The Mets are 51-67 through Saturday, last in the National League East, 11 games behind the final wild card spot. Back in March they opened at +1200 at BetMGM and +1300 at DraftKings to win the World Series, third or fourth shortest on the board depending on the book. ESPN’s second-half preview put it about … Read more
Portland has 12 wins through Friday, with 13 games still to play. The Fire opened their first WNBA season carrying a win total of 9.5, the lowest number on the board, and cleared it well before the schedule ran out. That makes two years running an expansion club has beaten the smallest number the market … Read more
The 2026 preseason coaches poll landed Tuesday. Ohio State sits on top with 38 of 72 first-place votes, and Indiana, which finished 16-0 and won the national championship in January, comes in sixth. Before that ordering gets read as a forecast, last August’s ballot is the more instructive document. What the Preseason Coaches Poll Said … Read more
Back in February, FanDuel posted the Chicago White Sox win total for 2026 at 67.5. Sportsbook Review logged the same figure at BetMGM a few weeks later, with DraftKings sitting a game lower at 66.5. Nobody objected much. Chicago had lost 101 games in 2023, 121 in 2024 and 102 in 2025, and Baseball-Reference lists … Read more
Training camps opened across the league last week, which means Super Bowl futures are back on every betting page in America. The Los Angeles Rams sit at +550 to win Super Bowl LXI, the shortest number on a 32-team board. Hard Rock Bet had them at +900 when the board opened. Then they traded for … Read more
Spain lifted the trophy at MetLife Stadium on July 19, and plenty of American bettors had called it. Spain was the most-backed team to win the tournament at BetMGM before a ball was kicked. That should have been an expensive month for the sportsbooks. Instead, World Cup betting handle records fell week after week and … Read more
Forty-eight teams. One hundred four matches. Thirty-nine days across three host countries. And at the end of all of it, the 2026 World Cup underdogs who had spent a month embarrassing the sport’s aristocracy watched four of the shortest prices on the board fill the semifinals. Spain beat Argentina 1-0 in extra time at MetLife … Read more