Month: October 2024

The clock is ticking down to the Super Bowl kickoff, and there is still time to squeeze in those last-second wagers before the Kansas City Chiefs vs. San Francisco 49ers gets underway. Since the matchup has been set, there has been a deluge of Super Bowl predictions over the last couple of weeks.

Super Bowl odds have fluctuated a bit, but 49ers -2 has more or less been the consensus number throughout the last week, with some 1.5-point spreads trickling in on Sunday. 

Looking over our expert NFL picks, here are five worth looking at as you finalize your Chiefs vs. 49ers predictions for Super Bowl 58 on Sunday, February 11.

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Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers bounced back with a win last week and now host Kyler Murray and the Arizona Cardinals, but it might be Josh Jacobs and the Packers’ run game that helps them in Week 6. 

Continue reading for my Cardinals vs Packers predictions and free NFL picks for Sunday, October 13th.

Cardinals vs Packers prediction

My best betPackers -5 (-110 at BetMGM)

My analysis

When Josh Jacobs signed a four-year, $48 million contract with the Green Bay Packers this offseason, it was performances like last week (94 scrimmage yards, one touchdown) that both sides were hoping to materialize.

Jacobs was maybe not as efficient as he would hope (3.8 yards per carry) against what had been a porous Rams’ run…

They stink! The Cleveland Cavaliers have lost seven of 10; the worst of those came last night, when they lost by 34 freaking points to a Toronto Raptors team missing two (Kyle Lowry and Serge Ibaka) of its three best players. The third, DeMar DeRozan, didn’t even have a good game; he scored 13 points. That was all the Raptors needed on a night when the Cavs made peppy li’l tyke Fred VanVleet look like Tiny Archibald. Garbage time began in the second quarter. Look at him go! And look at the dead-eyed Cavs standing around flat-footed like a bunch of jamokes. The Cavs can’t defend anybody; they can’t shoot; half the roster looks washed up. Last night they got smushed all over the court by a tragic keyboard incident called “Jakob Poeltl.” They’re puke. Aim them at the toilet.…

Uefa has no plans to shift the venue of the Champions League final, which is to be contested by two English clubs, from Istanbul despite Turkey currently being under lockdown.

As many as 4,000 supporters each from Manchester City and Chelsea are expected to be offered tickets for the showpiece event on 29 May. Questions remain, however, over whether the UK government will allow travel to the event, with a list of approved destinations due to be announced on Friday.

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Speculation had suggested that the final could be moved to Wembley to limit the Covid risk for supporters but there is no plan for such a change, with …

Well. About last night … to describe the conclusion of the group stages of this World Cup as crazy feels a bit like calling the residents of Arkham Asylum merely eccentric. For three minutes on Thursday, Costa Rica’s lead over Germany would have meant Spain were heading home, with the coach Luis Enrique mercifully in the dark about this potential outcome. “If I’d have known,” he reflected mildly afterwards, “I would have had a heart attack.” It was certainly the evening for it.

ITV’s Graeme Souness appeared to be suffering from a number of baroque medical conditions as he “analysed” the notion that the ball did not go out of play before Japan’s crucial second goal against Spain. Graeme’s conniption swiftly tipped over…

In the end it took a grudging moment of light to decide a chilly, grey game at a chilly, grey Merkur Spiel‑Arena in Düsseldorf; a moment that also seemed to resonate just a little with the noises beyond the pitch.

Sport is often confused with politics. Sometimes, and frequently by design these days, sport is politics. Here we are. We are the dreamers. Lest we forget, Qatar’s ghost anthem for the missing workers of the great sporting power grab.

Randal Kolo Muani’s starring role in the only goal of the game for France against Belgium was three things simultaneously. Most simply it was a key moment in this tournament as France eased their way through a game that contained all the fluidity and carefree moveme…

Deion Sanders had a point last year about the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He made it in a narcissistic way when he suggested that his bust be placed in a different room, but that didn’t make it any less true. The 2022 inductees were great players, but a few were certainly not legendary. Also, DeMarcus Ware and Devin Hester got snubbed in their first year of eligibility, and why Patrick Willis didn’t make the cut twice is baffling to me. This year’s finalists though, when the inductees are announced Sanders should release a video of him giving this group a round of applause. Darrelle Revis, Joe Thomas, and Dwight Freeney were named finalists in their first year of eligibility. Unfortunately, the Pro Football Hall of Fame has that silly rule that allows a maximum of five modern-…

Earlier this week, UEFA took time out from its 24/7 money-grab and expanding the Champions League to 197 teams while simultaneously restricting the winners to only Bayern, Juve, Madrid, and Barcelona (and pimp-slapping Man City for its own enjoyment/revenge) to actually make a solid decision. That was to move Euro 2020 to 2021. Some decisions are just so plainly obvious that even an unwieldy and evil organization as this one can’t help but make them. It’s clearly a no-brainer. First, it’s unclear that any kind of sport will be able to be played even in mid-June or early July. Second, the domestic leagues are going to need a lot of room to finish their seasons if they’re allowed, and it most certainly will be when the tournament would have taken place, if not later. Third, this i…