All summer, Tom Brady was the story. The Super Bowl champion quarterback’s squeaky-clean image was dragged through the mud while he desperately fought a suspension in court. He eventually won the right to play, and it would have been ironic if he were still playing on the final Sunday of the season.
Since midseason, most sage NFL observers have pretty much agreed that Arizona and Carolina have been the top two teams in the NFC. But coming down to today’s conference championship game, it seems the Panthers have some significant advantages.
It has been a rollercoaster ride for coach Lon Kruger this week, with Oklahoma surging to No. 1 in both polls Monday before getting knocked off in a down-to-the-wire shootout at Iowa State.
Normally, it’s better to avoid the popular public side, and the betting public is heavily on the New England Patriots’ side in the AFC Championship Game.
In the postseason, there’s nothing wrong with an ugly win. The goal is to survive and send the opponent into the offseason, so in that sense the Arizona Cardinals are just fine. But they need quarterback Carson Palmer to be much better and bolder.
One of the corniest, but harmless, publicity stunts done at racetracks is to have a celebrity try to call a horse race. On Sunday, former UNLV quarterback and now ESPN sports personality Kenny Mayne gave it his best shot at Santa Anita Park.
In the past year, Jordan Spieth has gone from a promising young gun to the top gun in golf. If he’s in a tournament, he’s atop the odds board.
Daily fantasy sports games that charge players to compete cannot operate legally in Texas, the state’s attorney general said on Tuesday, making it the latest U.S. state to challenge the legality of such online contests.Online operators’ claims that they can “operate as an unregulated house” do not “square with existing Texas law,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement on his office’s website.
The Rebels are 3 1/2-point favorites on the road against Utah State tonight. Tip is at 6:00 p.m. PT.
Every good soap opera features twists and turns and marriages and affairs. The NFL is not much different. It’s a year-round drama, and for the longest time we have followed the careers of Tom Brady and Peyton Manning and their complicated relationship.
If the oddsmakers have it right, the Super Bowl will be a showdown between Tom Brady and Cam Newton.
Fifteen wins later, the Carolina Panthers still have few believers in the betting market. Cam Newton can change that, but he will have to beat a team that reached the past two Super Bowls.
The Rebels are 15 1/2-point favorites when they host Air Force at the Thomas & Mack tonight.
Paid fantasy sports games are illegal in Vermont, a top law enforcement official said on Friday, as the New England state’s legislature took up discussion of a bill that would exempt the popular games from the state’s anti-gambling laws.
Gov. Brian Sandoval wants the state’s Gaming Policy Committee to address daily fantasy sports, an activity that was effectively banned by gaming regulators last fall unless it was offered by licensed company.
