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The veteran and the newcomer. A tale as old as time. The Houston Astros and Atlanta Braves both come into the 2021 World Series with something to prove – and so do our record number of experts listed and linked below.  Scoreboard Page: Astros in 6. We aren’t usually aligned with the crowd in our …

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NFL power rankings after Week 6: 1. Cardinals: Coach or no coach, road or home, Arizona just keeps finding ways to win. 2. Ravens: Baltimore deserves a lot more respect than its getting nationally. Only loss was a bit of an OT fluke to the Raiders in their true Las Vegas opener. 3. Rams: Back …

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NFL power rankings after Week 5: 1. Cardinals: There’s no stopping these big birds. 2. Ravens: Sure, the first half was rough, but did you see the numbers Lamar Jackson put up in the second? 3. Bills: We really wanted to put San Diego here, but they don’t have a team anymore. Couldn’t deny Buffalo …

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NFL power rankings after Week 4: 1. Cardinals. That’s karma. One week after knocking my counterparts for putting the Buccaneers over the Rams in the top spot all year, No. 3 Arizona knocks of my Day 1 No. 1. 2. Ravens. I’ve had the Raiders here since they beat Baltimore in overtime. Las Vegas lost, …

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NFL power rankings after Week 3: 1. Rams. So nice of everyone to join us. We’ve had the Los Angeles Rams at No. 1 since Day 1, but everybody else just loved Tom Brady a little too much. Even now, a couple of power rankings writers could only bring themselves to drop Tampa Bay one …

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NFL power rankings after Week 2: 1. Rams: Everybody else has the Buccaneers at the top, but they weren’t the best team this time of year last season, so it won’t hurt them that I don’t believe this year, either. Meanwhile, the Rams handled their business on the road against the Colts. 2. Raiders: How …

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NFL power rankings after Week 1. 1. Rams. Yes, this week we’re embracing the chaos, but our Week 1 number 1 looked like number 1, so they stay number 1. 2. Raiders. Oakland, Los Angeles, Las Vegas – it doesn’t matter. Raider Nation united as one under the triumvirate of Too Short, Ice Cube and …

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Preseason NFL power rankings: 1. Rams 2. Bills 3. Titans 4. Chiefs 5. Buccaneers 6. Packers 7. Browns 8. Ravens 9. Seahawks 10. Chargers 11. Dolphins 12. Colts 13. 49ers 14. Cardinals 15. Saints 16. Vikings 17. Steelers 18. Cowboys 19. Giants 20. Patriots 21. Washington 22. Bears 23. Broncos 24. Falcons 25. Raiders 26. …

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One team looking for its first title. The other looking for its first since 1971. The NBA’s conference finalists gave us four teams starved for a championship – with two total between them – and yet somehow this matchup is said to be lacking something else. Sorry, but it won’t be the market size. It …

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Last year in this expert predictions space, I said we should “celebrate that a Stanley Cup will be hoisted in a Canadian arena. Next year, maybe a Canadian team will finally be the one doing it for the first time since Montreal in 1993.” And lookie what we have here: Those same Canadiens, the champion …

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