In today’s video, I break down every NBA game on the Thursday, February 12, 2026 slate and share my predictions, early leans, and betting picks for spreads, over/under totals, and NBA player props. Plays: Blazers/Jazz Under 239.5 (0.5 units, -104 ProphetX) HitStack Parlay: Kevin Porter Jr. Over 4.5 Assists, Vince Williams Over 2.5 Assists, Rui Hachimura Over 9.5 Points (0.2 units, -105 DraftKings) More potentially on the way #RideoftheDay at the bottom of the page! ✅ = Win | ❌ = Loss | 🅿️ = Push/Void #RideoftheDay Tracker:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q7656E1QoUh4ALLQWenoZNyaYuqpY7Ebe8zVc85o_Jo/edit? gid=1940129376#gid=1940129376 If you want access to the research dashboards we show in…
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The current U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team is not the Cinderella that the last American team that captured a gold medal 46 years ago was, but this NHL talent-laden Team USA learned quickly that it would have to work to achieve whatever it gets at the Milan-Cortina Games. And in their first game of the tournament, they leaned on a player who has gold in his blood to get over the hump against a scrappy Latvian team to capture a 5-1 victory on Thursday. Brock Nelson, whose uncle Dave Christian was on the 1980 Miracle on Ice gold medal team…
Oddsmakers don’t expect Drake Maye to fall out of the MVP running in 2026. Maye finished one first-place vote shy of Matthew Stafford for MVP in a breakout second season for the New England Patriots. The 23-year-old quarterback begins the offseason as a top contender for next year’s award. FanDuel Sportsbook gives Maye +850 odds to win the AP’s NFL MVP award next season. He only trails 2024 MVP Josh Allen (+600) and two-time MVP Lamar Jackson (+750). DraftKings Sportsbook also favors Allen (+550) and Jackson (+650), but Maye falls into a four-way tie for third alongside fellow AFC quarterbacks…
LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Chloe Kim fell short in her bid to become the first Olympic snowboarder to win three consecutive gold medals, finishing second to Choi Gaon of South Korea in the women’s halfpipe on Thursday. Choi dethroned the two-time defending champion after she bounced back from an ugly crash that had silenced the crowd. The 17-year-old drew another collective gasp when she jumped into the lead with a score of 90.25 on her final run. Kim had one more shot to get back on top, but the 25-year-old American wiped out on her final run and settled for…
Take yourself back to May 2025, just after Jayson Tatum ruptured his Achilles tendon in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the New York Knicks. Imagine we tell you that the Boston Celtics will trade away Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday, let Al Horford and Luke Kornet walk in free agency and make a series of cost-cutting deals ahead of the NBA trade deadline to duck under the luxury tax. How many wins would you predict they’d have at the February 2026 All-Star break? Somewhere in the 20-25 range? And where would they be in the East standings?…
By DAVE SKRETTA, Associated Press Sports Writer MILAN (AP) — Ilia Malinin keeps teasing fans at the Milan Cortina Olympics by submitting program plans that have the American figure skating star attempting the quad axel, a 4 1/2-revolution jump so difficult nobody but him has ever landed it in competition. Ilia Malinin of the United States competes during the figure skating men’s team event at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Yet through two programs in the gold medal-winning team event and his individual short program Tuesday night, the “Quad God” has…
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Third baseman Caleb Durbin was traded to the Boston Red Sox in a six-player deal with the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday after finishing third in the NL Rookie of the Year balloting last year.Milwaukee acquired left-handers Kyle Harrison and Shane Drohan and infielder David Hamilton from Boston for Durbin and infielders Andruw Monasterio and Anthony Seigler. The Red Sox also are receiving a competitive balance round B pick in July’s amateur draft, about 67th overall.Durbin, who turns 26 on Feb. 22, could fill Boston’s opening at third base created when Alex Bregman left as a free agent…
Alex Cora offered some first impressions of how he could arrange the Boston Red Sox’s lineup card in 2026. The Red Sox may be done adding after acquiring Caleb Durbin from the Milwaukee Brewers last week. Cora has over a month to decide how to assemble a deep lineup lacking a true slugger. Speaking to reporters Wednesday at Fort Myers, per MassLive’s Chris Cotillo, Cora indicated he likes first baseman Willson Contreras as his cleanup hitter. The top three may not be set, but he revealed which players will likely headline the lineup. “Willson will be up there (fourth),” Cora…
On Friday night, just a few days before the New England Patriots attempt to assume their rightful position as the class of the NFL (narrator: they did not), I was doing what any 28-year-old man does on a Friday night: talking about relief pitching. As I was scrolling Twitter, I ran into a tweet from Sammy James, a co-host of the Play Tessie Podcast. Sammy is always thinking outside the box when it comes to roster moves, and pitched old friend Jalen Beeks as a potential fit for the left-handed relief role in the bullpen.He highlighted Beeks’ changeup, noting the…
The story of the 2025 Patriots was an unexpected, undisputed success. Mike Vrabel and Drake Maye powered a franchise’s rebirth. A 14-win regular season led into a Super Bowl run. The end of this story, though, was a multi-layered failure. The Patriots got out-coached, out-played and out-classed in Super Bowl LX. Vrabel made a handful of curious decisions, and his offensive staff repeatedly failed to adjust or stress an elite Seattle defense. Were it not for a fourth quarter full of empty-calorie counting stats, Drake Maye’s performance would have been regarded as one of the worst in Super Bowl history.…