With less than a month of data in the books, betting receipts show that Michigan’s online poker tables are some of the most packed in the country.  PokerStars launched in the state on Jan. 29 as Michigan became the the fifth state to offer online poker options to bettors, joining […]
After a week of group stage play, eight competitors have advanced to the championship bracket of the PogChamps 3 online chess tournament. Benjyfishy, xQc, Rainn Wilson, and Ludwig won their respective pools to lead the way into the knockout stage of the tournament, which begins on Tuesday. Top Players Easily […]
Christopher Bell became the second consecutive first-time winner in the NASCAR Cup Series on Sunday, taking the O’Reilly Auto Parts 253 on the road course at Daytona. The victory comes a week after Michael McDowell earned his first win in the Daytona 500 to kick off the 2021 NASCAR Cup […]
The Minnesota Timberwolves are the worst team in the NBA with a 7-24 record, so the front office needed a scapegoat and fired head coach Ryan Saunders. The Timberwolves hired offensive guru Chris Finch from the Toronto Raptors in hopes that he can make the T-Wolves great again. But like […]
Even though he finished his brief, one-year minor league career with a .202 batting average, three home runs, and 51 RBIs, collectors now clamor for Michael Jordan’s baseball “rookie card.†That card, an insert in the 1991 Upper Deck baseball set that shows Jordan taking batting practice with the Chicago […]
Oddsmakers set the win totals for the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers at 103.5 over/under, for one of the highest totals in some time. So, will the Dodgers really fade the curse of the World Series hangover? In the last 50 years, only three franchises have won the World Series […]
Canada moved one step closer to legalized single-game sports betting this past week when its House of Commons overwhelmingly passed a private measure bill, 303-15. The bill, authored by Conservative MP Kevin Waugh (Saskatoon-Grasswood), would open the windows for legalized single-event sports wagering throughout Canada. Much as the May 2018 […]
In a short television interview before Saturday’s Saudi Cup, Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia Chairman Prince Bandar bin Khalid Al Faisal said the final $10 million purse distribution for the 2020 Saudi Cup should come within six weeks. Prince Bandar addressed the elephant in the room regarding the world’s richest […]
The NASCAR Cup Series stays in Daytona this weekend, but the action moves to the road course for the O’Reilly Auto Parts 253 on Sunday. Chase Elliott and Martin Truex Jr. come into the race as the clear favorites to pick up an early season win on the 3.61-mile course. […]
It’s only the mid-point of the season, but Minnesota Timberwolves rookie Anthony Edwards pretty much locked up the NBA Dunk of the Year when he posterized Yuta Watanabe from the Toronto Raptors. It’s been an ugly season and winter of discontent with the last-place Timberwolves. Edwards, the #1 overall pick […]
We compiled another comprehensive and complete list detailing the top 50 all-time points scoring leaders in the NBA. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar set the record with 38,387 career points and held the top spot ever since he passed Wilt Chamberlin nearly 37 years ago. LeBron James, currently third on the list, recently […]
No Ben Simmons? No problem. Joel Embiid torched the Chicago Bulls for a career-high 50 points to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to their 20th win of the season. No one on Chicago could stop Embiid, who hauled down 17 rebounds in a 112-105 victory. The 50 points helped, but Embiid […]
The Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas released MLB win totals and the New York Yankees are one of the highest on the board with a win total over/under at 95.5. The Yankees would have to win 60% of their games in order to hit 96 wins and secure the over […]
Novak Djokovic can win his third straight Australian Open title on Sunday, but will have to contend with the red-hot Daniil Medvedev if he wants to pick up his 18th Grand Slam title. Medvedev made short work of Stefanos Tsitsipas in his semifinal matchup, beating the No. 5 seed 6-4 […]
Miguel Berchelt has run roughshod over the junior lightweight division, successfully defending the WBC 130-pound title six times. Now, he’ll face perhaps his most dangerous challenger in the division in the form of fellow Mexican Oscar Valdez at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday night. DraftKings Sportsbook pegs […]
The best-case scenario for the connections of every Saudi Cup horse not named Knicks Go or Charlatan is easy to comprehend, if not easy to realize. It goes something like this. Leaving from Post 5, Joel Rosario sends Knicks Go out like a shot. From Post 9, Mike Smith and […]
The Cleveland Cavs just woke up a sleeping giant. Jamal Murray, long overdue for a monstrous performance, dropped 50 points against the Cleveland Cavs in a much-needed win for the Denver Nuggets (16-13). The Nuggets ended a two-game skid and Murray set a new regular-season high. Murray put on a […]
Last week, I signed on the dotted line, paving the way to open a sports card store in my hometown of Cullman, Alabama. As I previously recounted for OG News readers, I’m jumping on the sports trading-card bandwagon. Even though some investors speculate this crypto-hot market will burn out soon, […]
Star jockeys Umberto Rispoli and John Velazquez lost their mounts for Saturday’s $20 million Saudi Cup after Saudi race organizers abruptly changed their COVID-19 testing protocols. That takes Rispoli off Max Player and removes Velazquez from Tacitus. Rispoli had three mounts on the Saudi Cup card, including Cowan in the […]
The tradition-rich Saratoga Race Course meet just picked up two more tradition-rich races for its 40-day summer meet, which the New York Racing Association announced Friday. The $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup and the $600,000 Flower Bowl move from Belmont Park to the Spa, where they will anchor Saratoga’s […]
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