Betting Picks

The fight game has been seeking a method to inject life into the heavyweight division seemingly ever since Mike Tyson's glory days came to a crashing halt. Could this bout be it? Neither champion Deontay Wilder or challenger Tyson Fury have ever tasted defeat. But that should change Dec. 1 at the Staples Center.

You didn't actually think it was too early to prepare for the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, did you? Because it's not. Sportsbooks are already offering odds on which countries will win the most gold medals, so you're able to make onset investments and get the most lucrative lines. Using odds from Bovada, we're going to outline all of these available bets while seeing if we can't spot some market inefficiencies for you to exploit.

France. Croatia. It all comes down to this. The 2018 Davis Cup Final will take place between November 23 and 25, with France looking to win their second straight title. Will they pull up their championship defense? Or is Croatia now a threat to be taken seriously? We're going to break it all down for you here.

Situated in second place as the final event of the season gets underway in Hawaii, American Lakey Peterson is seeking to bring the 2018 World Surf League women's tour championship title back to the United States for the first time since 2015. On the men's side of the ledger, Brazil's Gabriel Medina is poised to capture his second world title. He won for the first time in 2014.

Just as bettors around the globe began salivating about a potential "special rules" fight between Floyd Mayweather and Tenshin Nasukawa, the undefeated boxer nicknamed "Money" said the bout is off — for now. However, odds are still available online and Mayweather has a hard time saying no to a big pay off, so here's a betting preview if things change.

Seven three-year-old colts are expected to go to the gate on Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs for the running of the $100,000 (G3) Commonwealth Turf Stakes. On paper a very competitive race, the Commonwealth Turf features a couple horses trying to stamp themselves as legitimate graded-stakes runners, while several others are trying to graduate from lower-level competition. They'll race 1 1/16 miles on the Churchill grass.

History does tend to repeat itself, so perhaps it shouldn't be all that surprising to see the last two World Series winners listed as the odds-on favorites to emerge as champions of the Fall Classic in 2019. In their World Series future book, Bovada has opened with the reigning titlist Boston Red Sox as the chalk at +650, just ahead of the 2017 World Series champion Houston Astros at +700. 

Turf racing is the main focus at Aqueduct Race Track on Saturday, with a card that includes the $150,000 Artie Schiller Stakes, to be run at one mile on the inner turf course. The race has drawn 10 starters, with two additional entries if bad weather forces the race to be run on the main track. With a closely matched field, the Artie Schiller presents excellent betting opportunities.