Month: October 2024

The NFL is back with a full slate of preseason games this weekend. Among them is a matchup between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Cincinnati Bengals at Paycor Stadium on Saturday night.

Cincinnati is expected to play Joe Burrow and the rest of its starters in the preseason opener, while Tampa Bay will sit most of their first-stringers. 

Find out how this affects my Buccaneers vs. Bengals predictions and NFL picks for August 10.

Buccaneers vs Bengals prediction

My best betBengals first team to score & Bengals moneyline (+110 at DraftKings)

My analysis

The Cincinnati Bengals are the biggest favorites on the NFL odds board this week with a -6 spread and -265 m…

José Mourinho believes that finishing the season in the Premier League top four would be one of the best achievements of his career as Tottenham struggle through their enduring injury crisis.

As Mourinho prepared for a return to Chelsea on Saturday afternoon after Spurs’ stale Champions League defeat by Leipzig, he again underlined his frustration at the loss of both Son Heung-min, who underwent surgery after fracturing his arm against Aston Villa, and Harry Kane. For Mourinho, a successful season this year may even rank above his second-placed finish with Manchester United in 2018, an achievement he once called “one of the best jobs of my career”.

“Tottenham without Harry or Sonny, without one of them, doe…

Arsenal Women have made a resounding start to life under their new manager, Jonas Eidevall, after beating the Kazakh side Okzhetpes 4-0 in a Champions League qualifier on Wednesday.

Goals from Mana Iwabuchi, Kim Little, Beth Mead and Nikita Parris sealed the win for Arsenal in what was the semi-final of a mini play-off tournament staged in Moscow. They will now face either PSV Eindhoven or Lokomotiv Moscow on Saturday for a place in the second round of qualifying.

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“There are some circumstances that made it a little more difficult,” said Eidevall, who succeeded Joe Montemurro as Arsenal manager in June having led the Swedish club R…

‘Guten Tag. Wie geht’s?” “Sehr gut, und dir?” At which point, Georgia Stanway and I have pretty much exhausted our meagre supply of German. It’s not entirely our fault: as any Brit living in Germany will tell you, it is virtually impossible to learn the local language when everyone is intent on chattering away at you in English. Since moving to Bayern Munich last summer Stanway has been taking weekly lessons, but admits she’s “still waiting for that click”. The coach, Alexander Straus, conducts his team meetings in English. The training ground instructions are in English. The WhatsApp group is in English. Mercifully, so is the rest of this interview.

Still, for a Barrow girl there are times when Munich feels a long way from…

Mauricio Pochettino arrived in the US men’s national team job with as sterling a résumé as anyone to take charge of the program, and boasted in his introduction to US media that he believed the team could win the 2026 World Cup, due to be hosted at home along with Canada and Mexico.

It sounded like the start of a revolution. His first squad, named last week, was anything but.

Despite multiple injuries giving him ample opportunities to shake things up, the collection of players that have gathered this international window could just as conceivably been called by his predecessor Gregg Berhalter. There are no uncapped players among the 25 that will mark the start of the Pochettino era this Saturday against Panama a…

This slideshow is based on 2022 NFL season data from Sportradar. Rankings were compiled by an AI engine that were then reviewed and edited by the editorial staff. Patrick Mahomes | Kansas City ChiefsNEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – AUGUST 13: Patrick Mahomes #15 of the Kansas City Chiefs looks on during a preseason game against the New Orleans Saints at Caesars Superdome on August 13, 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana. credits: by Chris Graythen | source: Getty Images Completions: 435Passing Yards: 5250Passing Touchdowns: 41 Name: Patrick MahomesPosition: QBTeam: Kansas City ChiefsAge: 27Experience: 7Height: 6' 2"Weight: 225 lbsBirth Place: Tyler, TX, USAHigh School: Whitehouse (TX)College: Texas Tech (Big Twelve Conference) Josh Allen | Buffalo BillsPACIFIC PALISADES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRU…

A Dwight Schrute cosplayer named Colin Cowherd said some really dumb things about Dominicans on ESPN Radio Thursday. Besides being wrong in several particulars, Cowherd’s musings were insulting and racist. On Friday, Cowherd addressed the rant during his show. Rather than apologizing or satisfyingly explaining his point, he blamed Deadspin for taking his words out of context. (They didn’t sound any better with additional context.) Later on Friday, ESPN announced that Cowherd had effectively been fired: At first this looks like a brave stand by ESPN, sending a strong message that the four-letter-network won’t pay for and promote ignorant, hateful speech. The problem here is that according to Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand, Cowherd’s final day with the network was actu…

Some people are fans of the Los Angeles Chargers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Los Angeles Chargers. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: San Dieg … oh. Oh, right. I have a friend who was a San Diego Chargers fan and disavowed them after the move. But I had COMPLETELY forgotten about all that by April, and texted him for his reaction when they drafted Mike Williams. Like, “Ya like the pick?”-type garbage. Do NOT do this to a former Chargers fan. They don’t forgive you for this kind of oversight. I am a bad friend. Your 2016 record: 5-11. And I think we all remember the best part of it: What a moment. Oh, and I guess there was some football stuff too. Like the time they played it c…