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Todd Dewey
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.
Miami is one of six 0-3 teams, along with the Redskins, Jets, Broncos, Bengals and Steelers, and probably would take Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa with the No. 1 overall pick.
Houston furniture store owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale is using legal sportsbooks to help offset a potential eight-figure loss on a free mattress set promotion.
Handicappers Hank Goldberg, Scott Kellen and Mark Franco are tied for the contest lead at 11-4 ATS, and Westgate sportsbook vice president Jay Kornegay is 10-5.
The Cornhuskers are 7-1 against the spread in their last eight Big Ten games, and coach Scott Frost is on a 7-2 cover run as an underdog.
Sharp bettors at CG Technology sportsbook backed Green Bay as a 3-point favorite on the lookahead line and the number climbed as high as 5 before settling at 4.
The $500-entry SuperContest Reboot is for NFL Weeks 9-17 and the $100-entry PropKnight contest requires entrants to pick over or under on 30 Knights’ player props.
The Bears are 5½-point road favorites over the Redskins after the line opened at 4 and a respected bettor at Caesars Entertainment wagered on Chicago at minus 4½.
The Rams’ 20-13 win was the biggest NFL decision of the season for MGM Resorts and CG Technology, which each needed Cleveland for multiple six figures.
Opening and closing lines and point-spread highlights for every NFL Sunday game.
The Knights led 34-28 in the final minute when Pittsburgh scored on a trick play coach Pat Narduzzi called the “Pitt Special” on fourth-and-goal.
Well versed in probability and statistics, Halpern estimates that fewer than 1 percent of people make money in the long run betting on sports.
Hank Goldberg leads the contest with an 8-2 ATS record, Scott Kellen and Mark Franco are each 7-3 ATS and the consensus picks are the Broncos and Rams.
The line on Sunday’s Patriots-Jets game also dropped by up to a point as New England went from a 22½-point favorite to 21½ at CG Technology and from 22 to 21 at MGM Resorts.
VSiN host Mitch Moss went 4-0-1 ATS in Week 3 and leads the contest with a 9-4-2 ATS record. Handicappers Paul Stone and Dana Lane are tied for second at 9-6.