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The Raptors Chase Franchise History on Monday Night
The Toronto Raptors continue to exceed all expectations after what was supposed to be a “down year” in 2020. After winning the NBA Championship in 2019 and losing superstar Kawhi Leonard to the Clippers in the offseason, Toronto quietly faded into the background at the beginning of the regular season. Low and behold, the Raptors […]
How Did Every State Except Nevada Lose Money On The Super Bowl?
The great Ernest Hemingway once noted that writers should have ‘a built in BS detector’. It’s not a bad thing to have if you’re involved with sports betting in any capacity either. My personal ‘built in BS detector’ has been working overtime lately trying to figure out how every state except Nevada managed to lose […]
Mookie Betts / David Price Headed to LA?
News struck on Tuesday night that flipped the baseball world on its head, as Mookie Betts headlined a blockbuster trade between the Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins. The 2018 AL MVP is headed to Los Angeles along with southpaw David Price in what is easily baseball’s biggest trade of the offseason. […]
2020 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Quick Breakdown
The PGA Tour is in full swing now as it moves to gorgeous Pacific Pebble Beach in Southern California. 2019 defending champion Phil Mickelson will look to lead another impressive field at the 2020 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The course is one of the more scenic on the tour, as it plays feet from the […]
Nevada Sportsbooks Report Second Best Ever Super Bowl Handle/Hold
The anecdotal reports of Nevada sportsbooks’ Super Bowl LIV performance suggested that it was a very profitable year and now the official numbers are out to validate that. The Nevada Gaming Control Board reported that the Silver State’s 190 sportsbooks took $154.68 million in wagering action on the Kansas City Chiefs’ 31-20 victory over the […]
Damian Lillard’s January Makes NBA History
I know that there’s been no shortage of crazy things happening in the past few weeks of the sports world, but it seems as if not enough people are caring about what Portland Trail Blazers All-Star Damian Lillard has been doing in late January / early February. Over the weekend, Lillard became the first NBA […]
Nevada Books Report Big Super Bowl Win As Official Results Delayed
We’re getting some more information about just how well Nevada sportsbooks fared on Super Bowl LIV. The Las Vegas Review-Journal is reporting that some local shops enjoyed their best Super Bowl in over a decade due in large part to the total staying ‘Under’ the total. Meanwhile, the official Super Bowl handle/hold report from the […]
Nevada Sportsbooks In Good Financial Shape Despite Chiefs Super Bowl Win
I did a nightly sports betting radio show in Las Vegas for several years along with frequent appearances in other media. One of the things that always amused me is when local sportsbook managers would come on our show as a guest just to moan about how their establishment ‘got killed’ in a particular week. […]
Super Bowl LIV Prop Bets – Player Props You Need Action On
The biggest sports event of the year is almost upon us, as Super Bowl LIV weekend is in full swing. As of this article posting, the Kansas City Chiefs are just 1.5-point favorites against the San Francisco 49ers. This matchup is expected to have a decent amount of scoring despite the competent defenses, with the […]
Super Bowl LIV Prop Bets – Game Props You Should Consider
The biggest sports event of the year is almost upon us, as Super Bowl LIV weekend is in full swing. As of this article posting, the Kansas City Chiefs are just 1.5-point favorites against the San Francisco 49ers. This matchup is expected to have a decent amount of scoring despite the competent defenses, with the […]
Super Bowl LIV Prop Bets – Everything Else You Can Think of to Bet On
The biggest sports event of the year is almost upon us, as Super Bowl LIV weekend is in full swing. As of this article posting, the Kansas City Chiefs are just 1.5-point favorites against the San Francisco 49ers. This matchup is expected to have a decent amount of scoring despite the competent defenses, with the […]
Final Super Bowl Betting Market Analysis
There are precisely 7 and a half hours until kickoff for Super Bowl LIV in Miami at the time of this writing. As I’ll be on a plane to Denver tomorrow afternoon I figured I’d provide a final market analysis on Super Bowl betting. Earlier this week, we looked at ‘sharp’ action on the ‘Under’ […]
Public Super Bowl Betting Continues On ‘Over’ But Sharps Showing For ‘Under’
Yesterday we looked at some outlier Super Bowl betting odds scattered hither and yon but today we’re back in Nevada to update what is going on with the betting marketplace there. There’s not much change in the side numbers throughout the Southern half of the Silver State but the total remains in a very interesting […]
All-Star Reserves Come With Rule Changes
The NBA announced the Reserves for the 2020 All-Star game in Chicago on Thursday night. West Captain LeBron James and East Captain Giannis Antetokounmpo will get to pick the remainder of their teams in a ‘backyard / pickup game’ type of draft. They may pick anyone from the Reserves pool, as the conference do not […]
Super Bowl LIV Outlier Betting Lines
One of the interesting storylines about Sunday’s Super Bowl LIV matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers has been about the betting odds. More specifically, the discussion has focused on the relatively narrow range of movement on the pointspread along with the heavy action on the ‘Over’. The prices on the side […]
Party Like It’s 2020 at the Waste Management Open
This week’s tournament in the desert is the most popular tournament of the PGA season! Whether it be the ongoing party of the 16th hole featuring fans shot-gunning beers, to the game of golf being uncharacteristically loud, the Waste Management Open at TPC Scottsdale is a one of a kind event. The Par 71 course […]
The Milwaukee Bucks Have a ‘Beer Button’
If there wasn’t already enough of a reason to drink at a Wisconsin-based sporting event, the Milwaukee Bucks’ recent addition of a “Beer Button” to their phone application surely does the job. First implemented along with the stadium upgrade of Fiserv Forum, the Beer Button is just one more reason to enjoy Giannis Antetokounmpo without […]
2020 NFL Pro Bowl Recap
The 2020 NFL Pro Bowl took place in Orlando, on a day in the sports world that was overshadowed by the utterly tragic loss of Kobe Bryant, Gianna Bryant, and all the victims on the fateful helicopter crash in Calabasas County, LA. The world was beginning to find out about one of, if not the […]
2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards Betting Odds
The Film Independent Spirit Awards are traditionally held the night before the Academy Awards. There is more and more ‘overlap’ between the Independent Spirit Awards and the Oscars every year. The 35th Independent Spirit Awards will be held on February 8, 2020 and broadcast live on IFC. The last of the so-called ‘precursor’ awards to […]
2020 BAFTA British Academy Film Awards Betting Odds
The BAFTA Awards are essentially the British equivalent of the US Academy Awards. BAFTA Award nominations were announced on January 7, 2020. The BAFTA Awards presentation will take place on February 2, 2020. The 73st British Academy Film Awards will be held in London on February 2, 2020 at the Royal Albert Hall. The awards […]
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