There’s afternoon baseball at Wrigley Field with the Chicago Cubs hosting the Atlanta Braves in the finale of their three-game series. The two teams have split the first two games, and both are sending youngsters to the hill, with AJ Smith-Shawver making his first start of the season for Atlanta, and Ben Brown countering for the Cubbies. Here are...

The Indiana Pacers will be kicking themselves for letting Game 1 slip away. More specifically, Tyrese Haliburton will be haunted by his inability to hold onto the ball as well as overall poor decision-making down the stretch of regulation that allowed Indiana to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The series hinges on Haliburton elevating his play...

If you think you have what it takes to go against the smartest football minds in the betting business, then these NFL survivor pool contests could be for you. There are millions on the line with steep registration fees. Football survival pools have become one of the more popular full-season betting contests offered at some of the most influential sportsbooks...

NBA “First Basket” props are like an appetizer to a full menu of playoff betting... if that appetizer was a deep-fried ghost pepper swimming in sriracha.  Nothing gets you sweating right out of the gate like “first basket” NBA picks, which is as simple as it sounds: bet on the player to score the first basket of the game. For tonight's Pacers vs....

Lawmakers in yet another state are considering whether to try to squeeze more from legal bookmakers.  This time, it is operators offering sports betting in Massachusetts that face the threat of a tax hike, after a state senator proposed a budget amendment that would jack up the commonwealth’s levy to a New York-like level. Democratic Sen. John Keenan...

The New York Liberty look to improve to 5-0 when they host the Chicago Sky on tonight. That unblemished record doesn’t mean much to WNBA bettors, however, as New York has managed to cover the spread in only one of those first four games. Oddsmakers — and my Sky vs. Liberty predictions — have New York laying the lumber tonight, setting it as 15-point...