Month: October 2024

We’re less than two days away from kicking off Super Bowl 58 between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers.

There is no shortage of people dissecting the Super Bowl odds and giving their Super Bowl predictions — but it’s now time for the most important NFL picks of all… the official plays from the Covers staff!

We’ve polled our in-house NFL betting experts for their Big Game winner, Super Bowl MVP play, best Super Bowl prop, and favorite long-shot play.

Find out below what direction(s) our crew is going on this Sunday.

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An AFC South rivalry renews in Week 6 when the Indianapolis Colts travel to Nashville to take on the Tennessee Titans.

Both teams are in dire need of a divisional win, but my Colts vs. Titans predictions believe the quarterback struggles will continue for both sides. Find out why I am projecting a low-scoring affair in my NFL picks for Sunday, October 13.

Colts vs Titans prediction

My best betUnder 43 (-110 at BetMGM)

My analysis

As of Friday afternoon, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson is a game-time decision. I am making this pick under the assumption he is starting, but this handicap still holds weight if Joe Flacco ends up getting the nod. 

The Colts are extremely banged up heading into this …

Humankind is mortal. We are born, we flop around and make noise for a while, and then, inevitably, we die. That is perhaps the lesson that the diabolical makers of slippery stairs were trying to teach to their audience. I realize that asking someone to watch a nine-minute video is demanding a lot, but I hope you will trust me that I would not do this if I did not think it was important. I promise that you will be enraptured by the trials of all these little Sisyphus cosplayers. There’s so much to like here; the delight with which the hosts watch these poor fuckers turn into runaway sleds; the contrast between the intense pounding music that plays when someone reaches the second staircase and the Mario Party-ass “Boink!” sound when they careen into their fellow competitors; the amou…

WE DON’T LIKE TO SEE IT (EXCEPT WE DO)

Mauricio Pochettino has been here before. Five years ago, almost to the day, his Tottenham side went to Stamford Bridge searching for the win that would keep them alive in the race for their first title since 1961. They ended up shipping a two-goal lead, then whipping up one of those comic-book dust clouds covered with words like OOF and WHACK and BAM and OOYAFUCINBASA and with fists and boots sticking out of it. If The Fiver’s memory serves, the cloud, and all those contained within, was last seen sailing gracefully down the players’ tunnel, leaving several loose ends trailing ambiguously in its wake, like the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, or…

It turns out that football miracles can strike twice. In quick succession, and in the same place. After their team’s shock defeat to Costa Rica last Sunday, many Japanese fans were bracing for an early exit from the Qatar World Cup at the hands of Spain.

Instead, the Khalifa International Stadium was the backdrop to another extraordinary night for Japanese football, as the Samurai Blue beat the 2010 world champions 2-1 to send them into the last 16 and a meeting with the 2018 runners-up, Croatia. Victory in that match would take Japan to the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time.

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“Doha delights again!” one newspa…

The UK Football Policing Unit has received nearly 600 referrals of online abuse towards England players since the start of Euro 2024. The figures, revealed by Channel 4 News, showed spikes in abusive posts after England’s group games, with the majority of posts containing racist content or language. The UKFPU has said 26 cases are under investigation.

“It’s roughly around 85% of most of the grossly offensive posts that we see are racism, followed by homophobia,” said superintendent Mike Ankers, the UKFPU investigations lead. “We still get vile use of the N-word. They will be quite prominent. We’ll also get things like monkey emoji, that in itself will be grossly offensive. So we would be taking action.

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One year ago, who would have thought that Julián Álvarez would be the breakout star of the World Cup instead of Gio Reyna, or that TCU backup Max Duggan would lead the Horned Frogs to a national championship game on the 1-yard line of 2022’s closing? Trying to predict which figures will rise to the forefront in 2023 is an imperfect task. Athletes or coaches on the brink of stardom could instead fall off the edge and never be heard from again or their emergence could be delayed a few years. Around the corner may instead be a Joe Burrow-type who was previously dismissed before returning with a vengeance. 2023 should introduce the country to a few, new names. The tarot cards are imperfect. There are two levels of breakout stars. Some are names whose potential we were introduced to in 2…

Tom Brady has the greatest resume of any quarterback in NFL history and is one of the most successful athletes to play any sport, which is why he has nothing left to gain by playing another snap in the NFL. Yet, after 20 seasons in Foxborough, nine Super Bowl appearances, six Super Bowl titles, four Super Bowl MVPs and three league MVPs, he’s decided to continue his football journey “elsewhere.” And that elsewhere looks to be Tampa Bay, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Brady is in a position that very few athletes find themselves at the end of their careers: he’s healthy, wealthy, and a surefire Hall of Famer. There is nothing left for Brady to accomplish that doesn’t come with a higher risk than reward. There’s no need for us see you look all awkward and out of plac…