The Philadelphia Eagles opened as 3-point favorites over the New York Giants, but action on the home underdog has dropped the line to as low as 1 on Thursday afternoon at the MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment sports books.
Todd Dewey
Reporter: Sports betting
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Todd Dewey covers sports betting for the Review-Journal. Prior to taking over that beat in January 2017, he covered UNLV football, 51s baseball and a wide range of other events that come to Las Vegas. A native of Cambridge, Mass., and a graduate of the University of Central Florida, Dewey joined the Review-Journal in 1999 and was the 2013 Nevada Sportswriter of the Year.
For the second time in four years, both teams with home-field advantage in baseball’s League Championship Series are series underdogs.
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Home underdogs are 16-6 ATS, including 4-0 ATS on Sunday with three outright upsets.
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The Chiefs are 4-0 ATS, and the Bengals, Chargers and Buccaneers have each gone over in all four games.
Nurmagomedov (26-0-0), a Russian grappler, is a minus 160 favorite over McGregor, the popular plus 140 underdog from Ireland.
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New England is 10-1 ATS in its last 11 games as a double-digit home favorite and 8-1 ATS in its past nine home games, winning by an average margin of 16.2 points.
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Johnny Avello was the Wynn Las Vegas sports book director for the past 13 years before leaving the company Monday to join DraftKings, which launched the first mobile sports betting app in New Jersey in August.