TEASER: STEELERS +20 & BEARS +13 ½
TEASER: STEELERS +20 & LIONS +9
TEASER: BEARS +13 ½ & LIONS +9
TEASER: CARDINALS +11 ½ & RAMS +1
SAINTS TEAM TOTAL UNDER 24 ½ (take at 24 or higher)
JAGS TEAM TOTAL UNDER 26 ½ (take at 26 or higher)
BILLS TEAM TOTAL UNDER 30 ½ (take at 30 or higher)
DOLPHINS TEAM TOTAL UNDER 24 (take at 23 or higher)
DOLPHINS-JETS UNDER 46 (take at 45 or higher)
JETS +3 DOLPHINS (take at 3 or higher)
JETS +150 DOLPHINS (take if +140 or higher)
CHARGERS-BROWNS UNDER 47 (take at 47 or higher)
LIONS-PATS UNDER 46 ½ (take at 45 or higher)
SEAHAWKS-SAINTS UNDER 46 (down to 45)
BILLS UNDER 30 (take at 30 or higher)
FALCONS OVER 19 (take at 21 or less)
FALCONS-BUCS OVER 46 (up to 46 ½)
PANTHERS TEAM TOTAL OVER 16 (at 17 or less)
CARDINALS +5 ½ EAGLES (if 4 1/2 or more)
CARDINALS +200 EAGLES (take at +170 or higher)
RAMS -5 COWBOYS (take if under 6)
ANY PICKS MADE IN THIS SHOW ARE NOT SPORTSPICKS "OFFICIAL PICKS"
START TIME - 8:00 AM EST
*World Cup Groups E & F Round Two - My Picks
1% Sweden not to lose vs the Dutch at 43c (good to 52c)
1% Ivory Coast not to lose vs Germany at 34c (good to 38c)
1% Tunisia +1.5 vs Japan at 63c (good to 68c)
The second round of group stage games continues.
The Dutch vs Sweden - This is a clash of two teams with very different managerial styles. On one hand you have the Dutch under Ronald Koeman, who play a generally possession orientated game with technical players who are able to interchange positions to an extent. They are fluid and comfortable in possession but can struggle to find incision against teams who defend deep with tighter spacing between lines. There is a long term continuity in how the Dutch play going back multiple generations, with the total football of the Dutch team of the 1970s under Johann Cruyff. The exact style of each era's team varies somewhat but the general theme tends to be the same. Koeman is a manager who largely hasn't rocked the boat and is playing in a ...
First, four factors dictate whether there is major turnover in the Senate in a midterm election independent of the favorability of the Senate map (due to only one-third of seats being up in any given midterm). Often, as was the case in both 2018 and 2022, is that incumbents are not destined to lose seats, outside of realigning elections in unfavorable maps. This cycle's map favors the GOP, which is why the prediction markets and most forecasters expect a GOP majority in the 2027 Senate. The four factors that prove dangerous to the incumbent party are: first, a recession or cost of living crisis; second, a war; third, a major scandal; and fourth, a sense of betrayal in the voter group that backed the incumbent amongst some portion of their prior electoral coalition. Five midterms feature some combingation of those factors in some significant degree: 1930, 1946, 1958, 1974 and 2006.
Without those factors present in multiple forms, the incumbent party can expect to hold on to seats in states it previously won outside the national margin. When those factors are present, the landscape shifts dramatically. Examining those White House incumbent seats that showed a state-wide election decided by single digits in the prior decade produces the following probabilities: the incumbent White House party lost at least 67% of its incumbent held seats, as much as 85% of its incumbent held seats, and an average of 75% of its incumbent hold seats, rarely upsetting the opposition party in any seat and often losing a surprise or two in seats considered completely safe.