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Opener: Hidden among some truly unspectacular games on this Friday card are a handful of compelling matchups, a couple each from the betting and viewing standpoints. For instance, we are, despite all signs pointing that it shouldn't be this...

Opener: The midweek winds to a close with some less intense games, but definitely ones with better angles to pursue - a team or two coming home, a few getting tired on the road, a rematch, and of course, plenty of injuries to track. Can I convince...

Opener: I hate to make this opening section a mere reflection of what the general media is discussing, since that's probably not going to shine any more light on topics already combed to death by ESPN, but... I have to laugh at the Miami Heat...

Opener: Not a particularly compelling day of NBA - in fact, I might rank two of the games among the least interesting of the month. I suppose you could argue that every Miami Heat game is worth talking about, but after the fiasco this last weekend...

Opener: It's all business this week, after a strange weekend - teams that acquired a ton of new talent (Knicks, Utah, Denver) won their first games with new players and lost the second, while others (Thunder) lost two shorthanded contests. Still...

2012 US Presidential Election Odds are out and oddsmakers have the former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney the current favorite at +150 to win the Republican Party presidential nomination in 2012. When looking at the US Presidential Election Odds...

Opener: I realize this space of the blog is often reserved for content to get everyone excited about another day of NBA, but today, it's for a tiny oddsmaker-directed rant. Why can't you post more than 3 out of 11 lines the day before??...

Opener: Day two of the "Link Experiment" is in full swing, and the overwhelmingly positive response on day one was certainly the fuel this old goat needs to power out not only the usual original content, but find some intriguing other destinations...

Opener: Who doesn't love a nice Thursday of NBA? We get a short card to work with, so the time consumption drops, and the games are always the most interesting of the week, outside of, perhaps, Sunday morning. This time around, we have the...

Opener: I think maybe the most fun we can have in the opening paragraph is to try to predict how the talking heads are going to fill airtime leading up to games in the evening. While we concentrate on games with scheduling angles, revenge, under-the...

Opener: It's that time again - TNT time. Generally, Thursdays bring us extremely short NBA cards, but often the most compelling games of the week. This is an interesting time in the season, if only because the rest of the week has been notable...

Yes. You read the title of this article correct. The betting world actually has odds on the WWE's WrestleMania XXVII from the Georgia Dome on Sunday April 3rd. The only thing that trumps professional wrestling in term of ratings on cable is "Jersey...

Listen to internet radio with DenverMoney on Blog Talk Radio Bear with me today on the podcast, flew solo as DM had some things to take care of. No problems whatsoever. However the entrance and exit music will probably SUCK and won't be...

According to offshore bookmaker BetUS , the answer is no. Right now, Ohio State is favored by six points over Kentucky When looking at the betting public , the answer is no with 72% of the action on the favored Buckeyes. ESPN analyst Scott Van Pelt even...

If you say "Big East basketball this year in March Madness" backwards it actually will say "Big 10 football this year in bowl games." The Sweet 16 is later this week and of the 11 teams who came out of the Big East only two remain...

It is almost like one of those commercials where they pitch a greatest hits album and do the "Star Wars Scroll" of all the top hits. Instead of the Beatles or Elvis, I am talking about the " Best Charlie Sheen Quotes : "I probably...

The NHL trade deadline has come and gone without a real blockbuster move that the public wows over — you know, the one with the "big name guy." That doesn't mean good teams didn't get better. In the past, teams that vastly improved themselves...

The Red Wings are two wins away from being just the fourth team in NHL history to come back from a 3-0 deficit in the playoffs. San Jose still leads the series, 3-2. However, the next game (tomorrow) will be played at Joe Louis Arena and Detroit has done...

The Vancouver Canucks joined three others teams in NHL history (1945 Detroit Red Wings, 1971 Chicago Blackhawks and 2009 Detroit Red Wings) to lose at home in game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals after falling to the Boston Bruins 4-0 last Wednesday....

This week the madness begins. Oh baby. One of our other news writers covered the Big East Tournament and I decided to take the same path, except a different conference. The Big Ten has been an interesting conference to watch this season and we’re going...

It has been reported to Pregame.com via our offshore contacts that sportsbook BetUS will no longer be accepting new accounts from the United States. Our sources at BetUS state that current accounts will remain active and can deposit and withdraw as usual...

Saturday (May 7, 2011) was the 137 th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The race was broadcast by NBC with race time scheduled for 6:24 PM ET, with official Kentucky Derby results and payouts announced soon after...

It's considerably warmer today here in Indianapolis and maybe that's due to the second round of the tournament getting underway. Yesterday we saw basically what everyone thought was going to happen. Northwestern took control of matchup problems...

The loss of forward Brandon Davies from the BYU basketball team could not have come at a worse time for the newly voted No. 3 Cougars. In the middle of a historic season for the school, the BYU program did what they believe was the right thing do to in...

I'm into making bold predictions here on the website. Often times I'm right, but there are also a good number of times where I'm wrong. That's fine, I own up to it and take the beating if I need to. It's all in the nature of willing...