Two familiar foes do battle on Friday night as the New Orleans Saints travel to Green Bay to square off with the Packers in NFL preseason action. The Saints are trying to move on with a new coach at the helm, while the Packers seek answers to questions surrounding their offense after the offseason departure of wide receiver Davante Adams.

While neither Jameis Winston nor Aaron Rodgers will take the field, there are plenty of key players to watch out for in this contest. Let’s break down the matchup in our New Orleans Saints vs Green Bay Packers NFL picks and predictions for Friday, August 19.

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Would a world-class soccer player truly consider switching to the other kind of football? That’s exactly what Tottenham Hotspur and England striker Harry Kane said he’d like to do. During an interview with Good Morning America on Wednesday, Kane told Michael Strahan that he’d “love to give it a go” sometime later this decade. 

Of course, just like most things in the sports world, that led to a betting market being created. Odds came out on Thursday for 10 high-profile soccer players on whether they would be playing in the National Football League before the end of the 2024-25 campaign. Kane opened as a +1,000 best odds pick, with superstars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo being the only other players with better than +5,000 odds.…

The Week 8 edition of Sunday Night Football sees two teams with two wins facing off as the Bears travel to Los Angeles to face the Chargers. Justin Fields might be sidelined but Justin Herbert isn’t, and we’re going to check out the best props based around the former Oregon signal caller.

For my money, Herbert is one of the best QBs in the league with a skillset not many can match. I’ve taken a long look at the Justin Herbert odds at various sportsbooks to find the very best ways for you to get involved with the Chargers QB in the SNF odds. Check out my free NFL picks below.

Also, be sure to check out our Chargers vs. Bears preview and SNF prop picks. 

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As the Wild Card Round showed us, being on the right side of the game script is very important when looking for extra yards and catches. While Divisonal Round odds feature a couple of big dogs to look at, I’m keeping the outputs in check and hitting a trio of very modest numbers for plus money.

I’m backing a running back who gets all the carries, hitting the Over 50 yards on a receiver who could top this in one catch, and finding the best 25-plus yard bet of the weekend. 

Join me as I analyze the latest NFL odds and dish out my NFL picks for the Divisional Round weekend. 

Also, be sure to check out the Super Bowl odds as we’re less than a month away from the big game in Las Vegas!

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One quick glance at the top of the 2025 Super Bowl odds board and you’ll see the teams you expect to be there. I’m talking about Kansas City, San Francisco, and Buffalo. 

Where it gets interesting, is in the middle of the pack where teams like Cincinnati, Miami, and Dallas have all seen their odds lengthen after a combined 2-7 start. 

So which teams have seen their odds shorten? Join me as I run down the latest NFL odds below. 

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Everything that makes Shohei Ohtani the star he has become was on display in his Los Angeles Dodgers spring training debut when he struck out, grounded into a double play and then rebounded to hit a towering opposite-field home run to left field. It was just a tune-up game that did not even attract a capacity crowd, and getting credit for digging out from a self-made hole is a dubious distinction. But the result was more evidence of what has become clear: Ohtani is as talented as they come and able to change his fortunes at a moment's notice. The Dodgers were so convinced that type of resolve could alter their own fortunes that they signed Ohtani to a massively deferred $700 million contract even though he was coming off elbow surgery and would not be able to provide the pitching…

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It’s been a far from perfect start to the season for the Queen’s Celtic. Points dropped at Kilmarnock. Coronavirus quarantine breaches. A sense that Pope’s Newc O’Rangers are finally approaching a level of basic competence and could sustain a title challenge until the end of September, or whenever Leeds make off with Ryan Kent. Ah well, at least they tried. And now another hammer blow, with yet another Big Cup fiasco that in one fell swoop makes the European record of Brendan Rodgers look a little better in comparison. Yep, that bad.

And so we can add Ferencvaros to the ever-expanding list of Big Cup qualification embarrassments: Cluj, AEK, Malmö,…

The crowd went crazy, a yelling, jumping, flag-waving, fist-pumping swirl of red-white-and-blue delight. And why not? Kansas City had just won the 2026 World Cup.

The host city selection process for the tournament in the US, Mexico and Canada unfurled much like a World Cup itself: a few no-hopers, some underdogs who went deeper than expected, a couple of surprising flops and predictable triumphs for the favorites.

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Fans at the KC Live! watch party for Thursday’s announcement of the winners celebrated what had until recently seemed an improbable victory. When Fifa evaluated the Kansas City bid in 2018 it scored some of the lowest marks for accommo…