Colin Cowherd’s ‘Blazin’ 5′ NFL Week 1 best bets were all hilariously wrong
"I do not buy that Daniel Jones and the Giants are regressing."
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In wild take reversal, Colin Cowherd now claims Bears ‘should be a playoff team’
"This should be a playoff team."
ESPN Analytics gives the Celtics high chances of an unprecedented comeback from an 0-3 deficit
One stated version of ESPN Analytics' BPI gives the Celtics a 31 percent chance to come back from a 0-3 series deficit.
Joey Votto makes headlines with ‘NL Central prediction,’ Athletic oral history annotation
In addition to an aliens-focused NL Central prediction, Votto also recently annotated an Athletic oral history on him.
Tony Romo correctly predicted the Bills-Chiefs score in the first quarter
"This is not going to be a high-scoring game, Jim. Because these two defenses are going to make you drive the field. ...This is going to be a 24-20 type of a game."
Colin Cowherd: “You should change your opinion regularly”
"The idea that you don’t change your opinion is counterintuitive to intelligence."
Twenty One Pilots were the only College GameDay picker to predict Utah’s win over Oregon
Guest picker 1, regular cast 0 on this one.
Sportsnet’s 23 NHL personalities who submitted a Leafs-Canadiens pick all picked the Leafs, and were wrong
This is just the latest case of unanimous predictions going badly.
Unanimously picking the Bucs went very poorly for NBC, ESPN and NFL Network pregame shows
Three separate pregame shows all wound up with their analysts all picking the Bucs.
White Sox analyst Steve Stone says he’s psychic, and Jason Benetti confirms Stone has predicted plays “a couple dozen times”
"He’s got a lot of occult in him. I’m weirded out by it, but I also kind of adore it. Of all the people I’ve met, I would say he’s the most likely to be psychic."
Tony Romo says play predictions were “something I wasn’t supposed to do”
"It didn’t feel like, ‘I’m going to predict the play here.’ It felt like you were talking about the game that you were seeing and you’re trying to let the viewer know something that could be neat to look out for."
Buffalo radio producer and host Ryan Gates lives up to his promise to quit if the Bills drafted Josh Allen
"I'll quit if they draft Allen with Rosen or Mayfield on the board." Well, they did, so he did.
UBS runs 10,000 World Cup simulations including Italy for some reason, Bloomberg writes about it
This UBS report was...not impressive. But that didn't stop Bloomberg from covering it.
ESPN’s analysts all picked the Trail Blazers over the Pelicans, and the Pelicans called them out on Twitter after completing the sweep
All 22 ESPN analysts surveyed picked Portland, and the Pelicans remembered.
CBS analyst Gary Danielson predicted jump pass TD, deep pass, challenges Tony Romo
Danielson did a nice job of calling this play in advance.
Terry Bradshaw picks a lock and a upset that play each other
Pre-game predictions sometimes lead to some funny moments, especially with a “lock,” and the NFL on Fox certainly...
