Betting Picks

A new option on the Bovada future bets list this week is the 2018 Pegasus World Cup, set to be run on Saturday, January 27 at Gulfstream Park in Florida. It's the world's richest horse race with a total purse of $16 million.

There's a dirty bird racing toward the Big Easy and it looms larger in the rear-view mirror of the New Orleans Saints with each passing week. The defending NFC champion Atlanta Falcons are in a mood to retain their NFC South crown, and they are positioned well to do so. Win Sunday at New Orleans and again next Sunday against Carolina and the Falcons are once again champs.

In one of the more interesting non-playoff matchups of the 2017-18 bowl season, Wisconsin and Miami will hook up in the Capital One Orange Bowl December 30 at 8 PM, allowing Miami to play on its home field.

All 20 Premier League teams are in action on Week 19, which takes place on December 22 and December 23, only a couple of days before Christmas. Which players will be giving their fans the perfect Christmas gift of a goal? Let us find out right now.

It may not be the most intriguing story of the college football season, but it certainly is a fascinating tale. In 2014, Alabama-Birmingham dropped its football program. This season, it was reborn and the Blazers responded by posting a school-record eight wins and earning a trip to the Bahamas Bowl, and if you're going on the road to a bowl game, does it get any better than the Bahamas?

Counted out by many when they sat 4-4 eight games into the NFL season, the defending NFC champion Atlanta Falcons have won four of their last five games to drive right back into contention for the NFC South title. In fact, if the Falcons sweep their remaining three games against division rivals the Buccaneers, Saints and Panthers, then Atlanta will retain the NFC South division crown earned a year ago.

The road to the 2018 Kentucky Derby takes a detour through Oklahoma on Sunday, as for the first time Remington Park's $400,000 Springboard Mile Stakes will award points toward a spot in the Derby. Twelve two-year-old colts are expected to go to the gate for the one-mile run on the Remington dirt.

Although the Kentucky Derby is run every year on the first Saturday of May, the road to the starting gate for 20 horses begins long before the actual race takes place. Potential contenders for the Run For the Roses begin the journey eight months before the big race by trying to accumulate points in a series of scheduled races.

With another full fixture list in the 2017-18 Premier League season scheduled for the weekend of Dec. 16, there are plenty of opportunities to place bets on goalscorers. Is this the weekend Mohamed Salah is overtaken at the top of the Golden Boot standings?