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May 16, 2024

College football by the odds: Handicapping every Big Ten win total

The major college football conferences are ditching the divisional format, and there’s no place where that will be a more welcomed change than in the Big Ten. …

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Weekend wagers: A handful of bets to make on seven different sports

The United States women’s national soccer team has now seen its odds to win the World Cup double despite the field being cut in half. …

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College football by the odds: Handicapping every Pac-12 team’s win total

The Pac-12 has taken a lot of heat for being the weakest power conference over the last decade, but for once, it’s going to be difficult to ignore in 2023. …

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College football by the odds: Handicapping every Big 12 team’s win total

It’s an awkward farewell this year considering Texas and Oklahoma look far and away like the Big 12’s best teams on paper. …

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Weekend wagers: Bets for Spence vs. Crawford, UFC 291 and more

Sports books would normally be dead in the final weekend of July, but that won’t be the case today. They’ll be buzzing with patrons in and out all day to place bets on the bouts …

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College football by the odds: Handicapping every SEC team’s win total

Over the next few weeks, Talking Points will be previewing every power conference in college football from a betting perspective by picking the win totals. …

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Weekend wagers: Nine bets to make including a pair of football futures

Weekend Wagers is going exceptionally well overall this year and I’ll try my best to keep building in the right direction. …

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Weekend wagers: Eight bets to make this weekend

Anyone who says they can’t find anything to bet on this weekend simply isn’t looking hard enough. …

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Weekend wagers: 9 bets on 7 sports to make this weekend

Weekend Wagers has sat dormant for the last two weeks, but that didn’t stop the column from picking up a near $2,000 victory. …

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What to watch and how to bet at UFC 290

UFC 290 is perhaps the most uncompetitive fight card in promotional history on paper. …

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Weekend wagers: Eight bets to make on eight different sports

Weekend Wagers will be on hiatus the next two weeks, so making the most of the eight bets below is paramount. …

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Weekend wagers: Going for a second straight undefeated betting slate

A nice cushion was built up last week in the column’s yearly bankroll but it can go flat really quick with a couple poor weeks. …

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Weekend wagers: Eight bets to make during a racing-heavy three-day stretch

F1’s Monaco Grand Prix begins early Sunday morning before giving way to IndyCar’s Indianapolis 500 with NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte signing off in the late afternoon to early evening. …

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Weekend wagers: Eight bets to make including on the Preakness, the NFL

Disappointment is an overall theme going into today’s second race of the Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. …

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Weekend wagers: Placing Kentucky Derby bets, several futures and other plays

Betting on the Run for the Roses might be better in Las Vegas than anywhere with all the fixed-odds offerings, instead of the traditional parimutuel wagering, at several sports books. …

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