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This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! Happy New Year! I always wonder what holidays are like for pro football players. While much of corporate America shut its laptops for parts of these last two weeks, NFL teams were playing the most important games of the season. A New Year’s Eve celebration, hours after you clinch a playoff spot? Sounds like a lot of fun. Not so fun af...

This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! Do a backflip today. The Ravens won a huge AFC North matchup over the Bengals last night, 34-20, in a game that could reverberate beyond the final score or division standings. Quickly:  Baltimore advances to 8-3 and holds a 1.5-game lead in one of the NFL’s best divisions. Lamar Jackson was good, and so was Odell Beckham Jr., who had four ca...

This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! Betting is hard, OK? Let’s be upfront about one thing: Last night’s 16-13 Bears win over the Panthers was a bad football game. We saw five field goals, 12 punts, a combined 57 percent of passes completed, just one offensive touchdown and a missed 59-yard field goal at the end for good luck. Barf.  But! The result does have intriguing butte...

This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! The World Series starts tonight.  TGIF. We have a lot of ground to cover. Last night, quickly:  In the NFL, the Bills looked … fine. They are this year’s mystery team, a talented offense that likes to sputter at inopportune times paired with a defense that’s suffered too many injuries. Buffalo moved to 5-3 with a 24-18 win over the 3-4 ...

This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! Hey, don’t steal my signs. Despite allowing a listless Saints offense two touchdowns in the final period — and nearly a third — the Jaguars still come out of Thursday Night Football smelling wonderful. Partly because they were on the road and partly because we don’t really know what to do with the 3-4 Saints. We’ll let that fo...

This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! I hope you convert a Hail Mary today. The Braves-Phillies series felt over before the first pitch of last night’s game. When everyone seems more focused on the ethics of clubhouse reporting than the actual on-field issues, bad vibes permeate the atmosphere. You’re done.   It proved true hours later, as the 90-win Phillies slayed the 104-w...

This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! Be like the Bears today? Maybe just DJ Moore.  There will be no meltdown in Chicago, at least for today. The Bears entered last night’s game with some terrible history on the line, potentially 15 straight losses dating back to last season. But they left Washington with catharsis and their first win in 347 days.  It’s the 2-3 Commanders wh...

This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! Don’t check swing around Angel Hernandez today. We knew this was a possibility: Team Europe is up 4-0 at the Ryder Cup after a stunning sweep of Team USA early this morning in the Friday foursomes. Turns out having good vibes and playing on home turf — where they haven’t lost in three decades — works out sometimes. We still hav...

This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! Maybe don’t motivate your rival today? For all our bluster yesterday, last night’s 34-28 Eagles win over the Vikings simply felt like two good teams playing each other. We reserve the right to say later on that we predicted Minnesota’s downfall. But for now, despite the 0-2 record, their problems look fixable.  You know what the ...

This is the digital version of The Pulse. If you want it earlier, start every morning with The Pulse delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! I am simply asking Joe Burrow to give me $5. The hype finally descended from the clouds last night — and stuck. It’s hard to draw too much from a Week 1 game, but man, the Lions have to feel good.  Detroit upended the defending-champion Chiefs, 21-20 in Kansas City, to open the season. Prepare for more buzz this week for Detroit, plus subs...