Whelp, that was an interesting Sunday.
Football bettors have little time to come down from the latest NFL betting results before sizing up the opening odds for Week 3.
A fresh batch of spreads and totals are on the board, which means we dig into which bets you should make now and which ones you should wait on.
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Two teams coming off close losses in Week 1 will get after it in Nashville with the Titans playing host to the Chargers. NFL odds has Tennessee as an underdog for a second straight week coming in at +3, while the total for the game comes in at 45. The teams met somewhat recently, with the Chargers edging out a 17-14 victory in mid-December of last season. Week 2 NFL odds promises this game to be exciting no matter which way you slice it.
These teams played in dramatically different games in Week 1 as the Chargers are coming off the highest-scoring game of the week where they combined for 70 points with the Dolphins, while the Titans and Saints put up a combined 31 points.
Let’s dig into what we saw from the teams in Week 1 and I’ll provide my…
There are some things that simply go together: Salt and pepper, peanut butter and jelly, and Thanksgiving and NFL football. The National Football League will continue a beloved 89-year-old tradition today with a tasty three-game slate featuring some truly tantalizing matchups. Whatever you do, make sure to emerge out of your turkey coma by 8:20 p.m. ET as the San Francisco 49ers tangle with the Seattle Seahawks in the Thanksgiving nightcap. It’s always must-see TV when these longtime NFC West rivals meet, and tonight is no exception as they look to pulverize each other in primetime.
While there are a number of different subscription-based TV channels and streaming services available to watch this game, did you know that you can also live stream 49ers vs. Seahawks dir…
The Super Bowl is the single-biggest betting event of the year, with countless Super Bowl odds to sift through and no shortage of Super Bowl props to choose from.
And you can win by tying all your Super Bowl predictions together in a Super Bowl parlay.
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Moving the spread across multiple key numbers is the name of the game with teasers, and I’ve pinpointed a handful of teams to pick Sunday, October 13.
The Houston Texans and Philadelphia Eagles both face horrible offenses and headline our top NFL picks for Week 6.
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Norway's ruling party just voted against funding Oslo's 2022 Winter Olympics bid, essentially forcing the city to drop out of the race. It's just the latest in a long series of cities and countries who have given an emphatic "no" to hosting the Olympic quagmire.
In a non-binding referendum in February, 55.9 percent of Norwegians said they didn't want the Games. "There must be major changes in the IOC before I can help to support an Olympic application," said Tromsø Mayor Jens Johan Hjort.
Stoking some of that anger was the IOC's list of demands for an Oslo bid, which included a cocktail reception with Norway's king, with the tab on either the royal family or the Norwegian Olympic Committee. Among the IOC's other demands: Ca…
Wolves ended a five-match winless streak thanks to Adama Traoré’s last-minute goal at Fulham last week but were struck by another two cruel blows in a luckless campaign. Pedro Neto has already undergone surgery for the knee injury suffered in that match, while Rúben Neves will miss this weekend’s game, at least, after testing positive for Covid-19. Sheffield United have an even longer absentee list but this might just be Paul Heckingbottom’s best chance of picking up a point during his time in temporary charge of the Blades. Paul Doyle
Saturday 8.15pm Sky Sports Premier League
Venue Molineux
Last season Wolves 1 Sheffield United 1
Referee Robert Jones
England were well on their way to defeat in Stockholm by the time Zlatan Ibrahimovic launched himself into the air and prepared to embarrass Joe Hart. An experimental lineup had collapsed at the end of a ramshackle friendly with Sweden and, for all the fanfare over Steven Gerrard winning his 100th cap, the only thing anyone wanted to talk about after the game was the moment when Ibrahimovic made it 4-2 with a preposterous overhead kick in the 90th minute.
Ten years on, the ponytailed striker’s chutzpah still inspires awe. Ibrahimovic had already scored a brilliant hat-trick, but his fourth goal was the pick of the lot. It left Hart red-faced and, if there was a consolation for England, at least Sweden’s biggest star had dragged the atten…
The argument that Gareth Southgate’s refusal to lift the handbrake is the only thing blocking England’s path to glory refuses to go away. Yet before they face Serbia in Gelsenkirchen on Sunday, it is worth asking whether throwing caution to the wind really is the right way forward for a team fretting over a range of defensive concerns and unsure over who should partner Declan Rice in midfield.
Of course, there will be those saying that attack is the best form of defence, not least because few countries have as many talented forwards as England at Euro 2024. For Southgate, perhaps the main task is working out how to fit them all in behind Harry Kane. Phil Foden on the left, Jude Bellingham as the No 10 and Bukayo Saka on the right? It so…
Auburn assistant coach Chuck Person and former NBA official Rashan Michel became the first two men indicted as part of the FBI’s investigation into the bribery of college basketball recruits, when a federal grand jury in New York charged them each on six counts on Tuesday. The charges include conspiracy to commit bribery, solicitation of bribes and gratuities, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, honest services wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and travel act conspiracy. Together, they carry a sentence of up to 80 years in federal prison. The indictment accuses Person of accepting at least $91,500 in bribes in return for influencing Auburn players to work with business managers and retain the services of Michel—who is now a suit maker—when they went pro. Accor…