NBA Pickem Week 13: Hard Times in Indiana: There are NBA doubleheaders tonight and Wednesday night. Heat/Magic and Mavs/Kings tonight on NBC with Nugs/Celtics and Lakers/Spurs tomorrow on ESPN. On Saturday afternoon its Wolves/Cavs on Prime. Far from national television the Pacers have lost 12 in a row! Ufez and I won the week with 25 (pickem standings). Make your picks.

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NFL Firings: Pete Carroll, Kevin Stefanski, Raheem Morris: A 3-14 season with the Las Vegas Raiders has ended Pete Carroll's return to coaching one year after it began. The team is going forward with first year GM John Spytek and this year's first overall draft pick. Also the Cleveland Browns have fired Kevin Stefanski and Atlanta Falcons Raheem Morris.

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NFL Pickem Week 18: All the Marbles: The NFL ends the regular season with a doubleheader on Saturday, 14 games Sunday afternoon and a Sunday night game on NBC that decides the AFC North and a place in the playoffs. In our pickem standings Jagsnumber one leads by 63. Make your locks, I mean picks.

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NBA Pickem Week 11: Nicola's MRI Edition: There are four NBA games on the national airwaves this week: an NBC doubleheader tonight of Sixers/Grizzlies and Pistons/Lakers and a Prime doubleheader Friday of Nuggets/Cavs and Thunder/Warriors. I'm leading the pickem standings. Make your picks and send good thoughts to Nikola Jokic's knee.

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NFL Pickem Week 17: Two Weeks Left: The NFL begins week 17 by encroaching on the NBA's turf with a Christmas Day tripleheader. Sad it had to start with the Cowboys and Commanders when neither is going to the playoffs. Jagsnumberone leads the pickem standings and I jump to second after winning the week with 103. Make your picks.

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NBA Considers New Anti-Tanking Measures: In the wake of the worst gambling scandal in league history, the NBA is looking at new rules to combat tanking that would also deter some shady bets. Among the ideas is to no longer let teams draft top 4 in consecutive years, lock lottery positions after March 1, and limit draft pick positions to top 4 or 14 and higher.

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NBA Pickem Week 10: Merry Hoopmas: There are five NBA games on ABC and ESPN Christmas Day and two more on NBC next Monday. Everybody laid eggs in pickem standings last week, earning no points. Make your picks and happy holidays.

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NFL Pickem Week 16: Oh the Ligaments: The NFL heads into its sixteenth week tonight without Patrick Mahomes and Micah Parsons, victims of the dreaded ligament tears. The Rams and Seahawks are both 11-3 headed into tonight's game at Lumen Field. Jagsnumberone leads our pickem standings and Howard_T wins the week with 103 after hitting all six locks. Make your picks.

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NBA Pickem Week 9: NBA Cup Final: The San Antonio Spurs face the New York Knicks tonight at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for the third NBA Cup -- the first time the teams have played in a trophy-lifting game since the 1999 NBA Finals. The winning players go home with an extra $318,560 in their pockets. "People like money," said Spurs guard De'Aaron Fox. The Cup final is one of three national games in our pickem. I'm leading the pickem standings. Make your picks.

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NFL Pickem Week 15: Old Man Rivers: The NFL returns tonight with the Atlanta Falcons going to the struggling Tampa Bay Buccaneers, whose loss to New Orleans made me one of two survivors left in a 166-entry $1,400 pool. Jagsnumberone holds on to first in the pickem standings and Rumple wins the week with 76. Make your picks and send good thoughts to quarterback grandpa.

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NBA Pickem Week 8: NBA Cup Runneth Over: There are six national NBA games this week but we only know the first four. Tonight the first NBA Cup quarterfinals on Amazon Prime pit the Heat against the Magic at 6 p.m. Eastern followed by the Knicks at Raptors at 8:30 p.m. Tomorrow the quarterfinals continue with the Suns at Thunder on Prime at 7:30 p.m. Eastern and Spurs at Lakers at 10 p.m. The winners will play in the Cup semifinals on Saturday. I'm leading the pickem standings with week-winner Howard_T in second. Make your picks.

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NFL Pickem Week 14: The Eagles Have Landed: The NFL returns tonight with the Dallas Cowboys visiting the Detroit Lions seven days after their Thanksgiving Day games. The Philadelphia Eagles will attempt to arrest their descent on Monday night in a road trip to face the Los Angeles Chargers at Sofi Stadium. Jagsnumberone leads the pickem standings and Ufez wins an upset-filled week with 90. Make your picks.

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NBA Pickem Week 7: NBA on NBC: Tonight's doubleheader on NBC is the only national games for the week. The New York Knicks visit the Boston Celtics at 8 p.m. Eastern and the Oklahoma City Thunder go to the Golden State Warriors three hours later. I am now leading the pickem standings thanks to a near dunk on those Luka-stealing Lakers. Make your picks.

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McIlroy Races to Odd Conclusion About IndyCar and NASCAR: While casting doubt on the idea that the PGA and LIV will ever unify as one tour because of the latter's "irrational" spending, Rory McIlroy lamented other divisive fractures in sports and said, "You look at boxing for example, or you look at what's happened in motor racing in the United States with Indy and NASCAR and everything else, I think for golf in general it would be better if there was unification." IndyCar and NASCAR?

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NFL Pickem Week 13: Trippin' on Tryptophan: The NFL's Thanksgiving tripleheader features Packers at Lions, Chiefs at Cowboys and Bengals at Ravens. There's also a Black Friday game of Bears at Eagles, completing the "Lions, Tigers and Bears, oh, my!" trifecta. Jagsnumberone holds on to first in the pickem standings with 830 points, 25 ahead of me. Tommybiden won the week with 90, hitting 8 of 9 locks. Happy Thanksgiving one and all.

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NBA Pickem Week 6: Turkey Eve Tripleheader: There are five national NBA games this week -- a doubleheader of Magic/Sixers and Clippers/Lakers on NBC Tuesday and a tripleheader on ESPN Wednesday of Pistons/Celtics, Wolves/Thunder and Rockets/Warriors. Scooby now leads the pickem standings by 4 after winning the week with 26 points. Make your picks and pass the rolls.

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NFL Pickem Week 12: War of Attrition: The NFL returns tonight with the Buffalo Bills visiting the Houston Texans on the bookstore site. The league has no more pedestrian football to inflict on Europe but four teams are on bye. Jagsnumberone leads the pickem standings by 20 over Bender. Tron7 wins the week with 101 and climbs to fourth place. Make your picks and think of the endangered quarterback.

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Greg Norman Thinks a Lot of Greg Norman: Now that he's gone from LIV, the Saudi-funded upstart golf league's failure to attract TV ratings and losses exceeding $600 million have not dampened Greg Norman's admiration of himself. “The voice of the critic is far louder than the voice of the advocate,” he said. “And I use that as my pillar of strength.”

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NBA Pickem Week 5: Don't Call Me Angel Reese: There are four games to pick this week, starting tonight on ESPN with Houston going to Cleveland at 7 p.m. Eastern. Howard_T leads the pickem standings by one point over NoMich. Make your picks.

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CFL Pickem: Grey Cup Sunday: The Saskatchewan Roughriders face the Montreal Alouettes tonight at Princess Auto Stadium in Winnipeg for the Grey Cup. The game airs in the U.S. on CBS Sports Network and in Canada on TSN/RDS/CTV. Make your picks, final Canadian football diehards.

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NFL Pickem Week 11: Mighty Minnows: The Jets and Patriots meet tonight for Thursday Night Football after a week in which the Jets, Dolphins and Saints all won. Condolences to survivor pool players. Sunday begins with a 9:30 a.m. Eastern kickoff for the Commanders and Dolphins in Madrid. Jagsnumberone continues to lead the pickem standings at 663 with three others in the 600s. Ic23b wins the week. Make your picks.

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NBA Pickem Week 4: Fired Nico: There are four more national games this week on the NBA calendar. On Wednesday night ESPN has a doubleheader of Magic/Knicks and Lakers/Thunder. On Friday Amazon has Heat/Knicks and Warriors/Spurs. Scooby leads the pickem standings and I win the week though remain in the cellar. Make your picks. Do not hire Nico.

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CFL Pickem Week 23: And Then There Were 4: Today's CFL playoffs decide the teams that will play in the 112th Grey Cup. Montreal faces Hamilton at 3:00 Eastern and B.C. faces Saskatchewan at 6:30 Eastern. I expanded my lead in the pickem standings by hitting both locks with exact scores. Make your picks.

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NFL Pickem Week 10: War of Attrition: The NFL's tenth week begins with Raiders/Broncos tonight and Falcons/Colts in Berlin on Sunday at 9:30 Eastern. I thought the international games were over already. Jagsnumberone leads the pickem standings by 8 and Bender climbs to second place by winning the week with 66. Make your selections. Sorry about your elbow, Jayden.

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NBA Pickem Week 3: I Wish I Was a Baller: There are four games to pick from the tube this week, beginning tonight with Wolves/Knicks and Spurs/Lukas on ESPN. The pickem standings have Scooby in first after everybody but Howard_T laid an egg. Make your picks.

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