National Football League

If jolly ole Saint Nick could deliver you one sports wish this holiday season, what would you ask for? With the Red Sox having met with or about to meet with Yoshinobu Yamamoto, it sounds like we could use a little help from Santa with Alex Speier of the Boston Globe reporting, "few in the industry expect the Red Sox to be able to sign" the Japanese ace...

Week 14 was a wacky one in the NFL. It saw eight underdogs pull the upset - most in the league for any week this season - while some of the top teams in the league came crashing back to the pack. Entering Week 15, an incredible 30 of the league's 32 teams are still in playoff contention, with 24 teams either currently in a playoff spot or within one game...

The New England Patriots were officially eliminated from the 2023 NFL playoffs thanks to yesterday's results around the league. Not that they really needed to be officially eliminated at this point. Those hopes were dashed months ago as the Pats got off to a 2-10 start to the season, their worst mark ever during the ownership of Robert Kraft...

As if watching the New England Patriots this year wasn't punishment enough, if you want to see the Pats take on the Steelers tonight in the Steel City, it's going to cost ya. As you well know, Thursday Night Football has been on Amazon Prime since the beginning of last season, meaning that if you don't have a Prime subscription, the game hangs out behind a paywall with a price of $14...

The over-under for New England's Thursday night tilt in Pittsburgh has been set at 30.5 - the lowest mark in the NFL since Cincinnati met Cleveland in December 2008.

Not that it really matters at this point, but after seeing four quarters worth of Zappe time, who would you put under center for the next must-lose Pats game on Thursday night?

Though '23 has proved to be the least successful season of Belichick's coaching career, there will still be many teams lining up to acquire the G.O.A.T., with the Chargers, Panthers, Commanders, Bears and Raiders already being linked.

With nothing to lose - except draft positioning by messing around and accidentally winning a game or two - what's the harm in turning to the rookie for, if nothing else, some excitement which has eluded this team for much of the year?

Mainers spent $3.9 million in the first weekend after sports betting went live, and in the first two weeks averaged more than $1 million in wagers per day, with total wagers for the first fortnight tallying just under $14 million.

ESPN gives Chicago a 56.4% chance of claiming the top pick, followed by Arizona at 18.9%, the Giants at 13.1% and then New England at just 5.2% odds.