Sports Events and Previews

The betting lines are out and online betting sites are ready with this years Super Bowl prop bets. This is always a fun week what with all the pundits offering their opinions, gamblers bragging about their “locks” and celebrities touting million-dollar betting slips. What’s also fun is seeing all the crazy prop bets that always…

Real world casinos and online bookmakers will be on the hook for massive payouts should Conor McGregor defy the odds and beat Floyd Mayweather in their upcoming boxing match. That’s because no matter how much the odds have shifted since the fight was announced, people just keep on betting on Conor McGregor to achieve one…

Exactly one week from today, Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor will lace up their 8 oz. gloves and go to war in a Las Vegas boxing ring. The Nevada State Athletic Commission has approved smaller gloves for the Mayweather vs. McGregor fight against advice from the Association of Ringside Physicians.

The biggest fight of the year is now less than two weeks away and the hype train is still running at full steam. A string of recent developments and rumors over the past week or so have served to change the perception a bit away from this being a circus event with McGregor having no…

I don’t know if all the professional fighters out there trying to build their own names are getting tired of being asked for their Mayweather vs. McGregor predictions or not, but I do know the question has been asked roughly one million times by now. Surely some will breathe a sigh of relief once this…

Online bookmakers began taking bets on the Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor fight a full year before it was even official, but things have taken on a whole new intensity now that the fight is official. Where before the markets were mostly limited to who would win, boxing betting sites are now coming out with…

The world’s greatest and most prestigious hot dog eating contest makes its 101st return to Coney Island just weeks away from now on the 4th of July. Although the origins of the hot dog eating contest are murky at best, Nathan’s says the first contest was held in 1916 and we’re happy to take their…

The 2016 US Presidential election is already firmly in our rear-view mirror, but the Trump betting train has showed no signs of slowing ever since. Even 100+ days into the new Presidency, betting markets related to the Trump presidency remain active and updated.

One of the first concerns expressed by lawmakers whenever the discussion of legalizing sports betting comes up is the possibility of match fixing and the corruption of professional sports (and even amateur sports for that mater).

Professional sports are lucrative for all involved, ranging from the athletes themselves to those on the business side who sell tickets and merchandise. Getting involved as a player or owner of a team in a major market is almost a surefire route to riches these days, but that avenue is closed to the vast majority…