Big bet on Da Bears: 1 bettor would win $3.3 million if Chicago Bears win the Super Bowl Ben Fawkes December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM 0 The 93 Chicago Bears have been one of the biggest surprise stories of the 202526 NFL season, winning nine of their last 10 games after an 02 start to vault atop the NFC North standings and into the No. 1 seed in the conference. They have already surpassed Vegas oddsmakers' expectations this season, cruising over their preseason win total of 8.5.

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The 9-3 Chicago Bears have been one of the biggest surprise stories of the 2025-26 NFL season, winning nine of their last 10 games after an 0-2 start to vault atop the NFC North standings and into the No. 1 seed in the conference.

They have already surpassed Vegas oddsmakers' expectations this season, cruising over their preseason win total of 8.5. And after an impressive 24-15 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on Black Friday, one bettor's big bet on Da Bears looks even more prudent.

A bettor at BetMGM wagered $50,000 on the Bears at 66-1 odds earlier this season to win Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara this coming February. The bet would win $3.3 million, and is currently the largest reported Super Bowl futures bet by total liability at any legal sportsbook in the United States.

Oddsmakers aren't quite sold on the Bears' prospects yet, though.

The Bears have 30-1 Super Bowl odds at the moment — the seventh-best Super Bowl odds among teams in their conference. And despite being in first place in the NFC North, the Green Bay Packers (8-3-1) are the -140 favorites at BetMGM to win the division. Caleb Williams (18th in total QBR) has played much better in his sophomore season under new head coach Ben Johnson, but he remains a long shot to win MVP at 60-1 odds.

The Los Angeles Rams (+450) are the clear Super Bowl favorites at BetMGM currently.

Chicago has the fifth-most difficult strength of schedule remaining, so it will be interesting to see if the Bears can finish strong, win the division and host a playoff game. Working in their favor is the Packers have the second-toughest remaining strength of schedule in the NFL.

Chicago has been good to bettors all season, going 8-4 against the spread, which is tied for the second-best mark behind the Seattle Seahawks at 9-3.

The Bears have -325 odds to make the postseason (implied probability of 76.5%) at the moment, so that's the first step for this bettor to cash.

It's a wager we'll be following closely throughout the season.

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Miami athletic director says ACC should reevaluate tiebreakers after 75 Duke makes conference title game Nick Bromberg December 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM 0 Should Miami be playing No. 18 Virginia in the ACC title game instead of Duke? As the Hurricanes could again be behind Notre Dame in Tuesday night's College Football Playoff rankings, Miami athletic director Dan Radakovich believes the ACC needs to reevaluate how it breaks ties. The No. 12 Hurricanes are the highestranked ACC team in the CFP rankings but are not in the ACC title game.

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Should Miami be playing No. 18 Virginia in the ACC title game instead of Duke?

As the Hurricanes could again be behind Notre Dame in Tuesday night's College Football Playoff rankings, Miami athletic director Dan Radakovich believes the ACC needs to re-evaluate how it breaks ties.

The No. 12 Hurricanes are the highest-ranked ACC team in the CFP rankings but are not in the ACC title game. Virginia finished first in the conference with a 7-1 record and Duke — who is 7-5 overall — won the tiebreaker for second place. The Blue Devils finished 6-2 in the conference with Miami, SMU, Pitt and Georgia Tech, and got into the ACC title game thanks to its opponents having a better conference win percentage than the four other teams' opposition.

Radakovich told ESPN Monday that the ACC has "got to get a little better at that" when it comes to tiebreakers.

"It's too complicated, and we need to look at other options that might make it more simple, but yet take into account the idea of multiple teams being tied," Radakovich said. "The old system probably didn't contemplate four or five teams being tied for a second-place spot."

Miami's exclusion from the ACC title game comes as the Hurricanes were two spots out of the final at-large berth in the playoff's most recent rankings. No. 10 Alabama currently occupies the last at-large spot. If the Crimson Tide beat Georgia in the SEC title game on Saturday, Miami's at-large chances are basically zero unless they jump Notre Dame — who the Hurricanes beat in Week 2 — on Tuesday night. Miami likely needs No. 5 Texas Tech to beat No. 11 BYU and an Alabama loss and a resulting Crimson Tide fall down the rankings to have a chance at the playoff.

The ACC ditched divisions after the 2023 season. The 17-team conference is the second-biggest in the country behind the 18-team Big Ten, and with just eight conference games per team, head-to-head tiebreakers aren't often applicable. Miami played only two of the teams it finished tied with and didn't play Virginia. Duke played only Georgia Tech, but had the tiebreaker benefit of playing Virginia too.

Duke's inclusion in the ACC title game also presents a disaster scenario for the conference. If the Blue Devils beat Virginia, and James Madison wins the Sun Belt Friday night and finishes with a 12-1 record, there's a great chance the Dukes from Virginia could finish ahead of Duke from North Carolina in the final playoff rankings to become the fifth highest-ranked conference champion.

However, the ACC isn't the only conference going deep into the tiebreaker section in 2025. The growth of super-conferences has led to conference title games being decided by third and fourth tiebreakers. The ACC is not alone in 2025. With Texas A&M's loss to Texas in the final week of the season, there was a four-way tie for first place in the SEC among Alabama, Georgia, Ole Miss and the Aggies. A&M didn't play any of the three other teams and lost out on a spot in the SEC championship game to the Tide and Bulldogs thanks to opponent win percentage.

The American Conference's tiebreakers are different — but that's also because the American wants to ensure that a team has the chance to make the playoff. Navy, North Texas and Tulane all finished tied for first in the conference and didn't all play each other. But since Tulane was in last week's CFP top 25, the Green Wave automatically won the three-team tiebreaker and earned the right to host Friday night's title game. North Texas, with its win over Navy, then won the second tiebreaker.

The ACC (and other power conferences) don't have a provision like that in their tiebreakers because a scenario where its conference champion missed out on the title game didn't seem feasible.

Now it is.

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New York Jets invest $1 million to start college flag football league Heather Burns, USA TODAY December 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM 0 Mya De Jesus grabs a flag while playing defense for Harrison High. Mya De Jesus came to flag football through a bit of backdoor. Now, the senior at Harrison (New Jersey) High might be looking at a scholarship in the sport. "The flag football coach, he had seen me play basketball and he was like, 'I need you to try out,' " said De Jesus, who also plays point guard on the basketball team. "I've never heard of flag, had no idea what it was ...

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Mya De Jesus grabs a flag while playing defense for Harrison High.

Mya De Jesus came to flag football through a bit of backdoor. Now, the senior at Harrison (New Jersey) High might be looking at a scholarship in the sport.

"The flag football coach, he had seen me play basketball and he was like, 'I need you to try out,' " said De Jesus, who also plays point guard on the basketball team. "I've never heard of flag, had no idea what it was ... I'm like, 'OK, whatever, we're just gonna do it.' And I just fell in love with it. It's just such a fun game. I feel like anyone that plays it will just love it."

De Jesus plays running back and linebacker for her high school team, where she ran for 510 yards and seven touchdowns on offense and had 49 tackles on defense as a junior last spring. De Jesus was already getting recruited to play in college, but thanks to the New York Jets, flag football will have its first official conference in the spring of 2026.

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The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) will launch a women's flag football league with a $1 million investment from the Jets through the Betty Wold Johnson Foundation. The league will begin play in the spring of 2026, starting in February. The season will kick off with a media day at MetLife Stadium on Feb. 27, 2026. Fifteen universities in the Northeast will compete in 7-on-7 flag football from February through April. The top six to eight teams will advance to a playoff tournament at MetLife Stadium in May.

It's the next logical step for flag football which, as of late 2025, is sanctioned in 17 states as a varsity high school sport, with many more states in various stages of pilot programs. The numbers continue to grow as the flag football gains popularity and recognition.

"One of the beauties of adding this sport is every college already has a field," ECAC commissioner Dan Coonan said. "They already have locker rooms, so there's there's not really a much infrastructure they need. There's not a whole lot of equipment.

"If you're looking to add women's opportunities, it's pretty easy to go from zero to 60 on it."

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The Jets were in on flag football early. They started programs to grow the sport in New York and New Jersey in 2011. They have since created more than 260 teams in three countries, giving opportunities for nearly 7,000 girls to play flag.

"We reached out to a couple of different groups, and when we found the ECAC and what their model is in the number of schools that they have in their relationships with, we thought it was the perfect opportunity for us to grow the game," said Jesse Linder, Jets vice president of community relations.

"It's also to kind of push the NCAA and push the institutions that, 'Hey, this is coming. The Olympics are coming.' We need to get on board so that these girls have a spot to get ready for the next step. The other thing, too, is the only way that the sport is really going to grow in the exponential level ... is to have those scholarships, right?"

Callie Brownson, who coached in the NFL most recently with the Cleveland Browns, played tackle football for the D.C. Divas in the Women's Football Alliance (WFA) for eight seasons. She is working with the ECAC and Jets as a flag football advisor.

"The first time I watched a high school (flag football) game in 2020, just the passion and the excitement and the attachment to it," Brownson said. "That's how I felt when I played and when I was around the sport and it was it was inspiring to me.

"I remember saying, 'Whatever's needed for me for this to grow, I'm all in.' ... Football is a part of our culture, I know I would have loved to have played flag football or any kind of football besides Powder Puff (in high school)."

The opportunities are just getting started for players like De Jesus, thanks in part to the Jets.

"If the Jets didn't help my high school, we definitely wouldn't have had flag as early as we did," De Jesus said. "Our neighboring town, Carney, they just started this year. We have four years on these teams that are just starting, which I think is pretty cool.

"(The Jets) promote flag football so much and they're one of the teams, they're not just doing it for publicity, they actually really care about the teams and put a lot of hard work and dedication into it."

ECAC women's flag football schools

School, Name, Location, Division

Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, Division III

Caldwell University*, Caldwell, NJ, Division II

Dominican University, Orangeburg, NY, Division II

Eastern University, St. Davids, PA, Division III

Fairleigh Dickinson*, Teaneck, NJ, Division I

Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH, Division III

Kean University, Union, NJ, Division III

Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, Division I

Mercy University, Dobbs Ferry, NY, Division II

Mercyhurst University, Erie, PA, Division I

Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, Division III

Mount St. Mary's University, Emmitsburg, MD, Division I

Union College*, Schenectady, NY, Division III

Penn State Schuylkill, Schuylkill Haven, PA, Division III

Sweet Briar College*, Sweet Briar, VA, Division III

*Will begin play in spring 2027

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How the Chinese '4Column Method' Can Help You Save Your First $10K, According to Humphrey Yang Angela MaeDecember 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM 0 Dragon Images / Shutterstock.com Only about half of United States adults (51%) have enough money in savings to cover an expense up to $2,000, as per recent Federal Reserve data. Considering this, the thought of saving $10,000 might seem like a stretch. But in a new YouTube video, money expert Humphrey Yang shared that it's possible to save that amount using the fourcolumn method.

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Only about half of United States adults (51%) have enough money in savings to cover an expense up to $2,000, as per recent Federal Reserve data. Considering this, the thought of saving $10,000 might seem like a stretch.

But in a new YouTube video, money expert Humphrey Yang shared that it's possible to save that amount using the four-column method. This ancient Chinese money principle not only changed the way he saves money, but it helped him save more than $10,000.

Here's how it works and how you might be able to do it, too.

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How the '4-Column Accounting Method' Works

Humphrey Yang shared a savings technique that he's been using for years, but that also existed back in the Tang Dynasty, which took place between A.D. 618 and 907. That's well over a thousand years ago.

This technique is called the "four-column accounting method." For this formula, create four simple columns:

Column one (beginning balance): Take your savings balance at the beginning of the month.

Column two (increases): Add any increases from full-time income and side hustles.

Column three (decreases): Subtract any decreases (like expenses or debt payments).

Column four (ending balance): This will be the ending balance.

As Yang points out, this is similar to the "zero-based budgeting system." This is where you list out your income and expenses for the coming month before it starts. You're essentially planning how you're going to spend every dollar in advance.

But the four-column accounting method requires you to account for every dollar you spent in the previous month. It also makes you take an honest look at where your money went via accurate tracking. Once you have this data, you can use it to get a clearer idea of future months' spending.

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Example of This Savings Method

Here's a simple example of how the four-column accounting method looks in practice:

Beginning balance

Increases

Decreases

Ending Balance

$10,000

Salary: $6,000Dividends/investment income: $500Side hustle: $1,000

Needs: $4,000Wants: $2,000Debts: $500

$11,000

If desired, break down your "decreases" further by listing your "needs" and "wants" into smaller categories — like "food" and "transport" and "credit card."

Note: You can start this method at any point, though it might be easier to begin once a month at around the same time.

How To Use This Strategy To Save $10,000

Besides forcing you to take a good hard look at your finances each month, this strategy is also effective at helping you save money when you combine the following behaviors:

Understand that you don't need to keep up with the Joneses. When you no longer feel like you need to show off what you have, you can cut down on how much you spend unnecessarily. That extra money can go toward building your savings.

Learn to live below your means. Just because you earn more than you need doesn't mean you have to spend it. If you can live on a smaller percentage than you earn, you can save the extra and build toward that $10,000.

Become a value-based spender. This means finding ways to get the most value for your money. Rather than buy something just because you can, or because it's there, consider its worth. If it's more expensive than it's worth and you don't need it, skip it.

As with any budgeting or savings method, the four-column accounting method takes time and persistence. You might need to keep at it for a few months before you get a clear understanding of your spending habits.

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