Weekly Sports Betting and Handicapping News Articles

Betting with The Prop Machine and Free Thursday Pick
by Doc's Sports - 8/14/2014

The MLB regular season is in the stretch run, and the NFL Preseason is on to Week 2. In just two weeks a new season of college football with get underway, making this one of the best times of the year expand your overall strategy for betting on these sports.

Weekly Q&A with Doc’s Sports Expert Handicapper Raphael Esparza
by Doc's Sports - 8/14/2014

Doc’s Sports: While just about every college football expert out there expects a team from one of the five major conferences to win this year’s national title, can you give us one or two mid-majors that have the best shot at making a run at getting into the newly-formed four-team playoff system?

Betting with The Prop Machine and Free Monday Pick
by Doc's Sports - 8/4/2014

A good majority of the betting public is always looking for different ways to expand their sports wagering bankroll by taking advantage of some of the different betting odds that the sportsbooks will release for many of the major sports.

Weekly Q&A with Doc’s Sports Expert Handicapper Raphael Esparza
by Doc's Sports - 8/4/2014

Doc’s Sports: The SEC has been the most dominant major conference in college football for the past several years by winning seven of the last eight national titles. While Alabama is favored by just about everyone to win the conference title this season, do you see another stunning upset waiting in the wings for the Crimson Tide?

Back to the Futures: Getting Back on the Gridiron
by Ricky Dimon - 8/4/2014

The Hall of Fame Game kicked off the 2014 NFL Preseason on Sunday night, with the New York Giants edging the Buffalo Bills 17-13. Six more contests are on Thursday’s schedule, an additional six will be held on Friday, and Saturday has four on the docket. We are also less than a month away from meaningful, regular-season action on the college gridiron. Yes, football is back, and it’s here to stay.

Weekly Q&A with Doc’s Sports Expert Handicapper Raphael Esparza
by Doc's Sports - 7/29/2014

Doc’s Sports: The NFL Preseason gets underway this Sunday night with the Hall of Fame Game. Given how starved people are to bet on football after such a long layoff, what kind of action do the Las Vegas sportsbooks bring in for the NFL Preseason games?

Betting with The Prop Machine and Free Monday Pick
by Doc's Sports - 7/28/2014

This is the time of year when most avid sports bettors are looking for ways to increase their profit for MLB handicapping. One of the best and most profitable ways to diversify your MLB bets is taking advantage of the player prop bet odds that are released daily in conjunction with the games, but only if you know how and where to look.

Weekly Q&A with Doc’s Sports Expert Handicapper Raphael Esparza
by Doc's Sports - 7/22/2014

Doc’s Sports: Over the past few weeks we have been talking about some of the tighter divisional races in baseball. Now that the second half of the MLB regular season is underway, which team do you have coming out on top in the American League West; Oakland or Los Angeles?

Betting with The Prop Machine and Free Monday Pick
by Doc's Sports - 7/21/2014

With MLB player props the only game in town, it was a quiet week for The Prop Machine in light of the recent all-star break. This made it a great time to reflect back on the first half of the MLB season that produced a profitable record of 102-79, which equates to a return of 56 percent.

This Week in Sports Betting, A-Z
by Ricky Dimon - 7/18/2014

A. Jose Abreu. Rookies at 27 years of age are not the norm. But Abreu isn’t your normal baseball player. The White Sox first baseman launched 29 home runs prior to the all-star break to go along with a solid .292 average. He is on an eight-game hitting streak (four multi-hit games in this stretch) and has hit safely in an incredible 26 of his last 27 games. Abreu is -180 favorite at Sportsbook to lead the majors in homers.

Back to the Futures: Free Agency Shakes up the NBA Landscape
by Ricky Dimon - 7/16/2014

There may be no basketball and no football right now, but this is still a fast and furious time in the world of sports. LeBron James sent shockwaves through everyone and everything by going back to Cleveland, Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game took center stage on Tuesday, and golf’s second major in as many months begins on Thursday.

Weekly Q&A with Doc’s Sports Expert Handicapper Raphael Esparza
by Doc's Sports - 7/15/2014

Doc’s Sports: Now that LeBron James has decided to take his talents back to Cleveland to play for the Cavaliers, most of the sportsbooks in town have made this former NBA doormat the favorite to win it all next year. Are you buying into all the hype as well as Cleveland’s current odds?

Weekly Q&A with Doc’s Sports Expert Handicapper Raphael Esparza
by Doc's Sports - 7/8/2014

When you have been successful in the highly-competitive sports selection industry for well over four decades, you must be doing something right. This has been the case with Doc’s Sports as we continue to prepare for another winning season with both our college football and NFL selection packages. We already tore it up this year with college basketball and the NBA, and the results for the first half of the MLB regular season have been impressive to say the least.

Betting with The Prop Machine and Free Monday Pick
by Doc's Sports - 7/7/2014

This week marks the final week of games before MLB takes its annual break to stage its Midsummer Classic, which is more commonly known as the All-Star Game. It is also a good time to look back over you own personal betting results for the first half of MLB games.

Betting with The Prop Machine and Free Wednesday Pick
by Doc's Sports - 7/2/2014

The summer is heating up as the 2014 MLB regular season crosses the halfway point of its grueling 162-game schedule. By now we have been able to create a solid betting picture for each of the 30 teams when it comes to wagering on MLB moneylines and total lines.

Sports Betting Insights: Wagering on MLB Run Lines
by Dave Schwab - 7/2/2014

This is the time of the year when sports bettors need to expand their horizons given that Major League Baseball is soon going to be the only game in town once the World Cup is over and the much anticipated start of a new football season gets underway.

Weekly Q&A with Doc’s Sports Expert Handicapper Raphael Esparza
by Doc's Sports - 7/1/2014

Doc’s Sports: Before the 2014 FIFA World Cup began you had touted Germany as one of your top favorites to win it all. Do you still see the Germans as the team to beat as the tournament continues to press on towards the championship match?

Back to the Futures: What a Week it Will Be
by Ricky Dimon - 6/10/2014

The World Cup is only the biggest sporting event in the world, so it might as well have some company on the schedule. On the hardwood, the NBA Finals between Miami and San Antonio is shaping up to be another classic, with games this week on Tuesday and Thursday. And there is golf’s second major of the year, beginning on Thursday at Pinehurst No. 2.

Weekly Q&A with Doc’s Sports Expert Handicapper Raphael Esparza
by Doc's Sports - 6/10/2014

Doc’s Sports: Los Angeles has raced its way to a commanding 3-0 series lead in this year’s NHL Stanley Cup Finals against New York. Do you have the Kings skating away with the Cup on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, or can the Rangers stave off elimination with a win?

Betting with The Prop Machine and Free Monday Pick
by Doc's Sports - 6/9/2014

With the exception of the first two games in this year’s NBA and NHL championship series, the only betting action this past week for anyone who focuses only on major American sports has been on MLB games. One of the daily opportunities that sportbooks provide when it comes to wagering on MLB are individual player props based on expected performance in any given matchup.