The Indianapolis Colts are off to the desert to take on the Arizona Cardinals in Week 16 of the NFL season on Saturday. The Colts have been playing some inspired football of late while the Cardinals have lost consecutive games they probably shouldn’t have against the Rams and especially the lowly Lions. 

This is the second of two games taking place on Christmas Day and it should be a very competitive matchup if both teams bring their A games. NFL betting lines opening with Arizona as a 1.5-point home favorite before moving to -3 on Saturday afternoon.

Is Santa going to reward the Cards for being good this year or will Indianapolis dump coal in their stocking? We let you know what we think with our best free Colts vs. Cardinals betting picks and prediction…

Finally — a Thursday Night Football matchup (non-Thanksgiving edition) we can get excited about.

A divisional matchup! Teams that aren’t five games below .500! Players who are actually on people’s fantasy teams!

Yes, Week 13 odds kick off with the Bills visiting Foxboro to face the Patriots — with the biggest focus (and my betting spotlight) on Josh Allen props.

Buffalo’s star QB has been in a bit of a rut lately, and the lines this week for his NFL player props are depressed against a stout New England defense. My free NFL picks don’t expect Allen to suddenly get back to his early-season ways — read below to see how I’m betting Allen for TNF.

For more Thursday Night Football best bets, be sure to also check out our full Bills v…

The Denver Broncos hope to keep their postseason hopes alive when they host the New England Patriots as NFL odds favorites at Mile High Stadium for Sunday Night Football.

The SNF odds favor the Broncos by -6.5 points, and the 34.5-point total suggests a knock-down, drag-out, low-scoring affair between the two longtime postseason rivals.

Please join me as I share my top three NFL picks for Patriots vs Broncos player props on Sunday, December 24.

You can also get more great bets in our full Patriots vs. Broncos picks and Russell Wilson spotlight props!

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Week 1 is often a time to think optimistically, but I can’t help but feel pretty darn pessimistic about the Bryce Young era in Carolina. The Panthers may have set themselves years backwards, and another potentially disastrous campaign begins with a trip to the rowdy Caesars Superdome and a date with the New Orleans Saints.

Find out why I think the Saints will prevail in a low-scoring opener while keeping Young from breaking out, and much, much more in my free NFL picks.

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The agent of Czech Republic full-back Theodor Gebre Selassie has confirmed that his client is interested in joining Werder Bremen.

The highly rated defender has just over a year left on his contract at Slovan Liberec, but is heavily tipped to move to one of the top European leagues this summer.

Werder Bremen are currently looking for a new right-back and they believe Gebre Selassie would be a great addition to the squad.

“He is someone who interests us very much,” Werder Bremen chief Klaus Alofs .

“And he also had great interest in coming to us.”

Bild claims Slovan Liberec would settle for a fee between €1.5m and €2m, although they could ask for more after the player largely impressed playing for the national team at the European Cham…

While might have managed to drag themselves to a top-six finish last season, it did not cover what was a nightmare campaign at Old Trafford.

Breaking a host of unwanted records last season under the guidance of former bosses Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Ralf Rangnick, the Red Devils are in the midst of what has been a rather public spiral over recent years.

With the likes of David Moyes, Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho all failing to offer much stability to the English giants, it is now Erik ten Hag s turn in the Old Trafford dugout.

However, while the ex-Ajax manager might have gained plenty of praise during his tenure in Amsterdam, the 52-year-old has a real job on his hands.

So, with the start of the 2022/23 campaign just around the corner, we have take…

Thierry Henry says Dimitri Payet s emotion after scoring France s spectacular winner in their home Euro 2016 opener against Romania proved how hurt the West Ham star was by his 2014 World Cup snub in Brazil.

Payet was a mainstay in the France squad during qualification for the World Cup two years ago but did not make the final squad, though he was the hero with his match-winning goal in the 89th minute at the Stade de France.

And France great Henry said the emotion he displayed in the Group A opener in Paris proved how hurt he was by the exclusion.

He thought that he was going to go the World Cup in Brazil. He was involved in every single qualification game, Henry told BBC afterwards.

They didn t pick him. You saw a man that was hurt on the pitch today.…

Treble-winners Manchester City and Hollywood success story Wrexham were the English league’s top-performing teams of 2023, with a less heralded name joining them in the mix.

Here, the PA news agency looks at the calendar-year league table for the 92 current Premier League and EFL clubs.

Annus mirabilis

The table ranks teams by average points per league game in 2023, with ties broken by per-game goal difference.

Pep Guardiola’s City led the way with 2.27 points per game as they went unbeaten at home in all competitions. They won 29 of their 41 Premier League games, drawing six and losing six.

Wrexham, promoted from the National League and thriving in League Two to kick-start high-profile owners Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds’ grand plans for the n…

What will NFL Week 18 bring us? 

Football bettors step into uncharted waters, with the extended schedule and expanded postseason providing unique edges and angles we’ve never had before. The final slate of NFL betting in the regular season puts plenty in front of us: playoff pushes, potential rest spots, and mystery motives for those teams not making the cut.

We dig a little deep with our best NFL Week 18 spot bets – uncovering hidden value with our letdown, look-ahead and schedule spots.

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Getting NFL football three times in four days is a real treat, and I’m looking to cap off the weekend with more of my favorite NFL player prop picks for Sunday.

I’m looking at a rushing total for one of the fastest quarterbacks making a start in Week 15 as well as hitting an Over that the books should have adjusted two weeks ago.

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