Month: October 2024

Football fans will have twice as many ways to watch Super Bowl 58 on Sunday with live broadcast options courtesy of CBS and Nickelodeon. No, that isn’t a misprint. The channel famous for dousing celebrities with neon green slime will also be airing a kid-friendly version of the NFL’s championship game.

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If any matchup could snap the Cincinnati Bengals out of their early-season funk, today’s AFC North scrap against the Baltimore Ravens is a logical pick.

However, the numbers and the eye test suggest it’s a long shot. The Ravens are worthy favorites on the road here, and my Ravens vs. Bengals predictions see the visitors having the last laugh in what should be a high-scoring game.

I’m also locked in on the player prop markets, with Derrick Henry and Tee Higgins among my top NFL picks for this crucial October 6 contest.

Ravens vs Bengals predictions

• Ravens -2.5 (-110 at BetMGM)
• Over 48.5 (-110 at BetMG…
  

A rematch of the 2023 WNBA Finals will determine one of the participants in this year's championship round, as the No. 1-seeded New York Liberty host the fourth-seeded Las Vegas Aces in Game 1 of their best-of-five semifinal series on Sunday in Brooklyn. In the opening round of the playoffs, Las Vegas advanced past Seattle in its quest to become the WNBA's first three-peat champion since the Houston Comets claimed the league's first four championships from 1997 through 2000. This season's unanimous MVP, A'ja Wilson, scored 24 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in Tuesday's series-clinching win over the Storm. With Wilson on one end and Breanna Stewart leading New York on the other, a clash of three- and two-time MVPs headlines this series. The duo has combined …

Mark Noble will bring the curtain down on 18 years of service for West Ham next season. The long-serving midfielder and club captain has signed a new – and final – one-year contract with the Hammers.

Noble, who turns 34 in May, made his debut as a 17-year-old against Southend in the League Cup in 2004. He has made more than 500 appearances in claret and blue and lies seventh on the list of the club’s all-time appearance makers.

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Noble, whose previous contract was due to expire in the summer, has been restricted to just three Premier League starts this season due to the form of Declan Rice and Tomas Soucek in central midfield. But manager David Moye…

HARRY’S GAME

More used to surfing into major tournaments on a wave of good performances, excellent results, ultimately misguided optimism and upbeat chat about who they’d rather face in the first knockout round after topping their group, it will be a different England who travel to the Human Rights World Cup in November. Having reached the semi-finals at Russia 2018 and the final of Euro Not 2020, Gareth Southgate has taken the sensible step of quelling optimism by masterminding England’s worst run of results since 1992, overseeing six consecutive games without a win and getting them relegated from the top tier of the Nations League in the process. That HRWC group draw assorted pundits described as being “favourable…

ARSENAL v BOURNEMOUTH

Saturday 12.30pm TNT Sports 1 Venue Emirates Stadium

Referee David Coote This season G15 Y81 R3 5.6 cards/game

View image in fullscreenArsenal v Bournemouth: probable starters, contenders in italics

Arsenal

Subs from Ramsdale, Hein, Kiwior, Zinchenko, Soares, Jorginho, Elneny, Vieira, Smith Rowe, Nelson, Trossard, Jesus, Nketiah

Doubtful None

Injured Timber (knee, unknown)

Suspended None

Form WWLWWW Leading scorer Saka 15

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Kansas City begins the 2024 season where it wrapped last season: atop the NFL power rankings. The Chiefs open defense of consecutive Super Bowls and a bid for an historic three-peat on Thursday at home, facing a team capable of knocking them from the cushioned perch in the AFC, the Baltimore Ravens. Even-keeled Andy Reid and the Chiefs won't get too worked up over holding the top spot in subjective rankings in September, having proved that winning a Super Bowl doesn't mean being your best in the fall. There are contenders new and old in the NFC, bidding to win the Lombardi Trophy in New Orleans in February. But can anyone beat Patrick Mahomes? We asked our NFL writers to help rank-stack the field ahead of Week 1. 32. New England Patriots: Prepared to take lumps in a transit…

"A grand jury has indicted the man accused of killing Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others when a minivan smashed into their car last month. Orange County prosecutors say Andrew Gallo was indicted on three counts of murder and three other felonies for the April crash." [ AP] …