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Todd Dewey
Reporter: Sports betting
Email: tdewey@reviewjournal.com
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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.
Pro sports bettor Chuck Edel is 7-1 against the spread this season on his best bets in the Review-Journal, where experts went 14-2 ATS the last two weeks.
The Dodgers are -150 favorites over the Blue Jays (+135) in Game 1 of the World Series on Friday at Toronto. The total is 7½ (over-115).
Las Vegas bookmakers have long acted as watchdogs for pro and college sports and had different reactions to Thursday’s betting scandal that rocked the NBA world.
LeBron James will miss Tuesday’s season opener, and his absence is the main reason the Lakers flipped from 3½-point favorites to 2-point underdogs to the Warriors.
The Lions are 6-point home favorites over the Buccaneers in the opener of a “Monday Night Football” doubleheader, and the Seahawks are 3-point home favorites over the Texans.
The Chiefs crushed the Raiders 31-0 as NFL Week 7 favorites went 6-0 ATS in the morning games, and the Broncos scored 33 fourth-quarter points in an historic comeback win over the Giants.
Westgate SuperBook vice president of marketing Jay Kornegay went 5-0 ATS last week and leads the contest with an 18-11-1 record.
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The Chiefs are 12-point favorites over the Raiders in Sunday’s AFC West matchup at Arrowhead Stadium, where the Raiders have covered three straight and four of five.
A Caesars Sportsbook bettor turned $50 into $574,925 after hitting a six-leg “super parlay” that featured four MLB home run picks and two NFL touchdown scorers.
Pro sports bettor Chuck Edel is 6-1 against the spread this season on his best bets in the Review-Journal, where experts went 7-1 ATS last week.
The Pittsburgh Steelers are consensus 5½-point road favorites over the Cincinnati Bengals in an AFC North matchup on “Thursday Night Football,” and the total is 45.
The Bills are 3½-point favorites over the Falcons, and the Commanders are 5½-point favorites over the Bears in a “Monday Night Football” doubleheader.
The Raiders closed as 3½-point favorites after sharp money on the Titans caused the line to drop from 6½. The betting public was all in on the home team.