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Rohit Ponnaiya breaks down his favorite NFL team futures parlay ahead of Week 1 of the 2025-26 NFL season. Find out why he’s bullish on the Texans, Bucs, and Lions! Aug 26, 2025 • 19:04 ET • 4 min read Photo By – Imagn Images. Houston Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud (7) drops back to pass. The 2025 NFL season is around the corner, which means it’s time to pull the trigger on futures bets you like, especially in the win totals and division winner markets. Here are four of my favorite NFL picks in the futures markets, all put together…

The following day, on Thursday, July 17, UFC athletes Jared Gordon and Brandon Royval hosted a youth meet and greet with the Youth Empowerment Project (YEP), a non-profit organization that engages underserved youth through community-based education, mentoring, enrichment, and employment readiness programs to help them develop skills and strengthen ties to family and community. During the event, both athletes conducted a Q&A panel over lunch with members attending the organization’s summer educational program. The panel highlighted areas pertaining to the importance of arts, education, and career development.  “We are so grateful to UFC for their incredible partnership,” said Melissa Sawyer, CEO of…

Grimsby Town chief executive Polly Bancroft was at home with her five-year-old son when the Carabao Cup second-round draw was made.After a two-and-a-half year stint as Manchester United’s head of women’s football, she was acutely aware of the club’s capacity to wreck best laid plans due to the huge global interest in them.Bancroft received another reminder on 13 August as her current club and old one were the last two names drawn at this stage of the competition.Paired together for their first meeting since a 1-1 draw in 1948, interest in the tie at Blundell Park was so high that…

Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino is one of the hottest hitters in baseball over the last few weeks and the 27-year-old is finally starting to fulfill the power potential he showed while working his way through the Kansas City farm system. Pasquantino blew past his previous career-high of 19 home runs earlier this month and is now sitting on 28 homers entering a Tuesday matchup with the Chicago White Sox. The left-handed slugger will have favorable conditions with the MLB weather forecast calling for winds blowing out to right field tonight, which has the over/under at 8.5, and Pasquantino also…

Talk of a Jake Paul vs. Gervonta “Tank” Davis fight, despite Netflix confirming for November 14, is nothing short of ‘delusional.’ That’s the view of Ryan Garcia, who has blasted the announcement of his rivals. The 27-year-old lightweight contender immediately questioned the logic of Davis competing under the contracted weight, reportedly 195 pounds, for the crossover mega-event. “I strongly doubt this happens, no way Gervonta accepted 195 pounds. Gervonta is already small naturally, and you really think he will decide to balloon up to 195 pounds? “You’ve got to be delusional to think this is going to happen,” stated Garcia.…

After two years of dating, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift officially announced their engagement to the world on Tuesday, but that’s not actually when Kelce proposed to the Grammy-winning singer. Kelce’s dad, Ed, offered some new details about when the proposal during an interview with News 5 Cleveland on Tuesday. Here are five new details that we learned about the engagement thanks to Ed: 1. The proposal happened on Aug. 9 or 10 According to Ed, he was attending an Eagles’ training camp practice on Aug. 10 when he got a call from Travis, who wanted to share the big news. “I got…

A pioneer of the sport who took on Ronda Rousey in the first-ever women’s fight in UFC history thinks a Hall of Fame induction is due after capturing even more championship gold recently. Liz Carmouche contended for championships across multiple divisions in the UFC with championship accolades on her resume in both Bellator MMA and, most recently, in PFL. Carmouche’s fight with Ronda Rousey in 2013 was certainly a memorable one, with Carmouche putting Rousey in more danger than she had seen in her prior fights leading into that UFC debut effort. Carmouche’s recent win over Jena Bishop to capture…

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Guardians have placed veteran first baseman Carlos Santana on outright waivers, multiple sources told The Athletic, perhaps signaling an approaching conclusion to the 39-year-old’s third stint with the organization.Santana, who debuted with the franchise in 2010, has posted a .225/.316/.333 slash line in his 16th major-league season. He has lost playing time in recent weeks to Kyle Manzardo and C.J. Kayfus, a pair of young, well-regarded first basemen. Manzardo has cemented himself as the club’s cleanup hitter, while Kayfus, widely considered a Top 100 prospect this year, has been earning regular at-bats this month, either at…

FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer reiterated Tuesday what he had previously said: He is confident Micah Parsons will play their Week 1 game Thursday, Sept. 4, at the Philadelphia Eagles.But will Parsons practice in the week leading up to the game?“It’s different for everybody,” Schottenheimer said during a Tuesday news conference to discuss the team’s roster decisions. “The fact that he’s been here gives him a little bit of a leg up on the fact that he knows the defense. That could be a completely different story if he wasn’t here.“At the end of the day, we…

Eric ‘Butterbean’ Esch is one of the most popular cult figures in boxing, but he never quite made the big bucks his star power may have warranted.While promoter Bob Arum claims he eventually pocketed over $1million collectively, a slight dig under the surface indicates that it was not all riches. After all, he fought hundreds of times including 13 bouts in the year of his biggest payday against Peter McNeeley.He has also become infamous for his appearances in the MMA cage where he fought the likes of Mariusz Pudzianowski as well as on TV shows such as Jackass. He is…