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By Marc Lawrence
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Friday, Nov 14 |
Patrick Mahomes opposes sports betting, citing personal risk and contentment.
In doing so, fans praised Mahomes' stance amidst widespread concern over betting's influence on sports.
This is on the heels of the FBI indictments of 30 or more people for NBA insider betting and mafia-linked poker fraud.
When asked to weigh in on sports betting he says, "I just stay away from it. I don't want to put myself in that position. Your life is so great, why mess with it?"
What he’s trying to say is, 'I see the mud all around me. I just try not to step in it'.
It’s easy for him to say. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback is the highest-paid NFL player in 2025, earning a total of approximately $78 million annually. |
ON TODAY'S SCORECARD
Shohei The Way
Shohei Ohtani has done it again.
Ohtani is the first player in Dodgers history to win back-to-back MVP awards.
Ten different players have won 13 MVP awards for the Dodgers. But no player, until Ohtani in 2025, had captured consecutive MVP awards. Ohtani also joins Hall of Fame catcher Roy Campanella as the only players in franchise history to win multiple MVP awards.
Ohtani was the unanimous choice for the 2025 NL MVP, earning all 30 first-place votes on the ballots voted on by the BBWAA. Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber finished second with 260 points in the voting, and Mets outfielder Juan Soto finished third with 231 points.
Ohtani has won the MVP via a unanimous vote all four times he has earned the award in 2021, ‘23, ‘24 and ‘25.
By winning the 2025 NL MVP, he equaled Barry Bonds in more ways than one as he became just the second player to win four MVP awards in a career, joining Barry Bonds, who won seven in his decorated—and pilloried—career. He also joined Bonds as the only players to win three straight MVP awards. Bonds accomplished the feat when he took home four straight MVP awards from 2001 to ’04.
He’s good. Very good. |
TRENDING TODAY
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The UMass football team, to put it lightly, is having a dreadful season. For more proof of that look at what the Minutemen did at home on Wednesday night. Not only did they lose to Northern Illinois, 45–3, to fall to 0–10, they also went viral for doing the most embarrassing thing in the fourth quarter.
UMass celebrated a fourth quarter field goal by shooting off a ton of fireworks. The kick brought them to within 42 points of Northern Illinois.
In case you missed it, and we're guessing that you did because, really, who's watching UMass football on a Wednesday night in November, the Minutemen opted to kick a field goal midway through the fourth quarter while trailing by 45 points.
The good news for UMass supporters is that the kick sailed through the uprights to give the team their only points on the night.
What's more incredibly sad is that the team kicked the field goal on a fourth-and-5 play from Northern Illinois’s 26-yard line. At that point just go for it instead of kicking a meaningless field goal.
By the way, UMass is ranked dead last in ESPN’s College Football Power Index at 136. |
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GRINDING OUT THE PROFITS
Duck Tape
From this week’s Playbook
Football Newseltter:
OREGON over Minnesota by 28
This isn't the typical matchup you'd expect between two teams heading to a bowl game this season, but it’s Friday night, and the lights will be bright in Eugene, where the No. 8 overall seed in the current College Football Playoff rankings, the Ducks, will aim to improve their playoff chances against the recently bowl-eligible Gophers. Minnesota enters the game with a 7-2 ATS record when playing with rest but is just 1-37 outright as a 17-point or more underdog, including 0-3 ATS since 2020. Oregon escaped a narrow loss at Iowa last week when it kicked a 33-yard field goal with three seconds left to beat the Hawkeyes in Iowa. That definitely didn’t help their playoff ranking. A big win could boost their standing, but their fate likely depends more on Indiana and Ohio State than their current position. Duck! Oregon is 15-0 SU and 10-5 ATS as a favorite of 20 or more points under head coach Dan Lanning and will be looking to improve those numbers tonight. |
BETCHA DIDN’T KNOW
Not One to Judge
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Aaron Judge compiled another magnificent season for the Yankees in 2025, and he’s been rewarded with his third AL MVP award.
Despite fierce competition in the form of Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh, Judge earned his second consecutive MVP and third of his career. The New York superstar hit 53 home runs and led the league in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS, and OPS+. His 137 runs also ranked first in MLB.
Judge’s efforts helped lead the Yankees to a 94–68 regular season. New York advanced past the wild card round by beating the rival Red Sox in three games, but fell to the Blue Jays in the divisional round.
The 33-year-old slugger has been considered one of the best hitters in baseball for years now and this season proved no exception. For much of the season he was the primary, and occasionally only, source of offense for the pinstripes. He was so dangerous that, in addition to all his league-leading hitting stats, he also ranked first in intentional walks with 36. Judge was rewarded earlier this year for his efforts with his seventh All-Star nod. |
QUOTE OF THE DAY |
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"Being honest may not get you a
lot of friends
but it’ll always get
you the right ones.”
- John Lennon |
STAT OF THE DAY
10-10 |
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The record of N.L. Cy Young winner
Paul Skenes this season.
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