Sports betting

While historical results show that Zach Randolph, Marc Gasol and the Memphis Grizzlies have slim to no chance of winning their series against the Clippers, what about Game 3?

Home teams trailing 2-0 have hit at nearly 60 percent against the spread in these situations.

Don’t fill out any March Madness brackets thinking you have any clue what’s going on. Don’t place another bet at a sportsbook. And, please, stop thinking you have any advantage or skill at sports betting because—in a new study—a random psychiatrist has concluded that it’s entirely luck.

What a bummer, huh? Let’s examine this riveting argument a little further.

In need of daily team-by-team MLB updates but aren’t sure who to follow? If so, then you’ll find this MLB twitter list to be exceedingly useful, as there are beat writers listed for all 30 teams.

Former Caesars Palace oddsmaker and current DonBest.com market analyst Todd Fuhrman appeared on ESPN’s “UNITE” on Wednesday, and was asked about point shaving in college basketball and whether or not it continues to exist.

His response was pretty interesting.

The debate over sports betting legalization has hit the mainstream.

Today, an ESPN.com SportsNation poll asked, “Would you gamble on sports if it were legal where you live?”

Jalen Rose, ESPN’s outspoken NBA analyst who also hosts a Grantland.com podcast, turned a discussion about the NBA’s injury report into a full-blown Q&A on sports betting and its effect on players and games.

Read on to see what he had to say.

On Tuesday, we happened to be checking college basketball scores on ESPN.com, and randomly clicked on the Gardner-Webb/Howard game, which tipped off at 4 p.m. ET.

The game was not televised. Most people living in the Eastern time zone, where both schools are located, were likely at work and unable to follow along. The fans of these teams don’t care and neither does the general public. Here’s who does care: Sports bettors.

The more you get into sports betting, the more you’ll learn that parlays—as tempting as they can be—just don’t make sense in the long run for average sports gamblers.

But it’s not very convincing when you read story after story of people striking it big with outlandish parlay victories.

A man at BetOnline hit a pair of 10-team parlays over the weekend (one was actually an 11-teamer), and won a grand total of $65,704.

The best part about it: Neither parlay required much of a sweat.

Sean Patrick Griffin, author of “Gaming The Game,” recently weighed in on the federal probe into illegal sports gambling that resulted in the arrests of 25 individuals, including Mike Colbert, the former head of Cantor Gaming race and sportsbooks.

Griffin’s take? It ain’t over yet.