All four teams on Wednesday’s NHL playoff odds board will be coming off at least a two-day respite. To say the break was welcomed would be an understatement, seeing that all four squads needed seven games to dispatch their first-round opponents. Not only that, but each series clincher came with a side of high-stress, high-stakes […]
In Monday’s MLB betting report, we noted just one matchup that featured definitive two-way action. Tuesday presents more of the same, at least at DraftKings, where there’s just one game in which wagers are going one direction and cash is going the other. And what do you know, as was the case Monday, the same […]
After a quintet of thrilling Game 7s over the weekend — the final pair decided in overtime — the NHL took a well-deserved breather Monday. Now, though, the focus shifts to Round 2, and NHL playoff odds are back on betting boards from coast to coast. The original 16-team field has been sliced in half, […]
And then there were four. The penultimate round of the NBA playoffs gets underway on with Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Tuesday. The Celtics will travel to Miami to take on the Heat, who finished with the best record in the East this season. The Heat were able to get through the […]
After Monday’s Best Bets had a dreary 0-2-1 showing in Major League Baseball, you better believe we are excited to have the NHL and NBA playoffs back. We’ll be focusing on the latter half of that Tuesday, as all three Best Bets come from the hardwood — specifically, Game 1 of the Celtics-Heat series in […]
It’s still more than 3.5 months until NFL betting really fires up, with the start of the regular season. That said, you can already wager on every Week 1 game. And while you can’t yet make selections in popular Vegas sportsbook NFL picks contests just yet — nor would you want to — there’s still […]
It took 46 games and 11 series, but the New York Mets finally came out on the short end of a series after dropping two of three to the Mariners at Citi Field over the weekend. Now the Mets host a St. Louis Cardinals squad that just tallied 20 runs in consecutive home victories over […]
Maybe you’re a recreational player who occasionally dabbles in the MLB betting market. Or maybe you’re a full-on seamhead running 14 different win-probability analytics models for every game, every day. Either way, you’re probably curious which way the stick-and-ball action is going at various sportsbooks each day. Is one particular game seeing lopsided action on […]
Not exactly our finest effort with Best Bets last week. But we’re primed to bounce back like a baseball ricocheting off the foul pole for a home run. Why the baseball analogy? The answer can be found in the headline. That’s right, after a flurry of Game 7s in the NBA or NHL over the […]
Hockey bettors already consumed a full plate of Game 7s on Saturday, but it’s time to go back for seconds at the NHL playoff odds buffet. The final two spots in the second round will be decided Sunday, when the New York Rangers host the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Calgary Flames try to put away […]
Is this Giants vs Cardinals series a preview of things to come in October? Both fanbases certainly hope so, and the expansion to a 12-team playoff improves the chances of both teams getting in. Of course, we are only about one-fifth of the way through this MLB season, and a lot can happen in the […]
After a combined 18 tense, back-and-forth games filled with more emotional swings than you’ll see at an average wedding, it all comes down to this: A Game 7 NHL playoff tripleheader that stretches from the southeastern U.S. to central Canada to western Canada. Six teams, all facing the same reality: Win or go home. Which […]
