Since LeBron, Jesus, and the rest of the Miami Heat went back-to-back, baseball has just about had the limelight all to itself. Football season, though, is now on the immediate horizon. Fantasy owners are readying for battle, Titans’ running back Chris Johnson is working out with cheetahs, and the Eagles are starting to lose skill-position players as fast as they lost offensive linemen in 2012. Meanwhile, both golf and tennis have one more major to go this summer.

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World Series

St. Louis Cardinals (+500) – Even after getting swept clean out of Atlanta, the Cardinals still boast the best record in baseball. They are at least two better in the loss column than everyone else and at least five better than everyone else in said loss column outside of their own division.

Los Angeles Dodgers (+500) – The offseason spending spree took a while to pay dividends, but it is all coming together for the Dodgers right now. They are 9-1 since the all-star break, and they have won 15 of their last 18 games dating back to July 7.

Detroit Tigers (+600) – Detroit had been the World Series favorite for most of the season until recent hot streaks in St. Louis and Los Angeles. The Tigers have the worst record among AL division leaders, but the best hitting team in baseball has won seven of its last eight games after sweeping Philadelphia.

Oakland Athletics (+700) – Oakland is 21st in Major League Baseball in batting average, but its pitching has been lights out. The A’s are sixth in E.R.A, third in quality starts, second in WHIP, and fourth in batting average against. That is some kind of accomplishment for a team that plays in the American League.

NFL Week 1 Lines

Baltimore Ravens (+8) at Denver Broncos – A whopping 10 Super Bowl starters have left the Ravens since they won it all last season. Baltimore needed a miracle to win at Denver in the playoffs, and it may need another one here.

Atlanta Falcons (+3) at New Orleans Saints– This is the only Week 1 showdown between two undisputed same-division favorites. Interestingly, the road team prevailed in each of these matchups last year.

Green Bay Packers (+5) at San Francisco 49ers – Week 1 features a host of great quarterback encounters: Peyton Manning vs. Joe Flacco, Drew Brees vs. Matt Ryan, and Aaron Rodgers vs. Colin Kaepernick. Like Baltimore-Denver, this is a rematch of last season’s playoffs.

New York Giants (+3) at Dallas Cowboys – Jerry Jones says that he hopes Cowboys Stadium, or whatever the heck it’s called now, will become more recognizable than the White House. He better hope his team is not recognizable to the one that was on display in 2012.

PGA Championship

Tiger Woods (+450) – Tiger still has not won a major since the 2008 U.S. Open, and he is one tournament away from going winless at slams in 2013. The world No. 1 has put himself in contention a ton of times during this current stretch of futility, but Sundays are proving to be his downfall.

Phil Mickelson (+900) – If Lefty can win playing links golf, what can’t he do? Mickelson always plays better in the U.S. than he does across the pond, and he was the best golfer—by far—over there this summer. In addition to winning the British Open, he also triumphed at the Scottish Open one week earlier.

Adam Scott (+1500) – The reigning Masters champion briefly held the outright lead at Muirfield before Mickelson stormed from behind. Other than Tiger, nobody has been more consistent this season than Scott. The Aussie is almost a lock to be in contention at the PGA on Sunday.

Brandt Snedeker (+2000) – Snedeker won the Canadian Open on Sunday. No matter that he got a major assist from Hunter Mahan, who led after two rounds before withdrawing when his wife went into labor. Snedeker is just about the best putter in the business, so he is always in with a chance at slams.

U.S. Open

Novak Djokovic (+150) – Djokovic failed to win either the French Open or Wimbledon, but he came close at both on surfaces that are clearly not his favorite. Three straight Australian Open titles and a triumph at the 2011 U.S. Open mean the top-ranked Serb has captured four of the last seven hard-court majors.

Andy Murray (+160) – In the first 25 years and three months of his life, Murray did not win a Grand Slam title. He has since won two of the last four such tournaments—the 2012 U.S. Open and Wimbledon in 2013. Counting last summer’s Olympics, the Scot has emerged victorious at three of his sport’s last five biggest tournaments.

Rafael Nadal (+600) – Nadal has prevailed in New York only once, which is one more than many thought he would ever win. The Spaniard is obviously a much different player on clay than he is on a hard court, hence the difference in value between the Djokovic-Murray duo and everyone else.

Roger Federer (+800) – These are tough times for Federer, who saw his Grand Slam quarterfinal streak end at Wimbledon. The 31-year-old has also switched to a new racket, and early signs suggest that he may not get used to it in time for the U.S. Open.

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