The Sports Geek Blog
We’ve developed this blog at The Sports Geek to add some dynamic and very useful information regarding sports and betting on sports. We hope that you find the articles here helpful and really enjoy reading them. We plan to keep this blog updated regularly, with new articles to make sure that our readers are getting what they deserve. If you have any specific topics that you would like to see written on or something that we miss, please feel free to contact us and let us know.
Featured Blog Posts
2025 NFL Draft Contests, Challenges and Competitions
Get engaged and cash this draft season with the best free 2025 NFL Draft contests and challenges I’ve selected for you! Some of the top NFL sportsbooks are entering the draft madness by offering exciting competitions. Put your football knowledge to the test against the rest of the country by predicting how the 2025 NFL Draft will unfold for cool cash prizes.
The more picks you get correct, the...
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, April 22:
You can find the reasoning for our recommended...
Best Home Run Bets Today – MLB HR Predictions
Who will hit a home run today in the MLB? Check our best HR bets today to find out! Our experts go through the odds of the best MLB betting sites on any given night to discover the most valuable HR prop bets available.
They pick the best bets to hit a home run based on factors such as stats, recent trends, ballpark analysis, and more. We explain our approach in detail below, in case you want t...
Best NRFI Bets Today – No Runs First Inning Picks UPDATED DAILY
Interested in the best NRFI bets today? You’ve come to the right place since our MLB experts share their no runs first inning picks daily! We go through the odds of the top MLB betting sites to find the highest value picks for this market and bring them to you.
The table below contains our top NRFI predictions, but we also explain our reasoning for each bet and our overall strategy later in th...
Next Pope Odds for Successor, Papal Name, and Continent Predictions
The next Pope odds show that there are plenty of candidates who could replace Pope Francis. The last Pope passed away after serious health problems, which means Vatican City is looking to put a succession plan in place.
I’ll examine the next Pope odds and give you my pick for whom it’ll be, along with the next papal name, and what continent they’ll be from.
Next Pope, Papal Name, and Contin...
2025 NHL Playoff Bracket Challenges and Contests: Free Entry, Real Prizes
The best 2025 NHL bracket challenges and playoff contests offer excellent opportunities for various prizes for free! They can also make the upcoming postseason extra exciting, so we strongly recommend joining one or more of them.
Furthermore, you can always invite your friends to prove you are the smartest person in the room when it comes to hockey! Even if you don’t know anything about the NH...
2024-25 NHL Pick’em Contests: Win Big on Free NHL Pools
The puck has dropped on the 2024-25 NHL season, so it’s time to place your bets and enter the best NHL pick’em pools. There are a number of free NHL pools to make the season more entertaining and to win prizes!
Here’s an overview of the best NHL betting contests before I share more on how to play, the rules, and everything else important to know!
Best NHL Betting Contests for 2024-25
NH...
Billy Walters' Story - Can You Get Rich Sports Betting?
There is perhaps no name more infamous in the high stakes gambling world than that of Billy Walters. He is widely regarded by experts to be the most successful sports bettor of all time, suffering only one losing year over a period of 39 years.
How he got to this point is an amazing story of dealing with roadblocks on life’s journey, passion for the work you love, and outthinking the comp...
Should I Be Betting on More Than One Site?
It’s an awful sensation when you hope to strive for excellence but your growth is artificially stunted by red tape, rules, and regulations. There are many bettors out there who are experiencing this exact frustration because their favorite sportsbook will only let them succeed up to a certain point.
Sportsbooks appreciate your business, but they are wary of players who win too much money.
T...
4 Most Common Football Bets and How to Win Them
Each September, millions of sports bettors can barely contain their excitement as America’s most frequently bet sport returns in all its glory. Saturday and Sunday mornings are now occupied by looking at the day’s odds, and countless financial choices are made on the couch.
The only people more excited about football’s return than gamblers are the sportsbooks. After all, modest profits are made...
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...
Get Exclusive Access to Winning Sports Betting Picks for Free
Click on the button below to get free picks delivered to your email daily...
Get Picks Today!