Following today's UEFA Champions League group stage draw, the most prominent European football/soccer competition is ready to kick off. And so is betting on the same. In this article, we will review all the groups and present them to you. Manchester City is the top contender for winning the trophy, and … Read More... about UEFA Champions League Group Stage Draw Completed
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IIHF Worlds Semifinals: Canada vs Latvia Betting Odds and Prediction, Team USA Outlook in the 2023 Medal Round
Should it be hard to be "surprised" at a tournament like the 2023 IIHF Worlds? After all, the cities of Riga and Tampere are hosting an event to which Team USA and Team Sweden recruited about a dozen combined NHL skaters, for which the Red Machine of Russia is banned from participating, and in which career Division 1 squads like Hungary have toiled in the round-robin. In … [Read more...] about IIHF Worlds Semifinals: Canada vs Latvia Betting Odds and Prediction, Team USA Outlook in the 2023 Medal Round
IIHF World Championship Quarterfinal Previews, Odds, and Picks: Latvia Surprise Highlights Field of Medal Contenders
This season's World Championship was not supposed to make a media splash of any kind. NHL player recruiting is still a hard road for national teams following COVID-19, and the next potential Winter Olympics involving the NHL's superstars won't come until 2026. Yet with the NHL's most popular brands having lost playoff series to post-1980s expansion teams (and the league's new … [Read more...] about IIHF World Championship Quarterfinal Previews, Odds, and Picks: Latvia Surprise Highlights Field of Medal Contenders
2022 IIHF World Championship: 16 Team Preview, Gold Medal Odds, Roster Updates, and Picks
Sports are like politics in that if a subject is careful to keep her opinion from getting pigeonholed, there's always someone to come along and do it anyway. Take the last dozen years of American football as example. If you think Tim Tebow and Colin Kaepernick were misused, misunderstood, and brave fore-runners of Lamar Jackson's powerful modern-day NFL option game, then you … [Read more...] about 2022 IIHF World Championship: 16 Team Preview, Gold Medal Odds, Roster Updates, and Picks
IIHF Worlds Semifinals: USA vs Canada Game Odds, Preview, and Predictions
Sports folk love to compare teams to The Little Engine That Could. Russia's national ice hockey team is the Great Big Engine That Can't. Yet another stacked, skillful, and souped-up Russian squad lost in the medal round of the IIHF World Championships on Thursday, this time to a Team Canada lineup that wasn't even supposed to get this far following an 0-3 start. Russia, … [Read more...] about IIHF Worlds Semifinals: USA vs Canada Game Odds, Preview, and Predictions
IIHF Worlds Quarterfinals Preview: Canada vs Russia Odds, Rosters, and Predictions
The best defense of the annual IIHF World Championships is not that the event's trademark mish-mash of strong and weak rosters is equivalent to a "best on best" extravaganza, but rather that the Worlds provide an accurate snap-shot of where the Good Old Hockey Game and its national teams are at a given time. For instance, Hockey Canada was so enthralled with its gold medals … [Read more...] about IIHF Worlds Quarterfinals Preview: Canada vs Russia Odds, Rosters, and Predictions
IIHF Worlds: 2021 World Championship Preview, Handicapping, and Medal Predictions
My spring pond-shinny blog always includes a 3-pronged preview of the NHL playoffs, IIHF Worlds, and Women's World Championships, in addition to Nikola's recaps of all 3 tournaments. Hockey's solis-tastic triumvirate took another COVID-laced body blow this April when the Women's Worlds were cancelled (or at least postponed into summer), leaving only the Stanley Cup tournament … [Read more...] about IIHF Worlds: 2021 World Championship Preview, Handicapping, and Medal Predictions
IIHF Betting in 2020: Olympic Qualifying Takes Center Stage in Pandemic-Stricken Season
Update March 25th: Pestilence! Carnage! Almost every event previewed here has been cancelled from the 2020 IIHF schedule due to fears of the spreading Coronavirus. That includes, sadly, the Men's and Women's Ice Hockey World Championships. It was a prudent decision to cancel the Men's tournament, even though the pandemic could ease in Europe by May. Travel is likely to be … [Read more...] about IIHF Betting in 2020: Olympic Qualifying Takes Center Stage in Pandemic-Stricken Season