Among the dozens of props Bodog offers on its NFL odds for this weekend’s four wild-card round playoff games is which quarterback will throw for the most yards. And in no surprise, the two signal-callers who had the most passing yards this season among all of the playoff quarterbacks opened as the two favorites.
The Saints’ [...]

Elsewhere here on the Beat I looked at which quarterbacks were favored to pass for the most yards in this weekend’s four opening-round NFL playoff games. Now let’s see who opened as the favorites among the running backs on Bodog’s NFL odds.
The leader in the clubhouse is Baltimore’s Ray Rice at 4/1 against the Kansas [...]

Something called the BBVA Compass Bowl is your only college football action on Saturday before the NFL playoffs take over later in the day, with Pittsburgh facing Kentucky in Birmingham, Ala. The Panthers are 3.5-point favorites on Bodog’s NCAA football odds.
Pittsburgh (7-5) was a preseason Big East favorite but struggled to a 7-5 record. And [...]

We will see next season how good Nick Saban’s recent recruiting classes really have been as Alabama has lost arguably its best offensive and defensive players as early entries to the NFL draft. And the defections likely aren’t finished.
Running back Mark Ingram, last season’s Heisman Trophy winner, declared for the draft as did defensive end [...]

The Cotton Bowl was moved a week forward this year and to prime time and it’s clearly the best bowl left before the national championship game on Monday as No. 11 LSU faces No. 18 Texas A&M at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas. The Tigers are 3-point favorites on Bodog’s NCAA football odds.
LSU got some huge [...]

After finishing a sub-par 7-9, the Seattle Seahawks became the first NFL team to enter the postseason with a losing record as they take on the heavily favored New Orleans Saints (11-5) Saturday afternoon. So with the Saints being the first ever team to be favored by double digits during Wild Card weekend, what chance

There was one man who put a damper on Rex Ryan and the New York Jets’ endless swagger last season, Peyton Manning.
The excellence of execution smoked the confident Jets in the 2010 AFC Championship game, dissecting them for 377 yards and three touchdowns. The Colts destroyed them 30-17 as 8-point favorites in that game, needless [...]

The NFL playoffs are just a couple of days away but right now the league is feeling the buzz of the NFL coaching carousel.
In Dallas, the Cowboys named Jason Garrett as head coach. Garrett earned the job by leading the ‘Boys to a 5-3 record straight up and a 6-2 record against the spread over [...]

There is no football program more unsettled right now than at the University of Pittsburgh, but it appears some sense of normalcy is imminent for the Panthers as the school is reportedly set to hire long-time Penn State assistant coach Tom Bradley as the team’s new head coach.
By now you no doubt know the story: [...]

After placing leading rusher Chris Ivory on season-ending injured reserve on Tuesday, the New Orleans Saints were thin as it was at running back. Now it’s almost crisis mode for the defending Super Bowl champions as they also put former starter Pierre Thomas on injured reserve.
Thomas has been battling an ankle injury that cost him [...]