The Bengals are now 1-10 in the first two weeks of the season under coach Zac Taylor. Cincinnati is a 5½-point underdog at Kansas City on Sunday.
Todd Dewey
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Todd Dewey covers sports betting for the Review-Journal. Prior to taking over that beat in January 2017, he covered UNLV football, 51s baseball and a wide range of other events that come to Las Vegas. A native of Cambridge, Mass., and a graduate of the University of Central Florida, Dewey joined the Review-Journal in 1999 and was the 2013 Nevada Sportswriter of the Year.
Caesars Sportsbook took a six-figure wager on the NFL “Thursday Night Football” clash between the AFC East rival Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins.
The betting favorite to win the election flipped again after Tuesday’s first presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
More than 50 prop bets about Tuesday’s debate are posted at an offshore sportsbook. There are props on which words and phrases will be mentioned first and last, and more.
In betting parlance, a “dime” means $1,000. A DraftKings bettor turned an actual dime into $13,721.40 after hitting a five-leg first touchdown scorer parlay.
The betting odds to win the 2024 election have flipped again on the eve of the presidential debate.
The first “Monday Night Football” game of the season, between the New York Jets and San Francisco 49ers, saw the total drop with the news Christian McCaffrey was out.
A day after Circa set a record for prize money and entries for its $1,000-entry Survivor contest, a huge portion of the field was eliminated in Week 1 of the NFL season.
Northern Illinois handed Notre Dame a shocking 16-14 upset loss as a 28-point underdog and at gigantic odds on the money line.
Circa blew past its $16 million in guarantees for its two NFL handicapping contests, the Circa Survivor and Circa Million VI. Registration closed Saturday.
Professional handicapper Scott Pritchard (Pritchardspicks.com) analyzes every NFL Week 1 Sunday and Monday game and makes predictions for each matchup.
The Westgate SuperBook’s Jay Kornegay went 59-25-6 (70.2 percent) last season en route to winning the Review-Journal NFL Challenge for the second time in three years.
The Chargers opened as 3½-point favorites in May, five months after the Raiders humiliated them while setting a franchise record for points in a 63-21 rout.
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy’s bet on the Ravens-Chiefs NFL season opener eclipsed a $220,000 wager that was placed on Baltimore +3 at the South Point sportsbook.
Westgate SuperBook vice president Jay Kornegay, who hit 70 percent of his picks last season to win the Review-Journal NFL Challenge, gives his Week 1 best bet.