Our handicapping experts share their picks for this weekend’s college and NFL football games.
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Post Time 12:30 p.m.
Matt Youmans, Kelly Stewart and Golden Nugget sports book director Tony Miller preview the college football and NFL weekend.
The Bills and Jets are led by a pair of defensive-minded coaches in Buffalo’s Rex Ryan and New York’s Todd Bowles, but lately the AFC East rivals have been involved in some shootouts.
I wouldn’t call winning the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile a jinx. But the success rate of the Juvy winner the next spring in the Kentucky Derby has been, quite frankly, abysmal.
The gaming industry’s largest trade group said Wednesday it will spend 2016 determining if “a rational alternative” exists to the nation’s current sports wagering laws, which legally allows the activity to take place in just four states.
Daily fantasy sports sites FanDuel and DraftKings are prepared to fight in court against New York state’s top prosecutor, who said that they were running illegal gambling operations and ordered them to stop taking bets in the state.
New York’s attorney general said Tuesday daily fantasy sports was illegal gambling and ordered the popular websites DraftKings and FanDuel to immediately stop accepting wagers in the state.
It’s not always a good thing to lead the league in passing yards, and Philip Rivers is a prime example. Rivers is throwing so often because the San Diego Chargers are constantly in catch-up mode.
At the moment Ben Roethlisberger was carted off the field with yet another injury, bettors on the Pittsburgh Steelers should have expected the worst. Roethlisberger’s health was not the concern. The point-spread cover was in critical condition.
Taking a look at Suday’s AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas.
It seems like an unlikely remedy for a sick team, but the San Francisco 49ers are hoping to get well quickly with quarterback Blaine Gabbert.