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…
Name of the Year dates to the fall of 1982 and names taped to a dorm-room door on an Ivy campus: Dexter Manley, Cornelius Boza-Edwards, Baskerville Holmes. The following spring, Hector (Macho) Camacho was elected the first Name of the Year. What can we say? The first basketball baskets didn't have holes in the bottom. The first baseball players didn't wear gloves. Men of science believed the earth to be flat. As our onomastic senses were activated, our tastes became more refined. Some birds of prey can spot a rabbit a mile away. We could spot a great name two newspaper columns away. (NOTY predates the internet.) By the 1990s, the annual vote was a tradition unlike any other: About a dozen of us gathered to watch an NCAA regional semifinal. We played a drinking game called Pic…
The NFL Draft is this weekend, so time for a special offseason edition of Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo. Enjoy. I once worked at a large company that forced me to attend a company-wide meeting that was called to pay tribute to a company director who was retiring. If you've ever worked at a large company, you at some point have been forced to attend a company-wide meeting or two, which is the business world's equivalent of assembly. I fucking hated company-wide meetings, especially if it was done in conjunction with the company holiday party. "Hey guys, we want you to eat and drink all you like. But first, sit there for two hours while we bore the fuck out of you." Anyway, this particular party consisted of speaker after speaker coming u…
To the absolute delight of some, Michelle Wie has not only failed to make another cut on the PGA Tour, she has once again finished dead last. She went 77-81 on Thursday and Friday, leaving her at +14. The leaders are currently at -9. That's a twenty-three stroke difference. Twenty-three strokes is a lot. I just wonder if it's all worth it for her. I know she wants to do it, I know she enjoys competing against the men, but it's gotta be hard for a 16-year-old girl to open up a newspaper every Saturday and read that she sucks; especially when it comes from a gleeful, smug, jealous prick like the one linked above. If a sponsor wants to give her a shot, I don't see any harm in it. She wants to do it, she gets some experience, the sponsor gets some publicity, and a spons…