The Houston Texans are hitting the road and heading east to New Orleans to take on the Saints in the last preseason football game of 2023 tonight. NFL odds have the Saints as tepid 2.5-point favorites, with the total on the board at 38.

It should be relatively exciting too, with both teams expected to deploy their rookie quarterbacks. For the Texans, that’s No. 2 overall pick CJ Stroud — who is expected to start in the season opener — while the Saints are likely to go with fourth-round pick Jake Haener for the vast majority of the game.

Find out where my best bets lie in our NFL picks and predictions for Texans vs. Saints on Sunday, August 27.

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Two teams on opposite ends of the NFC food chain collide in Week 11 odds, with the Dallas Cowboys laying double figures when they visit the Carolina Panthers this Sunday.

The NFL odds have set Dallas as 10.5-point road chalk, marking the second straight week the Cowboys have been double-digit favorites. They made good as 17.5-point home faves in Week 10, blasting the New York Giants and improving favorites of -10 or higher to 8-2 ATS on the season.

Meanwhile, Carolina has just one win to its name at 1-8, and its record against the spread isn’t much prettier.

The Panthers enter Week 11 at 1-6-2 ATS but enjoyed a mini-bye after losing last Thursday. That means they could have some extra bodies back on defense in time to battle Dallas’ high-oct…

This year’s rendition of the Super Bowl features a litany of offensive playmakers on both sides, including San Francisco 49ers star wide-out Deebo Samuel. Samuel was the Niners’ undisputed top weapon two years ago, but with the addition of Christian McCaffrey and the ascent of Brandon Aiyuk, touches are harder to come by these days.

Still, with more competition for targets and a strong Chiefs pass defense in front of him, Samuel’s Super Bowl odds are a even a bit lower than usual. Does that make for betting value on taking the Over on his NFL odds? I let you know as I assess the Deebo Samuel odds and give my best NFL picks and predictions for Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday, February 11.For more Super Bowl predictions, be sure to check out Jason Logan’s 49e…

After an explosive start to the season, Derek Carr and the New Orleans Saints have now dropped two in a row and travel to take on Patrick Mahomes and the undefeated Kansas City Chiefs on Monday Night Football.

If Carr & Co. are to right the ship, I believe it will be Rashid Shaheed who contributes in a major way. My Saints vs. Chiefs predictions also see Mahomes leaning on Travis Kelce while continuing to force the issue downfield with Rashee Rice sidelined.

Continue reading for my free NFL picks for Monday, October 7.

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As a single-minded 36-year-old sportsman “just trying to keep going” at the highest level, James Milner has little time for reminiscing. With a momentous milestone on the horizon, however, he has no alternative. On Thursday the Liverpool midfielder will celebrate the 20th anniversary of his Premier League debut. Perhaps with a yoga session at home after training, though certainly not with an alcoholic drink.

It was at Upton Park on 10 November 2002 where Terry Venables launched the top-flight career of a 16-year-old Milner, bringing him on as an 84th-minute substitute for Jason Wilcox in Leeds’ 4-3 win over West Ham. For perspective, Wilcox is 51 and academy director at Manchester City. Nigel Martyn was on the Leeds bench and was the s…

Jude Bellingham revelled in his last-gasp heroics for England but says only time will tell how important that effort was at Euro 2024.

The Real Madrid midfielder delivered a stunning overhead-kick equaliser against Slovakia, with his 94th-minute leveller sending the last-16 clash to extra time after Ivan Schranz s first-half opener.

Harry Kane subsequently headed home just 50 seconds into the additional 30 minutes to send Gareth Southgate s side through to the last eight with a 2-1 extra-time victory on Sunday.

Though celebrating another landmark moment in his career, Bellingham warned England must now capitalise on their salvaging act and go deeper into the tournament in Germany.

It s 20 or 30 seconds until we re out of the European Championship and the…

Germany coach Horst Hrubesch refused to blame Nils Petersen for his missed penalty in their loss to Brazil at the Rio Olympics.

Neymar was the hero for the hosts, who claimed their first Olympic football gold medal with a 5-4 shoot-out victory after a thrilling 1-1 draw on Saturday.

Only Petersen failed to convert his penalty, the striker denied by goalkeeper Weverton to give Neymar the chance to win it and the Barcelona star duly obliged to spark jubilant celebrations in the stands.

What can you tell him? I told him, don t worry, that s life , the outgoing Hrubesch told a news conference.

He took the responsibility of taking the kick and with a penalty it s a 50-50 chance so no complaints whatsoever.

Germany fell behind to a tremendous Neymar …

Alexander Isak’s late strike punished a wasteful Tottenham Hotspur display as Newcastle United emerged 2-1 winners in an enthralling encounter at St. James’ Park.

The hosts took the lead against the run of play in the 37th minute as Harvey Barnes struck inside the box to give the Magpies a half-time advantage.

After dominating for much of the game, Spurs were gifted their just rewards in the second half as substitute Brennan Johnson saw his effort turned home by Dan Burn.

But Isak struck the decisive blow 12 minutes from time with a simple finish to hand Eddie Howe’s side another victory on home soil this term.

Newcastle’s triumph sees them maintain their unbeaten start to the season and go fourth in the early standings, meanwhile, Spurs sit 10th,…

He may refuse to believe in them, but Turkey coach Fatih Terim s team almost pulled off another miracle as the Euro 2008 come-back kings finally made their exit on Wednesday.

Turkey s 3-2 defeat was only sealed by Germany defender s Philipp Lahm s 90th minute striker as Terim s team threatened a fourth consecutive last-grasp win.

After Semih Senturk had forced an equaliser just four minutes from time to make it 2-2 it looked like Turkey were going to give Germany the same treatment they had handed out to Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Croatia.

But it was not to be and the 2002 World Cup semi-finalists took their Euro 2008 bow.

Whatever he may believe, Terim has worked miracles with his side.

A former captain of his country, the 54-year-…

The Australian top flight is nearing its Grand Final as the Newcastle Jets and Melbourne Victory get ready to settle the season in a highly-anticipated match this Saturday night at McDonald Joes Stadium.

In the meantime, the league’s TV has decided to give a rearview of the campaign and handpicked the best goals of the year 2017/18.

You should not be surprised to see plenty of great goals in it.

Enjoy.



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