The New Orleans Saints did not have to look very far or very hard to find a new head coach when they hired Dennis Allen, who has been their defensive coordinator since 2015. Sean Payton abruptly retired at the end of the season, but in his exit interview with the […]
Tinsel Town is aflutter with excitement today when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially announced nominees for the Oscars. “The Power of the Dog” is the consensus betting favorite at the 2022 Oscars to win Best Picture at -155 odds, followed by Kenneth Branagh’s coming of age […]
The NBA can be a brutal business, especially if you get exiled to Cow Town in a trade. The Indiana Pacers continued the implosion of their team when they agreed to trade two-time All-Star Domantas Sabonis, Justin Holiday, and Jeremy Lamb to the Sacramento Kings in exchange for Tyrese Haliburton, […]
The fire sale continues in Rip City. The Portland Trail Blazers parted ways with CJ McCollum when they agreed to a trade with the New Orleans Pelicans that includes seven total players and three draft picks. McCollum, 30, averages 20.5 points and 4.5 assists this season with the Trail Blazers. […]
Heading into Super Bowl 56, both starting quarterbacks are the favorites to win the MVP, with Matthew Stafford from the Los Angeles Rams at +100 odds, and Joe Burrow from the Cincinnati Bengals at +225. Tom Brady won the MVP for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl 55, which […]
The Golden State Warriors extended their winning streak to nine games in a row thanks to a couple of clutch 3-pointers from Klay Thompson to seal a victory against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Thompson finished the night with 21 points. In his first 10 games back after a 2.5 season […]
The Houston Texans tapped Lovie Smith, who won the 2005 NFL Coach of the Year with the Chicago Bears, as their new head coach to replace David Culley after an unimpressive one-and-done season with a 4-13 record. Smith spent nine seasons as the head coach of the Bears and two […]
The Phoenix Suns are the hottest team in the NBA with a 15-2 record since the start of the new year, and they moved into a tie with the Golden State Warriors at +450 odds as the second co-favorites to win the 2022 NBA championship. The Warriors and Suns still […]
The Cleveland Cavaliers upgraded their banged-up backcourt when they acquired Caris LeVert in a trade with the Indiana Pacers. The package also includes Ricky Rubio, a first-round draft pick, and two second-rounders. LeVert averages 18.7 points and 4.4 assists per game with the Pacers this season. He recently unleashed a […]
Mike McDaniel looks more like a hoodie-wearing, Silicon Valley tech bro than a football coach, but the Miami Dolphins hired the wunderkind from the San Francisco 49ers to become their next head coach. McDaniel is a Yale graduate and former Ivy League football player who the Dolphins hope can become […]
In one of the most exciting games of the season featuring two of the NBA’s top scorers, Joel Embiid dropped 40 points and the Philadelphia 76ers held off a late rally from the Chicago Bulls, despite a season-high 45 points from DeMar DeRozan. Embiid, the NBA’s leading scorer and the […]
What a difference a month makes. In early January, Monty Williams from the Phoenix Suns and Steve Kerr from the Golden State Warriors were co-favorites to win the 2022 NBA Coach of the Year at +380 odds. Four weeks later, Williams is the consensus favorite at -140 odds to win […]
With the trade deadline less than six days away, the Los Angeles Clippers and the Portland Trail Blazers worked out a five-player swap with the Clippers acquiring swingman Norman Powell and Robert Covington in exchange for Eric Bledsoe, Keon Johnson, Justise Winslow, and a second-round draft pick. Powell averages 18.7 […]
Joel Embiid and the Philadelphia 76ers head to Dallas to take on Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavs on Friday, and then the 76ers have a big showdown against the Chicago Bulls on Sunday. The banged-up Brooklyn Nets are in the middle of a six-game skid and are looking to […]
The Jacksonville Jaguars hope that Doug Pederson will be the head coach who turns the bottom-feeding swamp cat into an apex predator. The Jaguars lost 10-plus games in 10 out of their 11 previous seasons, and they were so bad they were awarded the #1 pick in the NFL draft […]
Despite a sore shoulder, Trae Young scored 43 points for the Atlanta Hawks and ended an 11-game winning streak by the Phoenix Suns with a 124-115 victory. The Suns (41-10) are the best team in the NBA and only lost their second game of the new year. They came into […]
In the latest edition of Whale Watch, our favorite furniture salesman — Jim ‘Mattress Mack’ McIngvale — fired away on a $4.5 million bet on the Cincinnati Bengals to defeat the Los Angeles Rams and win Super Bowl 56. Mattress Mack placed a money line wager worth $4.5 million on […]
The Brooklyn Nets (29-22) extended their current losing streak to six games after a tough loss against the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday night. The downtrodden Kings (19-34) were in the middle of their own seven-game skid when they hosted the Nets in a battle of two teams desperate for a […]
The Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals are thrilled that they have a weekend off before the Super Bowl because both starting tight ends — Tyler Higbee from the Rams and CJ Uzomah from the Bengals — exited Sunday’s game with a knee injury. Both tight ends hope to recover […]
Although Steph Curry led the 2022 NBA MVP race for most of this season, two elite big men emerged as the new betting favorites with Joel Embiid at the top of the board at +200 odds, and Nikola Jokic at +300 odds to win the MVP in back-to-back seasons. Just […]
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