The push for the Los Angeles Lakers 15th World Championship begins Monday night against the Portland Trail Blazers.
This is no ordinary season for the Lakers, its championship or bust after getting smoked by the Celtics in the NBA Finals last year.
The Cleveland Cavaliers invade the Boston Celtics tonight with home court advantage in the East potentially on the line.
Sportsbook.com has Boston as two-point favorites, with a Total of 184. Check out all the live odds for Friday’s NBA games here. ESPN will have the telecast of this anticipated matchup stating at 8 pm ET.
The TNT Thursday doubleheader is an all Western Conference affair as four potential playoff teams are in action.
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Derek Jeter had two hits on Tuesday against the New York Yankees.
That’s how important the World Baseball Classic is to the players involved. Jeter is on Team USA, who beat the Yankees 6-5 with Jeter on the diamond for the full nine innings.
World Baseball Classic betting is attracting attention across the globe, but the biggest story continues to be the American team.
USA was expected to have a great showing in the inaugural 2006 tournament, only to finish outside the Final Four after barely squeaking by the opening round.
The Cleveland Cavaliers barely survived in Atlanta on Sunday and now have another tough test at the Miami Heat.
Sportsbook.com has Cleveland as 3 ½-point favorites with a Total of 186.5. The game will be played at 7:30 pm ET
Cleveland (46-12, 37-21 ATS) is playing their fourth road game in five nights, as the Cavs erased a five-point deficit with 1:42 remaining to win at Atlanta 88-87 last night. This has been no ordinary road trip either for Cleveland, with every opponent well-positioned to make the postseason.
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish have a must win game Monday night when they host the Villanova Wildcats.
The Irish have played some good basketball of late, winning four of five heading into the weekend although bettors aren’t thrilled with their 2-3 ATS record.
Notre Dame still has a slim chance to make the NCAA tournament if they win at home against St. John’s on March 6th and take care of Nova on Monday night.
The guys of NASCAR make their annual stop in Sin City this Sunday and Sportsbook.com has the odds and a great contest.
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Leading the field for Sunday will be Matt Kenseth, who is in search of his third straight win to start the 2009 season, and his third career trip to Victory Lane at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The loss of point guard Dominic James is a huge blow to Marquette as they play at the Louisville Cardinals on Sunday.
James’ season and college career is over after he suffered a broken foot in a home game against Connecticut on Wednesday night. The Golden Eagles (23-5, 12-3 Big East) lost 93-82, which was their only home loss of the year.
The Virginia Tech Hokies have been costing their backers lots of cash at home and now the Duke Blue Devils are coming to town.
The Hokies are just 2-7 against the spread at home and they haven’t covered there since they beat Boston College, 79-71 on January 17th as 3 ½-point favorites.
Things aren’t going to get much easier on Saturday afternoon at 3:30 pm ET. That’s when the #7 Duke Blue Devils show up in a game nationally televised on ABC.
Golfing legend Tiger Woods is the favorite to win the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship beginning Wednesday in Arizona.
Woods being the favorite isn’t usually breaking news, but when we last saw him in June, he was winning the U.S. Open on one leg. And anytime a golfer is coming off ACL knee surgery, questions will remain.
The Pittsburgh Panthers are the number one team in the country but it’s the North Carolina Tar Heels who are favored to win March Madness.
Sportsbook.com has just updated its odds-to-win the men’s NCAA title and the Heels remain at the top at 3:1 odds. Pittsburgh is ranked behind them at 4:1 despite just moving up to #1 once again.
The San Antonio Spurs are backed by an interesting nba betting trend Tuesday night as they get ready to host their arch rivals, the Dallas Mavericks.
San Antonio (37-17) is returning from a grueling eight-game road trip that happens every year when the rodeo is in town and using their arena.
A lot of teams coming off long road trips will play flat in their first game at home, but not the Spurs. In the six seasons following the ‘Rodeo Trip’ the Spurs have won and covered the spread every time with the average margin of victory a whopping 18.6 PPG.
The Louisville Cardinals have been a great conference bet the last two years. Can they keep it up tonight at the Georgetown Hoyas as two-point chalk?
ESPN will have the contest at 7 pm ET, followed by Kansas at Oklahoma.
Coach Pitino’s teams are 38-10 the last three years in the Big East regular season and are an astonishing 36-11-1 ATS. That is +23.9 units of profit playing some of the fiercest competition any team can face.
NASCAR heads west for the next two weeks starting with a Sunday evening affair at Auto Club Speedway.
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The great NBA doubleheader tonight of Dallas at Houston and New Orleans at the L.A. Lakers is being affected by trades and injuries.
Dallas (+3) at Houston – 8 pm ET
The Houston Rockets understand what it means to play without its star players. Over the last several years, Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady have missed a number of games and the team has plodded on.
