Two teams that were both disappointed losing in Wildcard Weekend last season look to kick off the 2024 NFL season with a victory as the Dallas Cowboys and Cleveland Browns face off on Sunday afternoon. 

I think the wrong team is favored here, and my Cowboys vs. Browns predictions attack that line. See why I’m backing the Cowboys in my NFL picks for September 8.

Cowboys vs Browns prediction

My best betCowboys +2.5 (-110 at BetMGM)

My analysisAfter more disappointment last season, the Dallas Cowboys will be looking to start their season off with a road victory against the Cleveland Browns. 

A big reason for Cleveland’s quasi-success last year was their late-season run behind veteran Joe Flacco, filling i…

Arsenal are pushing to sign the midfielder Arthur Melo on loan from Juventus but the Brazil international will be allowed to leave only if his club can find a replacement.

Arthur is understood to be open to joining Arsenal and talks are continuing over the 25-year-old, who moved to Juventus from Barcelona in June 2020 for an initial €72m. The Premier League club are ready to cover his full salary.

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Arthur has more often been a substitute than a starter since returning from injury in October. He came on during Juventus’s Supercoppa Italiana defeat by Internazionale on Wednesday night.

The Arsenal defender Pa…

United States midfielder Lindsey Horan’s second-half equalizer against the Netherlands last week in the group stage of the 2023 World Cup was a quintessential moment of a captain dragging her team out of the muck of a poor performance to salvage a draw.

Those moments are what the world sees, but the everyday duties of a captain take place away from the public eye: meeting with coaches, meeting with teammates, and – critically – serving as the conduit between them.

“Making sure we take care of every little thing,” Horan said on Thursday about what the USA’s leaders, which include co-captain Alex Morgan, are doing behind the scenes. Horan spoke to the media Thursday as another part of her captaincy duties.…

Welcome to Deadspin’s farewell-to-2020 IDIOT OF THE YEAR awards! If you have made it this far, then congratulations, brave traveler. All you need to know about Rob Manfred is he’s the first commissioner to lose the PR battle to the players. For the entire history of MLB, whenever there’s been strife between the players and owners, fans have generally gotten angry at the players. After all, those are the people the fans see, the ones they root for, the ones who are far more in the public eye. So it always feels, to most, that it’s the players who are taking baseball away when it’s not around. This time around, because of Manfred’s clown-glove handling of MLB’s return to play during the pandemic, everyone was pretty much on the players’ side. Manfred didn’t seem to recog…