Hansi Flick will continue as Bayern Munich head coach for the remainder of the season and could get the job on a long-term basis, the Bundesliga champions announced on Sunday.
Placed in charge following Niko Kovac s exit in November, Flick has overseen eight wins from 10 games in all competitions and is now seen as a viable option for the job permanently.
He will have the rest of the club s Bundesliga and Champions League campaigns to audition for the position after impressing chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic.
Bayern, who parted ways with Kovac after a poor start to their title defence, are four points adrift of leaders RB Leipzig heading into the mid-season break following Saturday s 2-0 win over Wolfsburg.
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Reigning European and world champions Spain have finished the calendar year on top of the FIFA world rankings.
Second-placed Netherlands and Germany in third were unable to close the gap to Vicente del Bosque s men in the last month of 2011.
There was very little movement in the top 50 following the lack of international games in recent weeks, and Bosnia and Herzegovina are the only new faces inside the top 20 as they climb three places to 20th position.
This year s Copa America champions Uruguay will head into 2012 in fourth spot ahead of England, Brazil, Portugal, Croatia, Italy and Argentina, who round up the top 10.
The top-ranked teams from each of the confederations are Spain (first), Uruguay (fourth), Cote d Ivoire (16th), Japan (19th), Mexico (21…
Monday Night Football betting gives us a monster matchup in Week 14 when the Los Angeles Rams head to the desert to battle the Arizona Cardinals.
The spread is a tight one, so if you can’t get off the fence with a wager on the side, perhaps you should look to the lengthy list of alternative odds and Monday Night Football prop bets for Rams at Cardinals. Or maybe you just want to sprinkle in more MNF bets among your existing action.
Whatever your flavor, here are our free NFL props picks and predictions for Los Angeles at Arizona on December 13.
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Somehow, we’re already into Week 8 of the season and it’s a loaded slate, starting with another international game in London on Sunday morning and closing with a pair of intriguing primetime matchups.
Ahead of the weekend, we’re canvassing the NFL odds board and bringing you our favorite NFL player props, shining a light on one of the league’s best dual-threat quarterbacks getting it done on the ground, and a rising star muted by both his own team and this week’s foe.
Get set for another week around the league with our NFL prop picks for Week 8.
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The Kansas City Chiefs are reeling with a 1-3 straight up record over their last four games and head to Foxborough this week as 9.5-point road favorites vs. the New England Patriots, who are coming off a rare win and extra rest.
With the public perception a little high on this New England offense after last week, are bettors getting a second-half total at the highest possible price heading into the weekend?
I break down the NFL odds and offer my free NFL picks for the Chiefs vs. Patriots on December 17.
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The entire betting community knows the Kansas City Chiefs are one of the worst second-half-scoring teams in football, but it’s…
Football Over/Unders are an exciting way to wager on NFL odds every Sunday, allowing bettors to wager on the total score instead of picking a winner.
How the Over/Under works in football
The Over/Under in football starts with the oddsmakers’ projected total for the game. NFL betting sites will post an Over/Under for every game on the schedule based on the teams’ offense, defense, injuries, and other factors like home/away splits and weather.
For example, oddsmakers could examine a matchup and set the Over/Under total at 50 points. Bettors would then pick whether the final combined score of the game would be over or under 50 points. If the final combined score of both teams was 53, bettors who selected the Over would win the bet.
Brazil coach Rogerio Micale wants to understand how Neymar became a monster in order for the country to develop more players like him.
Neymar inspired Brazil s 6-0 win over Honduras on Wednesday, sending them into Saturday s gold medal match in emphatic fashion.
It took the Barcelona star just 15 seconds to open the scoring at the Maracana, setting a new Olympic record.
Neymar grabbed a pair of assists before rounding off the scoring in the final minute of normal time from the penalty spot after Marquinhos and Luan added to a double from Gabriel Jesus.
Asked how he would define the captain, Micale replied: A monster! Neymar is a guy who has a gift for playing football, who enchants.
He has talent. External factors influence players with potential…
You just can’t keep Real Madrid’s sorry, Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo out of the news. On the day that his national manager was unveiled as the new manager of Chelsea, he played a big part in the fifth day of Euro 2008 which saw the two first day winners and the two first day losers take each other on.
In the early game, the Portuguese, so impressive in their easy victory over Turkey, were up against sterner opposition in the Czech Republic, who had been less than impressive when defeating Switzerland.
The game started in the manner that most people would have predicted when Deco gave Portugal an eighth minute lead. However, that lead lasted only nine minutes until the impressive Sionko netted an equaliser for …
Pep Guardiola s transformation of Manchester City is complete after securing his first Premier League title thanks to Manchester United s 1-0 home loss to West Brom.
City won 3-1 against Tottenham at Wembley on Saturday to move to the brink of glory, but United s shock home loss to the league s bottom side wrapped up the trophy they have seemed destined to lift since the start of an all-conquering campaign.
Guardiola s men were close to securing the silverware faster than any club in the competition s history, falling short of the April 14 mark set by United in 2000-01 by a single day.
While they missed out narrowly on that particular record, here are some of the best Opta numbers from City s special Premier League season.
Champions!!!!!! What a gr…
Kolo Toure believes the youthful current crop of Arsenal stars can emulate the battle-hardened class of 2006 and book their ticket to this season s Champions League final.
The Gunners face Manchester United in the first leg of their semi-final at Old Trafford on Wednesday with Toure the only survivor from the Invincibles squad that went through the 2003-04 Premier League campaign unbeaten.
That squad, constructed around the French trio of Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira and Robert Pires, broke up after the 2006 Champions League final defeat by Barcelona but Toure believes the north London club is once again on the verge of something special.
True we lost Thierry Henry, but Emmanuel Adebayor is playing really well; we lost Robert Pires, but we have Samir Nasri, th…