Where: Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte, Brazil When: June 24, 12:00 PM ET Line: Costa Rica +292 at England -129, tie +242, total 2.0 – view all World Cup lines What’s at stake With the Costa Ricans assured of a slot in the next round, and England out of contention, the only thing that’s going to […]

Predicted line-ups: Italy: Buffon; Bonucci, Chiellini, Barzagli; Darmian, De Sciglio; Pirlo, Verratti; Marchisio; Immobile, Balotelli. According to latest reports, Cesare Prandellis is expected to start Ciro Immobile and Marco Verratti. Uruguay: Muslera; Fucile, Gimenez, Godin, Caceres; Arevalo Rios, Gargano, Stuani, Rodriguez; Cavani, Suarez. Maxi Pereira will be available again following suspension, while both Alvaro Pereira […]

Here are the odds for the upcoming NHL Awards. Odds to win 2014 Hart Memorial Trophy Sidney Crosby (PIT) -10000 (1/100) Ryan Getzlaf (ANA) +1200 (12/1) Claude Giroux (PHI) +2500 (25/1) Odds to win 2014 Lady Byng Memorial Trophy Ryan O’Reilly (COL) -650 (2/13) Patrick Marleau (SJ) +500 (5/1) Martin St. Louis (NYR) +1400 (14/1) […]

As we lay the Miami Heat’s reign to rest, remember that the San Antonio Spurs — this brilliant franchise that makes all the right moves and gets a helpful bit of luck, too — has never won back-to-back titles. Through five championships over 16 seasons, with the team winning 50-plus in every year of the […]

Here we go again, two NBA heavyweights throwing down for the championship of the world. Coming out of the Western Conference wearing black and silver with a regular-season record of 62-20, the four-time world champions coached by Gregg Popovich, the San Antonio “Grump Old Men” Spurs. Coming out of the Eastern Conference wearing red, black […]

When you open a betting forum you will inevitably come across at least ten topics in which experienced punters are trying to produce a mathematical model predicting the winner in a football match. In this post I will try to express my opinion on how this is simply not possible and how football is not […]

Cardiff City boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer believes they can win their battle against Premier League relegation. His side’s 1-1 draw at home to Stoke leaves Cardiff two points adrift of possible Premier League safety in 18th place with three games to go. Cardiff’s next match is away to bottom side Sunderland and Solskjaer says it […]

Spread betting options are extremely popular lately as they offer greater opportunities for profit then the so-called fixed odds. It should be noted that this way of betting is also much more risky and can lead to serious losses of money for the players. The main difference between spread betting and fixed odds is in […]

These days I have convinced myself more and more that I need training for working with Excel. It seems Excel is an essential tool for anyone who has decided to deal seriously with sports betting. This program can not only serve as a simple statistics tool, but it is also useful when you need to […]

Without any doubt, the most interesting match of the 25th round of the English Premier League will be between the teams of Chelsea and Manchester City. The first against the third in the current standings and most probably the two teams that are the actual candidate to win the Premier League this year, will play […]