West Virginia State

Columbus, OH

CBS Sports

Thomas Casale has locked in his top three college football picks for Week 1 and his CFB parlay could pay out at 6-1

2024 college football picks, Week 1 odds, spreads, best bets by proven expert: This 3-leg parlay pays 6-1

Georgia State

Clemson, SC

USA TODAY Sports Media Group

The college football season is back. While it officially began last week with a light Week 0 slate — one that included Florida State being hilariously upset by Georgia Tech in Ireland — the season begins in earnest this week with a full menu of games. Each week,...

College football Week 1 watchability rankings: Clemson vs. Georgia isn’t the best game

Each year, four of us here at SportsTalkATL break down our best bets every week during the College Football season. Alex Lord was our champion a year ago, but all four of us finished with a record above .500. Tune in each week for analysis on just about every game on the college football slate that you cannot find anywhere else.

College Football Gambling Locks: Week 1

Los Angeles County, CA

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Herbie J Pilato

It's been two decades since beloved actor Brian Kelly died of pneumonia at 73 in 2005. Best known as Porter Ricks in the classic TV family show Flipper(NBC, 1964-1967), Kelly had once suffered a paralyzing motorcycle accident that ended his acting career. However, he rechanneld his creative talent and became a producer. This is his story.

The Paralyzing Accident & Tragic Death of TV's 'Flipper' Father Brian Kelly: Two Decades Later

Bill Belichick used a golf metaphor to explain how the NFL should handle kickoffs in light of the league's dramatic altercations to the play. The six-time Super Bowl champion head coach, admitted that the new kickoff is "pretty hard to get used to" before he offered his alternative to the new rules that include the ball being placed on the returning team's 30-yard-line if the ball is kicked into the end zone.

Bill Belichick on how he would handle the NFL's new kickoff rules: 'I'd kick it out of the end zone'

Louisiana State

The Lens

During my childhood, when my family visited relatives “across the river,” in Bayou Plaquemine, Bayou Goula, Caddo, the Pointe, and White Castle, my siblings and I would sometimes race up and down the levees, some distance away from the cows grazing there. At the summit of the hill, you could see the Mississippi River waters through stands of trees and brush. It never occurred to me that our “playground” was the living testimony of Black men, prisoners of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola whom the state of Louisiana had re-enslaved in the convict leasing system.

No longer ‘half slave, half free’

Los Angeles, CA

Adam Rich was born on October 12, 1968, lived a troubled life, and died on January 7, 2023, at only 54 years old. This is his story. He lived in the Granada Hills area of Los Angeles with his parents and younger brother. The Rich family resided for a time in Florida where Adam studied acting at the local gym.

A Look Back at the Tragic Life and Death of Former Child Star Adam Rich (TV's 'Eight is Enough')

ClutchPoints

The 2024 college football season is now upon us, and after the excitement of Week Zero, we can finally dive into a full slate of high-profile games in Week 1. And boy, oh boy, are there some big matchups on the schedule. We’ve already seen an upset with the top-10...

LSU-USC and 6 best Week 1 college football matchups

Back in May 2023, it was reported that NFL legend Tom Brady was in discussions to become a limited partner of the Las Vegas Raiders. More than a year later, his purchase has yet to be approved. Why? There are several reasons. Among those reasons are that Mark Davis apparently...

Tom Brady will face severe restrictions as TV broadcaster immediately due to pending Raiders ownership

Pittsburgh, PA

The Pirates designated Feigl for assignment Tuesday. Pittsburgh selected Feigl's contract from Triple-A Indianapolis over the weekend, but it'll be a brief stay in the majors after he surrendered six runs over 1.2 frames in his big-league debut Monday. The left-hander should return to Indianapolis if he passes through waivers unclaimed.

Pirates' Brady Feigl: DFA'd by Pittsburgh

Texas State

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Massachusetts State

Dianna Carney

Sandy Paws Rescue Inc., a foster-based rescue organization in Massachusetts, has recently introduced a dog named Blazer who is looking for his forever home. According to the nonprofit rescue organization, Blazer has had quite a journey. “Blazer was one of 7 dogs ‘saved’ by another rescue down in Texas and when he was just a young puppy. Then, he was abandoned by this ‘rescue’ and left in a boarding kennel for 9 months. He is now a little over a year old, and 55lbs.” Thanks to Sandy Paws Rescue Inc. for stepping in to help Blazer, he is now on the path to finding a family to love him.

Meet The Sweet Dog Abandoned At Texas Kennel For Months Now Looking For Love In Massachusetts

Florida State

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Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said he will consider more DUI patrols if voters legalize recreational marijuana use in Florida. Voters will consider Amendment 3 in November. It would allow adults 21 or older to possess, purchase or use marijuana products and marijuana accessories for non-medical purposes.

More DUI patrols possible if marijuana issue passes

Daily Coffee Press

According to officials with the Southern District of Georgia, two recently unsealed federal indictments have charged 23 defendants in a series of broad conspiracies involving the use of drones to smuggle methamphetamine, marijuana, and cell phones into state prisons in Georgia.

23 Defendants Charged in Federal Indictments for Drone-Smuggling Drug Operation in Georgia

College Station, TX

FanSided

Notre Dame is set to face off against Texas A&M in one of the most anticipated matchups of the start of the college football season on Saturday. One ESPN analyst thinks that the Irish win could lock them a spot in the 12-team playoff. Appearing on ESPN's Get Up, 1991...

Desmond Howard is ready to lock in Notre Dame’s CFP spot if they beat Texas A&M

Miami, FL

Ten out of the 15 writers ESPN asked "Who's most likely to make the playoff field?" named Miami in an article published on Thursday. The College Football Playoff selects the top five conference winners and seven wildcards. Miami has a 17.3 percent chance to make the College Football Playoff per the ESPN Football Power Index.

Miami consensus College Football Playoff pick from ESPN writers

Missouri State

CJ Coombs

When I learned the brown tarantula is also native to Missouri, I gasped, and when I say I'm not too fond of spiders of any genus is an understatement. It's psychological. They have too many legs.

It's mating season for the Texas brown tarantula also known as the Missouri tarantula

Green Bay, WI

Northern Kentucky Tribune

Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in Green Bay, Wis., from 1985 until being laid off in July 2013. He still draws several cartoons a week and distributes them through his own syndicate. Through Heller Syndication, his cartoons regularly appear in more than 400 newspapers, making him the most successful self-syndicated editorial cartoonist in the nation. His cartoons are reprinted many times in USA Today, Denver Post, St. Paul Pioneer Press, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek Japan, The Week and The Washington Post. Joe’s cartoons have won numerous distinctions, including 10 Best of Gannett awards, eight Milwaukee Press Club awards and two Honorable mentions for the John Fischetti Award. He lives in Green Bay with his wife, Pamela. He is a regular featured cartoonist for the NKyTribune .

Joe Heller: Cartoonist views of news –  crowd sizes, weird, summer, tip taxes

New Orleans, LA

A developing tropical disturbance in the Caribbean is showing increasing potential to enter the eastern Gulf of Mexico, intensify, and impact areas along the Gulf Coast, likely between Florida and Louisiana. If the system gains a name, it will be designated Tropical Storm Debby. This system has the potential to bring significant rainfall to the eastern Gulf Coast, and depending on its strength, could also generate hazardous winds and a dangerous storm surge.

Potential Tropical Storm Debby Could Bring Heavy Rain and Strong Winds to Gulf Coast and SE GA

Boise, ID

Group of 5 On SI

The Broncos head east to open the season against a Sun Belt Conference foe in Clay Helton's Georgia Southern Eagles

Week 1 -  Boise State @ Georgia Southern: How To Watch, Preview, Time, Date, Storylines

Montana State

Wyoming State

WyoFile

To increase the genetic diversity of an island population of grizzly bears , Wyoming and Montana wildlife managers recently worked together to import fresh bloodlines into the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Two Montana grizzly bears trucked to Wyoming to bolster genetic diversity, help states’ delisting case

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College football picks, predictions, odds: Penn State-West Virginia, UCLA-Hawaii among best bets in Week 1

The 2024 college football season is one of change. The Pac-12 is no more, at least not as a competitive entity. Hopefully, Oregon State and Washington...

College football picks, predictions, odds: Penn State-West Virginia, UCLA-Hawaii among best bets in Week 1

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