The parade of top seeds exiting the French Open continued Monday when Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki were the latest casualties. Williams withdrew with an injury, while Wozniacki was upset by Daria Kasatkina. Williams was making her first Grand Slam appearance after giving birth to a baby girl in September. […]
Wyoming doesn’t have a major professional sports team, but they have something the rest of the country doesn’t have – bare knuckle boxing. On Saturday, the Cheyenne Ice and Events Center hosted 10 bouts of no-gloves combat, available on pay-per-view. It was the first such contest since 1889, when John […]
It was just one game, but it was enough to shift the betting lines for the NHL Stanley Cup Finals. In Game 3 in Washington, the Vegas Golden Knights suffered their second consecutive defeat, and now find themselves as the underdog to win Lord Stanley’s coveted prize. The first-year expansion […]
This season’s market for baseball free agents was unusually insipid. There was no bumper crop of marquee players available, and those who were hardly experienced a feeding frenzy from teams looking to shore up their rosters in the offseason. Trades seemed to be the preferred method of choice with baseball […]
It was assumed when Arsenal Manager Arsene Wenger stepped down after 22 years with the English Premier League club, he did so because he was retiring. But the 68-year-old told the media he has no intention of spending his remaining days rocking in a chair on a porch. The Gunners […]
While most drivers perform well at certain racetracks, the layout for the Pocono 400 seems to favor no one. In the last 13 races at the Pennsylvania track, there have been 12 different winners, including defending champion, Ryan Blaney. Names such as 2016 winner Chris Buescher are alongside icons Jimmie […]
Momentum can be rather fickle, but the first big shift in the Stanley Cup came to the Washington Capitals in Game Two on Wednesday. Now the Capitals will try to tap into that surge of confidence to overcome a less than spectacular home record in the playoffs to take the […]
The race to see which state would be first to offer sports bets after the May Supreme Court ruling that overturned PASPA has been decided, with Delaware keeping true to its nickname. On Thursday, the state known as the First State announced that it will start accepting wagers on single-game outcomes […]
This is one bet that Damarious Randall might hope he loses. The former Green Bay Packer became a Cleveland Brown by trade in March, but he isn’t winning over fans in his new hometown after taunting the Cavaliers, who are underdogs in the NBA finals against the Golden State Warriors. […]
Golden State’s Stephen Curry might steer the team, but Kevin Durant has been the engine that makes the Warriors go. As a result it is the forward, not the guard, that is the favorite to win the Finals MVP. BetOnline has Durant at -150, while Curry is a distant second […]
With oddsmakers and fans believing the result of the NBA Finals are a foregone conclusion, a far more interesting bet is on what team LeBron James will play for next season. The 33-year-old superstar is in the final year of his contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers, and many are speculating […]
Ukrainian tennis player Dmytro Badanov was banned for life and fined $100,000 after an investigation found him guilty of fixing tennis matches. An independent hearing officer with the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) discovered the 30-year-old fixed the outcome of two matches on the ITF Futures Tour. He was also found […]
Though Jack Nicklaus was considered a bomber of the ball when he played, golfers at his Memorial Tournament are rewarded less for distance than they are for being methodical. The last few winners have proven that grip-it-and-rip-it is not the preferred strategy for tackling the Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, […]
Picking a winner in golf is never easy, and this year at the US Women’s Open it’s going to be even more difficult. Steady rain has pummeled the Shoal Creek Golf and Country Club for the last three days making the golf course a wet, muddy mess. The area was […]
The goalie that Pittsburgh didn’t want might end up winning the Conn Smythe Trophy, given to the most valuable player in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Marc-Andre Fluery, who was picked up by Vegas Golden Knights in the expansion draft last year, is set to guide his team to the championship. […]
Though Florida sputtered at the end of the regular season, they were still named the No. 1 seed for the NCAA Baseball Tournament that begins Friday. The Gators are 8/1 to repeat as College World Series champions. They begin their quest Friday when they host one of 16 regional tournaments […]
The field for the women’s side of the French Open looked to be wide open this year, but after the first round, it got closer to a free for all. Three seeded players, Venus Williams, Jelena Ostapenko, and Johanna Konta all were upset during the first day. The men’s side […]
It is a Stanley Cup Finals no one could have predicted, not only for the first-year expansion Vegas Golden Knights, but also for the Washington Capitals. The Capitals were the third pick to win the Eastern Conference, behind Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay. Now the Capitals make their second only finals […]
You can get a sense of how Las Vegas feels about the city’s newest hometown heroes, the Golden Knights, outside the New York New York hotel on the Strip — where Lady Liberty proudly dons her giant Golden Knights jersey. Her supersize display of civic pride measures 60 feet tall, […]
Though the lines have been out at some sportsbooks since February for the first week of the upcoming college football season, sharps have started moving the lines on some key games. Several high profile games are seeing odds moving in different direction than when they were initially posted. South Point […]
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