Admit it: Every year the Kentucky Derby odds come out and you make an obligatory bet, but you’ve thought about doing more. You’ve always been a little horse racing-curious. When you walk into the sportsbook and you see the old guys camped out in their cubbies clocking Keeneland at 11 a.m. on a Las Vegas […]
Back in the day — and by “the day,” we mean roughly the era when one of America’s chief forms of entertainment was watching President Roosevelt breaking up Standard Oil for Saturday night yuks — bookies set the numbers at horse tracks. That was the case for Kentucky Derby odds from the race’s inception in […]
Canelo Alvarez must have so loved beating the brakes off Sergei Kovalev that he just had to get back to the light heavyweight division. The Ring magazine’s pound-for-pound No. 1 has been at super middleweight his last four fights. But on Saturday in Las Vegas, boxing’s biggest draw steps back up to the 175-pound weight […]
“You can’t win the division in April, but you can lose it.” Dumb baseball aphorism is dumb. The Yankees and Blue Jays play each other 19 times in 2022, and it all starts tonight in the Bronx in what is the arguably the best matchup on the Monday MLB odds board. Given the preseason expectations […]
Finally, the series everyone outside of the Northeast is sick to death of is back for 2022 — and it’s at the top of the Friday MLB odds board. The exhausting, endless New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox death feud graces Yankee Stadium, your living room, and the nightmares of every Brewers, Rangers and Royals fan […]
We came so close to having just a regular, on-time, full-crowd Opening Day for the first time since 2019. Two years disrupted by a global pandemic, and this was going to be the one to restore baseball to all its full, natural glory. So of course, Rob Manfred and company saw to it we were […]
Nothing new in the AL West this year. There’s the Astros, and then there’s the other four. It makes the job of sorting out MLB win totals somewhat easier: Give Houston a lot, give Oakland nada, and deal with the other three squads. Those three squads in the middle — Los Angeles, Texas and Seattle […]
The AL Central presents a bit of a conundrum when you’re putting together the division’s MLB win totals puzzle. (Except for the Royals. They’re the piece of the puzzle the dog chewed up and doesn’t fit anymore.) The White Sox are the cream of the crop, but questions abound. How much will Carlos Correa gas […]
Last year, the Toronto Blue Jays finished with 91 wins, easily surpassing their preseason MLB win totals projection of 86.5. Yet that was only good for sole possession of fourth place. Such is life in the AL East, the Nightmare Mode of MLB divisions. No other fourth-place team in the other five divisions even cracked […]
Two weeks after the Super Bowl is that month-long dead zone between the end of the NFL season and March Madness. On an otherwise pedestrian Saturday with a few scattered NBA and NHL games on the docket — the only things keeping bettors from having to fire on Canadian harness racing to get a little […]
We were 4-1 last time we fed you some NHL props, but that’s not good enough. We won’t rest until we go 5-0. And then we still won’t rest, because what’s the other option, betting NASCAR? We’d be hopelessly outgunned there. We’re not even sure how they’d get the skates on the cars. Overs have […]
A nice little 3-2 Saturday kept us on the right side of the NHL props ledger. Now we enter that time of year when the NHL offers a counterprogramming respite to everyone who’s sick of hearing about how Southeast Muskogee State has a real chance this year before going out and losing by 80 to […]
