Thomas Tuchel collected the first league title of his coaching career in double-quick time when Paris Saint-Germain claimed their sixth Ligue 1 crown in seven seasons on Sunday.

After failing to get over the line with a draw against Strasbourg and heavy loss to Lille followed by a shock defeat to Nantes, PSG finally took an unassailable lead at the summit with five games still to play in France s top flight.

Kylian Mbappe and the other members of a star-studded line-up can add Coupe de France glory on April 27 but this remains a season that will still probably be remembered for one crushing failure at the Parc des Princes.

Manchester United s improbable heist in the French capital dumped PSG out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage and the co-existence …

Japan have been invited to play in the 2011 Copa America in Argentina, following their maiden appearance in the 1999 edition, the Japan Football Association said Thursday.

Junji Ogura, the association s vice president, learned of the invitation in Nassau, Bahamas, where he was attending the congress of football s world governing body FIFA, a spokeswoman for the FA said.

We ll have more details when the vice president returns home, she added.

Japan competed in the South American continental championship in 1999 in Paraguay under French coach Philippe Troussier.

The Blue Samurai were knocked out at the group stage with one point, losing to Paraguay and Peru and drawing 1-1 with Bolivia.

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Fabinho is optimistic Liverpool can replicate their strong finish to the 2020-21 season to secure a top-four Premier League finish this term, declaring: We are still a big team .

Liverpool sit eighth in the table following a run of three league games without a win, 10 points adrift of Newcastle United and Manchester United in third and fourth respectively, with just 10 matches remaining this campaign.

Having gone close to winning an unprecedented quadruple last term, Liverpool are now in severe danger of missing out on Champions League football for the first time since an eighth-placed finish in 2015-16, but Jurgen Klopp s men have experience of snatching a top-four spot at the last.

Liverpool looked destined to finish outside the top four during an injury-hit 20…

The NFL season is here and so are all the glorious prop markets that come with it. We are looking into every market to uncover some of the week’s best side, team, player and derivative prop bets. We do the heavy lifting so you don’t have to. 

We came out of the gates cold to begin the season but are going to hit our stride in Week 3 and are already 1-0 SU after a Davis Mills Under passing yard win. This weekend, we’re finding a WR/CB mismatch in the Sunday-nighter, hitting an RB receiving yard total, and making sense of the Colts’ offense game plan.

We bring you our favorite free prop picks and predictions for Week 3 of the 2021 NFL season.

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A rivalry so nice, they’ve got to play it thrice.

The New England Patriots and Buffalo Bills get a rubber match in the AFC Wild Card Round after these divisional foes split their regular-season series – thanks in part to the wild winds of Orchard Park in Week 13, which helped New England grind out a 14-10 win. The Bills returned serve with an impressive 33-21 victory in Foxborough 20 days later.

A grudge match this bitter calls for a complementary climate with temperatures feeling like -4 degrees in Buffalo Saturday night.

Here are our free NFL betting picks and predictions for Patriots at Bills on January 15. 

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If you thought regular season NFL lines were tough to beat, just wait until you get a load of these NFL Wild Card Round odds.

With a limited amount of playoff teams and a season’s worth of data, oddsmakers don’t give much wiggle room when it comes to the opening spreads and totals for postseason games.

We size up the first slate of playoff lines as they roll out here on Sunday, giving you the best NFL odds to bet now and the Wild Card lines you may want to bet later.

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Tonight’s Monday Night Football contest should be an intriguing match between the Green Bay Packers and Las Vegas Raiders. Both teams are looking to jumpstart their season, but the biggest storyline is Raiders WR Davante Adams facing his former team for the first time — if he’s cleared to play after dealing with a shoulder injury much of last week. The NFL odds give the slight edge to the Raiders at -2.5, but I expect this game to be close throughout. 

While there are a number of different subscription-based TV channels and streaming services available to watch this game… did you know that you can also live stream Packers/Raiders directly from legal sports betting sites?

Caesars, BetRivers, and Fanatics Sportsbook are three of our most trusted NFL…

The Arizona Cardinals head to the East Coast to take on the Philadelphia Eagles in NFL action today. The Eagles are in a three-way tie for the best record in the NFC and will look to nab first place and that coveted first-round bye.

Meanwhile, the Cards have the second-worst record in the league and are likely in tanking for Caleb Williams mode. 

NFL odds have the Eagles installed as 12-point home favorites with the Over/Under at 48.5 for this Week 17 clash.

Here are my best free NFL picks and predictions for the Cardinals vs. Eagles on Sunday, December 31.

Cardinals vs Eagles odds

Cardinals vs Eagles predictions

The Philadelphia Eagles are coming off a 33-25 victory against the New Yor…

Another NFL season brings in plenty of new sports bettors looking to get down action on their favorite teams for the first time. Those bettors will comb the NFL odds, cruise the injury reports, and dig into the analytics before making NFL picks, but they’ll often forget to look up. 

Watching the weather is vital to getting the best of the bookmakers on Sundays, and you can be damn sure the “bad guys” know the forecast.

In order to level that playing field, I dissect the potential weather for every outdoor game on the board and highlight how the wind, rain, and more could impact the NFL Week 2 odds.

Here’s the NFL Week 2 weather report.

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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…