The Oakland Raiders will be desperate for a victory to keep pace in the tight AFC Wild Card race when they host the red-hot Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday as 2.5-point betting underdogs.
The Raiders ended a three-game straight-up losing streak last weekend with a hard-fought 24-21 win in Tennessee, covering the spread for the first time in three weeks, this time as slim 1-point chalk.
Only eight teams remain in the picture for the College Football Playoff with the season wrapping up this week, and the Alabama Crimson Tide and Oklahoma Sooners lead the way ahead of the Clemson Tigers on the latest odds to win the national championship.
The Crimson Tide remain the favorites on the college football championship odds at +110 with the SEC Championship Game against the Florida Gators on tap for them this weekend. Big favorites for that matchup, the only way the Crimson Tide fail to snag a College Football Playoff berth is if they get upset by the Gators.
The Alabama Crimson Tide are second in this week's College Football Playoff rankings but first on the odds to win the national championship at the sportsbooks with their annual Iron Bowl matchup against rival Auburn on tap for Saturday.
This week's edition of the College Football Playoff rankings has Clemson at No. 1, Alabama at No. 2, and then Oklahoma at No. 3 and Iowa at No. 4. Michigan State, Notre Dame, Baylor, Ohio State, Stanford, and Michigan round out the Top 10.
The Carolina Panthers will try to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with their 11th straight victory when they visit the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday with Carolina pegged as a 1.5-point road favorite at the online sportsbooks.
The Panthers improved their perfect straight-up record to 10-0 with a lopsided 44-16 win over the Washington Redskins last weekend, successfully covering their largest spread in almost two years by taking home the against-the-spread victory as 7-point chalk.
Fans of the Houston Rockets are hoping that a coaching change will lead to a reversal in the team's early-season misfortunes, which include seven straight-up losses in their first 11 contests that have sent their NBA championship odds plummeting to 28/1 after opening the season at 16/1.
Kevin McHale has been relieved of his duties following the team's slow start, replaced on an interim basis by assistant coach JB Bickerstaff, who will try to shore up a defense that has surrendered at least 105 points per game in each of their first 11 contests.
The debate over whether or not daily fantasy sports should be considered illegal gambling has been decided in the state of New York, which followed Nevada’s lead and determined that DraftKings and FanDuel need to cease operations immediately.
The two biggest daily fantasy sports websites tried to prevent New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman from following through on the shutdown, but they were denied by Judge Manuel Mendez on Monday, resulting in a court hearing scheduled for November 25.
The surprising Minnesota Vikings will be trying to take a two-game lead atop the NFC North standings when they entertain the rival Green Bay Packers in a Week 11 betting matchup pegged as a pick'em at the sportsbooks.
Minnesota rides a five-game straight up winning streak into Sunday afternoon's Packers vs. Vikings matchup at TCF Bank Stadium, following a decisive 30-14 road victory over the Oakland Raiders last weekend, also picking up their eighth straight against the spread win as 3-point betting underdogs.
Joseph McKeehen was the +175 favorite (bet $100 to win $175) heading into the November Nine as the overall chip leader and ended up winning the 2015 World Series of Poker on Tuesday at the Penn & Teller Theater in Las Vegas.
McKeehen took home $7.68 million by outlasting Josh Beckley, who was 14/1 and won $4.47 million.
Beckley could not be too disappointed though after he was seventh in chips going into the final event. On his last hand, the New Jersey native went all-in with a pair of fours and was beaten when McKeehen turned an ace-10 into a pair of 10s on the flop.
Ronda Rousey will be looking to successfully defend her UFC Women's Bantamweight championship for a seventh time when she takes on challenger Holly Holm at UFC 193 on Saturday as a strong -2000 betting favorite.
Rousey has owned the division since joining the UFC in 2012 while still holding the Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Championship, winning six straight fights, all inside the distance, to improve her overall professional record to a perfect 12-0.
The 28-year-old has kept busy in 2015, recording a pair of first-round victories at UFC 184 and UFC 190.
Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers are the biggest favorite on the early NFL Week 10 betting lines at the sportsbooks as they host the Detroit Lions at Lambeau Field.
The Packers have dropped two in a row to unbeaten Denver and Carolina to fall into a tie for first in the NFC North with the Minnesota Vikings at 6-2. Rodgers and cohorts are 11.5-point favorites against visiting Detroit, which has only won one game.
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