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Sep 05 2014
As the polls currently stand, there is only one non-conference game in the 2014 college football regular season that pairs two Top 10 teams: Saturday's matchup between Oregon and Michigan State. The Ducks open as 11.5 point home favorites on NCAA football betting lines. The Michigan State ...
Sep 05 2014
The Raiders have appointed rookie Derek Carr as the team's starter for Sunday at the Jets. New York is a 5.5 point favorite on football betting lines. The total is a low 39.5 for football betting online.
Carr, a second-round pick out of Fresno State, was supposed to sit and learn behind ve...
Sep 03 2014
It’s usually pretty bad news when your best player forces his way out of town. But the Minnesota Timberwolves aren’t sweating it after trading disgruntled big man Kevin Love (26.9 PER) to the Cleveland Cavaliers. If anything, this trade should help the Timberwolves beat the NBA odds this ye...
Sep 03 2014
A panel of experts at NFL.com provided their picks for 2014 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award, and four players were selected: Houston's Jadeveon Clowney, Oakland's Khalil Mack, Pittsburgh's Ryan Shazier and Baltimore's CJ Mosley. It just so happens that they are the sa...
Sep 02 2014
He was the best pitcher in the majors even before he made his first start. Masahiro Tanaka (3.06 FIP) came to the New York Yankees in January after going 24-0 for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in 2013. Yes, 24-0. And Tanaka picked up right where he left off, racking up 16 straight quality st...
Sep 02 2014
The fall racing season is underway with the running of the $400,000 Super Derby (G2) at Louisiana Downs. The 1 1/8 mile race is for 3-year-olds and will take place on Saturday, September 6. Among those targeting the Super Derby are Vicar’s in Trouble, Louies Flower and East Hall.
One of the e...
Aug 29 2014
Jeff Gordon holds down the lead in the Sprint Cup Series driver standings heading into the weekend, and he's also the favorite to win Sunday's Oral-B USA 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on the NASCAR betting lines.
Gordon is one of five Sprint Cup Series drivers with three victories so ...
Aug 29 2014
When NFL teams report to training camp, every club believes it can be a playoff contender. Parity in the NFL has made this a realistic dream because there are usually a few teams that finish well below .500 one season but make the playoffs the next. Projecting improved teams is easier than dete...
Aug 28 2014
With the 2014 college football season kicking off this week, we saved the best conference preview for last: the SEC. The SEC won seven straight BCS national championships and was about 13 seconds from making it eight in a row, until Florida State rallied in the final seconds past Auburn back in...
Aug 27 2014
This just in: the Cleveland Cavaliers are still your 5/2 title favorites on the 2014-2015 NBA futures market. That’s largely due to the signing of this offseason’s top free agent, LeBron James. But while the Cavaliers were officially introducing James’ new running buddy, Kevin Love, the N...
Aug 26 2014
Ever wondered which division has housed the most Super Bowl winners overall? That answer would be the NFC East with 12 Super Bowl victories: five by Dallas, four by the New York Giants and three by Washington. However, the NFC East is considered one of the NFL betting long shots to have a Super...
Aug 25 2014
Saratoga Racecourse will host the $600,000 Woodward Stakes (G1) on Saturday, August 30. The 1 1/8 mile race is for 3-year-olds and up and is one of the most anticipated races of Saratoga’s summer season. Among the expected are Alpha, Zivo and Moreno.
Returning to graded-stakes company after c...
Aug 25 2014
Betting on baseball can be pretty easy sometimes. Just find a quality starting pitcher working under the radar in a regional market, and you’re already more than halfway toward beating the MLB odds. In fact, we’ll save you the work: here are the three most profitable starters in the majors,...
Aug 22 2014
The San Francisco 49ers have to be slightly concerned with their performance so far. The 49ers host San Diego on Sunday afternoon, and there will be live football betting online at Bovada. San Francisco opened as a 6-point NFL betting favorite.
This game will be telling because starters get the...
Aug 22 2014
The US Open is the final Grand Slam of 2014. Defending champion Rafael Nadal will miss the event with a wrist injury, which will deeply impact those betting on tennis. Nadal's absence makes Novak Djokovic the clear tennis betting favorite at 5/4 to win the US Open at Bovada.
Being a fierce...
Aug 20 2014
Remember how we were just talking about the Indiana Pacers scrambling to sign Shawn Marion to fill the void left at small forward by Paul George’s injury? Marion must have looked at Indiana’s 40/1 NBA title odds and thought better of it. Sources say he’ll join the Cleveland Cavaliers inst...
Aug 19 2014
Peyton Manning just can’t get enough MVP glory. At 7/2 to win the award for a sixth time, he has the highest NFL MVP odds out of his competitors.
Manning has won the award in 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009 and last season. He certainly earned last year’s award as he set records for yards passing an...
Aug 18 2014
Saratoga’s Mid Summer Derby is one of the season’s highlights for the 3-year-old division and will take place this year on Saturday, August 23. Also known as the Travers Stakes (G1), this 1 ¼ mile race offers a purse of $1.25M and has attracted several big grade-1 winning horses, including...
Aug 18 2014
What Happened to the Detroit Tigers?
It seems like we were discussing the Detroit Tigers’ improvements at the MLB trading deadline only a couple of weeks ago. Their World Series odds shortened from 6/1 to 5/1 after the addition of 2012 American League Cy Young winner David Price (3.01 FIP). I...
Aug 15 2014
While the vast majority of starters around the NFL played very little in their teams' preseason openers, that should change with the second week of football betting games. The book will offer Live NFL Betting Friday on Eagles-Patriots and Chargers-Seahawks, Saturday on Packers-Rams and Rav...
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