The Buffalo Bills’ new stadium is currently under construction and will be ready for the 2026 season. And nowhere in those blueprints are there plans for a roof on the new Highmark Stadium.

Hosting home games in the playoffs is a big advantage for the Bills, who will welcome the winter weather once again this weekend when the rival Kansas City Chiefs come to Orchard Park to close out the NFL Divisional Round odds slate.

While Sunday night’s forecast is much tamer than the weather in Western New York this past weekend, the elements could still impact the NFL odds and outcomes for those betting markets.

I look to the skies for my Chiefs vs. Bills weather report for Sunday’s 6:30 p.m. ET kickoff to help you get a better grasp of the situa…

Through three short weeks of football, NFL survivor pools have a kill rate akin to the “Final Destination” film franchise. And it’s been just as gruesome.

Of the nearly 3,800 entries in Covers’ 10K Pro Football Survivor Contest, only 115 (just 3%) are alive to see Week 4 after another slate of stunning upsets erased more than 80% of the remaining field.

I get to count myself among the lucky, or perhaps I should say the “fittest”. After all, that’s the key to survival, according to multi-time survivor pool champ Charles Darwin. I’ve been “fit” enough to follow my own advice.

Remember back in Week 1 when I warned you about following the most popular survivor pool pick each week? Well, that could …

West Virginia officially is looking for a new head coach after its season came to an end following the opening round of the Big 12 tournament. Mountaineers athletic director Wren Baker announced Wednesday that the university is beginning a national search to fill that vacancy. The announcement comes one day after West Virginia concluded a 9-23 season (4-14 Big 12) under interim coach Josh Eilert with a 90-85 setback to Cincinnati in the tournament. The Mountaineers are seeking help on the sideline for the second time in nine months after the resignation of then-coach Bob Huggins in the aftermath of a DUI arrest. "As I shared last summer following our initial coaching transition, we decided to wait until the conclusion of the 2023-24 season before embarking on a full national searc…

The Lille centre-back Gabriel Magalhães has agreed to join Arsenal and will fly to London on Monday to complete a move worth up to €30m (£27m).

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Arsenal had been confident of securing Gabriel’s signature after seeing the Ligue 1 side accept their bid last week. Other clubs had been circling, with Napoli showing firm interest while Manchester United and Manchester City monitored the situation, but talks on Saturday brought a decisive breakthrough and Gabriel will sign a five-year deal early this week.

It is Arsenal’s second deal with Lille in consecutive summers, last year’s purchase seeing the forward Nicolas Pépé arrive f…

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Yesterday’s STOP FOOTBALL edition of the Fiver touched upon the STOP FOOTBALL seemingly interminable nature of the current season, which STOP FOOTBALL started in 2019 and has taken in one pandemic, two lockdowns, one Euros, a Copa América, an Africa Cup of Nations, an Olympic Games, withdrawal from the single market, insurrection at the Capitol, and 33 editions of the Nations League. The next scheduled opportunity for everyone to dismount the treadmill and get some rest is next summer, after the completion of the Ethics World Cup and all the surrounding competitions that particular farce is going to ruin. STOP FOOTBALL STOP FOOTBALL STOP FOOTBALL PLEASE CAN SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE STOP IT.

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We live in a world where Manchester United, after 21 games of a serious Premier League season, have scored the same number of goals as Luton Town (24). Fewer than Brentford, Fulham and Bournemouth. So naturally, Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s first big move – according to latest rumours – will be to revamp the United, er, defence and ship off Harry Maguire, Victor Lindelöf, Raphaël Varane and Jonny Evans in one fell swoop.

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The cavalry of defenders supposedly coming in replacing them include Everton starlet Jarrad Branthwaite, Ineos-owned Nice best centre back (obviously) Jean-Clair Todibo and (even more obviously) the former Erik ten Hag Ajax disciple Matthijs de…

The old adage is that wide receivers are more commonly divas than any other position group in sports. The next few weeks won’t do anything to quash that stereotype.The Minnesota Vikings made Justin Jefferson the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history with a four-year, $140 million extension this summer. Star receivers from California to Texas to Florida are ready for their pay bump and ready to hold out of training camp if necessary.With camp report dates a few weeks away, here are eight holdouts and potential holdouts worth monitoring. Let’s order these from the most obvious (some are already happening) to the more speculative possibilities.Cowboys WR CeeDee LambMost Americans are not fans of America’s Team, so we’ll gladly laugh at Jerry Jones’ continued (mal)practice of…

Monday night in Las Vegas, New Orleans Pelicans rookie center Jaxson Hayes caught a nifty wraparound pass on a side pick-and-roll and dunked someone named Mychal Mulder into The Further. It is honestly a deeply unfair turn of events for a relatively anonymous summer league guard to wind up in this kind of crushing highlight. Out of respect for poor Mulder, who suffered dearly for his love of basketball, here are some things you may not know about him: he grew up in Ontario, he played for John Calipari at Kentucky, he plays for the Windy City Bulls of the NBA’s developmental league, and he is a member of the Canadian men’s national team. Also he is a ghost now. Have another look at that damn dunk: Hayes may not play much right away for the Pelicans, depending upon how they start t…

Baseball is good when it’s good, and sometimes even more powerful when it’s bad, and maybe especially when it doesn’t matter, which makes it more concerning that we are running out of it at an alarming rate. This is normal seasonal stuff, but it’s upsetting nonetheless. Teams’ seasons are dying out an alarming rate, and most who follow the sport predict this trend to continue, to the point where only one team may survive this very month of October. It was with this incipient crisis in mind that Drew and I invited baseball-carer and my longtime nemesis Lauren Theisen onto the podcast to discuss all of the many things that could go wrong between now and the end of the World Series. It was not all bad news, though! To be fair a lot of it was bad news, or just some real stinkin�…

William Strampel is the former dean of the osteopathic medical school at Michigan State University, a position he held from 2002 until last year. In that position he supervised Larry Nassar, a doctor who sexually abused hundreds of girls while working for Michigan State and USA Gymnastics. The Wall Street Journal that indicate Strampel did not believe Nassar’s accusers in October 2016, after the university had fired Nassar in response to abuse allegations reported by the Indianapolis Star. The Journal reports that the comments were made during a meeting Strampel had with four students and three administrators at Michigan State. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss allegations of abuse made by a female student against a male student. Strampel eventually began talking about Nassar,…