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The American Express 2023 tees off on Thursday, Jan. 19 in La Quinta, California. The American Express field is set to feature 10 of the top 20 and three of the top five golfers in the world, with Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm, and Patrick Cantlay the headliners. Rahm is listed at the 11-2 betting favorite in the latest American Express odds from…

The American Express 2023 gets underway from a trio of courses in La Quinta, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 19. Experienced and amateur bettors alike will lock in wagers for this event, which features a field loaded with experienced players. Major champions like Scottie Scheffler and Jon Rahm are expected to be in the mix at the 2023 American Express,…

Michael "The Wizard'' Kipness has been a professional horse racing handicapper since 1986. The Las Vegas resident analyzes the 20-horse field for Saturday's 148th Kentucky Derby, designating each horse as a contender or a pretender. Visit Wizardraceandsports.com for his full card selections and wagering strategies for Oaks Day (13 races) and Derby…

Molecules will be the longest shot in Saturday night's $200000, Grade 3 Indiana Oaks at Indiana Grand, but a victory by the locally-based 3-year-old filly would be in keeping with her remarkable story. Edward "Bow" Boerjan already was fighting cancer when he purchased Molecules for $1500 at Keeneland's 2016 January sale. He had the daughter of…

The spotlight will be on one of the newest additions to the NASCAR Cup Series schedule on Sunday at the 2022 EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix in Austin, Texas. Last year's NASCAR at Austin race featured 10 different lead drivers. Champion Chase Elliott only led for the final five laps, but he returns as the 9-4 favorite to win again in the latest…

If you saw this stretch of excellence coming from the Philadelphia Flyers, raise your hand. Didn't think so. The Flyers, who all season have been without their top-line center (Sean Couturier), their MVP from last year (Cam Atkinson), and their best all-around defenseman (Ryan Ellis), are the NHL's hottest team. They have won seven of their last…

Knicks Go, seen winning the Grade I Pegasus World Cup in January, is favorite for Saturday's Grade I Whitney at Saratoga. Photo courtesy of Gulfstream Park Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Rich purses drew some top foreign talent for the Saratoga Derby and Oaks on Saturday and Sunday on the upstate New York turf to highlight a big weekend of Thoroughbred…

The Preakness is the second leg of the Triple Crown, and it always takes place on the third Saturday in May. The race is run at a distance of 1 3/16 miles, and it is open to horses that are three years old or older. While it's not as well-known as the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness is still a significant race in the world of horse racing. In fact,…

Trainer Ramon Minguet and jockey Samuel Marin had a strong feeling their 3-year-old gelding Zydeceaux was prepared for his winning effort in Saturday's seven-furlong $125000 Pasco Stakes for 3-year-old males at Tampa Bay Downs. "He's a very, very fast horse," Minguet said. "I believed in my horse. I knew he was getting good and that he was going to…

The Astros haven't even held their World Series parade in Houston yet, but 29 other MLB teams are already focused on the 2023 Fall Classic. Houston won its second title in six years by beating the Philadelphia Phillies in six games. The team is among the contenders to win it all next season, but another powerhouse organization is pinned as the…

Robbie Savage claims that if Wales beat England in their final Group B game tonight it will be a bigger upset than Leicester City winning the Premier League. The Foxes overcame odds of 5000/1 to win the title in 2015/16 and despite Wales' chances being rated as closer to 7/1, Rob Page's men beating England would be as big a shock, says former City…

Saturday brings us seven games including some really interesting matchups. Let's take a look at the games and find some First Basket plays. Milwaukee Bucks vs. Miami Heat This is a really interesting game for a lot of reasons. This Saturday matinee will be a rematch between two teams that played on Thursday night where Miami won against a…

The winter campaign of the 2023 Santa Anita horse racing season is in full swing. The track, one of the nation's best, will host the Grade III $200000 La Canada Stakes on January 15, and Daniel Benjamin has the preview and prediction here. The La Canada is a one and one-sixteenth-mile race for 4-year-olds and upward fillies and mares. The $200000…

They will all dream on Saturday. Owners and trainers and jockeys of 20 thoroughbred horses will be hoping their prayers will be answered when the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby is done at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. One thing learned from the prior 144 editions of America's greatest horse race is that any horse entered has a shot to win…

A positive mindset leads to positive results and perhaps nobody knows that better than former champion trainer Doug Watson, as he prepares to lead a five-strong team into Saturday's $30.5 million Dubai World Cup meeting. It's been close to three decades since he arrived in Dubai as a hungry young groom hoping to forge a career on the country's…

Essential Quality, shown winning the Grade I Travers, is among the favorites in a Breeders' Cup Classic field announced this week. Photo courtesy of New York Racing Association Oct. 29 (UPI) -- It's a week for looking forward as horse racing around the globe nears its annual champion-making events and youngsters get in final licks to make a case…

The NFL and the Vegas sportsbooks have introduced a new way for Giants fans and fans of all teams to bet on the Super Bowl. NFL Exactas, like exactas in horse racing, allow you to bet on the exact teams and results in the Super Bowl. Since this is a precious bet with long odds, it can also be a really lucrative one. If you're looking for a sneaky…

Hello you wonderful people, it is so good to once again have fights to bet on. The UFC returns from its one month layoff to kickstart the 2023 campaign and while UFC Vegas 67 might not be the best card, it's still the first fights in weeks and that means it's time to place some bets! Because this card isn't particularly good, we're going with a…

Six-time Liga MX champions Santos Laguna are aiming to clinch their first points of the Clausura season against seven-time Liga MX champions Pumas UNAM. The performance and outcomes of both teams in the Apertura league stage were quite contrasting. Santos Laguna finished third from the top, while Pumas UNAM were third from the bottom. Despite that,…

JUST to prove you can never get too much of a good thing, the PGA Tour stays in Hawaii for a second week - and eight of the last nine Sony Open winners also played in the Tournament of Champions. That suggests the winner is likely to come from the 18-strong group of players who were in action last week, headed by this week's defending champion,…

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2023 is here, and after a little break to finish our year and give us some time to rest from all the holiday feasts and enjoy the start of the year, the UFC Fight Night starts the action on the second Saturday of January with a middleweight headliner to get everybody excited. The UFC Apex in Las Vegas is getting ready to be the first venue to host…

A mid-week run of NBA Playoffs, NHL Playoffs and MLB regular season action is here, and the latest Caesars Sportsbook promo code provides several ways to wager and win on all of the action. With wall-to-wall action in store, bettors can lock in this no-brainer deposit special or take advantage of an $1100 risk-free first bet. What's more, players…

Headlined by classic winners Authentic, Swiss Skydiver and Tiz The Law, 184 horses were drawn Monday afternoon into 14 fields for the $28 million Breeders' Cup championships Friday and Saturday at Keeneland. The morning lines were determined by handicapper Mike Battaglia. [] Below are the fields and odds for the 14 Breeders' Cup races in reverse…

After a thrilling elevated event at the Sentry Tournament of Champions last week, the PGA Tour heads to Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii for the 2023 Sony Open, which tees off on Thursday. The Sony Open field features 19 of the players from last week's Sentry Tournament of Champions field and seven of the top 25 players in the world.…

Scottie Scheffler's lead has dropped from five strokes to three at the 2022 Masters, but he's an even larger favorite following his third-round 71 on Saturday. After finishing Round 2 at even money, Scheffler is now listed at 4-9 (-225) in the latest 2022 Masters odds from Caesars Sportsbook. Australian Cameron Smith is the only other golfer within…

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Russell Henley has had tremendous success at the Sony Open over the years. In fact, Henley finished on top of the leaderboard in 2013 and secured a runner-up finish at this event last year. Henley could certainly find himself in the mix again this week at the 2023 Sony Open, which gets underway from Waialae Country Club on Thursday, Jan. 12. Henley…

Picking winners of a golf tournament is hard. Doing it consistently is downright impossible. However, finding value is something all bettors must practice in order to give themselves the best chance to make hay when the day finally comes that they select a champion. Below, we will cover the best bets for the Sony Open in Hawaii based on current…

The PGA Tour will stick around in Hawaii for one more week. The Sony Open, which takes place at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, is the first full-field event of the 2023 season. Compared to last week's Sentry Tournament of Champions, the field at Waialae is lacking in terms of star power, and that is giving the oddsboard a bit of a different look…

By the time the Grade 1, $1017500 Haskell Stakes was about to start Saturday evening, trainer Brad Cox was under extra pressure. He had been on a private plane from Saratoga only a few hours earlier with rival trainer Chad Brown, Brown's girlfriend and three jockeys. By the time the Haskell rolled around, Brown had won five races, including four…

Izell Reese thinks of himself as a visionary, the kind of man who finds solutions to big problems. As a teenage football star, he went unrecruited from his Dothan, Ala., high school. Undaunted, he walked on at the University of Alabama Birmingham, not only making the team but starting as a freshman. Four years later, he was drafted by the Dallas…

The first tennis Grand Slam event of 2023 is nearly upon us. The 2023 Australian Open will start in January with the world's top players battling down under for the exclusive right to be named the first Grand Slam winner of the season. The men's Australian Open was won by Rafael Nadal in 2022. The tennis legend will be in Australia for this year's…

Toast of New York defied the 12-1 odds and came through to win the 2014 UAE Derby at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai on Saturday. It was a thrilling run from start to finish, complete with a great ending that was fitting for such a prestigious event. Toast of New York's strong surge at the end allowed him to win by 2-1/2 lengths over Asmar, who placed…

The Los Angeles Rams and Green Bay Packers will finish up Week 15 in the NFL when these two clubs go toe-to-toe on "Monday Night Football" at Lambeau Field. Both of these teams enjoyed some extended rest before this matchup as the Packers are coming off their Week 14 bye, while the Rams last played on Dec. 8 to open up Week 14 on Thursday night.…

The Sony Open 2023 is set to tee off on Thursday at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii. The long-standing tournament is a follow up to the first elevated PGA Tour event of season in last week's Sentry Tournament of Champions. Seven of the top 25 golfers in the world are in the 2023 Sony Open field, headlined by Tom Kim, Jordan Spieth, Hideki…

Penn State's bowl projections still run quite a range, but one postseason game returned to view following Saturday's Week 10 slate. The Lions have a path to the 2023 Rose Bowl. No. 15 Penn State (7-2) will climb a spot or two in this week's College Football Playoff rankings, based on its 45-14 win over Indiana and other results around the country.…

The confetti was still falling from the SoFi Stadium rafters on Monday night when college football oddsmakers sent out a crystal clear statement: Georgia is the best team in the land, and we don't expect that to change. After the Bulldogs secured their second straight national title with a 65-7 destruction of TCU in the College Football Playoff…

Each week leading up to Super Bowl 57, I'll be evaluating the futures betting market for the remaining NFL playoff teams. This year's NFL playoff field looks more top heavy than usual, as there are only five teams with odds at+1000 or lower to win the Super Bowl at Caesars Sportsbook, the official odds partner of Bet.NOLA.com. That could set up for…

The NFL's coaching carousel is about to start spinning. Let's look at three long-shot NFL head coach picks. There are several vacant head coaching positions in the NFL following Black Monday. That means it's time to assess the odds, dig through some rumors, and see whether we can cash a long-shot bet on which head coach a team will hire. The…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - On another first Saturday in May, the beauty of America's oldest sport battled neck and neck down the stretch with its unseemliness as a colt named Medina Spirit elegantly held off a determined challenge from Mandaloun. They moved in tandem like four-legged ballet dancers - effortlessly, beautifully. No one here who loved…

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The PGA Tour heads to Hawaii for the first time in 2023 for the Sentry Tournament of Champions at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii. The 2023 Sony Open field tees off on Thursday and features a mix of proven Tour champions and rising stars. World No. 19 Sungjae Im is listed as the 10-1 betting favorite in the latest 2023 Sony Open odds from…

Things are a little prickly in Islander Country right now. After getting off to an encouraging 15-8-0 start to the season, the Isles slowed down through December and will now limp into the second half on a 7-9-2 stretch. Had the Islanders not banked 30 points from their first 23 games, they would be toast, but as it stands now, they are tied with…

Horse racing is thrilling and exciting, but predicting which horse will come out on top can also be challenging. If you're planning on placing a bet on a horse race, you'll want to do your homework and gather as much information as possible to give yourself the best chance of making an informed decision. Making accurate forecasts is key to success…

The European Road to the 2023 Kentucky Derby has a trio of one-mile races remaining that, following a four-month hiatus, is set to return in March - with big points at stake on the synthetic tracks. The Road to the Kentucky Derby Conditions Stakes at Kempton Park in Surrey will kick off the month. The Patton Stakes at County Louth in Ireland is…

Belmont Stakes winner Tiz the Law will try to win one of the signature races on the horse racing calendar when he leaves the starting gate on Saturday in the 2020 Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. Nicknamed the Mid-Summer Derby, the Travers ranks alongside the Triple Crown races as the most prestigious three-year-old events of the year.…

One of the most popular online bookmakers Betfair has decided to make things even more interesting for Tuesday's big match between Argentina and Croatia. These two sides have reached the semi-finals of the 2022 FIFA World Cup despite a few tense moments along the way, but only one can reach the final. The bookies see Argentina as favourites,…

TCU is just one win away from writing one of the great long shot stories in sports history. In fact, should the TCU Horned Frogs upset Georgia in the National Championship, they would become the biggest underdog to win the title in the College Football Playoff Era, and it wouldn't be close. According to Sports Odds History, the 2010 Auburn Tigers…