Micah Roberts, a former race and sports book director who has been setting NASCAR odds since 1995, analyzes the field for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Axalta 400 at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa.
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Deontay Wilder, the World Boxing Council heavyweight champion, will make the first defense of his title Saturday against Eric Molina on a Showtime-televised card in Birmingham, Ala. “I’m excited about coming to my home state of Alabama,” Wilder said.
The decision by the parties associated with the Army-Navy game to stick to their date a week after the other schools have finished playing hurts college football. Navy should switch or be ineligible for a New Year’s Six game.
The U.S. soccer team is favored to win the Women’s World Cup, which began Saturday in Canada. The Americans are around plus-200. Germany, champions in 2003 and 2007, is the second choice at plus-300. Defending champion Japan, France and Brazil are around 7-1.
That the NFL continues to brazenly champion an anti-gambling stance when it knows a profit margin that handsomely lines the pockets of owners is directly linked to those who wager on games and play fantasy football is a disingenuous ruse that has grown boring.
I rarely do follow-up columns. I’m averaging one every 10 years. And while my last such exercise resulted in a written apology from the White House (for accusing me of making up facts over its removal of Churchill’s bust), today’s is not a complaint.
Nevada as a trailblazer in education? Underachieving, Third-World Nevada setting a new national standard in school policy that other states are destined to follow?
It wasn’t quite “Call me Ishmael,” but “Call me Caitlyn” made a whale of a splash.
