The Silcoff Selections are here for Wildcard Weekend of the 2025 NFL Season! Below are my records for my straight up and against the spread picks for the season thus far. Records Last Week: Straight Up: 9-7 Against The Spread: 11-5 Season Records: Straight Up: 167-104-1 Against The Spread: 132-134-6 Saturday Games: NFC: (5) Los Angeles Rams @ (4) Carolina Panthers I Line: Rams -10.5 The Rams are clearly the better team here. It’s worth noting that Carolina did beat them earli

The NFL playoffs officially kick off tomorrow afternoon, and it’s been a weird season. We don’t have players like Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, or Lamar Jackson in the postseason this year. All of them and their teams are not in the playoffs, and because of that, this playoff field has never been more wide open. With that said, I think this is going to be a great next month of football. We better cherish it, because the season is almost done. Below are my round-by-round predic

The Silcoff Selections are here for January 9th, 2026. With all the action in sports tonight, here are some of my favourite plays across sports today. NBA: New Orleans Pelicans Moneyline (-140) @ Washington Wizards It might not be the best game on the schedule, but this is a spot I like. New Orleans has dominated this matchup in recent meetings winning seven of the last 10 games, and Washington is shorthanded after moving multiple players in the Trae Young deal and not having

The Silcoff Selections are here for January 8th, 2026. With all the action in sports tonight, here are some of my favourite plays across sports today. NBA: Dallas Mavericks @ Utah Jazz Under 241.5 Points This matchup has consistently leaned under, with the total staying below the number in seven of the last ten meetings between these teams. Both Dallas and Utah have shown issues scoring the ball, which makes it hard to justify a number this high. With the Mavericks also playi

The Atlanta Hawks just traded Trae Young to the Washington Wizards in a package for C.J. McCollum and Corey Kispert, and I’ve got to say. And moments removed from the deal going down, I genuinely think this is the most useless and non–league-changing All-Star calibre player trade in recent NBA history involving a player that we've seen take a team on a deep playoff run. From the Hawks’ perspective, I get it because it's clear they want to build around Jalen Johnson, and Young

The College Football Playoff national semifinals are set to kick off tomorrow, so I figured there is no better time to write about the matchup I feel like we need to see in the National Championship Game. Thursday night, the Miami Hurricanes will take on Ole Miss Rebels, while the Oregon Ducks face the Indiana Hoosiers on Friday. Each of these programs has something compelling about them, and all deserve respect for what they've done so far this season. Indiana’s rise, has be

To Oregon Ducks quarterback Dante Moore... Stay at Eugene next year. Based on all current reports, Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner, is expected to be selected first overall by the Las Vegas Raiders in this spring's NFL Draft. That situation, in itself, is far from ideal. However, the Raiders are at least undergoing change. They are bringing in a new head coach, and there are reasons to believe in the infrastructure forming there. John

The Silcoff Selections are here for January 7th, 2026. With all the action in sports tonight, here are some of my favourite plays across sports today. NBA: Orlando Magic Moneyline (-140) @ Brooklyn Nets I should probably stop betting on Orlando, but this sets up as a solid rebound spot. The Magic are coming off a bad loss to the Wizards last night and should come out with urgency. Against a Nets team they’ve beaten seven times in their last ten meetings, I’ll go back to Orlan

The Silcoff Selections are here for January 6th, 2026. With all the action in sports tonight, here are some of my favourite plays across sports today. NBA: Orlando Magic -7.5 @ Washington Wizards (-110) There aren’t many spots where you get to fade Washington while laying single digits, and this is one of them. Orlando has completely dominated this matchup, winning the last ten meetings and covering in eight of those games. Against a Wizards team that continues to struggle, I

After years of being mediocre, being stuck in that 9-8 or 10-7 range of teams and never really viewed as a true Super Bowl contender, the Seattle Seahawks have officially arrived. They finished the regular season tied for the best record in football at 14–3, earned the number one seed in the NFC, and set a new franchise record for most wins in a single regular season. That alone is impressive, but when you look at where this team was not that long ago, it becomes even more re

The Silcoff Selections are here for January 5th, 2026. With all the action in sports tonight, here are some of my favourite plays across sports today. NBA: Los Angeles Clippers Moneyline (+100) vs Golden State Warriors The Clippers have won eight of their last ten matchups against the Warriors and come in playing solid basketball, winning six of their last seven games overall. While this isn’t always the most trustworthy team, the recent form and matchup history are hard to i

The Silcoff Selections are here for January 3rd, 2026. With all the action in sports tonight, here are some of my favourite plays across sports today. NFL : Carolina Panthers @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers Under 43.5 Points (-110) Baker Mayfield has looked like a shell of himself since the shoulder injury, and it’s hard to trust this Tampa Bay offense to consistently move the ball. On the other side, Bryce Young is stepping into the biggest game of his career with playoff implication

The Silcoff Selections are here for Week 18 of the 2025 NFL Season! Below are my records for my straight up and against the spread picks for the season thus far. Records Last Week: Straight Up: 8-8 Against The Spread: 6-9-1 Season Records: Straight Up: 158-97-1 Against The Spread: 121-129-6 Saturday & Sunday Games: Carolina Panthers (8-8) @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers (7-9) I Line: Buccaneers -3 What we originally thought would decide the NFC South has turned into something far more

The Silcoff Selections are here for January 2nd, 2026. With all the action in sports tonight, here are some of my favourite plays across the hardwood and ice tonight. NBA: Denver Nuggets vs Cleveland Cavaliers Under 238.5 Points (-110) Denver is coming off a hard-fought win in Toronto but took another major hit with Jonas Valančiūnas going down, on top of already losing Nikola Jokić for the next month with a hyperextended knee. While Cleveland is capable of lighting up the sc

After going out last night, I got home from work pretty early in the morning and finally sat down to watch the Stranger Things finale. To start off, I was never a long time fan of the show. I only began watching Stranger Things about three months ago. I just knew with the new season coming out that it was going to take over my For You page, my Twitter feed, and everything else online. That sense of FOMO definitely kicked in, so I pushed myself to finally get into the show. An

The Silcoff Selections are here for January 1st, 2026. With all the action in sports tonight, here are some my favourite plays across the hardwood and ice tonight. NBA: Detroit Pistons (-4.5) -110 vs Miami Heat Detroit has covered seven of the last ten meetings against Miami and already proved they can handle this matchup with a win earlier this season. This will be the Pistons’ first home game since December 20, which should bring an added level of energy and urgency. With T

After being considered the Super Bowl favourites for at least the majority of the second half of this NFL season, the Los Angeles Rams were upset last night by the loss to the Atlanta Falcons on Monday Night Football, and their MVP candidate quarterback, Matthew Stafford, was not great for a majority of that game. Sure, Stafford threw for 270 yards, but he had three costly interceptions, which cost the Rams the win and potentially playoff seeding. Stafford did have a great ga

NBA trade season is upon us. Anyone who signed in the summer or was traded to a team in the summer can now be traded and as trade season progresses, the rumors are going to start circulating. Here are some players, NBA stars specifically, who I think could benefit from getting traded in 2026. I am not saying all these guys are going to be traded. I just think it would probably be best for both the player and teams to move on from one another. Giannis Antetokounmpo- Milwaukee

This is not something I really write about as much anymore, but with 2025 coming to an end, I wanted to talk about one of my other favourite passions outside of sports... Which is movies. Going into next year, there is a wide range of movies I am really looking forward to. Thriller, superhero, comedy, drama, it is all over the place. I am pretty easy to get to like a movie, so there is not going to be a ton of in-depth analysis here. These are simply some of my most anticipat

“Another year over, and a new one just begun.” This is always my favourite piece to write every year, because there’s nothing better than putting bold sports predictions on the record and seeing how they age. Last year, I’ll be the first to admit, didn’t go particularly well, but that’s part of the fun. Let’s try to be a little sharper, a little bolder, and a lot more right in 2026. NBA Predictions: The Oklahoma City DO NOT win the 2026 NBA Championship The New York Knicks Ma