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MLB Spring Training 2025 Betting Picks: Best MLB Bets Today
The Sports Geek is here to help you this spring with our best MLB Spring Training predictions! The Cactus and Grapefruit Leagues provide plenty of chances for bettors to cash in, so let’s dig in.
Below, you can find daily MLB Spring Training odds, analysis, and our exclusive picks every day!
MATCHUPSPRING TRAINING BETSONLINE BOOKMAKERNY Yankees vs. Philadelphia PhilliesNY Yankees (+135)Be...
Best NHL Player Prop Bets Today: Free Prop Bet Predictions
Picking the best NHL player props today can be time-consuming, but our hockey experts are here to help! They will share their prop bet predictions daily from October to the Stanley Cup Final in June, including NHL anytime goal scorer predictions, shots on goal bets, and more.
Here are our daily NHL player prop predictions for today, February 27:
You can find the reasoning for our recommen...
2025 Academy Awards Odds: Who’s Winning an Oscar?
The updated 2025 Oscars betting odds reveal some big changes in the Academy Awards betting markets! The big ceremony is on March 2, 2025, and the action is heating up at online bookies. The nominations were released on January 23, and there has been some movement in the Oscar betting lines.
There was some early value on the board, and there is still some chalk left at the Academy Awards. But ...
College Basketball Player Props - Best NCAAB Player Prop Bets Today
You can find plenty of college basketball player props every single day the season is active. Picking the best NCAAB prop bets is challenging, but our team of basketball experts is always on the hunt for profitable opportunities.
We share our top predictions here, as long as the season's active. Here are our best NCAA college basketball player props today.
PROP BETMATCHUPODDSBOOKIETotal P...
NBA First Basket Predictions for Tonight: Best First Basket Scorer Bets
What are the best NBA first basket predictions for tonight? Our experts made sure to check the stats and the latest odds, before sharing their top picks for first basket scorer today.
Here's a quick overview of our first basket betting picks, and you can find our reasoning in the next section.
PLAYERMATCHUPODDSBOOKMAKERTyler Herro (MIA) First BasketAtlanta Hawks vs. Miami Heat+550BovadaJ...
Best NBA Player Props Today: Our Best Bets for Tonight
Our experts deliver their best NBA player props daily in this article, after doing the hard work and digging through all the basketball bets available today. Their predictions are based on statistical analysis, expertise, and a close look at the latest trends in the league.
Here's an overview of the best NBA player prop bets tonight, February 26.
PROP BETMATCHUPODDSBOOKIETotal Points: Jos...
11 Sports Betting Strategies for Beginners
When you look for sports betting information online, you find a bunch of articles about the basics, like how to read lines and where to bet. You also find a few pages about advance betting techniques and systems. But few pages are available that help you advance from the beginning to the point where you can use advanced techniques.
This page is designed to fill this gap. You’re going to learn 1...
Why Wayne Gretzky Might Not Be the Best NHL Player Ever
Try to suggest that Wayne Gretzky isn’t the best NHL player ever, and you’ll be met with a series of eyerolls from most hockey fans.
After all, Gretzky collected more assists in his career (1963) than the second-highest scorer in NHL history, Jaromir Jagr, has points. Add in Gretzky’s 894 career goals, which is also the most all-time, and the Great One recorded roughly 50% more points than anyo...
5 Reasons Why Bookmakers Always Win in Sports Betting
You’ve probably heard the expression that the house always wins. This saying is true to an extent, because the house holds an edge over players in most types of gambling (e.g. casino, lottery).
Sports betting differs from the average form of gambling. Bookmakers don't maintain a house edge, but they do have some notable advantages over their customers. Sportsbooks use these angles to beat the m...
How Do You Play Football Squares?
I’ve seen football squares played in multiple ways, especially during the Super Bowl. I used to play with my buddies from work on a regular basis. I also hung out in a neighborhood bar that always hosted Super Bowl squares. These are the rules for the football squares games I’ve always played in.
Football Squares Rules and Options
We always used a piece of poster-board to create the squares...
How to Bet on Basketball in Vegas
If you want to gamble on sports in Las Vegas, and if basketball is the sport you love most, this is the post for you. It’s a complete guide to how to bet basketball in Vegas.
And here are some Las Vegas sports betting basics:
Some aspects of betting on basketball in Vegas are the same as betting on any other sport. You need to be familiar with some aspects of Las Vegas sportsbooks to place a...
The 10 Worst WrestleMania Matches of All Time
WrestleMania 38 is less than a week away, which means we're talking about all things WWE over the next few days. World Wrestling Entertainment's most prestigious annual event will take place over two days (Saturday, April 3 & Sunday, April 4) at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Today, we're looking at the ten worst WrestleMania matches of all time – and trust me, there were...
Michelle Obama's 2024 Election Betting Odds
Election 2024 Betting Previews
It’s Spring 2021, and we’re already looking forward to the next electoral contest! First, there are the 2022 midterms; then, the 2024 presidential election cycle officially begins.
Of course, preliminary 2024 campaigns have already been launched by some prospective candidates. Nobody is declaring their candidacy yet, but the top contenders are already scopi...
Betting on Rachel Nichols’s Future with ESPN
The worldwide leader in vaguely sports-related drama is at it again!
While hosting the 2021 NBA Finals, ESPN recently found a way to make the story about the media sports juggernaut itself. The latest controversy centered around comments made by Rachel Nichols, the white host of ESPN’s The Jump and NBA sideline reporter, about her African American colleague Maria Taylor.
Without skipping a ...
The Top College Football Underdog Bets for Week 2
College football underdog picks are going to be more of an anomaly as we turn to Week 2. College football betting sites now have a sample size to use on all 133 teams when analyzing games.
Going 3-2 last week, gave me consecutive winning percentages in the season’s first two weeks as my record is sitting at 5-3 overall.
Duke’s (+13.5) win over Clemson punctuated my winning record in Week 1 ...
Big3 2024 Basketball Odds: Will the Triplets’ Joe Johnson Dominate?
Big3 betting odds for the seventh season of Ice Cube’s 3-on-3 pro basketball league are live at the top online sportsbooks! The Big3 season pits 12 teams against one another in a ten-week regular season schedule!
The action is scheduled to begin on Saturday, June 15, in Oakland, CA. The 3-on-3 summer league will conclude at TD Garden in Boston, MA, on Sunday, August 18.
Are you ready to mak...
