Saturday night of Week 18 of the NFL regular season brings us a high-stakes game, as the Houston Texans are heading to Lucas Oil Stadium to take on the Indianapolis Colts. The winner will clinch at least a Wild Card berth and still have a chance at the AFC South division title.
NFL odds have tabbed the Texans as 1.5-point road favorites, with a total of 47.5. Let’s dig into tonight’s playoff-style matchup as I provide my free NFL picks for Texans vs. Colts on January 6.
You can also check out our Texans vs. Colts prop picks and C.J. Stroud odds and props spotlight for more analysis on this AFC South showdown.
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My Week 1 touchdown bets went 1-2 thanks to some shiny rookies that had my attention but never cashed. However, this week I’m looking at a trio of vets who are going to pad the pockets in Week 2.
I don’t think the Panthers are going to stop anyone after losing their best defensive player, the Colts are going to continue to feed Jonathan Taylor, and the Chris Godwin TD positive regression season is in full swing.
Read more as I break down my favorite touchdown NFL picks for Week 2, and be sure to check out our first TD scorer prop picks.
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FC Seoul are facing penalties, including expulsion from their own stadium, for putting sex dolls on empty seats during a match last weekend.
South Korea’s K-League is one of the few football leagues operating during the coronavirus pandemic, with games being played in empty stadiums, but FC Seoul’s attempts to increase the atmosphere during their 1-0 win over Gwangju on Sunday backfired. The club expressed their remorse as the public reaction intensified, but said they were assured by a supplier they were using mannequins not sex dolls to mimic a home crowd.
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When Major League Soccer decided to build Centene Stadium in St Louis, the first priority was honoring “the hard truths of the past”. The 22,500-seat soccer-specific stadium is designed with canopy shading and is 40ft below street level. It also sits on the same block that was once a part of Mill Creek Valley, the predominantly Black neighborhood on the Southwest end of St Louis once home to 20,000 residents, 800 businesses and more than 40 religious institutions. In addition to Madame ‘CJ’ Walker, America’s first Black woman millionaire, Mill Creek was also home to Josephine Baker, Scott Joplin and General William Tecumseh Sherman. Even poet Walt Whitman was known to visit the thriving Black community. But in the summer of 1959, the residents of Mill Creek…
The Football Association’s chief executive officer, Mark Bullingham, hailed a “brilliant day” for the UK and Ireland after it was confirmed they will stage the men’s European Championship in 2028. He promised a national event that leaves no area of the host countries untouched.
Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium looks certain to hold the opening match with the semi-finals and final taking place at Wembley. It will be the highest-profile sporting event held in the UK since London 2012 and, for sheer scale, the biggest football tournament held on either island.
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Bullingham said the bid’s success vindicated the decision to priorit…
Half of the NFC playoff field was decided in the final two weeks of the 2023 regular season.The top three teams in the conference finished with matching 12-5 records and a .706 winning percentage, but not all division champions are created equal.Envisioning Super Bowl bridesmaids and the West champion 49ers return to the top perch isn’t all that challenging, but the Philadelphia Eagles (11-6 last season) know a thing or two about Super Bowl runner-up hangover.In the AFC, four non-playoff teams entered the final two weeks with a more than realistic shot at the postseason and, among them, the Cincinnati Bengals, Jacksonville Jaguars and Indianapolis Colts all have enough to flip 9-8 records to 11- or 12-win campaigns this season.Here’s a look at three playoff teams who are set to take a…
Last season we did our weekly rookie quarterback tracker, but with only one taken in the first round of 2022, we’ve moved onto another highly coveted position. For 2022 we’ll keep track of all six first-round wide receivers and their progress throughout the year. Some of our first-round rookies are already off to the races and contributing heavily to their teams. Let’s check out this year’s group of rookie first-rounders. Inactive: Jameson Williams – Detroit Lions (torn ACL) source: Getty Images Although Williams can officially practice with the team now, he hasn’t been cleared yet. Lions head coach Dan Campbell says the rookie is rehabbing, but he’s still “several weeks away” from playing. The No. 12 overall pick is running again but still has a ways to go before de…
It is difficult, for a number of good reasons, to wake up on any given day and resolve to visit the 9/11 Museum. That it is struggling to lure local visitors may not surprise you. A new Wall Street Journal piece details the museum’s attempts to cope: a new marketing campaign, advertising on the subway and on local television, creating before-and-after videos with NYC locals who were “coaxed into visiting,” surveying regular museum-goers in the tristate area about why they haven’t gone to this particular museum. Their reasons are predictable: a third said they didn’t plan to visit because they “didn’t want to relive that day or because the subject matter was too emotional.” More than half said they intended to, but hadn’t gotten around to it yet, which summed up a very …
Some people are fans of the San Francisco 49ers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the San Francisco 49ers. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. And buy Drew’s new book here. Your team: San Francisco 49ers. Oh, did I say San Francisco 49ers? Because I meant Anodyne Exurban Strip Mall 9,000 Miles Away From San Francisco 49ers. San Francisco no longer has an NFL team. The Niners may as well have moved to fucking Alaska. Unless you’re a shitbag tech billionaire with a Learjet sharing app account, you’ll never see this team again. Your 2015 record: 5-11. I have to say, that’s a good three or four more wins than I expected after this team cut Jim Harbaugh loose, dropped their roster into a garbage compac…
Dip over to Salon and dig the most gifted Jennifer Egan: One of my strengths as a writer is that I’m a good problem-solver. I write these unthinking, ungoverned first drafts. The project for me always is to turn that instinctive stuff into pages that work. I want all the flights of fancy, and I can only get them in a thoughtless way. So I allow myself that. Which means that my next step has to be all about problem-solving. My attitude cannot be, Gee, I wrote it, it’s good. I’d never get anywhere. It’s all about seeing what’s wrong from a very analytical place. It’s a dialectic. Once I have a draft I make the plans, edit on hard copy, and make an extensive outline for the revision. The revision notes I wrote for “Look at Me” were 80 pages long. This essay appears in th…