Month: October 2024

Isiah Pacheco has Super Bowl MVP odds of +3,300 which is a great number considering he’s one of three players who contribute to this Kansas City offense. 

The running back has scored in seven straight games, but it’s his rushing markets that I’m focusing on for my Super Bowl predictions. He has appealing Super Bowl odds and a good matchup vs. a San Francisco defense that has been getting gouged on the ground, and Pacheco is primed for an explosive gain or two in Las Vegas. 

After taking a look at Isiah Pacheco odds, these are my favorite NFL picks for the Kansas City running back come February 11.  

If you want more great bets for the Big Game, check out our Super Bowl 58 prop picks and Rashee Rice player spotlight!

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After a mild Week 4 gave NFL survivor pools hope wild upsets were over, Week 5 came in like a wrecking ball: Miley style. 

Losses from San Franciso and Seattle — the two most popular survivor selections — decimated an already shallow field, leaving just 41 entries alive of the original 3,789 in Covers’ 10K Pro Football Survivor Pool.

FYI: If you were one of the 3,748 survivor pool players that got GOT by those crazy early-season results, Covers is offering a chance at redemption… and $5,000. Check out Covers’ “Second Chance” Pro Football Survivor Pool, which starts this week.

As for me, I’m among the 41 lucky poolies with life in my lungs. I trusted the Bears to win in Week 5… or maybe it was more …

The next Olympics to be awarded, a little more than a year from now, will be the 2022 Winter Games. Rather than going to the strongest bid, the games may end up going to the last city standing—a long list of potential hosts have given up on their Olympic dreams because the whole thing is one huge, useless waste of money. Yesterday, Krakow, Poland, officially withdrew its bid for the games, a day after a citywide referendum where 70 percent of voters came out against hosting the Olympics. "Krakow is closing its efforts to be the host of the 2022 Winter Games due to the low support for the idea among the residents," said mayor Jacek Majchrowski. In January, another of the six original finalists pulled out, when Stockholm, Sweden's ruling political party declined to fund …

Hege Riise has instructed England to be brave and precise in their first match on foreign soil for more than a year against France in Caen on Friday night. “I want them to always look for an opportunity to go forward,” the Lionesses’ interim coach said. “And, when we do so, to be accurate in our movement and passing.

“France have speed and smartness so it’s a balance for us to manage the game defensively but also be brave enough to attack them. We want to go after France and prove ourselves.”

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Corinne Diacre’s squad are ranked third in the world while England have dropped to sixth but a Covid outbreak in the host…

Gareth Southgate has taken the shock decision to include James Maddison in his England squad for the World Cup in Qatar. The Leicester playmaker, who has been in outstanding form in 2022, had feared he would be overlooked by a manager who has previously used him only once – as a substitute in the European Championship qualifying win over Montenegro in November 2019.

Southgate also recalled Marcus Rashford, rewarding the Manchester United striker for his return to form, and found room for Ben White, Callum Wilson and Conor Gallagher. White will offer an option at right-back, with Reece James ruled out because of a knee injury, and will also provide depth in central defence, where Fikayo Tomori and Marc Guéhi have been excluded.

The righ…

Norwich have appointed the Nordsjælland manager Johannes Hoff Thorup as their head coach. Thorup has signed a three-year contract after compensation was agreed with the Danish Superliga club.

Norwich sacked David Wagner less than 24 hours after a 4-0 defeat by Leeds in the second leg of the Championship playoffs.

Thorup told the club website: “I’m excited, I hope that the supporters are excited as well. I hope that we can create something together – it’s so important that they are proud of the team. I feel the connection with the people, the club and the city. Everyone I have met with so far is so humble, nice and easy-going.

“I have my ideas and I have my principles in the way t…

The Celtics played in Phoenix tonight, giving Isaiah Thomas an opportunity to go at the team that traded him less than a week ago. He dropped 21 points and seven assists (albeit on 6-16 shooting with five turnovers) on his old teammates, but really took over the game in the final two minutes. He scored eight of Boston's final 14 points, as well as nabbing a key steal in the close win. After he was fouled by Brandon Knight, the guy who ostensibly replaced him, while nailing a three-pointer, Thomas stared down the Suns bench for a long time: He did it again after making a tough layup a few moments later: Despite the staredowns, Thomas says he holds no animosity towards the Suns. Before the game he refuted rumors that he was unhappy in Phoenix. Afterwards, in a lighthearted med…

The International Olympic Committee voted today to add five events (really six because baseball and softball are different sports, just not to the IOC) to the summer Olympic slate, beginning in Tokyo in 2020. Baseball, softball, karate, skateboard, sports climbing, and surfing will all take their place at the Olympics. The IOC is pitching the vote as a move to appeal to the world’s youth, because skateboarding and surfing, brah, and will vote again at some point to determine whether the additions will be permanent. As of now, the sports are currently slated to appear only in 2020. IOC President Thomas Bach offered the the following statement in the official press release. “We want to take sport to the youth. With the many options that young people have, we cannot expect any more…