Month: October 2024

The Carolina Panthers were a blackhole for bankrolls in 2023, finishing 2-15 SU and 4-11-2 against the spread, the worst bet in the NFL.

The funny thing about bad teams is that they eventually get so bad, they become good bets. The market swings so drastically that even the worst wagers can’t collapse under all those extra points. 

We’ve seen the ATS fortunes of bad football teams flip-flop season to season, and the Panthers definitely have the point-packed lines to do so in 2024. Carolina is an underdog in every game, drawing an average spread of +4.

Futures odds and win totals don’t have much faith in the Panthers making a 180 pivot under new head coach Dave Canales, but can Carolina at least cover some spreads?

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Mauricio Pochettino has told Nicolas Jackson to be smarter and stop picking up yellow cards for complaining to referees, with the Chelsea striker already only one booking from a one-match ban.

Although the former Villarreal forward has shown plenty of promise since joining Chelsea for £32m in June, he has struggled to keep his emotions in check at times and has been booked four times in six appearances. Each caution has been for talking back to the officials and Jackson, who has scored once, has been warned about his behaviour by Pochettino.

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It is a worry for Chelsea’s head coach, who also spoke to Enzo Fernández about improving his disci…

Sports have looked a little different this year, and that’s not entirely a bad thing. Across the board, sports have had to adapt to this pandemic-induced state of “normal” that we find ourselves in. Some leagues left their sport alone, while others took the opportunity to throw some spice into the recipe and see what happens. Not every innovative idea is a good idea, though. Let’s recap some of them and give a ruling on whether they should live or let die. NBA – Play-i n s eries I like it… kinda. The premise of a play-in brings a “win-or-go-home” excitement to the start of the playoffs, much like MLB’s Wild Card Game. I feel like the NBA tried to get a little too cute with their format. The play-in series is a best of three, sort of, between the eighth and ninth seed in ea…

Tottenham have signed Bryan Gil from Sevilla with Érik Lamela joining the Spanish club as part of the deal. Spurs will pay an additional €25m (£21.4m) for the 20-year-old winger.

Gil’s contract runs until 2026. He will link up with his new teammates at the conclusion of the Olympics, where he is representing Spain.

Men’s transfer window summer 2021 – all deals from Europe’s top five leaguesRead more

The move brings an end to Lamela’s eight-year stint at Spurs. The 29-year-old Argentinian joined from Roma in August 2013 and made 257 appearances in all competitions. Spurs said on their website: “A club man through and through, we wish Érik all the best for the future.”

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Some days he would go before training, others after training and there were days he went before and after training, but every day without fail Ronald Araújo would head to the bullring. He was 19, recently arrived in Spain, and what he wanted most was to fit in. The bullring is a small cage with portable metal panels on wheels, relentlessly receiving and returning endless passes, and it became his place. Because if everything was different, ask the Uruguayan to name the hardest thing about moving to Barcelona as a teenager 6,000 miles from home and his response is simple: “the ball”.

“Football happened fast,” Araújo says. “At 17, I was still in my little home town, playing for the local team, Huracán Rivera. At 17, I went to Mont…

It’s not joy. It’s Everton. Joy has not got a look-in since Carlo Ancelotti gave up his £12m-a-year Goodison gig for the soothing tranquillity of the Bernabéu. It’s not relief either. Because, just like the Premier League offering a valid explanation for its brazen points-deduction shenanigans last season, it simply hasn’t happened yet. This latest takeover twist feels more like a distraction.

Forgive me for not yet lobbying Liverpool city council to allow Dan Friedkin to build a landing strip in Stanley Park for his vintage military aircraft in honour of the US tycoon handing Alisher Usmanov’s bezzy mate, Farhad Moshiri, a fleet of Toyota Tundras stuffed with US dollars to finally walk away from the club he so nearly broke.

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Welcome to Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE MONTH! Free will is an illusion and nothing matters. 5. Zion Williamson and Moriah Mills source: AP Zion Williamson and Moriah Mills are a match made in contemporary celebrity culture’s hell. Not long after Williamson revealed he and his high school sweetheart girlfriend Tiana White were expecting a child, porn star Moriah Mills exposed Williamson’s infidelity in a series of explicit tweets. To say Williamson has been unfaithful is an understatement. Mills even brought receipts in the form of screenshots that painted Williamson in a grimy light. Mills clearly felt spurned by Williamson treating her like a jumpoff, but it’s not exactly clear how a 30-year-old porn star who admits she was being paid a 100k monthly allowance to be a 22-year-old NBA…

Massachusetts state police last night issued an alert for another one of Aaron Hernandez's alleged accomplices in the execution-style murder of Odin Lloyd. Ernest Wallace, aka "Bo Fish," is wanted for accessory after murder, and the Boston Globe reported he was still at-large as of an hour ago. Wallace, whose age has been variously listed as 41 and 44, is considered "armed and dangerous," and cops said he was last seen driving a silver/grey Chrysler 300 with the Rhode Island license plate 451-375. Wallace is said to have a "very heavy build." The staties also released the wanted poster you see here so the public could assist with finding Wallace. Meanwhile, Carlos Ortiz, the second man arrested in connection with the killing, has agreed to be ext…