Sports Betting

College football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of every Week 12 game

CFP rankings are now released every Tuesday night, spurring dissection and discussion far and wide. But the betting market implies it all might be unnecessary. ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 10 winners against the spread

The average game this season has produced just short of 47 points — a point more than last season and the NFL’s highest scoring environment ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 9 winners against the spread

The Chiefs have won and covered in all three games, including a 28-7 stifling of Washington as 10.5-point favorites on Monday Night Football in Week ...

College football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 10

Many have suggested that becoming the Heisman front-runner is a cursed situation this season. ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 8 winners against the spread

Swings are a certainty when betting on sports, especially markets as liquid as the NFL, and the only way to maintain sanity is to embrace ...

College football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 9

The most compelling conference championship race in college football isn’t materializing in the sport’s pair of billion-dollar leagues, the SEC and the Big Ten. ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 7 winners against the spread

Atlanta Falcons running back Bijan Robinson rushed his team to a big upset of the Buffalo Bills on Monday Night Football in Week 6, and ...

College football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 8

The betting equation changes with game-by-game stakes now heightened, or lowered, by virtue of having a half-season’s worth of data on virtually every team. ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 6 winners against the spread

The last unbeaten and last winless future markets were both settled in Week 5. ....

College football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 7

The Hoosiers can put a stranglehold on another playoff spot just midway through the season Saturday night when they go on the road to face ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 5 winners against the spread

In a betting market as efficient as the NFL, such endgame decisions will present themselves every week and could flip either way. It’s a prerequisite ...

College football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 6

The Crimson Tide opened as high as a 13.5-point favorite for the highly anticipated rematch with Vanderbilt, but early action has pushed the spread down ...

College football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 5

Oregon has been unstoppable in a 4-0 straight-up start to the season with a +166 point differential, sending its futures back to the top of ...

Wagers on touchdowns, strikeouts and even penalties: States eye limits on prop bets

As a bankruptcy attorney, New Jersey Assemblymember Dan Hutchison said he sees clients “all the time” whose betting on football and baseball quickly leads to ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 2 winners against the spread

Handicapping Week 2 is annually all about interpreting how to interpret one data point with a full offseason worth of preparation. ...

College football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of Week 3

South Florida is now co-favorites to earn the Group of Five’s automatic bid into the College Football Playoff with American Athletic Conference rival Tulane at ...

Star of the show: Anthony Colandrea is a perfect match as UNLV’s quarterback

Dan Mullen’s go-to phrase ever since he was introduced as UNLV’s coach last December has been some version of vowing that his team will become ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 1 winners against the spread

The Chiefs are a modest -120 to win the AFC West, but they’ve claimed the crown nine straight times and left too much scar tissue ...

College football by the odds: Vegas picks and preview of every Week 1 game

A transfer quarterback is the best bet to win the Heisman Trophy ahead of Week 1 of the season. ....

College football by the odds: Handicapping every Big Ten team’s win total

The conference’s Media Days arrive locally for the first time today with six teams doing the rounds daily through Thursday at Mandalay Bay. ...