#First Impression

Newsboy has napped Dan Skelton's Protektorat in the Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham races. The horse is part-owned by Manchester United legend Sir Alex Ferguson PROTEKTORAT is fancied to make light of top weight in the Paddy Power Gold Cup (2.15) at Cheltenham this afternoon. Jumps fans are in for a treat as the two-and-a-half-mile test, viewed…

Sports Betting Dime provides exclusive sports betting content to cleveland.com, including real-time odds, picks, analysis and sportsbook offers to help bettors get in on the action. Please wager responsibly. NFL Wild Card weekend is more exciting than ever, thanks to our bet365 Ohio promo code here. With just $1, any prospective Buckeye State…

Tucked away from view in a luscious green field at the foot of the Blackdown Hills in Somerset is a chestnut gelding who - if only he could talk - would have an extraordinary tale to tell indeed. As it is, the 19-year-old retired racehorse will have to make do with Hollywood speaking for him: Dream Alliance is about to be immortalised on the big…

Noah Syndergaard makes his Philadelphia debut when Washington comes to town. With Washington in full tank mode, will Philly be able to cover the run line? Find out in our MLB betting picks and predictions for Nationals vs. Phillies. The Philadelphia Phillies will get to see their newest teammate as former Los Angeles Angels right-hander Noah…

It's new year, new team for Kyle Busch. His farewell tour from Joe Gibbs Racing, a team where he spent 15 seasons and racked up 56 of his 60 NASCAR Cup Series wins, is over and done with. It's on to his next chapter with Richard Childress Racing. Time for the Las Vegas native to prove that he has plenty of gas left in the tank, even at 37. Just how…

Mortlach is 4-10 over fences but much more exposed than most of these and appears to have had limitations exposed lately. Beauport looked a smart recruit when beating experienced opposition at Carlisle but then failed to land the odds at Haydock. Thunder Rock is 2-2 over fences, however, but is elevated from handicap company along with Harper's…

1. The Future Of Missouri Football: The Mizzou administration provided security for football coach Eli Drinwitz in the form of a contract extension that included a generous raise. Surely these people were smart enough to set aside money to pay Drinkwitz off should they decide to make a coaching change if he can't show true progress in 2023. After…

Pickswise provides exclusive sports betting content to Syracuse.com, including picks, analysis, tools, games and sportsbook offers to help bettors get in on the action. You may have heard of the recent platform PrizePicks as they have been steadily gaining traction as a sportsbook for months now. If this is your first interaction with them, then…

The seventh-ranked Kentucky Wildcats will meet the No. 14 Ole Miss Rebels in Oxford, Miss., for the first time since 2010 when they face off in an SEC crossover matchup on Saturday. The teams have played three times since, but all in Lexington, Ky. The Rebels (4-0) have won three of the last four meetings, with Kentucky last winning in Oxford in…

Here's the thing about the college football season. Every week is crunch time for somebody, when defeat can feel like a blindside chop block. Moments of Truth. Nebraska had one of those last Saturday in Ireland and look how that turned out. This week's selection of Moments of Truth: Wait a minute, can this be right? North Carolina is playing at…

On Sunday, Arsenal Women will travel to the Midlands to take on Leicester Women in an effort to win their eighth straight game across all competitions. Under their new manager Willie Kirk, who has taken over from Lydia Bedford, the hosts will try to make a good first impression. Bedford presided over the pre-game news conference, but she won't be…

Major League Baseball's Winter Meetings are occurring for the first time since 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic and the owner-imposed lockout caused the last two events to be canceled. The return of the winter meetings also means the Rule 5 draft will again take place, canceled last year due to the aforementioned lockout. As such, below you'll find CBS…

A big bowl season awaits the Big Ten. There will be a minimum of 9 B1G bowl games this postseason, with Michigan and Ohio State both earning the opportunity to play in a 10th for the national championship. The Big Ten's first year with 2 teams in the College Football Playoff has a trickle-down effect on the rest of the conference's bowl bids.…

THE racing world will be focused on Fairyhouse on Sunday as super mare Honeysuckle, the dual Champion Hurdle winner who remains unbeaten in her 16-race career, makes her seasonal reappearance in the Bar One Racing Hatton's Grace Hurdle, in which she is bidding for a record fourth victory. And it also at the Co. Meath track where Newsboy's nap…

Rejoice sports fans! The fall sports betting season is upon us, and BetMGM is celebrating with one of the best free money offers in the US sports betting market. When you register a new account and place your first bet of $10 on any NFL, NHL or World Cup moneyline, you will get $200 in free bets if either team scores a touchdown, or a goal. Getting…

Bookmakers seem to run for cover whenever Emmet Mullins and Paul Byrne combine for a top handicap in Britain and the layers are taking no chances with Thousand Tears in the Greatwood. Byrne had a 35 per cent strike-rate over jumps in Britain in the last five seasons before the start of racing on Saturday and Thousand Tears shares a similar profile…

Popular Atlanta-based rapper Sheyaa "21 Savage" took to Kai Cenat's stream, who is also an Atlanta-based creator, to react to Tyler "Trainwreckstv" and it's fair to say that his first impression was brutal. Looking at the slot streamer's face, the London-born rapper compared the former to NBA player Boban Marjanovic, who currently plays for the…

Sunday's Unibet Greatwood Handicap Hurdle (2.55 Cheltenham) is the final highlight of the three-day November meeting, with the gambled-on Thousand Tears the favourite to give trainer Emmet Mullins a second win in the race in the last three runnings. Here we assess his claims, along with four other leading contenders. Form F340U- Strengths Twice a…

Entries have been revealed today for the £160000 Paddy Power Gold, the highlight of The November Meeting at Cheltenham (Saturday 12th November). Staged over two and a half miles, the Premier Handicap Chase was inaugurated in 1960 and is the first big race of the Jump season. Sponsor Paddy Power has three 7-1 co-favourites - French Dynamite (Mouse…

Over the past half-decade, the Group of Five has placed more teams in the College Football Playoff (one) than the Pac-12 has (zero). Could Utah, Oregon or USC bring this Power Five league back to prominence in 2022, or is a matter of time before we all settle back into what has become an annual routine of cracking wise about the "no good, very bad"…

Week 2 of the college football schedule is here, and now it's time to make our weekly picks against the spread. The noon kickoff between No. 1 Alabama and Texas is the premier matchup this weekend in terms of big-time brands, but there's also a very important matchup taking place in the SEC between Florida and Kentucky. Let's take a look at this…

Tuesday's free feature, the Shortlist is a simple - and usually brief - report highlighting those horses with a largely'green' profile in the Instant Expert Report each day. It covers win or place stats, and can be viewed for both today's and tomorrow's racing. GREEN is good (33% or better win rate) - worth 3 points AMBER is quite good (16-32% win…

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Breeders' Cup World Championships begin on Friday, with online racebooks and sportsbooks offering odds on all five Juvenile races. Bovada is offering odds on all five Grade 1 races, which will be a mix of Fillies and Colts that are all two years old. Despite the youth and relative lack of experience of many horses, researching…

Paris Saint-Germain is a club that seems allergic to the quiet life. In the first few weeks of the season, the French giants appeared to be ticking along nicely. Kylian Mbappe had been persuaded to sign a new deal and reject the overtures of La Liga and, specifically, Real Madrid. Christophe Galtier had made a positive first impression after…

The reviews are in and they are exactly what Edmonton Oilers fans want to hear about a first-round draft pick's first impression. After putting a bow on Reid Schaefer's training camp experience by giving him a pre-season road game in Seattle, head coach Jay Woodcroft returned him to the WHL Thunderbirds with this prediction: It won't be long until…

Two Super Bowl favorites square off in an early season battle. Here are our top Thursday Night Football prop picks and the Kansas City Chiefs host the rival Los Angeles Chargers. With a projected total of 54 points, this Thursday Night Football game should feature plenty of yards which provides plenty of value in the prop bet market. Two of the…

College football didn't disappoint on Saturday. Although the top teams in Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State and Michigan rolled to easy wins, the slate delivered with big moments thanks to Washington's win over Michigan State, LSU's comeback against Mississippi State, and Texas A&M's rebound victory versus Miami. Did you miss anything from Week 3?…

Michigan football will finally start Big Ten play this week as 3-0 Maryland will come to Ann Arbor for the home opener. Here's a look at the odds and an early prediction. Everybody has had their say about Michigan football's non-conference schedule and there's no doubt that it was weak. It wasn't meant to be as weak as it was. In most years,…

channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The horse racing NAP on the Day on Thursday, 15 September, with SportsLens tipsters is First Impression. He contests the feature 1m 2f Kilkerran Cup Handicap at Ayr this afternoon (3:00). John Quinn's well-treated dual purpose performance looks overpriced and a bit of value at 9/2 today. A winner…

Our pundit and resident website tipster Dave Nevison likes three cotenders on Virgin Bet Gold Cup Opening Day, the first of three days of an exciting meeting from Ayr. Enjoy all the action live on Racing TV. I am heading up to Scotland for my favourite Flat meeting of the year up at Ayr. My ambition is to one day back the winner of the Bronze,…

It was a fitting result for Woodbine's leading trainer Mark Casse on Sunday, as Sir Winston and Frosted Over went one-two, respectively, in the Grade 3 $155700 Valedictory Stakes on the final card of the 2021 Thoroughbred season at the Toronto oval. The Woodbine meet also concluded with a record setting handle of $8530593. Jockey Patrick Husbands…

AquaSox pitcher Isaiah Campbellwas promoted to Double-A Arkansas. (Ryan Berry / The Herald) The Everett AquaSox's roster continues to dwindle, and this week the attrition caught up to the Sox. Therefore, Everett's odds of making the postseason just got a lot longer. Everett lost two more key players last week, and the Sox saw themselves fall…