The five games that will signal the start of the college football season might not be a meal for fans, but after eight months of inaction they will gladly welcome this appetizer. Gamblers will have to wait until Thursday for a Big 10 Conference game, or No. 21 Central Florida, […]
La Liga players say that they’re keeping all of their options on the table when it comes to voicing their opposition to a plan to play at least one regular season match in the United States, up to and including a strike action. That decision comes on the heels of […]
The intensity level gets ramped up a bit in the third week of the NFL preseason. Starters will get more playing time, and battles are commonplace between second and third string players trying to compete for a roster spot. There are several intriguing contests this week, and OG took the […]
Fred Couples has only played four times on the Champions Tour this season, but there was no way he was missing this week’s Boeing Classic. Despite battling back problems for most of the year, the 58-year-old is a Seattle native, and having honed his game as a kid on the […]
Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer will not be leaving the university any time soon, which has college football fans and bettors with high expectations for the Buckeyes this fall breathing a sigh of relief. Meyer received just a three-game suspension (without pay) after an independent OSU investigation found that […]
The UFC has announced a superfight between two of its women’s title holders, as featherweight champion Cris “Cyborg” Justino and bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes will meet at UFC 232 on Dec. 29 in Las Vegas. Both sides have reportedly agreed to the fight, with Justino’s featherweight title to be on […]
The Tiger vs. Phil match is now official, as both Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson announced the details of their winner-take-all confrontation Wednesday on Twitter. The match will be played Friday, Nov. 23 at Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas, and will be aired as a pay-per-view event. The […]
Former Texas A&M linebacker Santino Marchiol outlined a number of allegations towards the school’s football program and coach Jimbo Fisher on Tuesday, as the redshirt freshman attempts to earn immediate eligibility at his new school, Arizona. The allegations came to light in a story in USA Today on Tuesday, in which […]
NFL No. 1 draft pick Baker Mayfield hasn’t been making much news on the field for the Cleveland Browns, but he is making up for it off of it. The rookie has been upgrading quarterback RVs, making a parody video of one of his bosses, and signing an endorsement deal […]
The Cleveland Browns may be coming off one of the worst seasons in NFL history, but that doesn’t seem to be dissuading bettors from liking the team, as sportsbooks are reporting a surprisingly large number of bets on the franchise that many see as the NFL’s laughingstock. According to ESPN, […]
Tiger Woods has not won a tournament this year, but is still a 14/1 pick to win the Northern Trust Open this week in New Jersey. But could a bettor’s money be better spent on other wagers involving Woods that don’t require the PGA Championship’s second-place finisher to win outright? […]
The Washington Nationals have signaled that they aren’t looking to compete down the stretch this season, as they traded away star second baseman Daniel Murphy to the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday. The Cubs sent minor league infielder Andruw Monasterio back to Washington in the deal. The Nationals will also receive […]
With speculation swirling that Sam Darnold of the New York Jets would be the first rookie quarterback to be named a starter, it appears Buffalo first-year signal caller Josh Allen might beat him to the honor. Allen, the No. 7 pick in the NFL Draft overall, will be the No. […]
With the first two weeks of preseason behind them, NFL players and coaches are expressing confusion about a new helmet rule that they say is still unclear abut what is and isn’t allowed under the new regulations. The rule, designed to increase player safety, prohibits a player from lowering their […]
To the surprise of no one who even casually follows college football, Alabama was ranked the No. 1 team in the first Associated Press Top 25 poll for the 2018 season. The Crimson Tide joined Oklahoma (1985-87) as the only programs to start three consecutive seasons as the top-ranked team. […]
The last six slots into the Champions League group stage will be determined over the next two weeks, as 12 hopeful sides will face off in the tournament’s playoff round, which starts Tuesday. While Europe’s biggest clubs have already been awarded their positions in the final 32, some famous teams […]
Kurt Busch punched his ticket to the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs on Saturday evening, claiming his first victory of the season in the Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Busch took the lead off a restart on Lap 478, and held that position to the checkered […]
This was not the way Manchester United was supposed to start the season, and it may have put their manager Jose Mourinho in peril. After a lackluster win against Leicester City to start the season, followed by an embarrassing loss to Brighton, who finished 15th out of 20 in the English Premier League […]
The Minnesota Lynx and the Los Angeles Sparks have met in each of the last two WNBA Finals, with the two franchises each walking away with one championship. This time around, the two storied teams will face each other in a single-elimination game in the first round of the WNBA […]
With the streak by the Oakland A’s over the last month, it was truly a good time to be a bettor who believed in the team. The A’s have had the best record in baseball since June at 45-22, putting Oakland just one game behind the Houston Astros for the […]
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