Posts tagged ‘betting odds’
With the 2021 NFL draft now a memory, it’s time to take a first look at the favorites to win the league’s Offensive Rookie of the Year award. Not surprisingly, quarterbacks top the list of favorites. The importance of the position in recent years has led to the drafting of a quarterback with the No. […]
The 2021 Kentucky Derby is back to kicking off the year’s Triple Crown on Saturday, May 1, from Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The best three-year-old thoroughbreds will start this year’s Triple Crown racing series after being run on Saturday, September 5, last year with no fans present due to the coronavirus. The ceremonial “Race […]
It’s NFL Draft week, as football fans are counting down the hours until Roger Goodell takes the stage in Cleveland on Thursday. While some draft bets are obvious, like Trevor Lawrence going first to the Jacksonville Jaguars, there are many others that are interesting toss-ups. Here are some of the more interesting NFL Draft futures […]
It won’t be long until the NBA regular season wraps up and the play-in tournament will be upon us. While teams like Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Milwaukee are locks for the playoffs in the East; there are a number of teams from seventh-place through 12th that could qualify. The same holds in the Western Conference where […]
The Red Sox, White Sox, and Tigers were the only major league teams to replace their managers during or after the 2020 MLB season. Alex Cora, Tony La Russa, and A.J. Hinch might be safe in 2021, but there are a handful of managers that could be shown the door before the regular season ends. […]
The biggest horse race of the “Triple Crown” is at the start of the season rather than the end. That is, unless there is a horse in contention to win all three, then the final race becomes most important. This year’s Kentucky Derby is in three weeks from today and we have the skinny on […]
The Canadian Football League is back in action in 2021 after the coronavirus cancelled the entire 2020 season. Winnipeg, a 33-12 winner over Hamilton in 2019, looks to defend its Grey Cup title. The Blue Bombers will be hard pressed to do so as their foe in that 2019 championship game returns one of the […]
Members of the San Diego Padres front office have seen their heart rhythms return to normal on the news that it appears the shoulder injury suffered by Fernando Tatis Jr. will not need season-ending surgery. Locking up the 22-year-old was one of the chief accomplishments in a very good offseason in San Diego. But a […]
The NCAA has done an admirable job of putting on an NCAA tournament while navigating through the coronavirus pandemic. Only one game, a first-round matchup between Oregon and VCU, was affected by the virus. With the Final Four upon us, that game is a distant memory. Now, the focus is on one of four different […]
Major League Baseball teams have broken their spring training camps and are now headed to the road to begin the regular season on April 1. It’s a time of excitement and anticipation, and for the Mets front office, a time of great angst. When the team traded for shortstop Francisco Lindor in January, they weren’t […]
