The American League is usually very competitive come playoff time, and the New York Yankees are usually there. Will that happen again this year? And will someone other than the Red Sox be the team to beat them out of the American League East title? We take a look at that division, along with others, using the BetUS more
By now, it's become pretty clear that unless Hillary Clinton is able to complete her "Hail Mary" pass, she isn't going to get the Democratic nomination. The liberal faction of the party, the super delegates, the minority interests, and the left-wing side of the press just isn't going to let it happen.
So let's operate on the assumption that Barack Obama is going to be making his acceptance speech at the convention. Who's going to be his running mate?
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BetUS Sportsbook bettors have a lot of things to wager on. Why not do some online betting on which team will have a player arrested next?
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Let’s take a second and look away from the dazzling online betting win by Big Brown who posted a 109 Beyer and the tragedy of Eight Belles to look at the show horse in the Kentucky Derby Denis of Cork and see what horseplayers can learn from his extraordinary effort.
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1) Brandon Webb (7-0) (+$714.00) No shock here as former NL Cy Young Award winner Brandon Webb of the Arizona Diamondbacks owns a stellar 7-0 mark with a 2.49 ERA and 1.06 WHIP throughout his first seven starts of the season. This guys made it look easy thus far striking out 37 batters while issuing 16 free passes, and has only allowed 34 hits and 13 earned runs in 47 innings of work. However, after go
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1) Justin Verlander (1-5) (-$737.00) What the heck is going on in Motown? The Tigers were thought to have one of the most prolific offenses ever, and the pitching staff figured to set team records in wins this season. Neither has happened just yet, and shockingly, their ace the last couple seasons is the dog of the starting rotation. He boasts the second worst team ERA (6.28), and the Tigers have lost outright in
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Following last week's Kentucky Derby tragedy of filly Eight Bells, there's a buzz swarming around The Sport of Kings and online horse betting fans across the nation. With hopes of not offending purest of the game or other hardcore rail birds, I'd like to chime.
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BetUS Sportsbook lists the New England Patriots as online betting favorites to win Super Bowl XLIII (at +325), and the defending champion New York Giants at +1800, but we're going to examine one of the teams that asp
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If you're privy to the backstage machinations going on in the world of MMA, you were probably sitting on the edge of your seat waiting for the results of 'random' steroid testing performed by the Nevada State Athletic Commission on several of the fighters off the UFC 84 card. Normally, testing is only done right before a fight, which would be useful if most fighters weren't also self-taught bio
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National horse racing handicapper Michael Dempsey will attempt to pad his bankroll and yours with his daily column. He will feature at least one Pick 3 or Pick 4 play from a major track along with coverage of major stakes races, longshots, and he will keep you up to date on what is happening on the circuits he covers.
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There's an overseas treat for BetUS Sportsbook boxing bettors this weekend in the United Kingdom, as Junior "The Hitter" Witter, the WBC light welterweight (140-lb.) champion, who is seeking not just respect but a big payday against one of Britain's icons, makes the third defense of his title against young Timothy Bradley of California in a scheduled 12-round bout that will be televi
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Yesterday, I analyzed some of the new tag-teams in the NFL and projected on how they would affect the online betting trends heading in to the 2008-09 NFL Season. Still, there are a plethora of teams that have questions at running-back, largely because they have so many. Here are some of the tried and tested tandems that you need to keep your eye on before you go lumping money on the NFL futu
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Some might say that Big Brown’s performance this past online horse wagering Saturday in the Kentucky Derby is the sign that he is indeed a super-horse. After all, he attended a quick pace from the 20 hole and pretty much ran a lot of his other 3-year old counterparts into the ground.
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Everybody hates Mr. Kyle Busch right now. I don’t understand why. The guy isn’t a jerk on the level of a lot of other athletes. Yes, I just called Kyle an athlete. I mean, for online sportsbook betting fans interested in betting NASCAR, Busch is almost a dream come true. He’s always in the thick of it, at every
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Something for BetUS Sportsbook bettors to keep in mind - a manager (I forgot which one) once said, "You've got to be a pretty good pitcher to lose 20 games in a season." It may sound crazy to the uninitiated, but there may be a ring of truth to it. First of all, a pitcher has to be good enough to keep in the rotation and hand the ball over to every fourth or fifth day to even get enough opportunities to lose 20. Those who aren't will find th
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BetUS Sportsbook bettors of mixed martial arts will be in store for an extra special treat on July 5 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, when Forrest Griffin, a past hero of the UFC reality program "The Ultimate Fighter," steps into the Octagon against former PRIDE star and current UFC icon Quinton Jackson with the light heavyweight (205-pound) championship at stake.
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He was once an online betting lock. He's the guy who beats people up for a living in a cage and dates mega porn star Jenna Jameson. He's arrogant, cocky, and controversial, hated by millions and doesn't give a damn. Above all, he's the "Huntington Beach Bad Boy" Tito Ortiz.
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