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UCLA vs. Illinois Prediction, Odds, Pick For College Football Week 11

Get the latest odds, prediction and pick for the Week 11 UCLA vs. Illinois game, as well as information on how to watch.

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2027 NFL Draft QB Power Rankings: Drew Mestemaker, Arch Manning In Tight Battle For No. 1

Will a record-tying six quarterbacks go in the first round again? Rob Rang sorts the 14 best draft-eligible QBs into tiers.

The beautiful game: revived art prize gives football its creative due once more | Emma John

Football and the art world have long remained distant but the breadth of entries for this year’s award reveals a healthy revivalIt may be the Beautiful Game, but in its early decades football was a rare subject for artists. The Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni whirled an athlete’s body into a vortex of movement in his 1913 painting Dynamism of a Soccer Player. You can see one of the earliest fine art depictions of a match – a smoggy, factory-adjactent scene called Any Wintry Afternoon in England – at the Manchester Art Gallery. If 1930s abstraction is more your thing, you can enjoy decoding the geometric shapes in Kazimir Malevich’s Painterly Realism of a Football Player – Color Masses in the 4th Dimension. I’m guessing the small green pea shape is a ball.These, in any case, were exceptions. In 1953 the Football Association launched an art prize, backed by the newly formed Arts Council: the winning works included Going To The Match by LS Lowry, with its crowds flocking to Bolton Wanderers’ then home ground, Burnden Park. An exhibition of the submissions, Football and The Fine Arts, toured the country and the FA secretary, Sir Stanley Rous, said he hoped it would finally break the barrier between those two worlds. Continue reading...

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CFB Pick 'Em: Top Week 11 Games, Including Indiana-USC, Texas-LSU

FOX Sports' college football pick 'em breakdown for Week 11's top games.

Washington Commanders keep their season alive with last-gasp win over New York Giants

Washington Commanders 24-21 New York GiantsStefon Diggs’s TD seals win in final minuteJayden Daniels threw his third touchdown pass of the game, a 32-yarder to Stefon Diggs with 57 seconds left, and the Commanders rallied to defeat the New York Giants 24-21 on Thursday night in what was essentially a must-win game for Washington.Daniels’ connection with Diggs in the final minute came after the quarterback had thrown his first two interceptions of the season to end the previous two drives. He was 23 of 33 for 249 yards and also had TD throws to Ben Sinnott and Antonio Williams. Continue reading...