NASCAR handicapper Micah Roberts likes William Byron, Alex Bowman, Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin in Wednesday’s Toyota 500 at Darlington Raceway.
Todd Dewey
Reporter: Sports betting
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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, 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.
Handicapper Lou Finocchiaro, who called Justin Gaethje’s upset of Tony Ferguson at UFC 249, has three plays for Wednesday’s UFC card in Jacksonville, Florida.
The William Hill bettor played 10 favorites Tuesday in Russian table tennis, and they all prevailed. The sportsbook takes more than $100,000 in daily wagers on the sport.
The consensus was that the biggest impact would be on a team’s home-field advantage, which has historically been worth approximately three points to a line on an NFL game.
UFC 249 is scheduled for May 9 in Jacksonville, Florida. But handicapper Lou Finocchiaro recommends an early play on underdog Justin Gaethje over Tony Ferguson.
Longtime oddsmaker Ed Salmons approved of the Raiders’ draft, which featured three receivers in their first four picks — Henry Ruggs, Lynn Bowden and Bryan Edwards.
The number of NFL draft props and amount of money wagered on them increased exponentially at Nevada sportsbooks in the fourth year they were allowed to take bets.
