Sports Betting

Here we go with NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 Props for the West Region! So far, the chalk has advanced in this quadrant of the bracket, meaning we have two fantastic matchups on tap Thursday. No. 1 seed Gonzaga and No. 4 seed Arkansas take the court first at the Chase Center in San Francisco in…

The NCAA South Region Sweet 16 involves three top teams – Arizona, Villanova, and Houston – along with Michigan, a team that reached the Elite Eight last season and appears to be peaking at the right time. As the number of games falls deeper into the NCAA Tournament, props become more attractive for bettors who…

Let’s start here: If you’re looking for advice on how to build a perfect NCAA Tournament bracket, you’ve come to the wrong place. With perfection odds in the neighborhood of 1 in 9.2 quintillion, you have a greater mathematical chance of being struck by lightning five times (hat tip, old Roy Sullivan) than you do…

March Madness is nearly upon us, and over the next three weeks, the eyes of the sports world — and the sports betting world — will be fixated on the NCAA Tournament, which will be played in 13 venues across 10 states. Legal sports betting is available in seven of those states, with mobile betting…

There are lots of things to like about betting on college basketball conference tournament odds. If you happen to be in Las Vegas over the next week, well, it’s a helluva lot easier to get great seats — for free, no less — at the myriad sportsbooks around town. Try your luck at that on…

With Selection Sunday just three weeks away, we’ve officially hit the home stretch of the 2021-22 college basketball season. And as scheduling fate would have it, that home stretch begins with a quartet of matchups on the Saturday college basketball odds board pitting Top 25 teams against one another. The most anticipated of them all…

Super Bowl betting will dominate the sports gaming landscape right through the Feb. 13 kickoff — and even during the game, with the ubiquity of in-play wagering. Every casual bettor will have some skin in the game, as will those who really never bet, save for Super Bowl Sunday. But the coming days are also…

At roughly 7 p.m. PT Thursday, the massive LED odds board inside The SuperBook at the Westgate Las Vegas will go pitch black. Moments later, a member of Jay Kornegay’s team will flip a switch, and that odds board will illuminate with literally hundreds of Super Bowl 56 proposition wagers. Within minutes, tens of thousands…

Each week, BetPrep Sharp and NBC Sports Betting Analyst Brad Feinberg discusses NFL, NBA, and NHL Futures covering expected win totals, division odds, championship favorites, and potential award winners with host and BetPrep Editor Michael Salfino of The Athletic and FiveThirtyEight. It’s the official futures podcast of BetPrep, a free sports betting research site that…

The schedule tells us there are only two NFL playoff games to wager on this week. But we know there are more than two betting opportunities — way more! Odds boards from coast to coast are overflowing with NFL conference championship game props. We already gave you several of our favorite player prop bets for…

There might only be four games on this weekend’s NFL playoff schedule, but that doesn’t mean there are only four wagering opportunities. Sportsbooks from coast to coast are offering dozens of NFL Divisional Round prop bets targeting individual players and teams, as well as game situations. That means there are countless ways in which you…

NFL Wild Card Weekend odds are of course being affected by injury news, not to mention the now endemic COVID. But there are also key players getting healthy, which most certainly can impact teams’ fortunes. For instance, it appears the Arizona Cardinals will regain the services of defensive disruptor J.J. Watt. And the Tampa Bay…