Betting

Thursday night’s college football card offers a useful reminder that an underdog bet is never just an underdog bet. South Florida is getting roughly a touchdown at UTSA. South Alabama…

The easiest way to misunderstand Monday’s MLB playoff board is to look at the series scores and assume the market should follow them. Chicago shut out Cleveland 3-0. Tampa Bay…

Rankings tell us Florida and Alabama are the better teams Saturday. The NCAAF Week 5 betting odds ask a much more useful question: are they better by enough? No. 8…

Parlays are basically the NFL’s way of reminding bettors that three perfectly reasonable opinions can cooperate to ruin an afternoon. Still, the early NFL Week 4 parlay picks board gives…

Kansas City being favored over Miami is not particularly interesting. Kansas City being asked to win by 11 points on the road is where this game becomes a real betting…

College football rankings tell us what voters think a team has earned. Betting spreads have a colder job: price what is likely to happen Saturday. That distinction makes this week’s…

There is an important distinction NFL bettors learn eventually, usually after donating enough money to the lesson: the better team is not automatically the better bet. That distinction is all…

The Rams were supposed to arrive at their home opener looking like a Super Bowl heavyweight. Instead, Monday Night Football has become an immediate credibility check after Los Angeles managed…

Parlays are wonderful little machines for turning three reasonable football opinions into one extremely fragile betting ticket. This NFL Week 2 parlay features Philadelphia, Baltimore and Kansas City, three favorites…

Friday’s college football card gives bettors three completely different problems. Missouri-Kansas is a legitimate rivalry with a single-digit spread, while Louisville and Virginia enter as favorites of more than five…