(Bloomberg) — Most Read from Bloomberg Trying to catch a bus at the Maliya station in Kuwait City can be unbearable in the summer.About two-thirds of the city’s buses pass through the hub, and schedules are unreliable. Fumes from bumper-to-bumper traffic fill the air. Small shelters offer refuge to a handful of people, if they squeeze. Dozens end up standing in the sun, sometimes using umbrellas to shield themselves. Global warming is smashing temperature records all over the world, but… Source link

The list of times Bill Belichick has been embarrassed in the playoffs is short.  The instance everyone will point to is a 2009 wild-card game against the Baltimore Ravens, when the New England Patriots trailed 24-0 in the first quarter. They lost that game 33-14. In 2012 they lost the AFC championship game to the Ravens by 15 points. Those were the only times Belichick’s Patriots teams had lost by more than 10 in the playoffs.  A lot about Saturday night’s 47-17 Buffalo Bills win was… Source link

We had a massive Saturday card, and it’s left us with crumbs for today. We actually have just four games, with three making up the main card. That means the pickings will be slim, but one matchup stands out above the rest. That happens to be the Houston-Sacramento rematch, in which the clubs combined for 240 points on Friday. The other contests should also offer plenty of fantasy value, so let’s go ahead and get into it. Guards De’Aaron Fox, SAC vs. HOU ($30) Fox was really struggling two weeks… Source link

We had a massive Saturday card, and it’s left us with crumbs for today. We actually have just four games, with three making up the main card. That means the pickings will be slim, but one matchup stands out above the rest. That happens to be the Houston-Sacramento rematch, in which the clubs combined for 240 points on Friday. The other contests should also offer plenty of fantasy value, so let’s go ahead and get into it. Guards De’Aaron Fox, SAC vs. HOU ($30) Fox was really struggling two weeks… Source link

Text messages were flying all over Cincinnati and beyond on Saturday night in celebration of the Bengals‘ playoff win over the Las Vegas Raiders. Given that pretty much everyone texts now, that was to be expected. But it took on more significance after one fact circulated on social media: The last time the Bengals won at this time of year was Jan. 6, 1991. The first text message sent happened on Dec. 3, 1992. That’s how long ago it was. The thing that for so many of us has become ubiquitous, our… Source link

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The Las Vegas Raiders‘ decision to kick a late field goal was debatable. Cincinnati Bengals bettors won’t debate it.  With 3:37 left, the Raiders trailed 26-16 in Saturday’s AFC wild-card game. They had fourth-and-3 from the Bengals’ 10. The Raiders needed a touchdown and a field goal at that point, but it’s a lot harder to go the length of the field and score a touchdown. They could have gone for the touchdown there, at the risk of the game being practically over if they didn’t get it on… Source link

The streak is over.  The Cincinnati Bengals beat the Las Vegas Raiders 26-19 in Saturday’s AFC wild-card matchup, earning their first postseason victory since 1991 and ending an eight-game playoff losing streak that dated back more than three decades. The game came down to the final moments, partially thanks to a questionable roughing-the-passer call against the Bengals on the Raiders’ Derek Carr and keeping alive a game replete with shaky whistles. But Carr took advantage, converting… Source link

Most of us check our gift card balances online (because who actually keeps those receipts that tell us how much money we have left on them?), making an apparent oversight by Google all the worse. It appears that Google inadvertently approved a prominent ad for a phony Target gift card balance checker that’s meant to steal your funds. A Reddit user on r/assholedesign discovered the slip-up when searching Google for “Target gift card balance” on mobile, and found that the very first… Source link

“Play to the whistle” is the cliche everyone knows.  Sometimes NFL players are asked to play past the whistle — without any late hits — just in case the officials screw up and decide on the fly to reverse a decision.  Maybe a really bad whistle on a touchdown pass by Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow in an AFC wild-card playoff game didn’t affect the Las Vegas Raiders‘ defense. But the touchdown shouldn’t have counted, according to the rules. And the NFL didn’t make a statement,… Source link