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Minnesota United eye another victory over last-place Quakes
Minnesota United heads to last-place San Jose on Saturday night one point below the Western Conference playoff line and trying to a snap a nearly four-month road winless streak., ,The Loons (9-11-6, 33 points) are 0-5-2 in their last seven road contests with their last win coming at Atlanta United o...
Pitt, amid QB competition and RB transition, ready for Kent State
Pitt will look for favorable results in two different competitions on Saturday afternoon when it opens its season against visiting Kent State.,In addition to facing the Golden Flashes, the Panthers will continue their quarterback competition between Nate Yarnell and Eli Holstein.,Yarnell, a redshirt...
New Liverpool boss facing first big test at Manchester United
First-year Liverpool manager Arne Slot will get his first big test on Sunday when he takes his side to visit Dutch compatriot Erik ten Hag's Manchester United.,Liverpool (2-0-0, 6 points) have earned comfortable 2-0 wins away to newly promoted Ipswich Town and home to Brentford in their first compet...
Best Sports Betting Picks For MLB Games on Friday August 30, 2024
These are our best sports betting picks and predictions for Friday August 30's MLB slate of games....
Skidding Cincinnati seeks better performance vs. Montreal
FC Cincinnati and CF Montreal are clubs on different ends of the Major League Soccer standings, but both enter Saturday's match in Cincinnati needing a positive result. ,Cincinnati (15-8-3, 48 points) enters with a four-match losing streak. July 6 was the second-place side's last victory, a 6-1 win ...
Travis Hunter Rescued Coach Prime and Colorado From Complete Embarrassment
The Colorado Buffaloes narrowly defeated North Dakota State University, but if it wasn't for Travis Hunter's heroics, they might not have won the game at all....
In NL wild-card hunt, Cubs try to tame Nats' youth movement
The surging Chicago Cubs visit the revived Washington Nationals for an important three-game series beginning on Friday.,The Cubs have won three straight and six of seven to propel themselves into the National League wild-card race while the Nationals, who continue to call up important pieces of thei...
Liberty face Storm, try to fix inconsistent results
When WNBA-leading New York visits the Seattle Storm on Friday, the Liberty do so in the unusual position of having lost two of their last three.,New York (26-6) opened a three-game road swing, which concludes at Seattle, by beating Phoenix 84-70 on Monday. Bookending the win, however, were losses of...
Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese meet again when Fever visit Sky
It's Caitlin Clark against Angel Reese for the fifth time in 2024 when the Indiana Fever travel to Chicago to face the Sky on Friday night.,Both teams are clinging to the final two spots in the WNBA playoffs. Indiana is 15-16 overall and in seventh place, while Chicago is 11-19, one game ahead of th...
Wings hope to build momentum, derail surging Lynx
The Dallas Wings will try to parlay two of their most rousing wins of the season into a late push for the playoffs when they host the surging Minnesota Lynx on Friday in Arlington, Texas.,The Wings (8-22) are in the hunt for a season-high third win of the year after beating two-time defending league...
Report: S Lewis Cine joining Bills, rebuffs Jets
Safety Lewis Cine will be joining the practice squad of an AFC East franchise in New York -- just not the one that previously was reported.,ESPN reported on Thursday that the former first-round draft pick plans to sign with the Buffalo Bills instead of the New York Jets.,Cine's former position coach...
Thursday August 29 MLB Best Bets, Picks, and Predictions
It's a jam packed slate of baseball games on August 29, these are our best betting picks and predictions for Thursday's games....
Three Biggest Winners of 2024 NFL Preseason
Now that the dust has settled on the NFL preseason, these three teams walked away as winners who can confidently strut into the regular season....
After near no-hitter, Jays' Bowden Francis faces Red Sox
After carrying a no-hitter into the ninth inning of his last start, Bowden Francis will take the mound for the Toronto Blue Jays in the finale of a four-game series against the host Boston Red Sox on Thursday.,Francis (7-3, 4.02 ERA) held the Los Angeles Angels hitless for eight innings in a 3-1 Tor...
Youth movement on display as Marlins, Rockies conclude series
Colorado and Miami are attempting to stay out of the National League basement, and heading into the finale of a four-game series, the host Rockies have a chance to create separation from the Marlins for the season's final stretch.,Colorado bounced back from blowing a late lead on Tuesday, winning 8-...
Manny Machado, Padres aim for series victory over Cards
San Diego Padres star Manny Machado is looking more like his old self with each passing week.,Machado is 5-for-13 with two doubles, two homers, five RBIs and four runs in the first three games of the Padres' four-game series against the host St. Louis Cardinals that concludes Thursday afternoon.,San...
Tigers eye 7-game win streak as Angels try to halt skid
The Detroit Tigers have won a season-best six consecutive games. They'll try to extend that streak and notch another series sweep when they host the slumping Los Angeles Angels on Thursday afternoon.,After a four-game road sweep of the Chicago White Sox, the Tigers have won the first two games durin...
After comeback win, SMU returns home vs. Houston Christian
SMU looks to find some consistency when it hosts FCS up-and-comer Houston Christian on Saturday evening in Dallas., ,The Mustangs (1-0) carry momentum into their second game after a 29-24 comeback win at Nevada in their season opener last Saturday. ,SMU got 254 yards passing from Preston Stone, with...
Anthony Colandrea, Virginia set to battle in-state rival Richmond
Sophomore quarterback Anthony Colandrea will lead the Virginia offense in Saturday's season opener against the visiting Richmond Spiders in Charlottesville, Va., ,Third-year Cavaliers coach Tony Elliott named Colandrea the starter last weekend after an offseason battle with fifth-year senior Tony Mu...
Neighbors Georgia Tech, Georgia State meet for first time
Their campuses are only a few miles apart, but Atlanta-based Georgia Tech will host Georgia State on Saturday for the first time on the gridiron.,Georgia Tech (1-0) is coming off a dramatic 24-21 win over No. 10 Florida State in the Aer Lingus Classic in Dublin, Ireland.,Georgia State is opening its...