The Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins both needed come-from-behind victories in Week 1, setting up what looks like another close contest for Thursday Night Football.
The NFL Week 2 odds have the Dolphins as slim home favorites, with the Monday morning markets ranging from -1 to -2. This is a huge game for these AFC East rivals, and my Bills vs. Dolphins predictions back the slim underdogs to get the inside track on a tight divisional race.
I size up the opening odds, early movement, and outstanding edges as I give my early lean on NFL picks for September 12.
Bills vs Dolphins predictions
Early spread leanBuffalo +2 (-110 at FanDuel)
My analysisThe Buffalo Bills got a scare from the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, rallying ba…
WE’RE UP FOR THE CUP! SORT OF …
It’s never ideal being knocked out of the FA Cup, but the real worry for Liverpool’s Vincibles is the way everyone’s talking about the Premier League being a done deal. Of course they’re going to win it, the commentariat chorus. The fans have been singing the same song too – though after the last four days, good luck finding one who, secretly behind closed doors, isn’t obsessively poring over what’s left of the fixture list, searching for the likeliest source of those elusive 12 points, while at night waking up at regular intervals in a cold sweat after dreaming of being chased barefoot across broken glass by Dejan Lovren and 10 other Dejan Lovrens. And that�…
As the transfer window enters its endgame there has been a familiar sub-plot over the last few days, another chapter in the ballad of Ousmane Dembélé.
This is the strangest of sporting lives. Dembélé is only 24. He joined Barcelona for £96m as long ago as August 2017, one of several deals that were steroid-fed by the state of Qatar’s inflationary lust for Neymar.
In the years since Dembélé has essentially become a prisoner of money. Barcelona can’t afford to keep him. Nobody else wants him on those ruinous terms. His career has dissolved into a kind of gilded stasis, a thing that only really comes alive as the biannual sub-industry of failing to sell Ousmane Dembélé cranks into gear.
John Terry remov…
Lionel Messi scored early in normal time and converted the first shot in penalties as Inter Miami beat Nashville SC 10-9 in a shootout in the Leagues Cup final on Saturday night.
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Messi scored for the 10th time in seven games since joining Inter Miami – all in the Leagues Cup competition – converting in the 23rd minute.
The ball landed at Messi’s feet after a pass from teammate Robert Taylor was blocked. Messi dribbled past Nashville defender Walker Zimmerman and unleashed a bending shot from just outside the penalty box into the top left corner of the goal. Diving goalkeeper Elliot Panicco had no chance at playing th…
The Pacific division title (if that means anything to anyone anymore) has been passed around by Clippers, Warriors, and Lakers for over a decade. The last time the Suns won the division, it wasn’t hip for Steve Nash to put his long hair in a man bun. And the Kings? Well, I wish I could remember the 2002 Western Conference Finals and the ‘03 division championship team, but I didn’t start following basketball until I was around 9. (Ed. note: Good grief, do I suddenly feel old — Rich O’Malley) Sacramento hasn’t just been inept for a matter of years. No, no. What they’ve done is truly historic. They’re closing in on a generation of irrelevance. I mean, even the Knicks made an Eastern Conference semifinals in 2013. But, in fairness, winning the Pacific is hard. The division…
So Donald Trump took the stage at an anti-Iran-deal rally to the strains of R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine),” and Michael Stipe got all salty about it, and, well, look out. You’re welcome. Bernie Sanders: “Welcome to the Occupation” Hillary Clinton: “She Just Wants to Be” Joe Biden: “I’m Gonna DJ” Lincoln Chafee: “Sad Professor” Martin O’Malley: “Ignoreland” Jim Webb: “Can’t Get There From Here” Jeb Bush: “The Wrong Child” Ben Carson: “Why Not Smile” Chris Christie: “Perfect Circle” Ted Cruz: “Try Not to Breathe” Mark Everson: “Strange Currencies” Carly Fiorina: “How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us” Jim Gilmore: “Binky the Doormat” Lindsey Graham: “Country Feedbac…
The Pittsburgh Steelers are releasing three-time All-Pro cornerback Patrick Peterson, multiple outlets reported Friday. Peterson signed a two-year, $14 million contract with the Steelers last March. The move will save the team nearly $7 million in salary cap space, per ESPN. Peterson, 33, appeared in 17 games (16 starts) in his only season in Pittsburgh. He had two interceptions, 11 passes defensed and 42 tackles, and he played 97 percent of the defensive snaps. The fifth overall pick of the 2011 NFL Draft by the Cardinals, he played his first 10 seasons in Arizona and was selected to the Pro Bowl in each of the first eight. He also was a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's All-2010s team. Peterson also played two seasons (2021-22) for the Minnesota Vikings. In 201 care…