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The NBA schedule brings us eight games for Wednesday night's slate, including an ESPN doubleheader: Bucks at Hawks and Suns at Nuggets. There's also another marquee matchup: the Pelicans are in Boston for a 7:30 start. Here's a look at some of our favorite prop bets at BetMGM for the Wednesday night NBA action. We hit a similar one last night with…

If college basketball had a "Surprise Team of the Year" award, Marquette likely would be the leader in the clubhouse. And UConn wouldn't be that far behind. Not only was Marquette nowhere to be found in the preseason Top 25 rankings, but the Big East coaches picked the Golden Eagles to finish ninth in the 11-team league. Today, Marquette is 13-4…

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…

So, college football season is over, and there are only a few weeks of NFL action remaining. For some people, that means basketball season is just getting going. For others? We're in the thick of the season, and the jockeying for playoff seeding is heating up. Tuesday night brings a seven-game NBA slate, including a TNT doubleheader of Thunder at…

The TCU Horned Frogs have spent the last four months piling up victories, silencing naysayers and making their believers a whole lot of money. Now, the team that was picked to finish seventh in its 10-team conference - the team led by a starting quarterback who wasn't the starter when the season kicked off - is on the precipice of making college…

Sports bettors get a special gift this year, as the NFL is complementing the usual bevy of Christmas Day NBA games with a tripleheader that starts in broad daylight in South Beach and ends well after dark in the Arizona desert. OK, so all three NFL matchups, which looked great on paper three months ago, are now the holiday gift equivalent of…

The Purdue Boilermakers began the new year with a 13-0 record and No. 1 national ranking. They also began the new year with one of the worst spread-covering records in the nation. It didn't get any better Monday, when Purdue suffered its first defeat of the season, falling 65-64 to Rutgers as an 8.5-point home favorite. The Boilermakers have now…

A month before this NBA season started, Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla wasn't even listed on the Coach of the Year oddsboard. Nearing its halfway point, he's the favorite to win it. Boston's interim boss is dealing as the+260 frontrunner to win the league's top coaching honor in his professional head coaching debut, thrust into this position after…

That's all that stands between the Georgia Bulldogs and college football immortality as a repeat champion. It's also all that stands between the TCU Horned Frogs and one of the biggest upsets in modern sports history. In what is the most unlikely matchup in the short history of the College Football Playoff, defending champion Georgia and long shot…

Even before the clock hit zero in last year's national championship game, many figured we'd see an Ohio State vs. Georgia matchup in the 2022-23 College Football Playoff. However, the presumption was the Buckeyes and Bulldogs would be the last teams standing, not squaring off in a win-or-go-home semifinal matchup. Yet here we are, with two of the…

The wildest sports betting story in 2022, and there are dozens of contenders, had plenty of Philadelphia flavor. Baseball, F-bombs, and an intense argument is a recipe handed down from generation to generation around here. The country's most famous sports bettor now shakes off the confrontation he had with Phillies fans during the World Series. But…

For Ohio sports betting enthusiasts, the final days of 2022 have seemed like weeks. And as the clock approaches midnight on Saturday, the final minutes will seem like hours. Eventually, though, the calendar will flip to 2023. When it does, the state's new sportsbook operators will flip on their "Open for business" signs. With that - after years of…

Oddsmakers have made their Holiday Bowl prediction crystal clear: They expect a blowout and a boatload of points Wednesday night at San Diego's Petco Park. Just how big of a blowout? Oregon, which is laying nearly two touchdowns against North Carolina, is the second-biggest favorite of the entire college football postseason. (Only LSU, which is a…

The Philadelphia 76ers are riding a season-high eight-game winning streak and have covered the point spread in all but one of those victories. The Washington Wizards have exactly three wins since Thanksgiving, they're 5-14-1 ATS since mid-November (including 1-6 ATS at home), and they're coming off a grueling six-game West Coast road trip. So why…

Wisconsin enters the Guaranteed Rate Bowl without its starting quarterback, six players who opted out to prepare for the NFL Draft and possibly its leading rusher. Yet the Badgers are solidly favored to win Tuesday's game in Phoenix. The main reason: Oklahoma State, which lost four of its final five regular season games, also won't have its…

Even with injuries mounting, the Eagles are big favorites to beat the Saints on New Year's Day and clinch the top seed in the NFC as the NFL playoffs get closer and closer. The Eagles learned Monday that they'd likely be without Lane Johnson for the rest of the regular season, and that Avonte Maddox's toe injury is expected to keep him out for at…

As much as savvy bettors will say to bet numbers and not teams, there are always extenuating factors that handicappers have to consider on a game-by-game basis. One such factor is motivation or what's at stake for either side in a given matchup. For instance, the Miami Marlins have nothing to play for on Wednesday night, while the Philadelphia…

The NBA has some Christmas Day competition this year, with the NFL rolling out three games that will bleed into the Association's entire five-game slate. So let's just say it's unlikely that NBA commissioner Adam Silver sent a holiday card this year to Roger Goodell, his NFL counterpart. One thing Silver has on Sunday that Goodell doesn't: A…

The Big 12 has often waved the "No respect" flag in recent years, with only Oklahoma getting put on a pedestal with college football's powerhouse programs. This year, though, TCU received an invite to the College Football Playoff - the first Big 12 team other than the Sooners to nab a ticket to the party - despite losing the conference championship…

The Cowboys-Eagles game set for Christmas Eve got some stunning news Monday afternoon. After the 13-1 Eagles took down the Chicago Bears Sunday, while the Cowboys blew a 17-point lead to the Jacksonville Jaguars, Dallas still opened as a one-point favorite over the Eagles. However, the betting line crept up all afternoon in favor of the Cowboys,…

A not-so-funny thing has happened to the Colorado Avalanche on their way to a seemingly inevitable re-coronation as NHL champions: Injuries to star players and overall inconsistency have translated into a mediocre start to the 2022-23 campaign. How mediocre? After Tuesday's 3-2 win over the lowly Philadelphia Flyers, the Avalanche are tied for…

It may have taken longer than most expected - or desired - but the launch of Ohio sports betting actually couldn't be coming at a better time for the state's wagering enthusiasts. Just hours before Ohio sports betting goes live, the state's most prominent university - Ohio State - will play in the College Football Playoff semifinals. Should the…

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If you've been paying attention to the NBA this season, you're certainly aware that the Boston Celtics are off to a torrid start. And by torrid we mean Boston has won 17 of 19 games since opening 4-3. Not only do the Celtics have the NBA's best record at 21-5, but they have put more money in the pockets of bettors than any other team in the…

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Heading down the home stretch of the regular season, the Philadelphia Eagles own an NFL-best 11-1 record, thanks in large part to the play of quarterback Jalen Hurts. The Kansas City Chiefs are tied for the best record in the AFC at 9-3, thanks in large part to the play of quarterback Patrick Mahomes. So of course Hurts and Mahomes are the…

When the Philadelphia Flyers kicked off a five-game homestand against the New York Islanders eight days ago, they lugged a 10-game losing streak onto the ice. At that time, nobody would've wagered a nickel that the Flyers would head into the fifth and final game in a position to end the homestand with a winning record. And yet after splitting the…

After 14 weeks and a whole lot of shuffling around, the 2022-23 College Football Playoff puzzle is complete. And while everyone invited to the four-team party has an equal chance to claim the national championship, the College Football Playoff odds market suggests that's a fallacy. As has been the case for two months, oddsmakers believe one team is…

As the English Premier League's midweek slate rolls on, bettors can begin to focus on Wednesday's slate. Comprised of five matches - four of which feature a traditional "Big Six" power - tomorrow's slate will have wide-ranging implications at both the top and bottom of the table. Arsenal can keep its spot as league-leaders with a win over Aston…

The Phillies did what they have become pretty proficient at over the last few offseasons: they signed the main player they targeted in free agency. The team on Tuesday agreed to an 11-year, $300 million deal with star shortstop Trea Turner. Turner's addition gives the Phillies an even more formidable lineup than the one that carried them just a few…

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If the calendar says it's December and Bills vs. Patriots props are on the betting board, your most prudent first move should be to consult your favorite weather app. As it happens, a rainstorm packed with gale-force winds blew through Foxborough, Mass., on Wednesday. Dry conditions and mild breezes followed the storm, and those conditions are…

That was quite the thrill, wasn't it? The U.S. Men's National Team survived a late rally from Iran in their final Group B matchup in a 1-0 win, setting up a Round of 16 matchup between the Americans and the Netherlands. The star of the match for the U.S. soccer team, Christian Pulisic, scored the game's only goal, but was brought to the hospital…

It might be easier to successfully pull off brain surgery, while blindfolded, than make a rational 76ers vs. Cavaliers prediction for Wednesday's showdown in Cleveland - at least from a point-spread perspective. After all, the 76ers are hot, having won seven of their last nine games while posting a sizzling 8-1 ATS mark. But Cleveland has nearly…

It's easy to look at the NBA championship odds board and be somewhat discouraged if you're a Philadelphia 76ers fan. With 25 percent of the season complete, Philadelphia is sitting in the exact same position as it was in mid-October. In fact, the Sixers' odds actually have lengthened a bit. The other way to view this reality? Philly has been…

It's been exactly three weeks and 10 games since the Philadelphia Flyers last walked off the ice victorious. In roughly the same time frame, the New York Islanders have recorded eight victories in 11 contests - including Saturday's 5-2 home rout of the Flyers. So it's not exactly breaking news that New York finds itself in second place in the…

After 13 weeks, about 800 games and countless wagers won and lost, college football's 2022 regular season concludes with a slate of 10 conference championship games this week. The action kicks off Friday evening with the Conference USA title game and wraps up some 28 hours later when the Big Ten champion is crowned. With undefeated Georgia and…

So far this World Cup we've seen a couple of the favorites stumble and a few others solidify their place at the top of the board. Brazil were one of the latter. It may have taken a little while for La Selecao to find the opening against Serbia on Thursday, but once Brazil found its rhythm they looked like world-beaters. The tournament favorites…

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The injury bug - check that: the injury shark - has bitten the Philadelphia 76ers this month. And that shark keeps targeting the lower extremities of Philadelphia's best players. First All-Star shooting guard James Harden suffered a right foot sprain on Nov. 7 and isn't expected back for at least another week. Then in back-to-back games to close…

Thanksgiving week has long been synonymous with football. But in recent years, college basketball junkies have gotten their fix thanks to ESPN's made-for-TV "Feast Week". From The Bahamas to the Cayman Islands to Maui and all points in between, dozens of college basketball teams will compete this week in holiday tournaments across North…

The Week 13 college football card is loaded with rivalry matchups from coast to coast. But none are bigger, more hyped or oozing with more drama than Saturday's Michigan vs. Ohio State clash of unbeatens in Columbus, Ohio. For the second straight year, the Wolverines and Buckeyes come into "The Game" ranked in the top five. And for the second…

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Monday's match between the United States and Wales may not be a must-win for either side, but it is fair to suggest it is a must-not-lose given the way that Group B sets up. England is the massive favorite to top the group, while oddsmakers are having a tough time separating the USMNT and Wales. Iran has the longest odds to advance. The stats also…

The Phillies probably could've done without a day off on Monday after reeling off five straight victories and nine wins in their past ten games. Next up for the Phillies is a three-game series against the Marlins to finish out their homestand. Zack Wheeler will start for Philadelphia, while Miami will counter with a southpaw in Braxton…

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As we noted in our Week 10 NFL betting trends report, the 2022-23 season has been a boon for Under bettors - particularly when the lights turn on. With this week's Thursday night and Sunday night games falling short of the total, the Under is now 19-10-1 in prime-time contests. That includes 6-3-1 on Monday Night Football. Will defenses dominate…

The Tennessee Titans (6-3 SU, 7-2 ATS) and Green Bay Packers (4-6 SU and ATS) may not bring similar records into their Week 11 Thursday Night Football battle. But they've played a similar style of football this season. Neither offense has been prolific in the point-scoring department (Tennessee is averaging 18.4 per game; Green Bay 18.5). And both…