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Sharps eye hot dogs in 1st round
As Matt Youmans points out, the NCAA tournament is always full of upsets, and this year should be no different
Youmans: Against the odds, Brady becomes easy money
Even before Tom Brady took his talents to Tampa Bay, money started to show on the Buccaneers to win the Super Bowl. A long shot 10 months ago turned into a sure thing by the start of the fourth quarter Sunday night. There was no dramatic finish and no doubt about it. Brady’s seventh championship was a blowout and a big loser for bookmakers on the futures board.
NFL scoring trend becoming overwhelming
Just when it seemed Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys were down and out, trailing 41-14 early in the fourth quarter Sunday, a strange thing happened. In fact, something strange is happening all over the NFL. The on-field product is morphing into a futuristic video game, with scoring at an all-time high. Old-school football bettors and oddsmakers are scrambling to adjust to a game that has changed before our eyes.
NFL futures action about to gain steam
In the near future, football betting fever will spread through sportsbooks on Sundays. The atmosphere will be electric, and life will feel normal again. Aside from seeing Tom Brady in a Tampa Bay Buccaneers uniform, most things will feel normal. But last Sunday was strange. With the NFL preseason canceled, football remained an afterthought while small numbers of basketball fans gathered in the books to watch Luka Doncic hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer for the Dallas Mavericks.
With no bubble, MLB engages in risky business
By this time next week, the NBA’s return and the NHL postseason will be the top priorities for most sports bettors. What’s new is always hot. And chances are increasing that the baseball season will be old news soon. It took only four days to see that any return-to-play plan that does not include a bubble is risky business in 2020.
How-to guide for making power ratings
An annual meeting scheduled for Chris Andrews’ office March 15 was called off. Selection Sunday never happened this year, so Andrews had no need to huddle with his inner circle of oddsmakers to post opening lines for the NCAA tournament. Andrews, the South Point sportsbook director, holds a similar meeting before opening college football lines in the summer — another tradition that is postponed.