Gambling

Weekend wagers: Six bets to make on six different sports

The objective is to keep placing wagers that age valuably in the market like our handful last week, and hope for the best outcome. ...

Super Bowl Sweats: Eight props to add to your Chiefs vs. Eagles betting card

Local sports books have stepped up their Super Bowl prop-betting game in one underrated area this year — organization ...

Vegas pick'em: Super Bowl pick and perspective against the spread

The best bet made in Talking Points throughout the entire 2024-2025 NFL season was the first one placed. ...

Underdogs no more: Chiefs favored in Super Bowl for first time in three years

Las Vegas sports books widely opened the AFC champion Chiefs as a 1.5-point favorite over the NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles. The total posted anywhere from ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL conference championship winners against the spread

A regular season that saw the back-to-back defending Super Bowl champions benefit from a historic run of luck now ...

Divisional-round weekend sweats: Eight bets to add to your NFL card

It just might be the best football weekend of the year, or at least of the playoffs. ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL divisional-round winners against the spread

Baltimore and Buffalo were widely ranked as the two best teams in the NFL by most all-encompassing metrics and the betting market down the stretch ...

Wild-card weekend sweats: Eight bets to add to your NFL card

A year ago in the wild-card weekend sweats column, I wrote, “someday, the opportunity for another moneyline rollover will arise again.” ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL wild card weekend winners against the spread

Eight of the fourteen teams to advance to this year’s NFL playoffs were odds-on favorites to make the field coming into the season. ...

College football by the odds: Playoff semifinals picks and preview

Favorites improved to 8-0 straight-up, 7-1 against the spread with last round's set of games, even though it might not really feel like it because ...

Sunday Sweats: Eight bets to add to your NFL Week 18 card

Maybe Sunday Sweats has been focused on the wrong sport this year. Week 17 came and went with another sputter on the NFL front. It ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 18 winners against the spread

The Tennessee Titans have achieved true betting infamy this NFL season. ...

College football by the odds: Bowl Pick'em against the spread Part 4

Texas has a leg up on every other team to win the national championship at +275 (i.e. risking $100 to win $275), and given the ...

Sunday Sweats: Eight bets to add to your NFL Week 17 card

Today’s edition wraps up another tremendous year for the weekend betting column, no thanks to the NFL. ...

College football by the odds: Bowl Pick'em against the spread Part 3

As if there weren’t enough reasons to be excited about this year’s first-ever SEC vs. Big Ten showdown in the Las Vegas Bowl, the strong ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 17 winners against the spread

Minnesota remains an unpopular choice to win the Super Bowl, or even get there, at as high as +625 to win the NFC and 12-to-1 ...

College football by the odds: Bowl Pick'em against the spread Part 2

Teams laying points finished 14-6 straight-up, 12-8 against the spread in the old College Football Playoff first round — and that’s only after underdogs finally ...

Sunday Sweats: Eight bets to add to your NFL Week 15 card

Thursday Night Football left nowhere to go but up in Week 15, and Sunday Sweats is trying to follow that mantra with a second straight ...

Vegas pick'em: NFL Week 15 winners against the spread

The game tabbed to be the highest scoring of the season takes the marquee as the headliner of the NFL’s Week 15 slate. ...

Sunday Sweats: Eight bets to add to your NFL Week 14 card

The column has now fallen deep into the red and it’s going to be a challenge to battle back and extend the all-time profitability streak. ...