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Jay Kornegay has been in charge of the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook since 2004. (Image: John Reger)

Game Time: Jay Kornegay Knows Sports Betting and Sees a Booming Future

Jay Kornegay has been a sports betting professional for more than 30 years — taking bets, not placing them. And as Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook’s vice president of race and sports operations for the past 15 years, he’s in charge of one of the biggest sports betting operations in the […]

Liverpool is paying a record transfer fee to pry Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson away from Roma. (Image: AFP)

Liverpool Agrees to Record $87M Transfer Fee for Brazil Goalkeeper Alisson

Liverpool is paying €75 million ($87 million) to bring in Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson, a move that would set a record for the highest fee ever paid for a keeper on the transfer market. The price would easily surpass the €40 million ($46.4 million) paid by Manchester City paid to Portuguese […]

France celebrates winning the 2018 World Cup, and is the favorite to defend in 2022. (Image: Getty)

France Favored to Defend Title at 2022 World Cup

France will be defending its championship at the 2022 World Cup championship in Qatar, and will be the favorite with at least one sportsbook. Bovada released its odds for the next global soccer competition, and put France at 5/1 to win its third title. Brazil is next at 7/1, with […]

Staff at Monmouth Park prepare to open the racetrack’s sportsbook on June 14, the first day of legal sports betting in the state of New Jersey. (Image: AP/Wayne Parry)

New Jersey Sportsbooks Take $16.4M in First 17 Days of Legal Betting

New Jersey sportsbooks did big business in their first partial month of operations, taking in over $16.4 million in bets during June. The first legal sports bets began being accepted at Monmouth Park and the Borgata casino on June 14, with the Ocean Resort Casino in Atlantic City also opening […]

France could very well be celebrating a World Cup after their match with Croatia. (Image: AP)

Go Big and/or Go Home With These Final Five World Cup Bets

The end is near and it is time to go out with a bang betting-wise, so we are looking for big payoffs for our Five World Cup Bets. This OG writer is hovering “right about even” with our hypothetical gambling, and we’re going for the big payday in the third-place […]

Cristiano Ronaldo is moving from Real Madrid to Italian club Juventus following a $117 million transfer. (Image: Sky Sports)

Cristiano Ronaldo Signs with Juventus, Ends Nine-Year Run with Real Madrid

Cristiano Ronaldo will be taking his talents to Turin, as the Portuguese superstar is leaving Real Madrid to play with Italian giants Juventus next season. Juventus reportedly paid a transfer fee of €100 million ($117 million) to pry Ronaldo away from Madrid, a record transfer fee for a Serie A […]

Kevin De Bruyne (7) celebrates with teammate Thomas Meunier (15) after scoring the second goal for Belgium in their 2-1 win over Brazil in the 2018 World Cup quarterfinals. (Image: John Sibley/Reuters)

Belgium Bounces Brazil in World Cup Thriller, France Eases Past Uruguay

The final two South American teams in the World Cup were eliminated on Friday, as France and Belgium posted wins to set up a semifinal matchup between the bordering nations. Belgium’s victory will make this the first World Cup in which at least one of Brazil, Germany, or Argentina hasn’t […]

Russia has been the surprise of the World Cup, and will face Croatia in Saturday’s final quarterfinal match. (Image: Peter Powell, EPA-EFE)

Russia, Croatia Take Different Paths to Same World Cup Destination

The soccer teams from Russia and Croatia couldn’t have had different expectations coming into the World Cup. Now the two face each other in the final quarterfinal on Saturday, with an opportunity that many thought neither could achieve. Before the start of play, Russia was a 30/1 pick to win […]

Best known for his time at Manchester United, Wayne Rooney played for his boyhood club Everton in the 2017-18 season. (Image: Rui Vieira/AP)

Wayne Rooney Completes Transfer from Everton to DC United in MLS

Former England superstar Wayne Rooney will be taking his talents to the United States, as he has completed a move from English Premier League club Everton to DC United of Major League Soccer. Both clubs confirmed that a transfer agreement had been reached on Thursday, with the Washington Post reporting […]

Argentina teammates celebrate a goal against Nigeria that got them to the Round of 16. (Image: Getty)

World Cup Round of 16 Provides Five Value Bets Mostly on Favorites

Now that the World Cup Round of 16 gets underway on Saturday, teams will begin to show more of their true form, and finding value bets will be much more difficult. Teams that shocked the soccer world by advancing will have a much harder time surprising opponents and will probably […]

Germany must avoid another upset when they face Sweden, or the defending champions will be going home. (Image: Reuters)

Must-Win Group Matches Create Five World Cup Must Bets

Germany, Poland, and Colombia lost in upsets in the first round and now find themselves in a position of facing must-win games to have any chance of moving on to the knockout stage of the 2018 World Cup. The teams that upset them, Mexico, Senegal, and Japan, can punch their tickets […]

Iceland’s Jon Bodvarsson should use his height to score against Nigeria. (Image: Getty)

Goal-Oriented: Five Good Bets for World Cup Gamblers

Goals have been stingy so far in the 2018 World Cup, making betting on the world’s favorite soccer tournament a little tricky. But specific picks about who will score, and where on the field they’ll score from have been posting some attractive odds. . Knowing this, OG took a deeper look […]

Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku is one of the stars on Belgium’s talented soccer team. (Image: AP)

Colombia, Belgium Should Breeze Through Group Play in World Cup

Betting on Groups G and H in the World Cup present some of the biggest challenges in the tournament. Belgium in Group G is an overwhelming favorite to win, with odds at -120. England is next at +120. It is a little tighter in Group H, but Colombia is expected […]