Sportsbooks have had a lot of extra time to work on their upcoming offerings for football season. One match-up that has sportsbooks and fans both excited is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs the New Orleans Saints. It is no mystery why this matchup is of extreme interest. Tom Brady, arguably the best QB in NFL […]

Well the XFL is hanging in there pretty well. The games are being shown on FOX and CBS and the stadiums are about half full. There is some excitement around the sport and even a few breakout stars. Ratings have been decent and as we printed last week, at least one sportsbook manager has been […]

The XFL is looking good thus far. Its ratings this past weekend were the highest sports ratings of the weekend. But no one will be too quick to judge the league as a success. This is because the league jumped out to a great start back in 2001 before eventually folding due to lack of […]

Sunday’s conference championship games didn’t offer all the excitement that was hoped for. Other than the first half of the KC vs Titans game where KC was down by ten points, the games weren’t even close. KC would score a TD before half-time to take the lead and never look back. The NFC game was […]

This coming weekend is huge for football fans. The divisional round games of the NFL are Saturday and Sunday. The College Football Championship is Monday. Sports bettors have been very active this month and we sat down to ask George, the sportsbook manager at major offshore sportsbook YouWager some questions about last weekend and this […]

We try to get comments from the actual guys on the floor who are actually managing risk exposure. For the huge week and weekend coming up we were able to secure comments from the book manager at top ranked online sportsbook YouWager.lv He goes into detail about where the action is coming from and how […]

This is a question that many don’t think to ask because they assume the modern parlor style sportsbook has been around since the dawn of Las Vegas. But that simply isn’t the case. The modern sportsbook set up really isn’t that old at all, just 45 years to be exact. Gambling in general was legalized […]

The games for week 16 were quite exciting and things were shaken up a bit in the NFL playoffs. Miami’s surprise win at New England dropped the Patriots down from the 2 seed to the 3 seed meaning that they will have to play in the wild card weekend and don’t get home field advantage […]

Week 15 is in the bag and as usual there were some exciting games and a few not-so-exciting. Week 16 will see teams vying for a playoff birth give it their very best to get a win. Some teams will also be fighting for their playoff spot. So, I don’t think you will see any […]

Apparently the sportsbooks did very well last night on the Cowboys loss. Dallas lost 24-31 to the Bears despite both public and smart money riding on them. YouWager‘s sportsbook manager said “Thursday nights upset was a big game for the house. Public and the wise guys were pounding the Cowboys.” He went on to say […]