Patricio “Pitbull†Freire has already established himself as one of the best featherweights in the world, with little left to prove regardless of the promotion he fights in. But the two-division champion is looking for even bigger things as he prepares to take on Emmanuel Sanchez in the main event […]
The Gonzaga Bulldogs are two wins away from winning March Madness and finishing the season with an undefeated record at 32-0. Gonzaga entered the tournament as the consensus favorite to win March Madness and, heading into the Final Four against #11 UCLA, the top-seeded Zags are -250 odds to win […]
Brendan Bottcher will look to continue his success in the Calgary bubble as he leads Team Canada in the Men’s World Curling Championship beginning on Friday. Bottcher’s team won the Brier – the Canadian men’s national curling championship – after defeating Kevin Koe in the final. Moulding ready to play […]
The monstrous shadow of Gamine will emerge from her five-month vacation on Sunday when the Champion Female Sprinter of 2020 makes her 4-year-old debut in the Grade 3 Las Flores Stakes at Santa Anita Park. She will likely make it as the odds-on favorite for the six-furlong Las Flores. The […]
In his past life, John Fradkin, the owner of Kentucky Derby Trail runner Rombauer, was a successful institutional bond salesman for Citigroup. This means he understands the risk/reward dynamic as well as anyone. This, in turn, explains why Fradkin took the long way home for Rombauer. Instead of running him […]
It’s Opening Day, which means baseball is back and your favorite team is in first place, however briefly that may last. Every team is playing today – or, at least, they would have if not for COVID and weather issues. With the action just starting to heat up, it’s time […]
On Thursday night, Francisco Lindor will suit up and play his first game at shortstop for the New York Mets. Thanks to a deal he reached the night before, Lindor will man that position for a long time to come. Multiple media outlets reported Wednesday evening that Lindor and the […]
After suffering a bone bruise injury to his knee, Joel Embiid will return to action after missing three weeks for the Philadelphia 76ers. Embiid, the second-highest scorer in the NBA, averages 29.9 points and 11.5 rebounds per game. Without the All-Star, the 76ers still went 6-3, but they gave up […]
It’s not officially the start of spring until the first pitch is thrown out on MLB’s Opening Day. Today, the New York Yankees commence their mission to win the World Series for a 28th championship. After multiple injury-plagued seasons, the Yankees hope key players can fade the injury bug and […]
Dustin Johnson was set to enter the Valero Texas Open as the clear favorite to win the final warmup available ahead of the Masters. But when Johnson withdrew on Monday, Jordan Spieth moved into pole position to win at TPC San Antonio this weekend. Johnson said he withdrew after considering […]
Alongside Paris Saint Germain’s Kylian Mbappe, Norwegian striker Erling Haaland is Europe’s most in-demand player in world football. Borussia Dortmund’s jewel has shown plenty in his year-and-a-half playing in the German Bundesliga, as well as in the Champions League. Haaland was linked with many of the European powerhouses over the […]
You know Jim “Mattress Mack†McIngvale as the Moby Dick of sports bettors. But horse racing fans better recognize the Houston furniture magnate/betting whale as the owner of Eclipse Award-winning sprinter-turned-stallion Runhappy. And one of Runhappy’s offspring, Joyful Cadence, runs for her sire’s second stakes progeny victory in Saturday’s Black-Type […]
Germany lost at home to North Macedonia, 1-2, in the most surprising result of the European Qualifiers so far. After just nine minutes, Bayern’s Goretzka hit the woodwork and it seemed the game in Duisburg was about to take the direction of the predicted walkabout. But North Macedonia managed to […]
The Los Angeles Dodgers come into the 2021 season as the defending World Series champions, and as the consensus best team in baseball. That should make them an easy pick to win the NL West, except for one thing: the second-best team in the league might just be the San […]
The Houston Astros came into the 2020 season as everybody’s favorite team to hate following their cheating scandal. Whether or not that impacted them, the defending American League champions stumbled to a 29-31 record before advancing to the ALCS and falling one game short of returning to the World Series. […]
Only four teams remain in the hunt for the 2021 college basketball championship. Heading into the Final Four this weekend, top-seeded Gonzaga is now -250 odds to win March Madness, according to DraftKings. Baylor, the only other #1 seed remaining in the Final Four, is +250 odds to win their […]
Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale is back with a seven-figure bet on March Madness. Mattress Mack wagered $1 million on the #2 Houston Cougars to win March Madness at +900 odds, so he’ll bank $9 million if Houston wins two more games. McIngvale flew his private jet to Colorado, where he […]
Robert Lewandowski scored two goals for Poland on Sunday, as his national team beat Andorra 3-0 in the qualifiers for World Cup 2022 in Qatar. Panic started when Lewandowski was taken off 63 minutes into the game with massive pain in his right knee. Fears of a serious injury were […]
Cinderella lives in Westwood this year. The #11 UCLA Bruins (22-9), led by Johnny Juzang, won their play-in game and defeated every team in their path — including #1 Michigan (23-5) in the Elite 8 — to reach their first Final Four since 2008. UCLA, as a +7 underdog, knocked […]
Jockeys racing as teams for more than £2 million in prize money will provide the latest horse racing twist when the inaugural Racing League season opens in the United Kingdom this summer. What is the Racing League? How does it work? And who will we see riding for that prize […]
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