Handicapper Christopher Smith likes the Bulldogs to cover Saturday as 20½-point road underdogs to the Longhorns as the college football season begins in earnest.
Betting
Duke coach David Cutcliffe is 25-12-1 ATS as an underdog since 2013, 7-4 as a double-digit underdog, and has won and covered seven straight openers.
Handicapper Paul Stone won the 2018 contest with a 39-25-1 record against the spread.
Del Mar and Saratoga are closing their doors on Labor Day, but two other horse racing success stories are stepping into the spotlight to lift our spirits.
A baseball bettor turned $250 into more than $38,000 after connecting on an eight-team parlay ticket at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
The NCAA will start accepting bids Monday on nearly two dozen sports championships. This is the first year that Las Vegas is eligible to bid after the governing body for college sports indefinitely suspended a ban last year that prevented events from being hosted in states that accept wagers on single games.
The stunning announcement on Saturday night forced numbers to be adjusted on the Colts and the rest of the AFC on betting boards across Las Vegas.
Houston beat Detroit as a minus-550 favorite a night after losing to the Tigers as the biggest Major League Baseball favorite in memory, netting at least one bettor a $10,000 profit.
Several sportsbook directors said they had no specific rules posted for an adjusted length of the field, meaning all bets made before the announcement stood as wagered.
A rainstorm, gathering darkness and lack of lighting resulted in an unreadable finish line photo. What happened after that is known only to the NYRA stewards.
Detroit pulled off one of the biggest upsets in baseball history Wednesday with a 2-1 road win over Houston. The Tigers were anywhere from a plus 375 to plus 450 underdog.
After a healthy Cam Newton led Carolina to a 6-2 start last season, he injured his shoulder and the Panthers promptly lost seven straight games en route to a 7-9 record.
The sports talk host wrote on Twitter, “Coming to a sportsbook near you. First one opens in October.” He would not say whether he planned on opening any in Las Vegas.
The Jaguars, who finished 5-11 and were 31st in scoring last season with 15.3 points per game, face one of the NFL’s most difficult schedules this year.
A breakdown of the fights on the main card of UFC 241 on Saturday at Honda Center in Anaheim, California.
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