With the Bronx bombers dead last on the AL East division, betting on baseball on the Yankees, seems like a bad idea, right now.
Sometimes tennis betting affords fans a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity, such as being able to watch World No. 1 Novak Djokovic face off against wunderkind Borna Coric – also known as “mini-Djokovic.” According to AP, top-seeded Djokovic will make his Madrid Open (aka Madrid Masters) debut on Wednesday against either clay Nicolas Almagro – which means his pretty good playing in clay courts and sadly not that he is a shape-shifter – or 19-year-old Croatian Coric. I’m keeping my fingers and my toes crossed that it will be the latter, just to see what happens if Djokovic beats himself.
The Los Angeles Angels are betting on MLB favorites (-120) – as well as winners of the all-time most redundant name in sports history – versus the Milwaukee Brewers (+110) tonight. The visiting Angels will hope to prevent their fourth defeat in five games on the arm of Nick Tropeano – who hopes to keep filling a void in the Los Angeles Angels' rotation – as Junior Guerra looks forward to giving the Brewers their second home win in a row in this series after going almost two decades without one. Monday's 8-5 series-opening victory for Milwaukee broke a four-game skid in this series and eight-game drought at home versus Los Angeles going back to 1997.
The Oklahoma City Thunder has made me a very happy man – though I’m not even a basketball batting person, and yes, I’m aware of the irony – by winning Game 2 of their series at San Antonio, tying the series 1-1. And to top it all off, Manu Ginobili got a chestful of elbow courtesy of Dion Waiters. Obviously, San Antonio are blaming the shameful 98-97 defeat at home on this supposedly controversial “no-call.”
The Toronto Raptors (-200) are basketball betting favorites against the Miami Heat (+170). Unlike the rest of the teams in the NBA playoffs, the Raptors have not just one city, but an entire country pulling for them – theoretically speaking. Canadian sports fans sustained quite a blow this year as not one Canadian hockey team made the NHL playoffs.
People betting on soccer – or more specifically, people betting on Manchester City – are crossing their collective fingers, hoping that Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo – and I use the term star loosely – will not recover from his injury in time for the second leg of the UEFA Champions League semifinal.
Betting on NHL playoffs second round series between the Lightning and the New York Islanders is what is called a toss-up. With the series tied one game apiece, tonight’s game 3 could be a turning point not only concerning who takes the lead, but also which team will eventually skate away with the series.
Just like when Dorothy told the Scarecrow she would miss him the most within the other two guys’ hearing range, many online betting sportsbooks are treating the Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs’ respective rivals – the Portland Trailblazers and Oklahoma City Thunder – as mere afterthoughts.
With the boxing odds posted for the upcoming WBC World Middleweight Title fight between Canelo and Khan, we take a look into this main event.
The second round for the Eastern Conference playoffs are now here and the online betting world can finally join the Cavaliers in saying: “FINALLY!” Crisis adverted by the favorites in their lengthy series, as they managed to put away the plucky underdogs that made them really sweat this time around.