The Miami Dolphins wrap up their season with an AFC East battle against the New England Patriots on Sunday. The Dolphins will try to head into the offseason with some momentum while Bill Belichick and the Patriots prepare for yet another trip to the playoffs.

NFL betting lines have the Pats installed as 6.5-point road favorites with the Over/Under at 40. Here are our best free Patriots vs. Dolphins NFL picks and predictions for Week 18 action on Sunday, January 9.

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The Week 17 prop card is complete, and I’ve added two more value-laced plays using splits/matchup and contract incentives as the main point of handicapping. Let’s make some money with my NFL prop picks ahead of Sunday’s kickoff.

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With the Sean Payton era in Denver off to a rough start, it looks like not even a Super Bowl-winning coach has a quick fix for the Broncos, and Russell Wilson odds continue to reflect the slog.

The nine-time Pro Bowl quarterback, who signed a five-year, $245 million contract extension upon landing in the Mile High City, has looked better this season but is a far cry from the passer who won Super Bowl 48.

Now, coming off an embarrassing loss to the feeble New York Jets, Wilson must lead the Broncos into Arrowhead Stadium tonight to take on the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs — as massive underdogs based on the Week 6 odds.

You can see how I’m betting on the Broncos quarterback as we dive into the TNF odds in my free NFL picks …

The Sunday Night Football odds for NFL Week 17 turns the spotlight to a playoff survival NFC North battle between the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings tonight at U.S. Bank Stadium.

Both teams are sitting just outside the final Wild Card spot, and while whoever wins will have decent NFL odds to make the postseason, the loser will likely be eliminated.

Oddsmakers project a tight battle tonight in this rivalry showdown, with Week 17 odds installing the Vikings as slim 1.5-point home favorites with the Over/Under at 42.5.

Here are my best free NFL picks and predictions for Packers vs. Vikings on December 31. Be sure to also check out our SNF prop picks and Jordan Love player spotlight!

Packers vs Vikings odds

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Sunday sees the Cleveland Browns face the Jacksonville Jaguars, with both teams searching for their first win of the season.    

With the spread sitting at just a field goal, books expect this to be a tight game, and my Browns vs. Jaguars prediction gives the slim home favorites an edge.

Find out why my NFL picks for Week 2 are backing Jacksonville.

Browns vs Jaguars prediction

My best betJaguars -3 (-105 at BetMGM)

My analysisThis weekend’s game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Cleveland Browns is a tale of two quarterbacks: One is loved by his fanbase, while the other is one of the least popular faces in the NFL. On Sunday, the game will be played at TrEverBank Stadium, with the team renaming the …

Professional football will return to Minnesota in 2017, after MLS commissioner Dan Garber announced the mooted United franchise will begin play next season.

While a privately-funded stadium is being planned, the Minnesota franchise already competing in the second-tier North American Soccer League will retain the proposed United name and logo, and will for the interim play on the University of Minnesota campus, at TCF Bank Stadium.

UM s ground also served as the temporary home for the NFL s Minnesota Vikings in 2014 and 2015, while construction continued at the nearby US Bank Stadium.

Speaking at an event in Minnesota, Garber reiterated the city s strength as a football market.

We are proud to officially announce that Minnesota United FC will join Major L…

Real Madrid striker Joselu was in dreamland after he came on in the dying moments of their Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich on Wednesday and turned the game on its head with two goals to snatch a stunning victory.

Joselu, whose journeyman career has included spells at clubs such as Hoffenheim, Eintracht Frankfurt, Hannover 96, Stoke City and Newcastle United, only touched the ball a few times in their 2-1 second-leg win, but it was a night he is likely to remember for a long time.

He pounced on a rare mistake by Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer, stabbing the ball into the net to equalise for Madrid in the 88th minute, and just under three minutes later, he volleyed them into the lead from a cross by Antonio Rudiger.

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The field is set for the 2019-20 UEFA Champions League group stage. After several qualification rounds, the group stage of the competition has been decided and the best 32 teams in Europe will begin the race for the title in September.

In case you missed it, here are the groups for the 2019-20 edition of the Champions League.

Complete list of 2019-20 UEFA Champions League groups

Group A: PSG, Real Madrid, Club Brugge, Galatasaray

Group B: Bayern Munich, Tottenham, Olympiacos, Red Star Belgrade

Group C: Manchester City, Shakhtar Donetsk, Dinamo Zagreb, Atalanta

Group D: Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Lokomotiv Moscow

Group E: Liverpool, Napoli, Salzburg, Genk

Group F: FC Barcelona, Dortmund, Inter Milan, Slavia Pragu…

July 2017. Floyd Mayweather Jr and Conor McGregor embarked on a world tour to promote their too-bizarre-to-be-true boxing match and the internet went into overdrive.

Or did it?

Strange as it seems to say, but a fight between a retired boxer and a rookie boxer (that was all really weird, wasn t it?) was NOT the most talked-about sporting event this year, at least not according to Google.

Internet searches are now such a pivotal part of our lives, so it is instructive to see what sporting events caught the eye the most in 2017.

And Mayweather-McGregor isn t number one, it s not even number two!

The Super Bowl, Tom Brady s record-breaking comeback and all, takes the second spot. 

Number one? Wimbledon, of course!

Roger Federer s 19t…

Most of the world is suffering from soccer withdrawal symptoms with the World Cup having gone away for another four years. Africa s first Soccer World Cup had plenty of good and bad moments. Here are ten of the worst- the ones you wouldn t want to see a repeat of at the next edition in Brazil.

10.) Sani Kaita (Nigeria against Greece)

Nigeria were comfortably in control of their second Group B game against Greece before Kaita s moment of madness turned the game on its head. The Alania Vladikavkaz midfielder aimed a kung fu kick at Vasilis Torosidis on the sidelines and was given his marching orders, thus reducing Nigeria to ten men. The Greeks made full use of their one man advantage and managed to beat the Super Eagles 2-1.

Would Nigeria s World Cup have been di…