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The NFL has played on Wednesdays before. It has never played on a Wednesday afternoon because NBC wanted to show the Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center. This NFL season is weird, and it reaches peak weirdness when the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens (hopefully) kick off Wednesday at 3:40 p.m. ET. That’s a nice lunch matinee for NFL fans on the West Coast. The game can be live-streamed on the Yahoo Sports app if you want to track some unique Wednesday afternoon football…. Source link

It was a week full of backdoor covers in the NFL. One bettor didn’t mind at all. Over the weekend, a bettor placed $50 on a 10-team parlay at BetMGM. The parlay would win $35,392.50, or about 700-to-1 odds. It was a mix of college basketball and NFL games, and the bettor won all the college basketball games. He mostly took large underdogs: UMass +28.5 Arkansas Pine Bluff +33 Florida A&M +20.5 Houston Baptist +34.5 North Dakota State +23.5 Houston U. +2.5 He needed to go 4-0 on NFL to win the… Source link

Bloomberg Inflation Believers Playing Long Game Are Winning as They Wait (Bloomberg) — Investors shuffling trades amid a sputtering reflation narrative may have overlooked a little fact: Bond managers who’ve been bullish on inflation prospects this year have been winning.Inflation-linked U.S. Treasuries — known as TIPS — are on pace to outperform their regular counterparts for the second straight year, and some of the world’s biggest investors see scope for further gains. Vanguard Group… Source link

RFI Portuguese children take 33 European countries to court over climate crisis The European Court of Human Rights on Monday ordered 33 European countries to respond to accusations – levelled by six young Portuguese campaigners – that they’re “fueling the climate crisis”. The crowdfunded case, filed two months ago with the support of the Global Legal Action Network, a non-profit known as GLAN, hopes to elicit a landmark judgment on climate change that would legally oblige the… Source link

The NFL showed on Sunday that if a team can play, it will play regardless of the lineup it has to offer. The Denver Broncos played on Sunday without a quarterback. All of their quarterbacks were ruled ineligible due to positive COVID-19 tests or close contacts. But the team didn’t have an ongoing outbreak, so it played. Using practice squad receiver Kendall Hinton at QB, the Broncos completed one pass in a 31-3 loss to the New Orleans Saints. The Baltimore Ravens are just going to have to… Source link

Reuters NFL: Denver QBs ineligible for Sunday’s game due to COVID-19 exposure Drew Lock, Brett Rypien and Blake Bortles were all deemed to be a “high-risk” close contact to fellow Broncos quarterback Jeff Driskel, who tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday, it said. The report, which cited unnamed sources, said Lock, Rypien and Bortles were pulled off the field early during Saturday’s practice and told to isolate at home after contact-tracing concerns had arisen. Source link

The Telegraph How Diego Maradona’s life spiralled to leave him a hobbling, arthritic shadow of his former self The final moments of Asif Kapadia’s magnificent film Diego Maradona are almost too painful to watch. To a soundtrack of an interview conducted when he was at the peak of his powers in Napoli, when he talks of the football pitch being a refuge, a sanctuary, a place of freedom where he could express himself without fear, we see Maradona in his late fifties attempting to play… Source link

It’s understandable why we want to make excuses for Carson Wentz. Wentz was a dynamic player for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2017 before a season-ending knee injury. He was a leading candidate for MVP. Patrick Mahomes was still at Texas Tech, and Wentz was considered the future of the NFL. It’s hard to believe that player we saw early in his career has fallen off. We’d rather blame his lack of a supporting cast. Wentz’s play has fallen off. We’ve heard all about how his offensive line… Source link

The Telegraph How Diego Maradona’s life spiralled to leave him a hobbling, arthritic shadow of his former self The final moments of Asif Kapadia’s magnificent film Diego Maradona are almost too painful to watch. To a soundtrack of an interview conducted when he was at the peak of his powers in Napoli, when he talks of the football pitch being a refuge, a sanctuary, a place of freedom where he could express himself without fear, we see Maradona in his late fifties attempting to play… Source link

The Guardian Steve Dalkowski: the life and mystery of baseball’s flame-throwing what-if Many believe the lefthander was the fastest pitcher to ever take the mound. But his career – and life – went off the rails before he could make an impactSteve Dalkowski, a career minor-leaguer who very well could have been the fastest (and wildest) pitcher in baseball history, died in April at the age of 80 from complications from Covid-19. And yet, partly because of one missing detail, his legend lives… Source link