The stakes couldn’t be higher as the Los Angeles Chargers travel to Las Vegas to face the Raiders with an AFC playoff spot on the line.

The Chargers are field-goal favorites for this “win-and-in” primetime showdown despite the Raiders’ three-game winning streak. Los Angeles knocked off Vegas 28-14 at home back in Week 4 – the first time in the past five meetings these AFC rivals haven’t had a game decided by a single score.

Buckle up for a wild night in Vegas, as we give our free NFL betting picks and predictions for Chargers at Raiders on January 9.

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It’s a massive AFC showdown at Paycor Stadium Monday night as the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals both put their lengthy winning streaks on the line in Week 17’s marquee game. 

Joe Burrow will get a full stable of pass-catchers, which is something he hasn’t been able to say in while despite his team stacking wins. We could see some rain, but the wind (the more important factor) won’t be an issue.

Here is my NFL prop picks for Monday Night Football’s battle between the Bills and Bengals. Also, be sure to check out Jason Logan’s full MNF betting preview. 

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The Philadelphia Eagles head to the West Coast to take on the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday afternoon. The Eagles have managed to avoid the dreaded Super Bowl hangover and are off to a 4-0 start while the Rams are 2-2 straight up but have gone 3-0-1 against the spread.

NFL odds have Philadelphia installed as a 4-point road favorite with the Over/Under at 50.5. Here are my free NFL picks for the Eagles vs. Rams on October 8.

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Quarterback Matthew Stafford suffered a hip contusion while leading the Los Angeles Rams to a gritty overtime win against the Colts last week. The tough veteran will be back in the lineup however and he’ll be joined by All-Pro wideout Cooper Kupp wh…

“Somehow, Palpatine returned.”

That gem from “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” is one of the laziest written plot devices in movie history, and you could say one week of NFL football is equally lazy when it comes to calling for the heads of coaches across the league. 

Which is why, with seats already hot, we’re seeing Bill Belichick next team odds pop up at sportsbooks, ushering in the potential return of the NFL’s evil Emperor.

Sportsbooks are throwing gas on those office chair fires, setting NFL odds for Belichick’s next team. Cue the “Imperial March”.

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Ole Gunnar Solskjær has admitted Manchester United lost their heads for 15 minutes when Manchester City beat them in January but said his team had learned from the Carabao Cup defeat at Old Trafford.

United host City in Sunday’s league match, which is the 182nd derby and a fourth meeting with their crosstown rivals this season. Solskjær’s side have won two – 2-1 in December’s reverse league fixture and a 1-0 in the Carabao Cup semi-final second leg – but in the home defeat United were overrun during the first half and fortunate to trail only 3-0 at the interval.

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Solskjær said: “For 15 minutes definitely, our heads went…

The players’ union, Fifpro, has called for a more holistic and coordinated approach to match calendars around the world after its new report found that professional players in the women’s game are suffering from “underloading” as a result of not playing often or consistently enough, competing in an average of 22 matches in the 2019-20 season.

The 2021 annual workload study has found that, even at the very top of the women’s game, the low number of games is preventing the growth and development of players and the sport generally.

Data from 85 female players analysed by the Fifpro Player Workload Monitoring platform found that 14% of all minutes played by an average player came in non-competitive friendly ma…

On the one hand, Chelsea were much the better side for the last half hour of the first half at West Ham on Sunday. They scored an equaliser, missed a penalty and had plenty of other chances. Raheem Sterling looked back to something near his best, Enzo Fernández glided about finding space and angles and Carney Chukwuemeka scored a very fine goal, his first for the club. On the other, they lost 3-1, meaning they have won only one of their last 16 games.

It’s not quite 15 months since the Clearlake consortium fronted by the US businessman Todd Boehly completed its takeover of Chelsea, since when 24 players have been signed at an outlay of $1.1bn. Soccer has never seen anything remotely like it. Of the 23 players in the matchday squad when Ch…

The Northwest Division is an intriguing cluster of teams that are always the groomsmen and never the grooms. Or something. There’s a lot of talent, a few ascending rosters, and some teams looking to finally get over the hump and make a run at the Larry O’Brien Trophy. Denver and Portland have each made the Western Conference Finals over the past two seasons. There are some rosters that have a legitimate (kinda?) shot to unseed the Lakers in the West. Portland has made the playoffs 10 of the last 12 seasons, but always seem to be one piece away. Denver and Utah are young teams driven by budding stars at guard and veteran stalwarts at center. Minnesota and Oklahoma City have a lot of work to do. Has any team done enough to make a deep run? Portland Trail Blazers credits: Getty/AP C…

The next Academy Awards will be hosted by Chris Rock and will be held on February 28, 2016. That is 130 days from now. By then, the Iowa caucus, and the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries, will be over. The Super Bowl will be a fading memory. Selection Sunday will be two weeks away. It is a long time from now. But Oscar season is, nonetheless, in full swing. There are only two months and 10 days left in Oscar-eligibility season, and everyone is already jockeying for position. Ordinarily, award-bait movies dominate the last two months of the calendar year—last year, American Sniper actually bled into January and February—but this year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens will lay waste to that. It’s going to be difficult for any film to grab much oxygen after December 18. (It is a…

In yet another reminder of how the shareholders demand RESULTS, dammit, our mailbox — and, we suspect, many of yours — welcomed us back home with an application for the ESPN Credit Card. We eagerly tore open the package, thinking maybe if we spent above a certain level, they'd let us host "Cold Pizza" or something. No such luck. The card offers a rather medicore APR and an even more mediocre "rewards program." If you earn 100,000 points, you can win a trip to the ESPYs, and, as the joke goes, if you earn 125,000, you don't have to go to the ESPYs. In all seriousness, though — really! — it's a bit of a surprise that they don't throw in an "ESPN: The Magazine" or Insider subscription with the card, considering it's kind of …