Betting Picks

Thanksgiving weekend is usually reserved for football, but don't overlook the CFL Grey Cup. The league's two top teams — Ottawa and Calgary — will meet in the 106th championship game. It will actually be the third time both teams have faced this season, and earlier season results give us a good idea of who to bet on come Sunday!

It's starting to snow in Toronto and that's always an indication the throughbred racing season at Woodbine is winding down. But there is still some betting to be made on stakes races before the season ends, including Sunday's $225,0000 Coronation Futurity. It's the top race of the year at Woodbine for two-year-olds and a likely preview of some of the horses we'll see in next year's Queen's Plate.

Named for the late actor and frequent Del Mar Race Track attendee, the (G3) Bob Hope Stakes is open to two-year-old horses running seven furlongs on the Del Mar dirt course. The race offers a total purse of $100,000 and has drawn closely matched field of seven colts and one gelding that are expected to go to the gate on Saturday afternoon.

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.