Month: October 2024

UPDATE: The Chiefs won the coin toss with Heads and they Deffered.

Before the ball is snapped at Super Bowl 58 or any touchdowns are scored, the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers opens with the coin toss!

The ceremonial call between heads or tails not only determines which team will kick and receive to open the Big Game, but it has become a Super Bowl odds betting staple, garnering a massive amount of money at sportsbooks. Here’s everything you need to know about betting on the Super Bowl coin toss.

It’s a 50-50 proposition! Just make sure you get the best odds before you bet!

Coin toss odds

Super Bowl coin toss prop bets are among the handful of odds markets not decided between the whistles…

The Atlanta Falcons are making their move in the NFC South after back-to-back dramatic wins, and Kirk Cousins & Co. are walking into a favorable matchup against a Carolina Panthers team limping through another nightmare season.

My Falcons vs. Panthers predictions are jumping on the Atlanta bandwagon, with the visitors enjoying a 10-day break since stunning the Bay Buccaneers in overtime last Thursday. Check out my NFL picks for this divisional clash on Sunday, October 13.

Falcons vs Panthers prediction

My best betFalcons -6 (-110 at BetMGM)

My analysis

If Kirk Cousins isn’t in a rhythm after his 42-for-58 stat line in Week 5, he never will be. The Atlanta Falcons quarterback carved up the Bucs for 509 passing…

Welcome to day two of Deadspin’s look at probable “1,000-yarders in the 2022 season. Yesterday, we highlighted the running backs. Today we look at receivers. If you already caught yesterday’s, skip down ahead to the first slide. Otherwise, here’s a recap of the hows and whys of our doing this exercise (other than it’s almost football season and we are pretty geeked about it!): One thousand yards on the ground or through the air has long been a benchmark of success in the NFL. Having a 1,000-yard season under your belt makes any defense have to account for you when game-planning. Sure, there are some lesser-known players who had a career year or two surpassing 1,000 yards — Brian Hartline, Harry Douglas, Kenny Britt, CJ Spiller, Peyton Hillis, Chris Ivory…you get the point…

Brendan Rodgers has called for perspective but knows the last day of the season is no time for nuance. If results go Leicester’s way, that will not matter: they will have secured Champions League qualification on the back of a historic FA Cup triumph, making this an unambiguously glorious campaign.

If, on the other hand, Leicester drop points to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday or do not beat them by enough to leapfrog Liverpool or Chelsea, then Rodgers’ team will finish outside the top four having been in it for 242 days until Tuesday’s defeat at Stamford Bridge. Some will tag that as failure. Certainly it would leave a bitter taste, especially after similar deflation last season. This would still represent a season of progress for Leicest…

The former Premier League defender Phil Bardsley has donated his entire salary to charity after signing for Stockport until the end of the season.

The wages of the 37-year-old full-back, who left Burnley in the summer after spells at Manchester United, Sunderland and Stoke, will go to the League Two club’s community trust.

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“This is a dream signing. Over the last couple of months, I’ve had the honour of training with the club as I return from injury,” Bardsley said. “During this time, I’ve been welcomed in as part of the team and made to feel at home.

“Having the opportunity to sign for the club …

It took just 41 seconds after kick-off at Carrow Road for “football’s coming home” to break out in the stands. In the eyes of women’s football fans, never mind Sunday, football “came home”’ two years ago, and on Friday England took another big step towards ensuring they will be in Switzerland next summer to defend their title.

It was Manchester City’s Lauren Hemp who was truly coming home, as the winger from North Walsham returned to Norwich, where she began her career at the club’s centre of excellence, and a slight disappointment for the fans, on a predominantly positive night for the Lionesses, was that their local heroine was not on the scoresheet. Nonetheless, Hemp, like many of her teammates, was in strong form as the…

If baseball fans out there are feeling just a touch more exuberant, or looking in the mirror and thinking they’re having a good day — or maybe had the motivation to add just one more rep or set to their workout this morning — there’s a reason for it. We, as a society, have successfully punted Trevor Bauer out of our country! While not being an actual deportation (and only a deportation via catapult onto a garbage ship would have seemed appropriate) It seems Bauer couldn’t find any employment opportunities on these shores. Or at least none to his liking, so he’ll be signing in Japan with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of the Japanese Central League. He’ll earn 4 million yen — roughly $3 million USD, according to the current exchange rate — which is obviously far too much bu…

MLB needs Aaron Judge — even more than the New York Yankees do. Judge, the star right fielder, is just what the doctor ordered. He’s big, strong, Black and has some swag to boot. Just watch him at home plate with his teammates after a homer. Best of all, Judge has a monster home run bat and he plays on the biggest stage in sports. And before you say that Judge isn’t new and has been around for years, he has. But not really. Judge has been hurt, hurt way too much to capture the sport and star as the face of the game. For sure, there are better all-around players than him, including the Angels’ Mike Trout. Most see Trout as the best player in the sport. But none have the total package to catch a nation’s attention. That’s what Judge has. He’s so good he’ll make your fr…