[theo_luddite]

Here's your starters for 10, 9 more months of bonuses coming up as soon as I've organised them a bit better

Note the NFL Superbowl play-off's start this weekend with the Wild Cards - I'm sliding that deadline for your predictions to next weekend when fewer teams will be involved. If you want to guess early and you get it wrong, you can still have another go before next weekend.

Sports Predictions 2026

Dates Sport Event Venue(s) Predict What Deadline
January
17 Jan-08 Feb NFL American Football Superbowl Levi's Stadium, San Jose, San Francisco Bay Winning Team 17th Jan - 1st kick-off Conf P/O
The Wild Cards start this weekend, which is a tad short notice, so let those play-out and see who's still left in for next weekend. As they drag those Wild Card games out until next Tuesday you won't have much more notice but, tis wot it tis.

The top teams in each division in this link are not involved in the Wild Cards, those below them are.
https://www.nfl.com/standings/playoff-picture
The Wild Card picture looks like this
https://www.nfl.com/standings/playoff-picture

18 Jan-1 Feb Tennis Aussie Womens Open Melbourne Winner 18 Jan - any 1st serve
18 Jan-1 Feb Tennis Aussie Mens Open Melbourne Winner 18 Jan - any 1st serve
https://ausopen.com/players

February

5 Feb-14 Mar Rugby Union Six Nations (Mens) Europe Winning Team 1st kick-off 5th Feb
https://www.sixnationsrugby.com/en/m6n/fixtures/2026
6 Feb-22 Feb Winter Olympics All of them Milan and Cortina, Italy UK & NI Medals Total 1st snowball thrown, 6th Feb, (it might be sooner)
4 Feb-10 Feb Winter Olympics Curling - Mixed Doubles Milan and Cortina, Italy Winners 1st rock thrown, 4th Feb, (told you it might be sooner)
https://worldcurling.org/olympic-qualification/
With it being Olympic year, I wasn't sure there would be a World Championship as well. So I thought I'd throw this one in as an extra bit of fun.

7 Feb-8 Mar Cricket T20 Mens World Cup India & Sri Lanka Winning Team 1st ball, 7th Feb
https://www.icc-cricket.com/tournaments/...26/matches

March

08 Mar- 06 Dec F1 World Championhip Globally Winning Driver Start 1st race, 8th Mar
08 Mar-06 Dec F1 World Championhip Globally Winning Team Start 1st race, 8th Mar
Teams and drivers - https://www.formula1.com/en/drivers, https://www.formula1.com/en/teams

10 Mar - 13 Mar Horse Racing Cheltenham Festival - 28 races Cheltenham Non-Irish Trainer winners Start 1st race 10th March
https://www.thejockeyclub.co.uk/cheltenh...-schedule/
As with last year, the Irish Trainers love to win here, so how many of the 28 races won't they win?

14 Mar-22 Mar Curling Women's World Championship Calgary, Canada Winners 14th Mar - 1st rock thrown
https://livescores.worldcurling.org/wwcc...?EventID=1
https://worldcurling.org/worldrankings/womens-rankings/

27 Mar - 14 Apr Curling Mens World Championship Ogden, Utah, USA Winners 27th Mar- 1st rock thrown
https://livescores.worldcurling.org/wmcc...?EventID=1
https://worldcurling.org/worldrankings/mens-rankings/

Shock news in the scandalous work of Curling. Sweeping the chimney takes on a whole new meaning.
https://worldcurling.org/2026/01/sweepin...ue-policy/
Apparent punishment for breaking the rules and not sweeping both ways - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ZCZjhjguA

This might all make more sense when you look at it like this.




Apologies for having to do links rather than images but some moaning sods don't like their own free publicity apparently.

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I will post the rest of the year as a reply rather than just an add on to this OP.

Thanks to anyone other than me that joins in and good luck. This years Play-off decider will have a World Cup theme, when I eventually work out how to make it work. It will not be based on how many times Trumpet turns up to watch games or stands on the podium in the winners kit.

[ritchiebaby]

Don't get all Canadian on here, theo. It's not rocks, it's stones!

https://youtu.be/ruTMp4_sy1E?list=RDUhRjvYO-WsI

[theo_luddite]

Hey ritchie - I first came across this beer lovers dream of a game when I lived in Canada. It's rocks as far as I'm concerned. I'm multi-lingual. I can speak/write crap both sides of the Atlantic.

You might have noticed!

and yeah, I saw them Stones in Canada more times than I've seen them over here too.

[Amelia Chaffinch]

Thanks for doing this, theo, but it's not for me. I hope the others do it and perhaps some newbies!