Covers is throwing an entry into the Circa Million Pro Football contest for the 2021 season and Adam Chernoff has been tabbed to make the weekly picks so let’s dig right in.
Here are his five ATS picks for Week 16 of the Circa Million betting contest.
Week 15 record: 5-0Season to date: 48-27Place: T-64 / 4,086
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The NFL calendar flips to December in Week 13, meaning a seismic shift not just in temperatures but motivation.
The playoff chase is on for teams in touch with the tournament but a good number of clubs are on the outside looking in, leaving their late-season plans a guessing game. One way to monitor possible motivation is situational handicapping — AKA Spot Bets.
I size up the NFL Week 13 odds and tell you which situational pitfalls to watch out for, with my letdown, look-ahead, and schedule spots bets to consider.
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The NFL season enters Week 16 odds with an NFC matchup between two teams in the thick of a playoff race when the New Orleans Saints meet the Los Angeles Rams tonight at SoFi Stadium.
New Orleans has won two straight and tied for first place in the NFC South. Los Angeles is coming off a 28-20 home victory over Washington but is four games behind NFC West leader San Francisco and needs a victory to remain in the NFC Wild Card hunt.
Please join me as I break down the TNF odds and share my top three NFL picks for the Saints and Rams on Thursday, December 21.
If you are looking for a full game breakdown, be sure to check out our Saints vs Rams predictions as well as our Matthew Stafford odds spotlight.
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The NFL preseason is over, so it’s time to ask:
Are you ready for some (real) football?
Caleb Williams represents the future (and finally hope) in Chicago, Stefon Diggs is the new face of a dynasty in the making, Patrick Mahomes is still the head of a current dynasty… and Aaron Rodgers remains the center of the universe (at least to him).
To get you up to speed with all the offseason changes ahead of Week 1, Jason Logan previews all 32 NFL teams — including NFL odds, key matchups, Super Bowl 2025 futures, and star player profiles — check out the full slate of team previews below!
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St Albans City produced the surprise of the FA Cup first round so far with a 3-2 home win over Forest Green Rovers.
The Saints, currently second in National League South, fell behind to Matty Stevens’ near-post finish after 18 minutes but were level eight minutes later, Mitchell Weiss heading home to spark wild scenes at Clarence Park.
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St Albans took the lead 29 minutes in as Zane Banton fired home from Shaun Jeffers’ flick on. The League Two leaders struck what looked like a telling blow just before half time as Jack Aitchison finished into the far corner.
The hosts continued to cause problems at set pieces,…
Newcastle have finalised a £25m-a-year front-of-shirt sponsorship deal with the leading Saudi Arabian events company Sela. The agreement will provide an early test of the Premier League’s new fair market value commercial regulations.
The multiyear contract is a sharp increase on the club’s £6.5m-a-season shirt sponsorship with the Chinese online gambling company Fun88, reflecting the team’s ascent to the top four and, with it, qualification for next season’s Champions League.
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Given that Sela is majority-owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which holds an 80% stake in Newcastle, the tie-up will automat…
In the late 1980s, the makers of L&M cigarettes were looking to diversify. They settled on an old idea, something cigarette companies began doing in the late 19th century: Trading cards. In 1990, the company split its business and moved its sports card division into a company called Impel Marketing. You may know Impel Marketing by another name: SkyBox, the one it took in 1992 after launching its brand of glossy basketball cards. In 1995, Marvel paid $150 million cash to acquire the company; the comics giant merged it with Fleer, which it had purchased three years earlier for $286 million. You definitely know what happened next: The trading card market fell apart. Marvel sold the combined Fleer/SkyBox for $26 million in 1999. Really, it was just a great time in American business. …
Sportswriting as an enterprise is doing just fine, and there are any number of fine year-end wrap-ups celebrating the best work by the best people in our profession. But where's the fun in that? Here, in no particular order, are the worst sports things we read this year, every one of them special in its own particular way. Peter King, MMQB.com | Everything We Thought Was Wrong Peter King walks back his original reporting about the NFL league office fuckups in the aftermath of Ray Rice's domestic abuse case a second time, spooning the hand grenade a lying source very likely dropped in his lap. It was embarrassing. If league officials saw this video before issuing the two-game ban for Rice, all the scorn that's been heaped on Roger Goodell and his colleagues will be …