The Golden Knights are the 6-1 co-favorites — with the Boston Bruins and Tampa Bay Lightning — to win the 2020 Stanley Cup in a 24-team postseason format.
Todd Dewey
Todd Dewey covers sports betting for the Review-Journal. Prior to taking over that beat in January 2017, he covered UNLV football, 51s baseball and a wide range of other events that come to Las Vegas. A native of Cambridge, Mass., and a graduate of the University of Central Florida, Dewey joined the Review-Journal in 1999 and was the 2013 Nevada Sportswriter of the Year.
The Westgate sportsbook has posted odds on 18 players to score the first regular-season touchdown at Allegiant Stadium.
UFC president Dana White posted an image on Twitter of a $15,000 wager on Tom Brady and Phil Mickelson at +170 odds against Peyton Manning and Tiger Woods.
With Peyton Manning and noted trash talker Phil Mickelson in the mix, Sunday’s showdown should be more entertaining than the first Tiger-Phil match in 2018 at Shadow Creek.
Las Vegas was dealt the league’s most difficult home schedule, with its eight Allegiant Stadium opponents totaling an NFL-high 71½ wins at the Westgate sportsbook.
Tyson, 53, and Holyfield, 57, each have posted impressive workout videos on social media and expressed a desire to return to the ring for an exhibition match for charity.
NASCAR handicapper Micah Roberts likes William Byron, Alex Bowman, Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin in Wednesday’s Toyota 500 at Darlington Raceway.
The Westgate sportsbook, which posted 20 Raiders player props, is banking on quarterback Marcus Mariota cutting into Derek Carr’s playing time this season.
The total on Derek Carr’s gross passing yards is 3,099½, a number he’s surpassed in each of his six NFL seasons, including 4,054 last season.
Westgate sportsbook director John Murray expects Sunday’s two-on-two golf match pitting Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning against Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady to be popular with the betting public.
UFC’s fight card Saturday night on ESPN generated the weekend’s largest betting handle at Las Vegas sportsbooks.
Handicapper Micah Roberts likes Ryan Blaney, who contended at Las Vegas and Fontana and is 20-1 at the Westgate sportsbook to win at Darlington.
Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson are -170 favorites over former Oklahoma State standouts Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff (+150) in Sunday’s charity golf event.
Alistair Overeem is a +125 underdog to Walt Harris (-145) in the main event, and handicapper Lou Finocchiaro leans to Overeem to win by submission at 10-1 odds.
The consensus is that Michael Jordan is still the greatest player of all time — though the vote wasn’t unanimous — but his 1996 Chicago Bulls are not the best team ever.