Sports Betting

As you ponder College Football Playoff National Championship prop bets today, think back to early December. The biggest winners in the 2021 SEC Championship Game showdown between then-undefeated Georgia and one-loss Alabama back on Dec. 4? Not the Crimson Tide, who rolled to a 17-point victory as a 6-point underdog in Atlanta. No, it was…

NFL Week 18 odds are of course being impacted by injury news, but also once again by COVID. And you’ve got multiple key players sitting out meaningless games, be it to stay healthy for the playoffs or start getting healthy for next season. That’s best demonstrated by the Cincinnati Bengals vs Cleveland Browns clash. Bengals…

New York sports betting has been a hot topic since May 2018, when the U.S. Supreme Court repealed PASPA. That decision cleared the way for the massive expansion of legal, regulated sports betting. Since 2019, New York has permitted retail sports betting, but that was limited to upstate casinos. The aggressive growth nationwide has been…

The Big 12 Conference currently boasts the defending national champion (Baylor); the top-ranked team in this week’s Associated Press poll (also Baylor); the No. 2 school in all-time victories (Kansas); the nation’s most improbable turnaround story (Iowa State); and six plausible candidates for the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16. And yet when talking heads debate which…

NFL Week 17 odds are of course being impacted by injury news, but also once again by COVID. However, on Tuesday, the league put in place new protocols, reducing isolation time from 10 days to five days for all asymptomatic players — even those who are unvaccinated. That policy likely will allow Indianapolis Colts quarterback…

The reconstituted Big East likely will never recapture the dominance of 1985, when three teams — Villanova, Georgetown, and St. John’s — reached the Final Four. Nor is it likely to ever duplicate the 2010-11 campaign, when the league shoehorned 11 teams into the NCAA Tournament (including national champion Connecticut). However, the 11-team league is…

NFL Week 16 odds are of course being impacted by injury news, but more so once again by COVID. From the high-flying Kansas City Chiefs to the grounded New York Jets, positive tests are mounting across the league. That’s led to significant line moves and, in some instances, games coming off the board until there’s…

Is the SEC, from top to bottom, the best conference in college basketball this season? If you use national rankings as your barometer, the answer would appear to be “yes” — at least at the moment. This week, five SEC schools appear in The Associated Press Top 20 — Alabama (10th), Auburn (12th), LSU (17th),…

The Monday Night Football game usually is our last opportunity to get some NFL props action for the week. However, this week, a pair of postponed games allow us another chance for fun in Week 15. First, however, if you’re new to Underdog Fantasy, have no fear. It’s easy to get started. Here’s how it…

NFL Week 15 odds are of course being impacted by injury news, but this week they are really taking a dent from COVID. The Cleveland Browns have a boatload of players on the COVID/reserve list, including quarterback Baker Mayfield and coach Kevin Stefanski. And the Browns are hardly alone in being bitten by COVID. On…

If you judge a conference by its number of NCAA Tournament appearances, it’s pretty easy to make a case for the ACC being the best league in the land. Over the past four seasons (2017-19, 2021), the ACC has garnered 32 bids to the Big Dance — four more than the Big Ten over the…

Per usual, NFL Week 14 odds are being impacted by injury news, and of course: illness in the era of COVID. Multiple teams, most notably the Detroit Lions, have players in COVID protocols. On the positive side, Alvin Kamara looks set to return for the New Orleans Saints’ Sunday tilt at the New York Jets.…