With the college football season starting Saturday with a handful of games, let’s take a look at several teams to consider fading.
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Kevin Sumlin isn’t the best of the 21 new FBS coaches but he might end up with the most wins this year after taking over a Wildcats team led by quarterback Khalil Tate, the fourth choice (12-1) to win the Heisman Trophy.
The days of being labeled a degenerate for betting on NFL preseason games are long gone. Now your friends can only call you crazy if you parlay a preseason game with the WNBA and Canadian Football League.
We’re not going to pass judgement on 26-year-old Jimmy Garoppolo for dating adult film actress Kiara Mia, who, like Brady, is a 41-year-old expert in her field.
Tiger Woods topped Phil Mickelson in each of the first two rounds of The Players Championship, where they played in the same group together in May, and has an 18-15-4 edge over Lefty when playing in the same group.
The Phoenix Suns are the 8-1 favorite to win the NBA Summer League title game in Las Vegas and the Sacramento Kings and Charlotte Hornets are each 10-1.
The Golden Nugget sports book posted lines Tuesday on each of the Rebels’ 12 games and opened their win total at 6½ after the South Point and William Hill sports books each posted UNLV’s total at 6.
Many critics contended during the playoffs that the NHL essentially rigged the expansion draft to ensure the Knights would thrive in their inaugural season, but that’s revisionist history at its finest.
Tiger Woods is one of a multitude of players with odds up to 100-1 or greater who are capable of winning what’s considered golf’s ultimate test and what also might be the ultimate test in golf handicapping.
Wynn Las Vegas race and sports book director Johnny Avello said he can’t justify a wager on Justify at 4-5 morning-line odds to win the 150th running of the Belmont Stakes.
Handicapper Brian Edwards expects South Carolina to easily cover the spread as a 14-point home underdog to Georgia in Week 2, and he loves the Gamecocks to go over their win total of 7.
It’s well-documented that the biggest key to success in the Stanley Cup playoffs is having a hot goalie and Vegas netminder Marc-Andre Fleury is sizzling.
Hermin Soriano, a food server at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, was ridiculed when he showed his co-workers his futures wagers on the Golden Knights.
While Nevada’s sports betting handle has skyrocketed from $2.6 billion in 2007 to $4.8 billion in 2017, the state’s racing handle has plummeted from $596.5 million in 2007 to $280.4 million in 2017.
While some superstitious Knights backers are hoping Lane picks against them again in the Western Conference Final, he’s not.
