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Thursday Night Football: Jaguars at Ravens, and Harry’s Hot Weekend Picks

ByHarry Balz November 5, 2026

Listen up, sports people. Tonight’s Thursday Night Football game is Jaguars at Ravens: a surging Jacksonville team visiting a Baltimore team that’s falling apart. Saturday brings a college football slate full of top-15 teams playing each other. On Sunday the Broncos try to keep rolling in Charlotte and the NFL heads to Madrid. My brother Jim is strutting around with…

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Harry Balz’s column originally ran in The Hairy Times, the sister publication of Sports By The Balz.

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Jim vs. Harry: Who Won NFL Week 8’s Wildest Sunday?
ByJim Balz November 2, 2026

Sunday was a cardiac test. This NFL Week 8 recap has two overtime games, the league’s last unbeaten team losing and a Broncos goal-line stand that Denver fans will be talking about for years. The Balz twins watched it all from opposite ends of the couch. Harry is 20-14 on the season and still leads the scorecard by a hair.…

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Thursday Night Football: Bucs at Cowboys, Plus Jim vs. Harry’s Week 5 Picks
ByJim Balz October 8, 2026

The weekend starts tonight with Thursday Night Football in Arlington, where a winless Tampa Bay team visits Dallas. Saturday has the Red River Rivalry and Georgia at Alabama, and Sunday sends the Broncos to Los Angeles with a running game that has a lot of people talking about trades. Jim and Harry Balz could not agree on lunch, so here…

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Monday Night Football: Bears at Seahawks, and Jim vs. Harry: Who Owns the Scorecard Now?
ByJim Balz November 3, 2026

Monday Night Football tonight sends the 5-2 Bears to Seattle to face the defending Super Bowl champion Seahawks. The twins already broke down Sunday afternoon in yesterday’s Week 8 recap, so this one is only about what’s changed since then. That starts with Sunday night, when Jim went up on the scorecard and Harry stopped being able to say he…

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Avs October Schedule: Harry Wrote First, I Write Better
ByJim Balz October 2, 2026October 2, 2026

My brother Harry Balz put up a new post over on our main site, Sports by the Balz. It’s the Avalanche talk you’d expect from him, and he got it published before me. I’ll give him that, since being first is about the only contest Harry wins in this family.

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Broncos Steal One at SoFi, Now the Champs Come to Mile High
ByJim Balz October 12, 2026October 30, 2026

Harry says the Broncos got lucky. I say they finished the job. Before we get to Broncos vs Seahawks Thursday, here’s the score: Wil Lutz kicked a go-ahead 19-yard field goal with 5:07 remaining, lifting the Denver Broncos over the winless and mistake-prone Los Angeles Chargers 23-17 on Sunday. That makes Jim Balz 1-for-1 on Broncos picks this week. Write…

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Brew Crew, Champs at Last: Hats Off, Milwaukee!
ByHarry Balz October 29, 2026October 30, 2026

Stand up, Wisconsin. Put on your cheesehead. The Brewers’ 2026 World Series run is done, and Milwaukee finally gets to celebrate. The Brewers beat the Rays in five games for the first championship in franchise history. They had waited 57 years. I’ve watched a lot of baseball, folks, and I can’t remember a title that felt more earned.

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Thursday Night Football: Jaguars at Ravens, and Harry’s Hot Weekend Picks

Jim vs. Harry: Who Won NFL Week 8’s Wildest Sunday?

Thursday Night Football: Bucs at Cowboys, Plus Jim vs. Harry’s Week 5 Picks

Monday Night Football: Bears at Seahawks, and Jim vs. Harry: Who Owns the Scorecard Now?

Avs October Schedule: Harry Wrote First, I Write Better

Broncos Steal One at SoFi, Now the Champs Come to Mile High

Brew Crew, Champs at Last: Hats Off, Milwaukee!

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