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  NFL Playoffs, Conference Title Games: This Weekend's Best Bets

  January 18 at 8:05 a.m.

  And then, there were four! Yes, after 256 regular season games and eight more playoff games, we are down to the conference title games in the NFL, and while the lack of upsets last weekend in the divisional round continued to pillage and plunder my prognosticating winning percentage —- seriously,...

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  Early Super Bowl Odds For Next Season Show Reduced Faith in Houston Texans

  January 17 at 8:26 a.m.

  This time a year ago, the Houston Texans were one of the bigger mysteries in the National Football League. Deshaun Watson's season had ended with an ACL tear after six scintillating starts, J.J. Watt's future was very much up in the air, and the dust was just settling on Bill...

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  My Three Point Plan To Improve Bill O'Brien's Popularity

  January 16 at 5 a.m.

  With the benefit of hindsight and a couple weeks removal from the disappointing ouster at the hands of the Indianapolis Colts in NRG Stadium, I think it's now safe to say that the Texans' 2018 season was one of the stranger referendums on a division-winning coach that I've ever experienced...

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  Ranking the Four Possible Matchups For Super Bowl LIII

  January 15 at 5:30 a.m.

  For the first three months of the 2018 NFL regular season, we all talked about how "top heavy" the league was, with three teams clearly distinguishing themselves as the best and most dangerous — the Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Rams, and New Orleans Saints, in some order, with the...

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  NFL Playoffs: Divisional Round — This Weekend's Best Bets

  January 11 at 7:18 a.m.

  There's an old episode of Seinfeld — actually, now that I think about it, having closed up the "new episode shop" in 1998, ALL episodes of Seinfeld are old episodes — where Kramer is participating in a charity walk benefitting AIDS research. The night before, he is up all night smoking cigars,...

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  Clemson Head Coach Dabo Swinney Wins Bear Bryant Award

  January 10 at 5:43 a.m.

  Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney had a a lot to be proud of on Monday night during the Tigers' 44-16 win over Alabama in the national title game. However, the one thing he was most proud of was the way that his team finished off the Crimson Tide, steamrolling them...