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Former Super Eagles midfielder, Sunday Oliseh has cautioned Nigeria’s current generation of players that their repeated failure to qualify for the FIFA World Cup could leave lasting damage on their international careers. Nigeria, who missed the 2022 edition in Qatar, now risks failing to reach the 2026 World Cup in North America following a poor […]

Club Brugge defeated Monaco 4-1 to open their UEFA Champions League campaign in style. Super Eagles star Raphael Onyedika opened his account for the season with a beautiful strike. Nicolò Tresoldi, Hans Vanaken, and Mamadou Diakhon were also on the scoresheet. Onyedika delivered a standout performance beyond his goal. The Nigerian midfielder completed 45 accurate […]

Super Eagles defender, Ola Aina’s surgery has been successful following the hamstring injury he sustained while on international duty with Nigeria during the World Cup qualifier against South Africa. Aina confirmed the success of the operation on his Instagram handle, posting a video alongside a caption that read: “THE JOURNEY BEGINS Surgery went really well […]

The second week of the NFL season delivered all sorts of beautiful chaos. Can you believe that we have several more months left of this? Sample sizes are growing and while we are still a little too early to draw hard conclusions about anything, we are getting closer to that point. Some teams look unstoppable […]

Two weeks of picks against the spread are in the books. And we have two wins to show for it. After going 1-2 on picks in Week 1, that was the result again in Week 2. But I had to wait until Monday night to get that win, and sweat out a Baker Mayfield-led comeback […]

The case against the Los Angeles Clippers becomes more convincing by the week. Journalist Pablo Torre continues to dig deeper into allegations of salary cap circumvention against the Clippers to pay star forward Kawhi Leonard off the books, and his biggest critic just led him to even more damning evidence. The latest episode of “Pablo […]

For a generation, Williams Racing was the standard in Formula 1. After his previous team, Frank Williams Racing Cars, failed to meet the level of success he had hoped for, Williams rebuilt his team as Williams Grand Prix Engineering, debuting on the F1 grid in the 1977 season. That year, the team did not score […]

The landscape of college football has changed in recent years, with NIL becoming more and more of a factor. That has led to some major transfers, but also an increase in playing time for the top true freshmen in the country. Through the first three weeks of the season, there have been several true freshmen […]

The season keeps ticking and we keep picking. Last week was particularly brutal for the entire panel with some game being nothing like we expected. Two game in particular really stood out as ones that made perfect sense when we first made the picks, but the games themselves played out in weird ways. The first […]

There’s no shame in losing a password. I’ve done it, you’ve done it — it’s just a factor of having dozens of different accounts on various services and being told you shouldn’t re-use the same password on different sites. That said, the worst this gets for most of us is missing out on a Jimmy […]

Week 3 of the 2025 NFL season is here and we’ll be treated to an AFC East showdown featuring the Miami Dolphins visiting the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo enters as a heavy 11.5-point home favorite, with an over/under of 49.5. The Bills are trying to jump out to a fast 3-0 start to the campaign while […]

DiJonai Carrington has had a whirlwind couple of seasons. The Minnesota Lynx guard was named the WNBA’s Most Improved Player last season after establishing herself as an elite two-way guard on the Connecticut Sun. Then, in February, she was traded to the Dallas Wings, where she spent the first half of the 2025 season. But, […]