Sitting Down With The Bookies: NFL 2015 Week 1

With the NFL season returning, it’s time to get back to one of our regular features here at SportsBettingTips.org: Sitting Down with the Bookies. In this regular weekly segment, we talk exclusively with online sportsbooks and get their take on the week that was, as well as a look at the week ahead. This is … Read more

The Kennett Curse

The Kennett curse refers to a superstitious explanation for the tribulations suffered by the Hawthorn football club of the Australian Football League at the hands of Geelong between 2008 and 2013. In total Geelong beat Hawthorn for thirteen straight games during that run. How did the Kennett Curse Start? Hawthorn and Geelong faced each other … Read more

The Curse of Muldoon

The curse of Muldoon was a curse that was believed to have kept the Chicago Black Hawks of the NHL from finishing in first place in their division. The Curse of Muldoon is considered by historians to be the first of many such curses in North American sports. The Start and Effects of the Curse … Read more

The Cardinals-Badgers Scandal

The Chicago cardinals-Milwaukee Badgers Scandal was a game fixing scandal involving the game between the Chicago Cardinals and the now defunct Milwaukee Badgers of the NFL. The main architect of the scandal was Cardinals player Art Forts who hired a group of high school players to replace the Badgers roster for that game in order … Read more

The Lawro Audit: BPL Week 4

At the end of the first week of us auditing Mark Lawrenson, things were looking grim for the BBC pundit. He was -11.3 units already, not a great start the season for the Liverpool legend, that’s for sure. But could Lawro turn it around and prove all the naysayers wrong? Of course he could! Bow … Read more

The 1925 NFL Scandal

The 1925 NFL controversy was a raft of disputes surrounding the tussle between the Chicago Cardinals and the Pottsville Maroons for the 1925 NFL Championship. The main bone of contention was the Maroons’ suspension from the NFL for territorial infringement which prevented them from being crowned 1925 champions despite having the best record in the … Read more