Notable bets is a regular Monday roundup of wagers — some sharper than others — made recently at sportsbooks across the nation. • Bookmaker William Hill took an $18,000 money-line bet on the Minnesota Vikings to beat the Buffalo Bills straight-up at -1,800 odds Sunday morning. The bet would have netted $1,000. The Bills, who […]
Continue readingThe Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook on Thursday night released 442 prop bets and over 1,000 ways to bet on the game, with several Vegas books putting up a smaller menu of props in the previous days. Early betting on the Super Bowl spread has been overwhelmingly on New England. Several books opened with the Rams […]
Continue readingMore than 100 current players, including some big names, were expected to participate in Romo’s event, slated for mid-July at the Sands Expo. Wind your way through the Sands Expo hallways long enough, and you’ll walk right past the bright red sportsbook at the Venetian casino. That is a problem for the NFL, which, after […]
Continue readingThe 2022 U.S. Open is underway at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. Reigning champ Jon Rahm is trying to defend his title. There’s drama with LIV tour players, after the new tour’s first event last week, returning for this latest major. That includes Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson. Scottie Scheffler is trying to become […]
Continue readingNFL quarterbacks Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers will face off against Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen in Capital One’s The Match on June 1 on TNT. The four quarterbacks participated in a media event Wednesday, and they showed a glimpse of what fans might expect on the television broadcast of the 12-hole exhibition that seemingly […]
Continue readingWhich athletes are making the most money? For 2022, it’s Los Angeles Lakers star/media mogul LeBron James who made $126.9 million in the last year, according to research by the sports business publication Sportico. James, 37, takes over the top spot from MMA fighter Conor McGregor. James is among 36 NBA players listed in Sportico’s […]
Continue readingThe only place you’ll see four of the last five NFL MVPs competing at the same time and same place this year is on a golf course. This year’s version of Capital One’s The Match will feature a foursome of Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen. The 12-hole exhibition will take place […]
Continue readingAt this point in the season, you might have heard rumblings of the rumored “ManningCast curse” — a dreaded phenomenon in which every active player who comes on Peyton & Eli Manning’s Monday Night Football broadcast subsequently loses the next game played. First, it came for Travis Kelce and Russell Wilson in Week 2 after […]
Continue readingWhile NFL Sunday Week 8 falls on a fun holiday for most, there are some teams that are going to have a scarier than usual Halloween. Will Jameis Winston get revenge against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the team that drafted him first in 2015? Will Dak Prescott start in Sunday night’s Dallas Cowboys-Minnesota Vikings matchup? […]
Continue readingAaron Rodgers hasn’t been with the Green Bay Packers this offseason, but his ongoing stalemate with the franchise hasn’t changed how he prepares for the season. As he has done for most of the past decade, the reigning NFL MVP went through his normal offseason training regimen with Proactive Sports Performance, a program that includes […]
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