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Offshore Bookmaker Odds to Win 2016 WNBA Championship
We’re roughly two months into the 2016 WNBA season and the offshore bookmaker odds favorites the Los Angeles Sparks have hit the ground running. The team led by head coach Brian Agler tied the 1998 Houston Comets for the best start in WNBA history before dropping a game to the Atlanta Dream. The Sparks currently stand at 20-2 (0.909%) and have thus already improved on last season’s 14-20 record. Defending champions the Minnesota Lynx are second in the Western Conference with a 19-4 record (0.826%), 1½ games behind the Sparks.
Mickelson Missed Making Memories
No one would’ve bet on golf legend Phil Mickelson coming within one put of making history – and missing. No one in the history of modern majors has ever been able to shoot 62 at an open. That’s 156 years of history including 116 US Opens, 144 Open Championships, and 80 Masters. In fact no one in that tenure has been able to come as close as Mickelson did on Thursday at the Royal Troon in Ayrshire, Scotland. The 46-year old golfer played “one of the best rounds of his life” but ultimately admitted that he “felt like a higher power was working against him”. After re-watching the footage, those who bet on golf might just agree.
The Chicago Bulls’ Valentine does not get a single Rose
Chicago Bulls’ basketball betting fans were mostly concerned about one thing. Could Derrick Rose and Jimmy Butler get along in the backcourt? Rose being traded to the New York Knicks rendered that question moot, but it also opens the door for 14th overall pick in the first round of the NBA draft Denzel Valentine to become in 2016-17 what Rose was to the Bulls in 2008-09. Sure, Rose was the 1st overall pick in that year’s draft, but as they say, beggars can’t be choosers.
Early Online Wagering Odds for Miocic versus Overeem
UFC 203 is still quite a ways away, but the online wagering odds for the main event pitting heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic versus Alistair Overeem have already come in. Here are the UFC betting odds for the bout to take place September 10th at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio:
NFL Betting Looking to Purge Concussions
NFL betting is plagued by more factors than any other sport. NFL players are notorious for earning suspensions, and the physicality of football results in various injuries. While it’s easy to tell when a player has a physical injury from the outside, concussions will sometimes go unnoticed. Even when players detect the symptoms themselves it’s easy to understand why they may be hesitant to report injuries. Professional athletes are some of the biggest competitors on the planet, and you definitely don’t want to appear injury prone when your paycheck depends on your performance on the field. But there is a rising need for the league to address the issue of concussions; the NFL has put plenty of regulations to increase security and detection but the most important thing it can do now is address player responsibility.
The Milwaukee Bucks meet their Maker
Fans who pulled the trigger on betting on basketball on the Milwaukee Bucks at SBG Global sportsbook last season ended up like deer caught in the headlights. In spite of a promising 2014-15 campaign and group of very young and very skilled players, the Bucks finished 2015-16 with a 33-49 records and failed to qualify to the playoffs. Nevertheless, general manager John Hammond stuck to his gut and unearthed another obscure player in the 2016 NBA draft. In 2013, it was Grecian Giannis Antetokounmpo; this year, it’s Australian/Sudanese Thon Maker. Hammond is pretty much the Brangelina of professional basketball.
Early Online Wagering Boxing Odds for Golovkin vs. Kell Brook
Online wagering is actually a great way to get into the action in case you cannot physically attend the fight! Gennady Golovkin is the early boxing betting favorite to retain the WBA (Super), WBC, IBF and IBO middleweight titles when he steps into the ring with current IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook on September 10th, 2016 at the O2 Arena in London, England. Here are the online wagering odds for the upcoming fight:
Pac-12 College Football Betting Odds to win NCAA Title
The Pac 12 has won more NCAA Championships than any other conference in history, and as such its teams are always college football betting odds favorites, or are they? Let’s see what the odds are like for these 12 teams to win the NCAA football national championship:
Pacquiao’s return takes Senator Pacquiao by Surprise
Boxing betting fans should be happy – or confused, as Manny Pacquiao himself is – at the news that the Filipino boxer is coming out of retirement to fight in the main event of an HBO pay-per-view card in Las Vegas on either October 29th or November 5th. His opponent is yet to be determined. Also yet to be determined? Whether Pacquiao is actually planning to return to the ring. If Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is to be believed, Brock Lesnar is not the only fighter taking on a few extracurricular in addition to his day job. As The Guardian puts it, “Manny Pacquiao will fight again.” And the South will rise again.
David vs. Goliath: Vannata’s Odds against Ferguson
UFC betting is always ready to witness a colossal beat down, and if sportsbooks’ odds are any indication of what will happen, you can expect a giant trashing at UFC Fight Night 91. On Wednesday night UFC newcomer Landon Vannata (8-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) will be stepping into the octagon to face one of the world’s most menacing fighters Tony Ferguson (20-3 MMA, 10-1 UFC). Ferguson has an established reputation within the UFC as one of the most fearsome 155-pounders in the world. In fact he was actually poised to square-up against someone of his caliper, Michael Chiesa. However, Chiesa suffered a back injury and will be unable to compete. After the injury the UFC scrambled to find a fighter to fill his absence, and the only fighter to have the ‘cahones’ to take on Ferguson was Vannata.