It was another profitable TD week as Roschon Johnson hit (+215), pushing the year’s TD bankroll to 5-7 SU for +3.75 units, and now it’s time to stack some Week 5 TDs.
This week I’m going back to Johnson thanks to his red-zone role and the matchup, betting on the favorite for offensive rookie of the year, and putting my money behind my favorite offensive player through four weeks.
Read more as I break down my favorite NFL picks for touchdowns in Week 5.
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Transfer portal got you down? College Football Playoff envy striking as December arrives? Field Level Media's college football writers dial up the elixir for those facing the reality of missing out, with a game-by-game watchlist for conference championship matchups, the official start of the postseason on Friday night. We're here with the guide to the names to know in the biggest games of the weekend. Maybe he sounds as if he's straight out of Whoville, but we've trimmed the rosters to the most important names such as the guy now tasked with taking down Louisville. Read on and get ready to take your own measurements of Florida State's championship stock with backup quarterback Tate Rodemaker, or find out which fresh-faced SEC safety might be building the resum…
Jordan Pickford is set to return to Everton’s starting lineup against Manchester City on Wednesday having missed the last four matches with a rib injury.
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The England international has been absent since colliding with a post during last month’s home defeat by Newcastle but returned to full training on Monday. Providing there is no adverse reaction to the injury in training, the 26-year-old will replace Robin Olsen against the Premier League leaders and be in contention to face Liverpool in Saturday’s Merseyside derby at Anfield. Pickford was roundly criticised for the tackle that ended Virgil van Dijk’s season in October.
Carlo Ancel…
Andrew Allen, deputy editor of Arseblog News
Arsenal supporters are having fun right now. It must be weirdly disconcerting to outsiders who’ve spent the last decade reaching for the popcorn while we bicker about anything and everything.
Why are we enjoying ourselves? Because we like what we see. We have a young, vibrant team that inspires belief, a manager who has a clear plan and owners who appear to have woken up after years sleeping at the wheel. The direction of travel is upwards. Momentum and optimism is growing. The Emirates is a cauldron of noise. And the results are coming.
Don’t get me wrong, beating four middling sides over the…
One of the Emirates Stadium’s favourite ditties, to the tune of the Status Quo classic Rockin’ All Over the World, finishes by acclaiming “Saka and Emile Smith Rowe”. One of those players has done considerably more of the song’s heavy lifting over the past two years so, on a night that never really veered from the procedural, it was heartening to see the balance shift just a little. Defeating a limited, depleted Luton gave little cause for overexcitement but it did suggest the Arsenal faithful are not flogging an entirely dead horse by hailing two lavish homegrown talents in the same breath.
Smith Rowe’s descent from decisive sure thing to bit-part enigma has been a tough watch and owes, more than anything, to a dispiriting run o…
EDward Gaming recorded a 3-2 victory over Team Heretics on Sunday to win the Valorant Champions 2024 title and $1 million first-place prize. Team Heretics claimed $400,000 as the runner-up in the tournament. EDward Gaming's Yongkang "ZmjjKK" Zheng of China was named the MVP of the playoffs. We are the 2024 World Champions of Valorant!#VALORANTCHAMPIONS pic.twitter.com/B1LSEo2exM— Edward Gaming (@EDG_Edward) August 25, 2024 Team Heretics got off to a fast start with a 13-6 win on Haven before EDward Gaming responded with a 13-4 victory on Sunset and 13-9 triumph on Lotus. Heretics forced a decisive fifth map with a 13-11 win on Bind, however EDward Gaming captured the title with a 13-9 victory on Abyss. The 16-team event began Aug. 1 with group play. Eight teams adva…
Happy holidays, you filthy animals, and welcome to Deadspin’s annual IDIOT OF THE YEAR extravaganza. Within these hallowed slides are 50 of the year’s least bearable dorks, whose transgressions range from “just kinda silly,” to “dangerously stupid,” to “Trevor Bauer.” The IDIOT OF THE YEAR selections ahead were voted on by an expert team of Deadspin staffers, whose first round of balloting was thrown out after they’d unanimously picked themselves No. 1. With that conflict of interest loophole sewn up, the team tried again. This list is the product of that scrupulous process. The qualities considered included, but were not limited to: Volume/Wrongness Coefficient: Look, nobody cares if you’re wildly off the mark about everything in private. But please don’t shout a…
This week, the highest-ranked male tennis players 21 and under have been assembled in Milan to play a year-end tournament. These included the 18-year-old Denis “Shapo” Shapovalov, the flashy, long-locked Canadian who bulldozed into the fourth round of the U.S. Open this year; 20-year-old Russian Andrey Rublev, who became the youngest U.S. Open quarterfinalist in 16 years; and a handful of others. It’s a fine idea for an event: drum up some enthusiasm around a sport that may well suffer a minor PR crisis once Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer eventually slow down in next two decades. But it did not begin on an auspicious note on Sunday night. Prepare yourself to cringe with every part of your body from the ends of your hairs to the tips of your toenails, then take a look: The players…
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Furious 7 came out last week, it was heralded by many as the kickoff to the 2015 Summer Movie Season, which was strange, considering it's still April. (And just barely April.) By that rationale, it’s also the start of Oscar Season, or the 2017 Fall Movie Season, or the 2019 Dawn of Human Awakening Season.
That said: You can draw a straight line from Furious 7 to the upcoming onslaught of summer movies: It’ll be here, and over with, before you know it. Thus, our Grierson & Leitch week-by-week guide to what's coming, taking you from this weekend to Labor Day. Now, all schedules this far out are subject to change, but this is pretty close to how it will go down. Get ready for lots of superhero flicks, lots of kid flicks, and, yes, Ted 2.
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So, remember, back in May, when Siena basketball player Kojo Mensah was so desperate to be allowed to transfer from the school that he called on Louis Gossett Jr. for help? Gossett memorably said he could be of assistance because he "can call directly to Bryant Gumbel, Bob Costas and Ahmad Rashad." Well, apparently Gossett was successful in getting Mensah out of Siena … because he was just one of the five basketball players shot at Duquense University over the weekend. Mensah was one of the three players still hospitalized after an incident at a dance. So, yeah … thanks a lot, Lou. Shocked Campus Responds With Prayer [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Louis Gossett Jr., Hoops Savior [Deadspin] (By the way, Gossett really is wearing a hat that says "U.S. Postal Inspector…