Highlighting the NFL Week 4 odds is a massive AFC matchup on Sunday Night Football with the Buffalo Bills visiting the Baltimore Ravens.
Buffalo is on a short week after blasting the Jacksonville Jaguars on Monday night and gets its toughest test yet in a Baltimore squad that is much stronger than its 1-2 record would lead some to believe.
I’m leaning toward the Ravens playing keep away as I dig into the opening spread and total for Sunday Night Football and give my early Bills vs. Ravens predictions and NFL picks for September 29.
Bills vs Ravens predictions
Early spread leanRavens -1.5 (-115 at bet365)
My analysis
The lookahead line for this huge conference clash was Baltimore Ravens -1.5 before the Buffalo…
The NHL announced Tuesday which teams will head to the Czech Republic, Finland and Germany for games this fall. The league's 2024 Global Series will feature the Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils opening the 2024-25 season with two games in Prague on Oct. 4 and 5. The Sabres will also play a preseason game against Red Bull Munich on Sept. 27 in Munich, opening the German club's new home arena. Then, the Florida Panthers and Dallas Stars will head to Tampere, Finland, for a pair of games Nov. 1 and 2 to conclude the international series. Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov and Dallas forward Roope Hintz are both from the Tampere area and live there in the offseason. "It's more than a dream come true because you don't even dream about this," Barkov s…
Fulham have made their first signing since winning promotion to the Premier League, buying Antonee Robinson from Wigan Athletic for £1.9m.
Robinson, who has impressed at left-back for Wigan, was a target for several Premier League clubs. West Ham scouted him at the end of last season and the USA defender was close to joining Sheffield United until Fulham, who earned an instant return to the top flight after beating Brentford in the Championship play-off final, came in for him.
The 23-year-old is highly rated and was on the verge of joining Milan for £6m during the January transfer window before the deal was called off after an irregular heartbeat was detected during his medical. However interest in Robinson has no…
Olivia Moultrie made history on Sunday night by becoming the youngest goalscorer in National Women’s Soccer League history.
The 16-year-old scored in the 74th minute for the Portland Thorns, the third goal in a 4-0 rout of the Houston Dash at BBVA Stadium in Houston, Texas.
Sophia Smith took advantage of a careless turnover from Houston in their own final third and squared the ball for Moultrie, who tapped home her historic first goal.
“Obviously, I’m extremely excited to be able to score my first goal, but more importantly just how big of a win that was for us as a team and what we’ve been working on,” Moultrie said afterward. “All around, just a very exciting moment.”
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Newcastle United’s chairman, Yasir al-Rumayyan, is facing a £58m lawsuit for allegedly “having carried out the instructions” of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman, with “malicious intent”, it has been reported.
The claims, which are said to be made in legal papers sent to Rumayyan at several locations, including at St James’ Park, also allege that he acted with the aim of “harming, silencing and ultimately destroying” the family of Dr Saad Aljabri, the kingdom’s former intelligence chief. According to the Athletic, the papers have asked a court for Rumayyan, who is also the chairman of LIV Golf, to be added to an existing case, and for a new claim to be brought against him and the others.
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Copa America fever isn't running rampant, with the Americans long gone from the scene, but the semifinal clash between Colombia and Uruguay is a biggie. It also has me wondering: do ardent soccer bettors pick every match to end in a draw?Well, there's no tying in baseball, and there's a full slate of games to choose from. Hot pitchers Gavin Stone (Los Angeles Dodgers) and Cristopher Sanchez (Philadelphia Phillies) square off as the National League division leaders meet again.The Atlanta Braves are hot with four straight wins, and a tape measure should be handy when Adam Duvall comes to bat. His 441-foot blast Tuesday night still falls short of the 483-foot homer he swatted in 2021. That one seemingly landed on the roof of the nearby Phoenix Suns' arena.ATLANTA BRAVES …
A medical clinic in Illinois is accusing the NFL of instructing its insurance carrier to deny claims made by former players under the auspices of the league’s disability plan. The allegations are outlined in a lawsuit that also accuses the league of retaliating against the clinic for providing independent diagnostic services in lieu of the concussion settlement. Advanced Physicians S.C. first filed the suit in Illinois state court in March, but the case was moved to federal court on Thursday. According to the suit, which was first reported by Law360, “[t]he NFL doesn’t want to pay its former players disability payments under the disability plan” that had been collectively bargained between the league and the NFLPA. According to the suit, Advanced estimates it has treated more t…
It’s here! The hockey is finally here! Tonight, on this most special of nights, we’ll see meaningful puck drops across North America for the first time since June, and I could not be happier. Thank you for clicking on this preview, and in doing so choosing to enjoy or learn about the best game you can name. All the teams are listed in a rough approximation from best to worst, because I will gladly court danger and embarrassment from any and all fanbases. The Good OnesTampa Bay Lightning Last Season: The Lightning are already good most of the time, but they were historically dominant last regular season. They earned the Presidents’ Trophy for the most points in the league, and with 62 wins they tied the 1996 Detroit Red Wings for the all-time season mark. This gang put on a show b…
Burnley manager Sean Dyche seems like the kind of guy who would munch on a big bowl of tree bark, rocks, and beetles for breakfast every morning and make a big show of it if for no other reason than to prove how much of a hardass he is. Thus it wasn’t too much of a stretch to believe a former teammate of his, Søren Andersen, who recently said Dyche used to eat worms at practice. Dyche has finally responded to these claims by denying Andersen’s accusation, clarifying that he doesn’t actually eat worms, he just likes to suck on them for laughs. Andersen appeared on the Danish podcast Fodboldministeriet last month, and during the conversation the topic of his old Bristol City teammate Dyche came up—specifically something about the Englishman’s trademark gravelly voice. Andersen…
We had a lot of ESPN-related coverage this year, because ESPN continues to be fertile ground for mockery. Here's everything we had to say about the monolithic sports network this year. The Mostly Sexless Sex Scandal That Shook ESPN A few hours after the 2009 Home Run Derby, Steve Phillips bought Brooke Hundley a drink. They were at the bar of St. Louis's Millenium Hotel, a block from Busch Stadium, where more than a dozen ESPN staffers had gathered after wrapping up another day's work during MLB's extended All-Star weekend. Hundley was a 22-year-old from Colorado making $10.96 an hour as an ESPN production assistant. Phillips was the former general manager of the Mets who'd spent the previous four years as a baseball analyst at ESPN. They'd met there in St.…