The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook on Thursday night released 442 prop bets and over 1,000 ways to bet on the game, with several Vegas books putting up a smaller menu of props in the previous days. Early betting on the Super Bowl spread has been overwhelmingly on New England. Several books opened with the Rams […]
Continue readingIn a man cave 25 miles west of the glitz and glamour of the Las Vegas strip on a Tuesday, three oddsmakers are gathered around a brown leather sectional couch. Laptops, stacks of box scores and legal-sized packets of betting odds are strewn about. Above the oddsmakers’ heads is a framed Vince Lombardi picture with […]
Continue readingAs with either of the former debates, there is no “one size fits all” answer to this question, for a number of reasons: League size (as in whether a league has our standard of 10 teams, fewer or greater) has a noticeable influence on early-round draft strategy. Positions used: ESPN’s standard format uses two starting […]
Continue readingWe are closing in on the 2021 NFL season, and that means it’s time for our annual ranking of the league’s top 100 players. What can we expect from the game’s best, and how do they stack up? To create our list, we asked an ESPN panel of more than 50 NFL experts to rate […]
Continue readingOWINGS MILLS, Md. — Baltimore Ravens running back J.K. Dobbins has a season-ending torn ACL in his left knee, an MRI performed Sunday confirmed, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Dobbins was carted off the field after injuring the knee during the opening drive of the Ravens’ 37-3 rout of Washington at FedEx Field. A […]
Continue readingNew South Carolina coach Shane Beamer has been able to count on a reliable source of encouragement in some of the biggest moments of his career. In need of a jolt of adrenaline? Looking for a steadying reminder of where it all started? A family rally to help land his dream job? He knows where […]
Continue readingINGLEWOOD, Calif. — Inside the home locker room at SoFi Stadium, standing underneath a neon-glowing Los Angeles Rams logo, coach Sean McVay called out quarterback Jared Goff in front of players and coaches. It was a postgame scene many had never before witnessed. McVay glared in Goff’s direction, shouting that he needed to play better […]
Continue readingThirty other NFL teams want to be in the position of the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers — one win away from a Super Bowl title and the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Unlike for the Chiefs and Bucs, the biggest obstacle facing many teams in getting to championship contention is at quarterback, a position […]
Continue readingYes, the next fantasy season is many months away and the below rankings will be impacted in a significant way by retirements, free agency, the draft, coaching changes and much more. Nonetheless, we need to start somewhere, so below is the first run of “The 192” for 2021. The 2020-21 NBA season may have already […]
Continue readingAs the NFL Power Rankings get into crunch time, we checked in with our Football Power Index (FPI) friends to see how powerful each team really is. From the good (the Chiefs’ offense) to the bad (the Lions’ defense) to the mediocre, our NFL Nation writers explain the offense, defense and special-teams rankings for the […]
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