Let the title defense begin. This Wednesday, the Super Bowl XLVI champion New York Giants will play host to the Dallas Cowboys, ushering in the 2012 football season in style. Despite the banner raising though, neither team’s NFL odds leave particularly much to be desired. Last January, for a second time in five years, the […]
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A pair of wild card contenders will collide at Comerica this weekend, as the Detroit Tigers look to squeeze past the shockingly competitive Baltimore Orioles to bump their wavering World Series futures. Although Detroit retains the possibility of taking the AL Central, it’s all or nothing for the O’s in the AL East. When Baltimore […]
Although their 2011-12 campaign came to a disappointing end in the Super Bowl, the New England Patriots kept themselves busy over the offseason making meticulous changes to their defense in hopes of a more fruitful postseason this time out. Early futures seem to suggest that the moves will work as the Pats lead the league […]
We’re touching mid-August and the Pittsburgh Pirates are as close to a playoff berth as they’ve been since prior to the Player’s Strike of 1993. This Monday they’ll get a chance to creep ever closer to the postseason they seek, bucking the MLB odds that have all but guaranteed otherwise since Day 1. Changing the […]
To be the best you have to beat the best. That’s a lesson the Baltimore Orioles are all too familiar with. This Friday, they’ll get the opportunity to square off against the AL East-leading New York Yankees with more than only their pride on the line. A series win could help the wild card-contending Orioles […]
Not only does this Saturday mark the day the 2012 NCAA season begins in earnest, it pits a pair of national contenders against one another, serving to usher in the new campaign in style. Early college football odds give the No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide a considerable edge in their debut against the No. 8 […]
There will be no shortage of firepower on display when the Texas Rangers play host to the Detroit Tigers in a three-game set this weekend, but more than a simple clash of American League stars, the series marks an opportunity for the division leaders to stake out supremacy on the MLB odds. While the Rangers […]
The Atlanta Braves haven’t forgotten how last season’s wild card race spiraled out of control. For as long as the St. Louis Cardinals will be remembered for their epic run to the 2012 World Series, it will be the Braves whose catastrophic collapse allowed them the playoff berth. This year, with the year of experience […]
UFC 150 promises to be a memorable night as lightweight champion Benson Henderson defends his title against Frankie Edgar in the main event. The Bovada Sportsbook has Henderson as the -190 betting favorite over Edgar’s +155. These two fighters met at UFC 144, where Henderson took down Edgar. UFC president Dana White has said that […]
It’s hard not to notice the tension surrounding the New Orleans Saints this season. After the overwhelming revelation that the franchise participated in what’s been deemed “Bountygate”, many of the faces who helped establish the club as a perennial NFL odds contender will sit out part or all of the 2012 season. That’s not the […]