Bodog.com is Back
On April 21, 2009, Bodog officially announced that Morris Mohawk Gaming Group had reached an agreement
that resulted in the settlement of all pending patent litigation against a then...
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2009 Belmont Stakes Post Positions Drawn
The last leg of the Triple Crown goes down this weekend - yes, the 141st running of the Belmont Stakes is upon us
and the post positions have been drawn! The post positions for the 2009...
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Oddsmakers, Pats Gambling Big On Brady's Knee
New England quarterback Tom Brady practiced in front of the media with the Patriots for the first time this week,
and all accounts are that Brady is showing no lingering effects from the knee...
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College Football Futures: Irish Are Worth BCS Title Bet
I want to preface this article by saying that I’m an experienced sports writer, not a Notre Dame fan and not under
the influence of any mind-altering substances. You’ll understand my reasoning...
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NFL Futures: Courts Could Affect Vikings' Division Hopes
Not all of the big offseason news regarding the Minnesota Vikings revolves around a former Packers and Jets quarterback.
The strength of the Vikings the past few years has been their run defense...
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NFL Futures: Burress Would Improve Bears Odds
Apparently media types now are following Twitter to get breaking news, and that was the case this week when super-agent
Drew Rosenhaus tweeted that there was a third NFL team very ...
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Kentucky Derby Power Rankings - Friesan Fire is Hot
After this weekend’s round of Kentucky Derby prep races, one thing is absolutely apparent. The most highly touted
horses are probably going to be tough on the First Saturday in May. This ...
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NASCAR Power Rankings - Jimmie Johnson Takes top Spot
The musical chairs continue in the NASCAR Power Rankings with Team Hendrick, well, Jimmie Johnson and Jeff
Gordon, jumping to the top of the rankings. Jimmie won his first race of the year ...
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MLB Homerun King - Stay away from A-Roid
Major League Baseball’s Opening Day is quickly approaching. The first regular season game is actually
Atlanta vs. Philadelphia on April 5th. The rest of MLB begins their season on April 6th...
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Major League Pitching Props
One of the great things about the BetUS Sportsbook is that they have propositions on the total wins of a
number of prominent major league pitchers, which you can take advantage ...
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NBA Power Rankings - The King's Cavs Back on Top
The Cleveland Cavaliers return to the top spot in the NBA Power Rankings after dominating the Dallas Mavericks
on Sunday and covering the spread in the BetUS online sportsbook...
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The National Championship - Final Four Teams are Set
The higher seeds continued their success on the college basketball betting board on the weekend, going 8-4 SU
and 7-5 ATS in the Sweet 16 and the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. That ...
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Pacquiao vs. Hatton - The Biggest Fight Ever?
While some may suggest that the sport of boxing is being surpassed by mixed-martial arts, it is doubtful that
any MMA event will get the kind of media attention, and pay-per-view buys that ...
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NCAA Tournament - South Region Betting Power Poll
All the chalk managed to get passed the first sports betting weekend of the 2009 NCAA Tournament, and this
is how the South region stacks up against one another at BetUS Sportsbook...
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NCAA National Tournament Recap - Only 1 Cinderella Left
The first two rounds are in the books and the Sweet 16 is set. BetUS has released odds on the teams left in
the tournament to win the Big Dance. But before making wagers on the team of their ...
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MLB Player Props - Hit Total Odds
With the start of the 2009 MLB regular season set to kick off in less than one month, the BetUS oddsmakers
have come up with a multitude of entertaining MLB Futures Odds for the 2009 ...
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A.L. Central Futures - The Return of the Twinkies
One of the most intriguing divisions in baseball in 2009 promises to be the A.L. Central where the Chicago
White Sox, surprise winners of the A.L. Central in 2008, will look to repeat ...
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AL West Division Betting Preview - Angels Have it Locked Up
The more things change, the more things stay the same in the American League West. After numerous roster
moves all around, MLB betting enthusiasts shouldn’t be surprised if the standings ...
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NL East Odds - Phillies Look to Repeat
The race for division supremacy in the NL East has been an absolute knock-down, drag-out, fight to the
finish the last two seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies laying two emphatic ...
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2009 MLB Props - Home Run Totals
Despite the clear drop in power numbers across the entire landscape of Major League baseball last season,
(likely due to the returned ‘normalcy’ a lack of steroid usage has brought) ...
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NBA Power Rankings - Magic Climb to the Top
Last week was another important week for bettors who concentrate on NBA games in the BetUS online sportsbook.
March Madness might be a college thing, but basketball betting has always ...
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MLB Futures - Regular Season Pitcher Propositions
Bettors are getting more than even money on Lincecum, San Francisco’s ace, to get at least 16 wins. The reason
the odds are so good on Lincecum is because even though he’s the reigning ...
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Lawmaker seeks legalized gambling
From March Madness brackets to Super Bowl pools to illicit back room wagers, people bet on professional
sports games every day. But they can do it legally only in four states, and only ...
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MLB American League Futures - Yankees are no Surprise Favorite
It’s not even March yet, but baseball is already in the air as the World Baseball Classic begins on
March 5th and runs through March 23rd... The World Baseball Classic has become much ...
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MLB Futures - National League Favorites
It’s not too early for BetUS online sportsbook betting fans to start thinking about baseball. Baseball
is roughly a month or so away. That means that gamblers should already be considering ...
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March Mayhem Betting - Who Will Wear This Year's Slippers?
Each year, the sports betting nation takes part in March Madness, which is arguably the best tournament
in all of sports. Whether you're a hardcore college basketball betting wise guy who wagers ...
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Teams to Watch Come Tournament Time
When you look at "teams to watch" in something like the NCAA basketball betting tournament, there are
obviously teams you are going to have a close eye on, whether you like it or not - schools ...
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March Madness Online Betting - Show Me The Money!
Novice basketball fans wait every March for the tradition, excitement and upsets that make up the Madness
of the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament. Office pools become a big hit, usually ...
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NASCAR - Odds to Win the Sprint Cup Championship
Three races into the 2009 NASCAR Season is a good time to revisit the odds on drivers to win the 2009
Sprint Cup... Jimmie Johnson is going for his fourth Sprint Cup Championship in a row...
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Who's Hot Under the Total - Jazz Head Up List
Along with being on a torrid ATS streak that’s seen them cash for NBA bettors in 7 of their L/8 games,
the Jazz have padded ‘under’ bettors pockets by picking the intensity up on ...
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Weekend Stakes Races - Gulfstream Park
Saturday is a big day for 3-year old colts as Gulfstream Park will showcase the Grade II Fountain of Youth
Stakes and Santa Anita Park will showcase the Grade III Sham Stakes...
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NFL Free Agency - Haynesworth to Redskins
I’m glad that something absolutely ludicrous happened in the NFL. Seriously. All we keep hearing about is
recession-this, recession-that. I’m not trying to be insensitive. I’m pinching whatever ...
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NFL's Off Season Mistakes - The Release of Brooks, Lewis and Harrison
It might not be so strange that Marvin Harrison is looking for a job. What’s stranger to me is that the game’s
two best linebackers are looking for jobs this summer. What kind of NFL is this ...
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Kentucky Derby Early Odds - Old Fashioned at 6 to 1
We’re a couple of weeks closer to the Kentucky Derby and the BetUS online racebook has adjusted odds to reflect
the major contenders... The sportsbook had to change the odds after Old ...
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MLB Futures - Handicapping the NL East
There are many observers who think this year's World Series champion might come out of the same place as last
year's champs. That's the NL East, where the Mets have faded two years in a ...
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2009 NL Central Odds - Could it be the Cubbies Year
Okay BetUS MLB online betting fanatics, after nailing a whopping 60 percent of my MLB free picks in 2008,
your handicapping guru, Eric Williams is getting prepared to set the BetUS Sportsbook ...
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AL East Division Betting Preview
With pitchers and catchers having reported to spring training, it’s time for handicappers to brush up
for what surely will be an interesting MLB betting season. The American League East is likely ...
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MLB World Series 2009 - Who you Got?
The 2008 MLB season turned out to be a flat-out thriller on the field and in the BetUS Sportsbook
in 2008 as the Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays reached the annual fall classic in ...
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Swinging the Big Stick - Who Will be the Home Run King
From ‘A-Roid’ to ‘Fat Albert’ Pujols and ‘country strong’ Ryan Howard, the 2009 MLB home run race
is sure be a thriller on the field and in the BetUS Sportsbook where MLB betting fanatics can ...
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MLB Futures Betting - This Years Tampa Bay
Which major league team, if any, can become a story similar to last year's Tampa Bay Rays, who won
the American League championship? ... In order to qualify, you'd probably have to be able to ...
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NFL Contenders - What Moves Teams Need to Make
BetUS Sportsbook customers who are crazy about pro football can't wait for the 2009 season to start.
The Pittsburgh Steelers are champions and the Arizona Cardinals almost got there, but not ...
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March Madness Futures - 2009 Championship Odds
It’s at that point in the college basketball betting season for BetUS Sportsbook fans to take a look
at the NCAAB odds on teams in the sportsbook to win the NCAA Championship... Good odds can ...
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NBA Trade Deadline Moves - Who Went Where
This year’s trade deadline was more than disappointing. Rumor mills and news feeds got me all moist
with thoughts of Amare in Toronto, Bosh in Chicago, Chandler in OKC and Shaq in ...
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College Basketball Rankings Update
The UConn Huskies managed to hold onto the top spot in the college basketball rankings this Monday,
taking 66 of the AP’s 72 votes. Then they promptly fell to the No. 4 Pittsburgh Panthers ...
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NCAA Selection Sunday Predictions
College hoops bracketologists had it easy last year. The four No. 1 seeds were obvious from the
beginning: Kansas, UCLA, Memphis and North Carolina. Of that foursome, only the Tar ...
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No love for Nole in the tennis betting world
Oh Nole, Nole, Nole! If only he let his racquet do the talking on court, we would be spared his
self-exalting chatter. Coming into the third round, his victories barely registering an audible ...
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NFL Super Bowl XLIII Betting Preview - Don't count out the Cards
Is it really going to be that easy? Anytime the Super Bowl has been an “easy pick”, most betting fans
have been burned to the ground. The Patriots in 2008? Done in by their own arrogance ...
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Super Bowl XLIII Odds - Handicapping the total
Now that the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers have won the NFC and AFC respectively, it falls onto
sports betting fans to figure out which of the myriad wagers associated with the ...
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Money Line Analysis - Super Bowl XLIII
Super Bowl betting has been heating up lately in the BetUS Sportsbook. Although the BetUS NFL odds
makers haven’t released as many prop bets as some sports betting fans would have ...
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Quarterback Props - Super Bowl XLIII
Like most sports betting fans I am eagerly awaiting the day, which should happen very soon, when
the BetUS NFL odds makers release all of the props being offered to NFL betting fans...
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College Hoops Betting Trends - How to Beat the Oddsmakers
What every sports bettor should know is that betting, like most things in life, is best judged through
statistical analysis. There is always some intuition that individuals should follow when ...
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Affliction Day of Reckoning - Is Fedor Best Fighter on the Planet?
On Saturday, Jan. 24 the online MMA betting action will be brutal, as current World Alliance of Mixed
Martial Arts Heavyweight Champion Fedor “The Last Emperor” Emelianenko defends his belt ...
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2009 Super Bowl Odds: Live Betting Tips
Some bets are about strategy (pass or run) and some are about results (made or missed field goal). You
need to have your statistics handy in either case – this is a good time to set up a ...
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NHL Hockey Odds: Craziest Odds to Win Stanley Cup
It’s true that anything can happen in the NHL. Who would have picked the Tampa Bay Lightning to win the
Stanley Cup five years ago? But you’d have to be pretty crazy to pick them now at 200-1 ...
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BCS Championship Game Odds & Pick
The Florida Gators and Oklahoma Sooners battle it out on Thursday night for top honors in
the 2008 – 2009 College Football Season. The Gators had to fight tooth and nail to get into this ...
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NFL Divisional Playoffs - San Diego vs Pittsburgh
The San Diego Chargers needed overtime to beat the Indianapolis Colts but they did so. In beating the
Colts, the Chargers beat a team that had won 9 straight games and was led by the ...
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NFL Playoffs - Divisional Championship Props
It’s important for NFL betting fans to look beyond the usual against the spread and over/under the
BetUS Total traditional online bets. Making profits on playoff games by betting props could be a ...
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NFC Divisional Playoff Breakdown - Eagles @ Giants
Sports betting fans have to consider this the most interesting NFL betting game of the NFL Divisional
Playoffs as the number one seeded New York Giants take the field against their arch rivals ...
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NFL Divisional Playoffs - NFC Matchup Arizona @ Carolina
The high-scoring Arizona Cardinals (10-7 SU, 10-7 ATS, 12-5 O/U) advanced to their NFL divisional showdown
this Saturday by beating the entertaining Atlanta Falcons 30-24 in last week’s ...
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NFL Playoffs - AFC Divisional Pick Baltimore @ Tennessee
The Baltimore Ravens (12-5 SU, 13-4 ATS, 9-7-1 O/U) flexed their powerful defensive muscles at the Miami
Dolphins’ expense last week, beating the Fish 27-9 to cover the spread as a 3.5 ...
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NFL Playoff Odds and Analysis
The favorites put together a solid showing for NFL betting fans during Wild Card Weekend, as only
the Colts failed to cover the spread. Will the favorites continue to put money in the bank ...
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NFL Odds to Win the 2009 Super Bowl: AFC or NFC?
So says the NFL futures market; the AFC is getting -120 odds to win this year’s Super Bowl,
with the NFC trailing only slightly at -110. I’m not sold on those odds. It doesn’t help the NFC’s cause ...
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NFL's Biggest Surprises and Disappointments of 2008
You can always count on the NFL to provide a volatile betting market from one year to the ...
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Top 10 Worst NFL Teams Ever
The Detroit Lions finished the 2008 NFL regular season at 0-16 (7-9 ATS). Does that make ...
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Top 5 NFL Football Games of 2008
There were so many great games in 2008 for very different reasons. Here are just five ...
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Chargers Beat the Odds: Advance to Divisionals
On Saturday evening the San Diego Chargers did what a lot of critics thought they couldn't do
(considering their 8-8 record on the season) and won the 25th overtime playoff game in 50 years with ...
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Eagles, Ravens, Chargers and Cardinals Advance
The second round of the NFL playoffs is set. The Philadelphia Eagles, who beat the Minnesota Vikings 26-14
earlier today, will play the New York Giants on Jan. 11. The Baltimore Ravens, who ...
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Fiesta Bowl Sports Betting Breakdown Ohio St vs Texas
Two perennial powerhouses that have each challenged for BCS Titles recently meet in the Fiesta Bowl
Monday night when the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Texas Longhorns (11-1 SU, 9-3 ATS)...
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GMAC Bowl Tulsa vs Ball State
Ball State is already shy of personnel. Coach Brady Hoke, an alum, took a better offer from San Diego State,
which is a lowly team. That should tell you a little about the state of the Ball State ...
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Christmas Eve Football Stats Check
It’s the holiday edition of stat check, so in keeping with the spirit of the season, here’s an extra
goodie to go along with our usual Top 10 football stats and factoids for the weekend: The longest ...
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NBA Odds - Teams Winning Big on The Over
The Bulls made NBA bettors that enjoy watching high scoring games very happy this past week by
posting a perfect 5-0 ATS mark to the ‘over’. Chicago dropped a tough NBA betting battle at ...
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NCAA Bowl Matchups and Analysis
After taking a Christmas break the college football betting schedule gets going again this weekend
with one bowl game on the slate for Friday night and three more on tap for Saturday. Here’s ...
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NBA Lines - Hot Under Teams
The Hawks have parlayed the league’s 20th ranked offense (96.4 PPG) with the league’s 6th ranked
defense (93.9 PPG) to churn out an 18-10 overall mark good for 2nd in the Atlantic Division ...
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NFL Super Bowl Contenders
Man, I was really wrong about the chances of the New Orleans Saints to get into the playoffs before
their loss last Thursday to the Chicago Bears! Sports betting fans have to excuse my lack ...
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BetUs College Football Rundown
Bowl season kicks off this weekend with five of the 34 bowl games on the college football betting schedule
on tap. Here’s a rundown of this weekend’s bowl sked. EagleBank Bowl ...
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UFC 92 The Ultimate
UFC 92 is here and the bad blood is about to boil over in a serious way. Three huge fights headline the card,
and BetUS.com sportsbook is here to provide the knowledge you need to make ...
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NFL Betting on NHL Props - Is the Vezina coming to Russia?
At the outset of the 2008-2009 season, sharp NHL betting fans essentially narrowed the Vezina Trophy race down
to three netminders: Martin Brodeur, Roberto Luongo and Evgeni Nabokov...
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NFL Monday Night Odds Packers @ Bears
There’s not a single BetUS sports betting fan in the world that believed it would be the Chicago Bears fighting
for a playoff spot in Week 16 while the Green Bay Packers would have lost 9 ...
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MLB free agent update
The MLB free agent signing period is well underway and sports betting fans need to start paying attention
as there is no doubt that some of the signings should greatly impact the chances of ...
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2008 - 2009 College Bowl Preview
Who says we need a college football playoff system? Thanks to millions of dollars in corporate sponsorship,
we have two new bowl games to bet on this year, bringing the total to ...
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What to Watch for this Weekend in Sports Betting
Okay, college football fans. Recess is over; time to get back to work. The 2008-09 bowl season starts
this Saturday with four games, and while this foursome may feature some of the lightweights ...
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Mistake in Pittsburgh/San Diego Game Costs Bettors Big
Winners turned into losers and losers ended up winning when a game that should have ended up 17-10
or 18-10 instead went into the record books as the first 11-10 final in NFL history...
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Brock Lesnar Defeats Randy Couture to win UFC Title
When Brock Lesnar took down Randy Couture in the second round of UFC 91 last night, he became just
the second man to take the heavyweight title in just his fourth fight. The other? ...
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Mark Cuban Busted For Insider Trading
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been charged with insider trading by the SEC. Reportedly,
Cuban dumped all his Mamma.com stock after he was tipped off by the company's CEO ...
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