Preliminary reports from Las Vegas hotel and sportsbetting operators are predicting high occupancy rates and betting volume for the 2010 Super Bowl weekend. Even when the official numbers won’t be released by Nevada Gaming Authorities until later this week, several Las Vegas sportsbooks and casinos said this year’s volume is likely to reach the $90 million mark, exceeding the $81.5 million betting volume reported last year
Bettors take a trip inside the Octagon before they wet their pants watching the Super Bowl this Sunday. And in case you didn’t get that, businessman extraordinaire and UFC President Dana White managed to squeeze his little UFC pay per view event right before Super Bowl XLIV .
Can you believe that? With all the hype surrounding Super Bowl XLIV this Sunday, BetUS.com wants all of you to bet on a couple of movie stars who are having some sort of ”love spat” if you will. Of course, since most of you still fantasize about Angelina Jolie , those folks from BetUS.com know ya’ll will bet on these betting odds anyway since the Super Bowl is still more than a couple of days away and you don’t have anything else to do
The Wild Card games will kick off next Saturday at 4:30 pm with a Week 17 rematch between the New York Jets and the Cincinnati Bengals at Paul Brown Stadium in the first game of the day. Las Vegas oddmakers opened the week with the Bengals as four-point favorites with a total of 36, but by early Wednesday morning, most sportsbooks had Cincinnati as three points favorites with a total of 34 points. In the second Week 17 rematch, NFC East rivals, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys, will met at 8:00 PM ET
Water coolers and sports talk radio hosts can rejoice once again this year, as the BCS system has people bemoaning the lack of a true playoff system in college ball. In case you didn’t know it yet, the Alabama Crimson Tide pulled off a tidy upset of the No.1 Florida Gators last Saturday, moving into the 2010 BCS national championship game
