The New York Giants enter Week 15 riding the coattails of last week’s epic win on Monday night. They take their 5-8 SU record and slim playoff hopes indoors to face Derek Carr and the New Orleans Saints, who sit as 5.5-point home favorites despite dropping three of their last four. 

Even with all the hoopla coming from last week, Tommy DeVito is a decent dog on Sunday and has perfect passing conditions, which could lead to an increase in passing volume and efficiency. Is backing the New York quarterback on a short week the move for Week 15?

I break down the NFL odds and offer my free NFL picks for Giants vs. Saints on Sunday, December 17. 

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The AFC East is among the tightest divisions in football, and right in the middle of that logjam are the Miami Dolphins. 

Miami is behind the Buffalo Bills and New York Jets in terms of NFL offseason betting markets. The win totals, division futures, and look-ahead lines forecast a third-place finish for the Fins in 2024. 

We know what we’re getting from Mike McDaniel’s offense and that’s an elite scoring attack that can gash you for big gains through the air and on the ground. The defense, however, is the biggest hang-up with the health of key pieces up in the air and a new coordinator making a seismic shift in scheme for the third straight season.

It will be a fight to the finish in the AFC East, and unfortunately for Miami…

The introduction of safe standing areas could create new safety problems in football grounds, according to Noel Jeffs, an expert in stadium operations and a former general manager of Wembley Stadium.

This month the Sports Ground Safety Authority (SGSA) confirmed that six clubs will trial safe standing areas in the Premier League and Championship from the new year. The decision follows lengthy campaigning by fan groups and years observing behaviour at a select number of grounds across the UK and Europe.

However, Jeffs has called the new rules into question, in particular over a decision to set safety standards lower than those required by regular building standards. Under building regulations, crush barriers must be …

The roar at kick-off, the roar that had been there in most of the previous 18 home games of this season, was maybe given a few extra decibels here. Added to renewed hope, present all season, was a touch of yes, this really is happening.

Then came the moment, with fireworks being wedged into the tops of milk bottles, at the beginning of stoppage time, when Nick Pope was finally forced into some sort of movement to deny Timothy Castagne, to make sure it did happen. It came after one of the Newcastle keeper’s slowest days of the season, after what had often resembled a half-pitch, beat-the-packed-defence training exercise against a Leicester team largely too meek to threaten Geordie dreams.

Newcastle back in Champions League as Leicester c…

Many of the NBA youths are fun and good. Kristaps Porzingis, Ben Simmons, et cetera. Good youths. But in addition to the fun and good ones, there are also some youths who are sorry butt scrubs. Here is a list of some of that latter group. Buddy HieldBobby PortisJerian GrantCameron PayneMarquese ChrissMario HezonjaJahlil OkaforTomáš SatoranskýStanley JohnsonPaul ZipserWade Baldwin IVWillie Cauley-SteinTrey LylesEmmanuel MudiayJustin AndersonJustise WinslowFrank KaminskyDenzel ValentineJulius RandleJamal MurrayRashad VaughnKris Dunn These young players belong in the toilet. Thank you. …

Adding facial hair to the list of excellent things about track and field, mid-distance runner Will Leer has been awarded the
2014 Sports Beard of the Year. British blog BeardWatch bestowed the honors on the 29-year-old after a groundswell of support from track and manscaping fans pushed the speedster ahead of second place British soccer player Stuart Sinclair and fast-closing third place Italian soccer player Davide Moscardelli. (It's important to note that Leer's was the only contestant with its own Twitter account.)
BeardWatch tirelessly combs the globe and an impressive range of sports—from cricket to Formula One racing—to showcase the very best and provide insightful critiques, but ultimately, they are merely the platform, the face, as it were, on which the art…