It s unusual to see Sergio Ramos, the pantomime villain of the Champions League final, act as a firefighter but, hours after Julen Lopetegui was sacked as Spain coach, the centre-back was a voice of calm amid the chaos.
We re the national team, we represent a badge, colours, fans, a country, he tweeted. Yesterday, today and tomorrow: together.
The tone was right, the message of solidarity important. But it felt like a man politely asking a storm not to blow down his house while the flood waters reached his shoulders.
Lopetegui s dismissal was as momentous as it was horrendously ill-timed. Announced as Real Madrid s next coach on Tuesday, he did not even see out the following 24 hours with his national team.
Royal Spanish Football Federation president …
Betting on the final NFL game on Thanksgiving Day is kind of like eating that final piece of pumpkin pie. You probably shouldn’t but who are you kidding, you’re definitely going to.
The final helping on this Turkey Day will see Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills visit the New Orleans Saints. Lately, the Bills have been as confusing as marshmallows on sweet potatoes. Do we dare back them as road favorites, or is the value with the home dogs this Thanksgiving?
Find out in our free NFL picks and predictions for Bills vs. Saints on Thursday, November 25.
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Poof! And just like that, we’ve reached Week 4 of the NFL season.
September comes to a close and we welcome October football with bookies starting to pump up their power ratings with more data. That means getting the best number is even more important when handicapping the NFL Week 4 odds.
I help you do just that — depending on which sides and totals you like — with my best NFL bets to make now and which ones you should wait to make later.
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The Atlanta Falcons head to Ford Field to face the Detroit Lions on Sunday afternoon. The Lions edged the defending Super Bowl champs in Week 1 but were upset at home last week and will try to bounce back against a Falcons side that is 2-0.
NFL odds opened with Detroit as a 4.5-point home favorite but that line has slimmed down to -3.5. Here are my best free Falcons vs. Lions NFL picks for September 24.
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As we approach the quarter pole of the NFL regular season the Cincinnati Bengals and Jacksonville Jaguars enter tonight’s MNF match trending in opposite directions. The Bengals are without Joe Burrow and barring a miraculous transformation of Jake Browning into a legit NFL QB, they’ll miss the playoffs altogether. On the other sideline, the Jaguars have won two straight and are in the driver’s seat for the AFC South crown.
Can the Jags hold serve at home, or will the Bengals play spoiler?
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 Bengals/Jaguars directly from legal sports betting sites?
In Canada, bet365 is one of our …
With more and more athletes taking to social media to interact with fans (for better or worse), the need to feel connected to your favorite players is at an all-time high.
Fans want behind-the-scenes access to how these elite athletes go about their day-to-day lives while maintaining their professionalism and delivering for their teams.
Lucky for you, Netflix has dropped a brand new football series called “Receiver”, and it looks like must-see TV:
Peyton Manning throws a pass to Randy Moss to introduce Receiver. Premiering TOMORROW. pic.twitter.com/wESgrS83fC
— Netflix (@netflix) July 9, 2024
It gets even better, as FanDuel Sportsbook has created some intriguing season-long betting markets …
A mild Week 6 of the season, which saw favorites go 12-2 SU, gave NFL Survivor Pool players a brief respite after the volatile first five weeks of action.
Most of the remaining entries in Covers’ 10K Pro Football Survivor Contest kept on keeping on, but we face a much more difficult task in Week 7 odds.
As our choices thin, bye weeks roll out, and the matchups get tighter, poolies have to be very careful about their next move.
For me, I cruised into Week 7 thanks to the Green Bay Packers’ one-sided win over Arizona at home. Now I have to be not only calculated with this week’s selection but also mindful of my potential NFL picks down the road.
Here’s my NFL survivor pool pick for Week 7 and a look at the “safes…
Andriy Shevchenko hailed his heroic Ukraine players following their dramatic 2-1 extra-time win over Sweden as he prepares to turn his focus to a Euro 2020 quarter-final showdown against England.
Ukraine progressed to the European Championship last eight for the first time thanks to Artem Dovbyk s last-gasp winner in extra time after Oleksandr Zinchenko had seen his opener cancelled out by Emil Forsberg on Tuesday.
Shevchenko s Ukraine will face England, who beat Germany 2-0 at Wembley earlier in the day, in Rome on Saturday after Dovbyk headed home at the end of 120 minutes.
Ukraine s only previous appearance in the knockout stages of a major competition came at the 2006 World Cup when eliminating Switzerland before losing to Italy in the last eight.
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PSV Eindhoven are in talks with Ivan Perisic over the possibility of the Croatian winger joining the club as a free agent, according to Fabrizio Romano.
Perisic, 35, has had an extremely illustrious career. Having started as a youthful talent at Hajduk Split, he played for Sochaux in France, and KSV Roeselare and Club Brugge in Belgium, before moving to Germany to join Borussia Dortmund in 2011. He spent 18 months there and 18 months at Wolfsburg, and made a notable mark over four years with Inter Milan. He had a loan spell with Bayern Munich, winning the 2020 Champions League with the Bavarians. He then returned to Inter and spent another two years there, before leaving as a free agent to join Tottenham Hotspur. In January this year, he returned on loan to Hajduk and signed a …
Lionel Messi finally secured his holy grail this weekend as Argentina claimed a 1-0 win over bitter rivals Brazil at the Maracana to lift the Copa America.
The six-time Ballon d Or winner has cleaned up time and again with club side Barcelona but major honours at international level had repeatedly proved elusive.
Germany beat the Albiceleste 1-0 after extra time in the 2014 World Cup final, after which Messi was named player of the tournament – a much disputed award given he appeared to be shadow of himself during the closing knockout stages.
The same could not be said when the 34-year-old lifted the individual gong in Rio. Although he was not Argentina s standout performer in the final, Messi was a man on a mission who would not be denied throughout the com…