SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

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NFL Pickem Week 5: Keep My Name Out of Your Mouth: The NFL returns Thursday night with an NFC West clash between the undermanned San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams, both 3-1. Sunday games begin at 9:30 a.m. in London, where the Minnesota Vikings face the Cleveland Browns at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Shouldn't that have a name like Aunty's Spotted Dick Stadium by now? In our pickem standings, Ic23b leads by 3 over Jagsnumberone while Bender wins the week with 74. Two players picked the Jags to beat the Niners and both of them are DTWD.

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The Misogynistic Abuse Towards Rory McIlroy’s Wife at the Ryder Cup Is Deeper Than Golf: If you need more evidence that our culture is becoming more misogynistic in 2025, just look at Rory McIlroy’s wife’s Ryder Cup experience.

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Wild sign Kirill Kaprizov to richest contract in NHL history: Kaprizov will count $17 million against the salary cap beginning next season. It's the highest annual average salary of any player since the league’s cap era began in 2005, surpassing Auston Matthews’ $13.25 million with Toronto. Alex Ovechkin’s 13-year, $124 million contract signed with Washington in 2008 was previously the highest total value.

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SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

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How women's soccer exploded in the UK during World War One: and how it was banned by the FA soon afterwards, despite crowds up to 50,000. A short documentary from the Imperial War Museum.

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CFL Pickem Week 17: Everybody Rae Dawn Chong Tonight: Calgary faces Montreal Friday night in the start of the CFL's sixteenth week. Hamilton visits Winnipeg Saturday in another game with big playoff implications. I'm leading the pickem standings after a dismal three-point week. Make your picks in honor of Edmonton's own 1980s It Girl and Chris Pratt discoverer.

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SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

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NFL Pickem Week 4: Out Like a Lamb: The NFL returns for week four without Nick Bosa, James Connor and Najee Harris, all out for the year with injuries, and a Thursday night NFC West clash between the 2-1 Seahawks and Cardinals. When the Ravens and Chiefs meet Sunday afternoon one of them will fall to 1-3 barring a tie. Ic23b still leads the contest pickem and NoMich wins the week with 96. Shoulda placed some bets. Make your selections.

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CFL announces changes to playing surface, modified rouge: Commissioner Stewart Johnston announced that the changes will be instituted over the next two seasons through a phased approach, with the goalposts being moved and the end zones shortened from 20 to 15 yards in 2027. The field will also be shortened from 110 yards to 100, while retaining its 65-yard width. Other changes are scheduled to begin in 2026

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SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

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Bernie Parent Dead at 80: Bernie Parent, considered one of the greatest goaltenders of all time in the NHL, passed away at age 80. He backstopped the Philadelphia Flyers to consecutive Stanley Cup wins in 1974 and 1975. Parent's NHL career started with the Boston Bruins who let him go in the expansion draft, and he played in Philadelphia and Toronto before jumping to Miami of the World Hockey Association. When his time with Miami was not working out satisfactorily, he returned to the NHL and the Flyers. His boyhood idol was Jacques Plante, and during his time in Toronto, Plante was a teammate as well as a mentor.

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SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle

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CFL Pickem Week 16: Argo Naut Yourself: The CFL returns this weekend with Friday and Saturday night doubleheaders. BC quarterback Nathan Rourke plays tomorrow night and is just 38 passing yards from breaking the record for a Canadian, which Russ Jackson had held since I was two years old. Standings.

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SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

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NFL Pickem Week 3: Travis Kelce is Mad as Hell and is Not Going to Take It Anymore: The third week of the NFL season kicks off Thursday night with the struggling Dolphins against the steamrolling Bills. On Sunday night the Chiefs meet the Giants as winless teams. Ic23b leads in the pickem standings.

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Monday night magnified Tom Brady's conflict of interest: From the moment Tom Brady both took the job as the No. 1 analyst at Fox while also trying to buy a piece of the Raiders, the conflict of interest was lurking. It became obvious on Monday night, with the video of Brady embedded in the Raiders’ coaching box, wearing a headset and watching a tablet.

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SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle

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CFL Pickem Week 15: Everything's Coming Up Saskatchewan: There are CFL doubleheaders on Friday and Saturday night, beginning at 7 p.m. Eastern tonight with Winnipeg at Hamilton. Only three teams have winning records in the league, which seems like a statistical outlier to me. Current standings have me in the lead. Hooray self!

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SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

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NFL Pickem Week 2: Wake Up, Al!: The NFL kicks off week 2 tonight with more low-energy Al Michaels on Amazon Prime. Make your picks.

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SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

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Report: Wild's Kirill Kaprizov rejects NHL-record contract offer: The Wild star turned down an eight-year, $128-million extension offer on Tuesday, hockey insider Frank Seravalli reported on Wednesday.

The contract would have been the highest in NHL history in both average annual value ($16 million) and total earnings.

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SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle

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What We’ve Learned About the Kawhi Leonard Situation—and What We Haven’t: According to veteran journalist Pablo Torre’s reporting, in 2021 Clippers owner Steve Ballmer invested $50 million in a start-up company called Aspiration—and Aspiration in turn signed Leonard to a $28 million “no-show” endorsement deal.

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SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

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