirst half Under 15.5 (+105 DraftKings)

My analysis

Chicago Bears head coach Matt Eberflus has already come out and said none of the starters will play in this game, despite Caleb Williams reportedly requesting to play. 

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Through eight weeks of the college football season, the top of the NFL Draft odds board is no clearer than it was at the beginning of the season. 

Carson Beck continues to lead the way despite not looking sharp at times under center for Georgia. A pair of Buffaloes are within touching distance as Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter are the driving force behind Colorado’s hot 4-2 start.

Join me as I review the full list of NFL odds below. 

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For many football fans, the AFC West standings are already a foregone conclusion. The reigning Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs highlight the division and will likely be a dominant force again on their way to capturing another divisional title. However, the Broncos and Raiders show the potential to disrupt the status quo. And the Chargers will also present some very interesting storylines throughout the 2020 season. Don’t overlook this division simply because of the Chiefs. As many football fans know, a whole lot can change in the NFL in one year. Kansas City ChiefsPat Mahomes with the Lombardi Trophy. credits: Getty COVID Response: Rookie wide receiver Aleva Hifo tested positive for the virus in late July. The team had three players opt out of the 2020 season, rookie offensi…

These are heady days for Italy. After the nadir of the Gian Piero Ventura era, in which they failed to qualify for a World Cup for the first time since 1958, the outlook seemed bleak. Then Roberto Mancini arrived and rejuvenated his country’s flagging fortunes. Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear sharp suits.

Mancini’s team has won everyone over at Euro 2020. They were unleashed on the opening night of the tournament in Rome and overwhelmed a highly fancied Turkey team. The same treatment was given to Switzerland and Wales. Franco Baresi has been impressed. Speaking from Casa Milan, the club’s headquarters in the Portello district of the city, the legendary defender says he likes what he sees. “They are playing well and have been on…

Considering the situation Everton are in, sitting second bottom of the Premier League, Sean Dyche was the smartest appointment the board could have made. He has been in similar positions and knows how to successfully manage a relegation battle.

Everton have two points from their past eight matches and one victory in 12. Dyche has the tough task of facing the league leaders, Arsenal, at Goodison Park on Saturday in his first match, followed by the derby at Anfield. No pressure, Sean.

The important thing for Dyche will be to get Everton back to basics. We know from his time at Burnley that his preferred formation is 4-4-2 and I anticipate that is what he will implement. It is not as rigid as people might think because…

When the press release was finally issued eight months after Stephen Kenny’s departure, most Republic of Ireland fans expected John O’Shea to get the nod. The former Ireland international had been in interim charge for four friendlies in the wake ofKenny’s November exit and had done reasonably well against nations off to Euro 2024. Kenny’s Ireland had not come within an ass’s roar of getting to that tournament having failed to take a point from opposition more exalted than Gibraltar in the qualifiers, and its final was played four days after the Football Association of Ireland’s big reveal: O’Shea had been overlooked in favour of a far-from marquee signing in the form of an Icelandic dentist by the name of Heimir Hallgrímsson, who many Irish people had…

The U.S. Women’s National Team’s spoils at forward have always been in excess. Most countries’ talent pools over 50 years don’t go as deep at striker as America’s would for one World Cup cycle. That depth is being put to the test this summer as a second potent goal-scorer won’t be traveling with the Stars and Stripes to Australia and New Zealand, with Catarina Macario announcing she won’t be “physically ready” enough to compete at the global showcase. The news comes about a month after Mallory Swanson, who was on a scoring tear to start 2023, tore her patella tendon. With both not heading to Oceania, the bigger question looms: who does the USWNT turn to up top? The answer isn’t simple. Alex Morgan is a decorated veteran, but no lock to start So, wait? We don’t just…

As it turns out, today’s Super Bowl match-up involves the NFL’s top two teams in terms of paid patriotism—those all-American displays paid for by the military without being advertised as such. According to a 2015 report compiled and published by Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake, the Falcons and the Patriots received more military funding for their patriotic displays than any other football teams between 2012 and 2015. Here are the portions of the report detailing the money that the two teams were paid for acts such as recognizing service members’ birthdays and allowing service members to hold the flag on the field, among others: The Falcons received $879,000 from the military over this four-year period, while the Patriots received $700,000. The McCain-Flake report identif…