MLB

MLB Playoff Odds: Remaining schedule could determine AL wild-card race

• Jordan Ramsay

• Last Updated: August 24, 2026

The race to secure a playoff spot in the American League looks like it will come down to the final day of the season.

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2025 MLB Odds: Do the Toronto Blue Jays stack up better against the Mariners or Tigers?

• Jordan Ramsay

• Last Updated: October 10, 2025

The Toronto Blue Jays, who punched their ticket to the ALCS for the first time since 2016, will face either the Seattle Mariners or Detroit Tigers.

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2025 World Series Odds: Blue Jays, Dodgers soar to the top of the futures board

• Jordan Ramsay

• Last Updated: October 6, 2025

The Blue Jays enter Monday with the second-shortest odds to win the World Series (+325), just behind the Los Angeles Dodgers (+240).

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MLB Odds: Detroit Tigers vs. Seattle Mariners ALDS series preview and prediction

• Ricky Dimon

• Last Updated: October 3, 2025

Following a first-round bye, the second-seeded Seattle Mariners will begin their postseason campaign in the ALDS against the Detroit Tigers.

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Detroit Tigers vs. Cleveland Guardians MLB Wild Card Series Preview and Prediction

• Ricky Dimon

• Last Updated: September 29, 2025

It will be a showdown between American League Central rivals when the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Guardians tangle in a Wild Card Series to begin the Major League Baseball playoffs on Tuesday. 

WNBA

Odds and Bets: New York Liberty look to extend win streak

• Jordan Ramsay

• Last Updated: July 27, 2023

In Thursday's Odds and Bets, the New York Liberty look to make it four wins in a row, the L.A. Angels and Detroit Tigers play a doubleheader and the CFL touches down in Atlantic Canada.

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Pitcher Alek Manoah Returns to Toronto Blue Jays in Fine Form

• Edgar Chaput

• Last Updated: July 12, 2023

On this week’s Pitch Clock, co-hosts John Gibbons and David Bastl discuss pitcher Alek Manoah’s return to the Blue Jays’ lineup and the team's playoff chances.

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Chicago White Sox to Retire Frank Thomas' Number, Sign Johnny Damon?

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: October 4, 2017

Some big news out of the Windy City today as the Chicago White Sox appear busy on a number of fronts. First, shortly after Frank “The Big Hurt” Thomas announced he’d be retiring from Major League Baseball, the club he starred with for so many years — the White Sox — informed the media that...

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Minnesota to Overpower Pitching Strength of Sox in Central

• Al Dannity

• Last Updated: October 4, 2017

Al Dannity says you should trust the new-field advantage Minnesota holds in the AL Central this season. One edge goes another arrives Visiting teams to Minnesota (+125) will be glad to see the back of the Metrodome, at least initially. There isn’t a team in the American League that hasn’t got some bad memory of...

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Jim Joyce's Blown Call Makes Galarraga a True Winner

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: October 4, 2017

Frank Doyle looks back at the extraordinary events in Detroit last night, when a bad call in a ball game taught us about courage in adversity. Every now and again something happens in sports that transcends the game itself to remind you why we spend so much time watching sports, playing sports, or betting on...

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MLB: Tigers and Rays Looking for Big Playoff Road Wins

• Al Dannity

• Last Updated: October 4, 2017

After the most dramatic end to a season in living memory, it’s time to crank it up to the next level. It’s time for the playoffs and first up will be the best of the American League. The Rays head to Texas and the Tigers travel to the Bronx as the 2011 MLB playoffs get...

NBA

Tuesday's NBA Betting Picks!

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: November 19, 2013

Hoop Hopes – Ricky Rothstein makes his picks for tonight’s NBA action! Atlanta at Miami The best chance Atlanta has tonight at Miami is if the Hawks were to sprout actual wings and fly to the baskets. It’s hard to see them getting any change out of Miami otherwise. Miami has dominated Atlanta in recent...

MLB

Jays’ JP Arencibia should lay off Sportsnet TV commentators

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: July 4, 2013

Catcher JP Arencibia says there is major tension between the Toronto Blue Jays’ locker room and the team’s Sportsnet commentators Gregg Zaun and Dirk Hayhurst. He wasn’t shy about getting into the details of the rift in an interview with Toronto radio station The Fan 590 on Thursday either. “It’s tough to hear people like...

MLB

American League Central Preview: Midwest Makeovers

• Dale Perth

• Last Updated: March 29, 2013

Of all the divisions in the major leagues, this could be one of the toughest to predict. Many changes have occurred with most of the five teams here, and one of the clubs which overhauled the most will see an immediate payoff in the standings. CHICAGO WHITE SOX 2013 Predicted Wins Over/Under: 80.5 The South...

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Sealed With A Kiss: Tiger Pitcher’s Smooch Inflames A’s

• Dale Perth

• Last Updated: October 7, 2012

Sometimes the most innocuous gesture can cause an uproar; what doesn’t seem like a big deal to some can mean a lot to others. For instance, take what Al Alburquerque did on Sunday. Alburquerque, a reliever for the Detroit Tigers, made a play on what became an out in the top of the ninth inning...

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MLB: Opening Day Starts With Red Sox at Tigers

• Joe LaTengo

• Last Updated: April 4, 2012

Three games which count in the standings have already been played in the 2012 Major League Baseball season: the two-game set between the Seattle Mariners and Oakland A’s at Japan’s Tokyo Dome last week, and Wednesday night’s tilt between the St. Louis Cardinals and Miami Marlins. Yet Thursday is considered Opening Day, supposedly because all...

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A.L. Central Preview: Fielder Will Help Tigers Roar Again

• Joe LaTengo

• Last Updated: February 29, 2012

Things were going so well for the Detroit Tigers: American League Central winners, only two victories shy of going to the World Series, all cylinders seemed to be firing in synch. Then catcher/1B/DH Victor Martinez picked up a season-ending knee injury (anterior cruciate ligament) during workouts. This forced the team to make one of the...

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Best Choice of MLB Betting This Weekend!

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: May 27, 2011

Frank Doyle previews all the weekend series in Major League Baseball! AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston Red Sox at Detroit Tigers. Best series of the weekend, as the red hot Red Sox visit the super streaky Detroit Tigers. Tonight it’s Wakefield v Porcello, Saturday sees Buchholz v Andrew Oliver, a rookie from the gloriously named town of...