Two teams hoping to grab one of the NFC’s two wild-card spots face off Sunday in Green Bay, with the winner holding a potentially key head-to-head tiebreaker advantage. The 49ers ended four-game slide with home win over Chicago last Thursday and Packers halted two-game slide with home win over Dallas. The Niners had the ball for 31:33 last week vs. the Bears and are now 3-1 this season when they win the time of possession battle. The Packers... [Read more]
How bad was Monday night’s 16-0 loss for Cleveland? Their one good offensive player, WR/KR Josh Cribbs, was strapped to a backboard and carted off the field after the last play of the Browns’ loss to Baltimore. He was briefly hospitalized with a possible neck injury and concussion after getting leveled by a Ravens defender. Why was Cribbs on the field in the final seconds of garbage time? Ask Browns Coach Eric Mangini, who says all of... [Read more]
The Dallas Cowboys can set themselves up nicely for the stretch run of the season by beating their archrival Redskins and then coming back on a short week Thanksgiving Day and taking care of business, as they should, against the lousy Oakland Raiders. The Cowboys will have two first-time starters, free safety Alan Ball starting in place of Ken Hamlin (high right ankle sprain) and RT Doug Free for Marc Colombo (broken left leg). Dallas LB DeMarcus... [Read more]
The No. 17 Stanford Cardinal could complete one of the greatest three-game stretches in school history by beating No. 25 Cal on Saturday in The Big Game. Stanford is a 7-point betting favorite on WagerWeb.com. No one is hotter than the Cardinal, who have put up 106 points in the past two weeks in destroying Oregon and Southern Cal – Stanford’s 55 points was the most the Trojans have ever allowed. Despite those impressive wins, the Cardinal don’t... [Read more]
It’s probably fair to call No. 10 LSU the best two-loss team in college football, considering those two Tiger losses came to Florida and Alabama. But because those two unbeaten goliaths also reside in the SEC, the Tigers won’t be going to a BCS bowl game no matter what they do Saturday against Mississippi. The Rebels are 4-point betting favorites on WagerWeb.com. LSU had a close call with Louisiana Tech last week, but three starters who missed... [Read more]
Ohio State-Michigan is one of the best rivalries in all of sports, but it has been anything but of late with the No. 9 Buckeyes winning five in a row and looking out of UM’s class again this year as 12-point betting favorites on WagerWeb.com. OSU coach Jim Tressel says the rivalry has lost none of its eminence. “This rivalry has been going on for 105 games. So, no, I don’t think it’s lost any of its luster,” Tressel said.... [Read more]
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It’s the first game of the post-Dick Jauron era for the Bills, and interim Buffalo coach Perry Fewell wasted... [more]