— Falcons 45, Saints 24
Bijan Robinson ran 59 yards for a TD on the game’s 3rd play.
Falcons’ first seven drives: 45 plays, 352 yards, 31 points.
Atlanta ran the ball 35 times for 205 yards.
Falcons are 7-1 ATS last eight games as a road underdog.
Saints are 1-3, giving up 31-35-45 points in the losses.
Opponents have scored 16 touchdowns on 40 drives.
New Orleans has been outscored 61-26 in first half of games.
Saints are 7-15 ATS in last 22 games coming off a loss.
— White Sox 4, Guardians 3
Braden Montgomery’s 2-run double put the ChiSox ahead in 6th inning.
Burke allowed one hit in his 5.1 IP as a bulk reliever.
White Sox are 4-0 in the playoffs so far, all road wins.
Chicago leads best-of-5 series, 2-0
— Rays 5, New York 2
Tampa Bay scored four runs in the bottom of the fifth.
Richie Palacios’ two-run single made it a 5-1 game.
Ben Rice homered twice for New York’s only runs.
Tampa Bay leads best-of-5 series, 2-0
— Padres closer Mason Miller threw 40 pitches Sunday, when he blew a save in the last inning of Milwaukee’s 4-3 comeback win. That’s the most pitches Miller has thrown in a game this year; he threw 34 pitches at Seattle May 15th, then he didn’t pitch the next two days.
— Ravens’ QB Lamar Jackson was walking in a boot Sunday night; Baltimore needs him healthy- they are 73-31 in his last 104 starts, 6-11 in the last 17 games he hasn’t played.
— When UNLV plays a home football game at Allegiant Stadium, they play on the artificial turf field that is the floor of the stadium.
When the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders play a game at Allegiant Stadium, they play the game on a grass field that is stored outside, and is wheeled in for the Raiders’ games. They go through two or three fields a season.
— There are nine international games in the NFL this season; Jaguars play in London the next two Sunday mornings.
Famous birthdays, October 6th
Tony Dungy, 71
Elisabeth Shue, 63
Ruben Sierra, 61
Jeremy Sisto, 52
Freddy Garcia, 50
Jake Bauers, 31
Bryson Stott, 29
Herbert Jones, 28
Trevor Lawrence, 27
Jonathan Kuminga, 24
— Tony Romo was making $18M/year at CBS and had four years left on his contract, so his departure had to be really expensive for him. That said, his departure didn’t seem too public or contentious, so he must’ve gotten a good chunk of change to go away.
— NFL season is four weeks old already…….
favorites are 28-32-4 ATS
home teams are 31-29-4 ATS
over/under is 32-32
— NFL leaders in passing yards this year:
1,268- Bryce Young
1,214- Jared Goff
1,189- Matthew Stafford
1,171- Joe Burrow
1,141- CJ Stroud
1,065- Dak Prescott
— South Carolina’s last four SEC football games:
led Texas A&M 30-3, lost 31-30
led Mississippi State 16-0, lost 41-34
lost 49-18 to Alabama
led Kentucky 17-0, lost 35-34 in OT.
— Tampa Bay 3B Junior Caminero started every game at third base this season, the first major leaguer to do that since Vinny Castillo started every game for Colorado in 1998.
— Boston Red Sox scored 689 runs this year, the second-fewest runs they’ve scored in a season since 2000 (excluding 2020). Red Sox went 87-75, made the playoffs, so they had a good year, but you expect more from them offensively.
— NHL salary cap is expected to jump from $104M this year, to $113.5M next season, and then $127.5M in 2028-29, which would be the biggest single season increase in NHL history.
