The Kansas City Chiefs had their win streak and, in all likelihood, their chance at the one seed and a first round bye ended last week as they fell to the Bengals in a barnburner. 

Kansas City will now close out the season in Denver against the eliminated Broncos, with a win all KC needs to secure the second seed (a win and a Texans upset over the Titans would vault it back into first). 

Can Denver end a three-game slide and cause a little havoc to its division rival’s playoff standing to close out the year? Keep reading for our free NFL picks and predictions for Chiefs vs. Broncos. 

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Both the Jacksonville Jaguars and New York Jets are looking to keep their playoff hopes alive on Thursday night as the two clubs meet at MetLife Stadium in a low-total game that is expected to see some low temperatures and rain. 

Trevor Lawrence’s passing total has taken a lot of money on the Under but it’s his legs I’ll be betting on. I also can’t see this being a heavy-volume passing game for Zach Wilson despite the good matchup. 

Here are my best NFL player prop picks for Thursday Night Football’s battle between the Jaguars and Jets. 

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The Kansas City Chiefs head to U.S. Bank Stadium to face the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday. The Vikes began their season with three consecutive defeats but snapped out of that slump by beating the Panthers last week.

The Chiefs have reeled off three straight victories since suffering an upset loss on opening night, and the reigning Super Bowl champs are expected to win this Week 5 showdown as well. NFL odds opened with the Chiefs as 6-point road favorites before slimming to -3.5. Here are my best free Chiefs vs. Vikings free NFL picks and predictions for October 8.

Chiefs vs Vikings odds

Chiefs vs Vikings predictions

When this line opened with the Chiefs at -5.5 I was initially torn on the side. After all, the&nbs…

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If everything went as well for Halesowen Town as planned, their time spent in the Southern League Division One Central would have been over in a flash. After years of struggling in the division above, last season they were finally relegated. The failure prompted a complete rehauling of the team, with an entirely new set of players and a new head coach brought in. It worked. By March they sat second, one point off the top with a game in hand, well on course for promotion.

On Thursday afternoon, all those hopes and expectations dissolved. After weeks of postponements because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Football Association finally announced in conjunction with the National League System that all leagues from steps three to six were cancel…

“In years gone by I think I might have struggled to get the information I wanted over to people because they probably wouldn’t have accepted me,” Luke Tuffs says. “They would have thought: ‘Why is a gay person telling me what to do on a football pitch?’ I genuinely think that would have been a thing 20, even 10 years ago. Now, certainly not.”

Tuffs is an openly gay man who is also a football manager. This is something still so uncommon in the British game that Tuffs, whose Leatherhead team are bottom of the Isthmian Premier League in England’s seventh tier, is the most prominent example. This is not a good situation and the challenges men face to be open about their sexuality in elite football remain stubbornly difficult to o…

Some of the usual heavyweights rub shoulders with surprise packages in the quarter-finals of the 2018 World Cup, which get under when France take on Uruguay in Nizhny Novgorod on Friday.

That mouth-watering clash is followed by another packed with prime talent as Brazil face a Belgium team on the other side of their great escape against Japan.

On Saturday, with their penalty shoot-out hoodoo slain for now, England meet Sweden in Samara before hosts Russia aim to extend their dream run against perennial dark horses Croatia.

Along with the eight teams, five of our reporters remain in Russia. Here s who they think will go all the way.

Harry West – Brazil

We re at the business end of the World Cup now and I haven t seen a stronger side than Brazil. …

The FIFA Confederations Cup which kicks off this weekend in South Africa is crucial to next year s World Cup tournament, said FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Wednesday.

It s definitely time to kick off now, not only in terms of the organisation in South Africa, but in terms of making sure they can deliver and will deliver, said Blatter, a year ahead of the first African World Cup.

That s why this Confederations Cup, one year before the big event, is crucial. It s very important for FIFA but also for the participating teams. I m sure it will be a great competition.

South Africa is ready and committed for 2010, he said in a statement marking the 12 month countdown to the World Cup.

Speaking in Johannesburg, FIFA competition director Jim Brown said the Co…

Or when he was one of several England players targeted by monkey chants in Montenegro and Bulgaria in 2019, when he scored in 5-1 and 6-0 wins.

Sterling was also at the forefront of football supporting Black Lives Matter following the killing of George Floyd and received an MBE last month in recognition of his work promoting racial equality.

But there was weariness when he discussed his activism in an interview with ITV last week, one that is entirely understandable when a minority of fans boo him and his England colleagues for taking the knee before kick-off – their peaceful, dignified protest against racial injustice.

It feels even more understandable when UK government ministers who gave licence to those booing and dismissed kneeling as a gesture are now fi…