Insider Best and worst CBB teams to bet on
The other night, my older son grabbed a deck of cards and said, "Hey, Dad, how do you play poker?" He's 9. I used to play regularly with friends wh…
Harm of betting to leagues remains unclear
There is something for everyone in U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp's 45-page ruling against New Jersey in its fight for legalized sports betting …
Insider Best and worst CBB teams to bet on
In the week since the Miami Hurricanes debuted atop the Sweat Barometer that I work up with Sal Selvaggio of madduxsports.com, they have: racked …
Insider College Basketball Sweat Barometer
A few years ago, I was in Las Vegas for a reporting trip. It was a Tuesday afternoon in the middle of college basketball season, post-Super Bowl. E…
Insider Impact of soccer match-fixing scandals
A soccer match-fixing scandal that spreads from Europe to Asia to Africa. An oral argument in New Jersey to determine whether sports betting shoul…
Insider Most bet Super Bowl ever?
I am jetting to New Orleans as I write this, busting it in a tin can flying nose-first into 130 mph winds (you should have seen how this sentence lo…
Insider Mike Midili wins SB Prop Bet Contest
I think Christopher Power is the kind of doctor I'd like to have in an emergency. For one thing, the 40-year-old is an emergency room doctor, so the…
Insider The Super Bowl Prop Bet Contest
Prop bets were born for two reasons, the same two reasons that just about every idea has ever been hatched: a simultaneous need to cure boredom and …
Insider Analyzing the early Super Bowl XLVII line
A few years ago I was in Vegas for a visit toward the end of the summer. That's how you know it was for work: No one goes to Vegas for pleasure at t…
Insider Line moves for conference title games
If not for one of the most popular and powerful athletes of the past decade (who also happens to have created an influential charity) admitting he w…