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| Name: | Rogers Cadenhead |
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Enter the SportsFilter NBA Pickem: The new NBA season begins Tuesday night. There are national games on NBC, ESPN, Amazon Prime and Peacock but not TNT, with 75 more than last season. Join us this season by picking the winners and margins, making any game a slam dunk to sharpen the contradictions.
posted by rcade to basketball at 09:16 AM on October 20, 2025 - 11 comments
CFL Pickem Week 20: Playoffs Approacheth: The Canadian Football League returns with Winnipeg and Calgary looking to earn playoff spots. The Stampeders get in with a win Saturday night or a loss by B.C. or Winnipeg. Winnipeg gets in with a win by B.C. Somehow they don't need their own win on Friday night in any scenario. I'm leading the pickem standings. Make your picks.
posted by rcade to football at 10:45 AM on October 17, 2025 - 3 comments
NFL Pickem Week 7: Don't Sleep on Seattle: The NFL returns tonight with a divisional matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the sad remnants of the Cincinnati Bengals. Sunday begins with an early London game of Rams/Jaguars. Jagsnumberone leads the pickem standings and I'm in second, but Jacksonville getting run over by the Seattle defensive line brought us back to the peloton a bit. NoMich wins the week with 66.
posted by rcade to football at 10:33 AM on October 16, 2025 - 15 comments
Oldest Living Newspaper Sportswriter Tells All: Art Spander began covering sports for the Santa Monica Evening Outlook in the early '60s. He's still on the beat today, most recently at this year's golf U.S. Open, in columns for his own website. The Athletic catches up with the 86-year-old throwback to another era. “No one has ever been as romantic about sports as Art," said Al Michaels, a friend of 52 years. "He works. He works hard. He cares. He cares hard. I don't know how, but no matter what, he's never lost that sense of wonder."
posted by rcade to media at 04:23 PM on October 12, 2025 - 1 comment
For the Love of God Stop Betting Parlays: With sports betting now legal in 38 states and D.C., Americans are losing billions of dollars on parlays. "Wagering is entertainment, not income generation," says an executive at FanDuel, which generates two-thirds of its income on these high juice, multi-leg, low-odds wagers.
posted by rcade to general at 10:12 AM on October 09, 2025 - 4 comments
My picks:
Thunder by 6
Warriors by 3
Knicks by 8
Mavericks by 4
Pacers by 10 (slam dunk)
Nuggets by 8
Celtics by 3
Lakers by 7
Cavaliers by 10 (slam dunk)
Timberwolves by 3
I'm picking the Lukas to lose the season opener at home with LeBron out. ESPN has Kyrie Irving with an estimated return date of January 1, which is three months sooner than I expected. Seems risky to cut months off the normal recovery period for a torn knee ACL with a 33-year-old star. The reason he got hurt was the Mavs risked his health by having him lead the league in minutes after the Luka robbery.
posted by rcade at 09:46 AM on October 20, 2025
I'm debating whether to include Peacock games all season or exclude them like we do NBA TV. Increasing by 75 games is a lot -- nearly two per week.
posted by rcade at 09:45 AM on October 20, 2025
Past Champions
2015-16: Howard_T
2016-17: Ufez Jones
2018-19: rcade
2019-20: NoMich
2020-21: Goyoucolts
2021-22: rcade
2022-23: rcade
2023-24: rcade
2024-25: rcade
posted by rcade at 09:17 AM on October 20, 2025
Steelers by 10 (lock)
Ouch! Sad Remnants 33, Steelers 31.
posted by rcade at 01:04 PM on October 17, 2025
Revised picks:
Jaguars by 3
Bears by 7 (lock)
Dolphins by 3
Patriots by 11 (lock)
Chiefs by 14 (lock)
Vikings by 3
Panthers by 3
Broncos by 7 (lock)
Colts by 3
Cowboys by 3
Packers by 7 (lock)
49ers by 3
Lions by 3
I also play the NFL Pickem on Yahoo, picking straight up. You see the pick distribution before you choose, which promotes herding, but that isn't happening this weekend on Chargers/Colts (49%/51%) and Commanders/Cowboys (55%/45%). Going with Indy on the road against my fan interests. Another win for Donny Dimes.
posted by rcade at 01:00 PM on October 17, 2025
My picks:
Blue Bombers by 7
Lions by 14 (lock)
Redblacks by 3
Stampeders by 13 (lock)
I must do more damage to my score picking Ottawa than any other team. Go Redblacks!
posted by rcade at 10:51 AM on October 17, 2025
My picks:
Steelers by 10 (lock)
Lions by 4
Seahawks by 17 (lock)
posted by rcade at 05:26 PM on October 16, 2025
... if I was Fox, I'd fight this tooth and nail.
That might cost more than what it has to pay to make the lawsuit go away. This is a really bad look for Fox and the NFL. Having one of your game broadcasters try to kill an old guy for parking in a loading zone is nuts.
posted by rcade at 10:52 AM on October 12, 2025
So many scores of zero last week and not a single negative score, or can't that happen?
The worst possible score in a week is 0. This lets players be a little more reckless towards the end when trying to catch the leader.
posted by rcade at 07:35 PM on October 09, 2025
My picks:
Eagles by 10 (lock)
Broncos by 7 (lock)
Colts by 7 (lock)
Dolphins by 4
Patriots by 3
Steelers by 17 (lock)
Cowboys by 3
Jaguars by 3
Rams by 7 (lock)
Titans by 3
Packers by 17 (lock)
Buccaneers by 3
Chiefs by 3
Bills by 7 (lock)
Commanders by 7
Upsets: Jacksonville over Seattle and Miami over Chargers at home and Tennessee over Las Vegas on the road. Picking Kansas City over Detroit feels like an upset but the Chiefs are favored by 2.5. The Lions juggernaut will be stopped by Kansas City's desperate need for a win. If this is who Baltimore is without Lamar Jackson, go back and give him retroactive MVPs for the past seven seasons.
posted by rcade at 10:06 AM on October 09, 2025
My picks:
Roughriders by 16 (lock)
Tiger-Cats by 8 (lock)
Elks by 7 (lock)
Alouettes by 10 (lock)
Lock 'em all! Come on, Edmonton!
posted by rcade at 10:12 PM on October 08, 2025
Sometimes missing a pickem by accident is a winning move, but not this time when I hit all three locks. Sorry, Ic23b!
posted by rcade at 10:08 PM on October 08, 2025
My picks:
Roughriders by 13 (lock)
Tiger-Cats by 13 (lock)
Lions by 10 (lock)
posted by rcade at 02:04 PM on October 03, 2025
My picks:
Rams by 10 (lock)
Vikings by 3
Colts by 10 (lock)
Saints by 3
Cowboys by 7 (lock)
Broncos by 3
Dolphins by 3
Ravens by 3
Cardinals by 14 (lock)
Buccaneers by 3
Lions by 17 (lock)
Chargers by 3
Bills by 7 (lock)
Jaguars by 3
Upsets: Baltimore over Houston, Tampa Bay over Seattle. I almost picked Washington over the L.A. Chargers but picking two east coast teams to get upsets on the west coast is too many, especially after Jacksonville improbably did it in San Francisco last week. In a survivor game I am counting on Arizona and Detroit.
posted by rcade at 11:05 AM on October 02, 2025
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Revised picks:
Cavaliers by 8