Month: October 2024

The Chicago Bears and Houston Texans will hit the field for the 2024 Pro Football Hall of Fame Game in Canton on Thursday, August 1.

Chicago will look to start 2024 off right and follow in Houston’s 2023 footsteps by punching a postseason ticket. The Texans, meanwhile, loaded up on veteran talent during the offseason to take the next step in the AFC.

With the marquee names from both teams unlikely to see meaningful action Thursday, here are Three Things to Watch while the Texans vs. Bears predictions play out in the Hall of Fame Game.

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The Denver Broncos come to the Big Easy for a showdown with the New Orleans Saints on Thursday Night Football.

The “Sean Payton Bowl” will feature two rookie quarterbacks — including Bo Nix — and my Broncos vs. Saints predictions explain why Nix will have Courtland Sutton in his sights all night long.

Find out more in my NFL picks for October 16.

Broncos vs Saints TNF prediction

My best betCourtland Sutton Over 45.5 receiving yards (-113 at FanDuel)

My analysisIn his six starts as a pro, Bo Nix only has eyes for Courtland Sutton — at least, that’s the way it seems. 

The Denver Broncos veteran receiver leads the team in targets (47) with a 21-pass gap between Sutton and the sec…

The NFC West may be one of the most exciting divisions in the league this season. Seattle and San Francisco both return as legitimate Super Bowl contenders. The Arizona Cardinals have the potential to be one of the most electric offensive teams in the league. And Jared Goff and the Rams have a lot to prove to the doubters this season. Expect a ton of fireworks from these squads in the 2020 season. Seattle SeahawksD.K. Metcalf credits: Getty COVID response: As of mid-August, the Seahawks have reportedly only had one player to test positive for the coronavirus, but there was speculation about those results being false positives. Offensive lineman Chance Warmack was the only player to opt-out of the 2020 season. Outside the lines: The team recently announced that players and coaches w…

The Champions League winner Vicky Losada has joined Manchester City on a two-year deal. The 30-year-old midfielder was captain of Barcelona when the club won their first European title in May, beating Chelsea 4-0 in Gothenburg.

“I’m so excited for next season and to have been able to join one of the best clubs in the world,” Losada, a former Arsenal player, said. “As soon as I had the offer from Manchester City, I didn’t have any doubts about it – I knew that it was time to leave Barcelona and close that chapter of my career after one of the best years of my life.

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“I’ve always said that I missed the English league – I …

NEW PRIORITIES

It’s been a dark 48 hours for Football Daily. The sweats, the shakes, the extravagant retching in the Waitrose deli aisle. We’re like this every February, as we come down from our last hit of Done Deal, the increasingly popular drug that turns adults into morons. The January transfer window has become a fundamental part of English football since it was introduced in 2003. We appreciate what the FA is trying to do, we really do, but we just need one more transfer saga, like. WE NEED ONE MORE UNCONFIRMED AIRPORT SIGHTING.

That won’t be happening until May, and The Man says we’re not even allowed to change our name to Transfer Daily, so we’re left with no alternative but to…

Todd Boehly has lost faith in his working relationship with Clearlake Capital, the US private equity firm that owns a majority shareholding in Chelsea, and wants to find a resolution that would prevent civil war breaking out at Stamford Bridge.

As claims that the club’s owners do not see eye to eye gain momentum, it is understood that Boehly is confident that investors are ready to provide him with sufficient capital to complete a full takeover. There have been strong denials that the American billionaire is hoping to sell his 38.5% stake, which is split equally between him, Hansjörg Wyss and Mark Walter.

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But Clearlake, which is owned by B…

There was always hope that a young, funky team would finally not just get the best of the Dodgers, but signal the end of the now decade long run of the Dodgers running roughshod over the NL West. Yes, the Giants got them once, in a season where the Dodgers still won 106 games. And we know what happened in the first round. We just assumed it would be the expensive collection of kids in San Diego. Turns out, it might be the less expensive collection of even younger kids in Phoenix? The Diamondbacks are 29-20, which gives them the third-best record in the National League and only a game, and a half behind the Dodgers in the West. While the D-Backs were expected to be improved and interesting, even by the ugliest and most bewildered writers, contention has come early for the Snakes. So yo…

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s here. Again. And I cannot hold my shit together. Again. A year after Marvel Studios’ hugely popular and perfectly perfect blockbuster Infinity War dusted half the universe to hell, or some alternate dimension, the finale has arrived. Avengers: Endgame purports to bring about closure to the 22-movie saga, and on Thursday night, I’ll line up with a half-dozen other psychos two hours before I sit down to watch a three-hour film, because I am stubborn and refuse to go to any movie theater other than my tried-and-true, old-timey cinema that doesn’t let you reserve seats. All I can do at that point is pray that my bladder has the wherewithal to hold up in line until 10 p.m. and hope that the Russo Bros. don’t fuck this all up. To be perfectly clear, this …