The look-ahead line on Saints-Panthers was pick’em before New Orleans’ win over Green Bay. But with the Saints’ stock soaring, oddsmakers made them 3½-point favorites at Carolina.
Todd Dewey
Reporter: Sports betting
Email: tdewey@reviewjournal.com
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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.
A week after wiseguys backed the Raiders in their wild overtime win over the Baltimore Ravens, they’re betting against them in Sunday’s game at Pittsburgh.
One of the biggest challenges for bettors is to not overreact to what happens one week, especially in Week 1 of the NFL season.
Review-Journal sports betting reporters Jim Barnes and Todd Dewey post their best college football and NFL bets.
Colorado has the NHL’s highest season point total at the Westgate SuperBook with 110½. The Golden Knights have the second-highest total at 107½.
There was an outage on the apps that began more than 30 minutes before the 10 a.m. kickoffs of nine NFL season openers and prevented customers from accessing their accounts.
Baltimore dipped to a consensus 3½-point favorite over the Raiders on Monday at Las Vegas sportsbooks after the number dropped from 4½ to 4 last week.
New Orleans, which whipped Green Bay 38-3, delivered the biggest win on a monster day for the books as underdogs went 10-3 ATS with eight outright upsets entering Sunday night.
A year after the coronavirus pandemic restricted the capacity and curbed the enthusiasm at the books, bettors returned en masse.
San Francisco has attracted 85 percent of the tickets, or wagers, at Station, where the Niners are 9-point road favorites over the Detroit Lions after the line opened at 7.
Wizardraceandsports.com handicapper “Dr. Alan” Dumond, a two-time top-five finisher in the Westgate SuperContest, analyzes every NFL game and gives final scores for each.
Ten handicappers, media members and Westgate SuperBook vice president Jay Kornegay will make five weekly NFL picks ATS using SuperContest lines during the 18-week NFL season.
The Patriots have dominated the Miami Dolphins in New England, covering eight of the past nine meetings while winning 11 of the last 12 and 17 of 20.
The Ravens dipped from 4½-point favorites to consensus 4-point favorites at Las Vegas sportsbooks Thursday, and South Point and Station Casinos lowered the line to 3½.
The biggest line move has seen the New Orleans Saints drop from 3-point home favorites over the Green Bay Packers to 4-point underdogs in a game that was moved to Jacksonville.
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