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We’re down to four teams in both the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. While we didn’t see any first-round upsets on the men’s side, both France and Serbia scored impressive wins as betting underdogs, and Belgium nearly did the same. Those upsets cashed two of my pre-tournament bets, moving me […]

The Kasumigaseki Country Club and its East Course will play home to the men’s and women’s Olympic golf events this week, with the men’s teeing off Wednesday evening on the east coast of the United States. The two favorites in Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau tested positive for COVID-19 earlier in the week, as the […]

After ushering in a new era last weekend at Road America, the NASCAR Cup Series will close the book on another this Sunday. For the first time since 2010, Atlanta Motor Speedway welcomes the premier stock car racing circuit back for a second race weekend. After losing its second event to Kentucky Speedway, the Hampton, […]

After a year off due to, you know what, the oldest Grand Slam tournament in tennis returns this coming week. The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club welcomes back the top players in the world for Wimbledon. While the women’s game has been as unpredictable as ever in 2021, it’s been a different story […]

After nearly a year of hype followed by a two-month delay for disputed reasons, former world champions Mike Tyson (-230) and Roy Jones Jr. (+176) will face off at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in what will likely be one of the most-watched boxing events of the year. While the California Athletic Commission has officially […]

The 2020 men’s French Open is one pair of wins from creating the matchup everyone is anticipating: a Sunday men’s final between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. That would be a supreme blockbuster, but first, Nadal and Djokovic have to get through their Friday semifinals in Paris, against talented players who are capable of beating […]

The Men’s US Open Final is upon us and one player 27 years old or younger will win their first-ever Grand Slam title. No. 2 seed Dominic Thiem won his semifinal match as a small underdog over No. 3 seed Daniil Medvedev while No. 5 seed Alexander Zverev stormed back from two sets down to […]

An exciting season in women’s tennis continues next week with the last major of the year, the US Open. Unlike the men’s season which has been dominated by the Big Three, the WTA tournaments have been wide open. There have been three different champions at each of the majors (Naomi Osaka at the Australian Open, […]