Things To Bet On Just Because You’re Bored

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We Oddvillians are rarely bewildered, but our heads spun when we checked out BetandWin’s Specials Odds. Who will win the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund? BetandWin thinks they know and assumes you care (Peter Leko and his delicious Albin Counter Gambit rock the world at 11/10!). Meanwhile, you can find odds on Korfball, a co-ed game that drives the middle Europeans wild. In the Korfball World Championships, The Dutch, who must have invented the combination of soccer, volleyball and basketball while high, shall smoke the competition as 1/10 favorites at BetandWin. Closer to home, the site offers odds on Major League Lacrosse, where the superstar athletes of Johns Hopkins strut their stuff upon graduating with a degree in microbiology. Always hated those preppy bastards…

Specials [BetandWin}

X-Game Betting: Dust Off the Bong and the Fu Manchu Records

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Gather up all your Viva la Bam-loving buddies and cash in your rolling papers for some legal currency to bet on the X-games. Yep, although we are novices when it comes to extreme sports—unless, of course, you count seeing how long we can ride the subway with a hangover withouth shitting ourselves—but we do love watching stoners ride around half-pipes all day. We find it soothing. Sportsbook’s got the action and the press release is below.

Sportsbook To Offer Odds on X-Games [I-Newswire]
X-games [EXPN]

The 2007 America’s Cup: Bring on the Icebergs!

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Yachting will never be the people’s sport – give it up for lawn darts and midget tossing as pastime gifts to rabble such as us. But when we can wager a buck on The 2007 America’s Cup and watch a ten million dollar sailboat that just might sink, we put down our lethal toys and drop the little people. Then we anchor ourselves in an easy chair as ESPN2 provides morning-noon-and-night coverage. Offering odds on the 2007 race, BetRoyal sets the US’s BMW Oracle yacht at +330 and Switzerland’s Team Alinghi as big favorites at –120. Wait – US sponsor BMW is a German company. And isn’t Switzerland landlocked? Son of a bitch! We’re gonna call our grade school geography teacher Mrs. Ralphs and demand an immediate explanation.

The America’s Cup odds [BetRoyal]
The America’s Cup race [Yachting World]

The PDC World Championship: Watch It – You’ll Put Your Eye Out With Those Things!

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We at Oddjack half-remember playing darts – the keg was empty, the dorm room was brightly lit and all the girls had wisely gone home. Now, we come to find out that there are professionals who toss pointy things with feathered tails. What’s more, the guys who make a living off what we did for a drunken laugh go head-to-head in The Professional Darts Championship, held in December and Bet365 has the futures odds. At 4/6, the man to beat is Phil “The Power” Taylor – The Babe Ruth of Darts. He’s got the Babe’s noble girth and worldly appetites – oh, and he’s won nine of the last ten world championships. Now we’ll think twice about laying cash on a friendly game with the jolly, boozehounding porker down the bar – he could fleece us for our beer money and steal our chicks.

PDC World Championship Darts [Bet365]
Darts Championship info [Planet Darts]

Sportfight 11 Betting: Welcome To The Terrordome

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We’re so close to having a Running Man-style sporting event in our lifetime it’s silly. Hopefully, Richard Dawson will still be alive to help us welcome our worthless, tax-eating inmates into a fighting arena where they will be hunted down and slaughtered in front of a raucous crowd and live pay-per-view audience. We’re not there yet, but until then, we have Sportfight 11, which is essentially the Ultimate Fighting Championship, but with deadlier fighters and, hopefully, more blood, screaming, and bruising. It’s like the Wrestlemania of UFC competitions, except it’s real and there will be no Mr. T or Cyndi Lauper in attendance. And, of course, you can bet on it.

Sportsbook Post Odds on Sportfight 11 [Press Release]
Sportsbook Sponsors Mixed Martial Arts Event [Sportsbook]

Confederation Cup: Ole!! México Tiene Testículos Gigantescos

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Expect a major drop in church attendance south of the Rio Grande the weekend as Mexico battles Argentina in the Confederations Cup semi-finals this Sunday. BoDog has the odds and, at +320, Mexico is the serious underdog as they reel from a steroid scandal. Meanwhile, we here at Oddjack will tune in just to see how Argentina, the -133 favorite, does without one of the greatest performers to ever play the game, the drug-addled superstar Diego Maradona, a man who met the pope while ripped out of his brain on cocaine.

Confederations Cup: Mexico v. Argentina [BoDog]

International Rugby: No Pads, No Helmets, No Contest…

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Now that Michael Campbell flaunted some brass testicles at the US Open and did New Zealand proud, we’re looking to lay a dowry on the Maori. Eurobet believes the mighty All-Blacks will smash another band of foreign sissies this weekend. The rugby test match between the Kiwi all-stars and the British Lions begins June 25th and a scrum-pile of money says that the Lions will be left all-black and totally-blue. We here at Oddjack will be soaking up the antipodean action at midnight Pacific Daylight Time as the teams take the field – we may not wear blood or grass stains of the field of battle, but we’ve been to a few frat parties and we wear our puke stained rugby shirts (nsfw) with pride.

Rugby Test Match betting [Eurobet]

FIFA Soccer Betting: Prepare for the Billy Club Beatdown

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This week FIFA’s Confederations Cup kicks off and the shady Brits of Ladbrokes, offers Cup winner odds for Americans who wager on Eurotrash sports who haven’t blown their pleather allowance. Argentina (15/8), Brazil (2/1), Germany (13/5) and your North American representatives, Mexico (5/1), are the favorites. The winner of the Confederations Cup will likely be a favorite for next year’s World Cup. And the favorite to have their country ravaged by drunken hooligans throughout the end of summer.

FIFA Confederations Cup betting [Readabet]

Canadian Football League: Eh?

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There are plenty of things we love about Canada: the bacon that looks like assy ham, the pretty flag, hockey, the Dave Coulier/Alanis Morrisette relationship, Covers, and the fact that they pronouce ‘z’ like ‘zed’(Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead…). What we don’t like too much is the Canadian Football League, with its 55-yard-line, and its arcade-like scoring, and Doug Flutie reverence. Well, Doug Flutie’s okay, we guess. Anyway, the season kicks off today and the sharp-friendly gang at Covers, of course, did a thorough breakdown of what to expect gambling-wise from the first week of games. Grab some Flutie Flakes, call up your mountie friends, and thoroughly prepare yourself for the CFL betting madness.

CFL Forecast: Makin’ Canadian Bacon [Covers]

Japanese Baseball : Get Half Naked and Bang a Drum!

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Bet365 has the odds on Japan’s baseball championship listed on its “baseball futures” page. Since the yen is crushing the dollar and the results of tonight’s games were posted this morning, we like our options. The heavily favored Chiba Lotte Marines sit at a fancy +200 and the Hanshin Tigers are ate +300. Meanwhile, the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, are sadly longshot underdogs at +20000. That city just can’t catch a break.

Japanese Baseball Futures [Bet365]

Tyson: Expects Plenty of Seagulls at Latest Fight

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After yesterday’s press conference at which Mike Tyson intelligently claimed he would ‘gut’ his opponent, 6’6 Kevin McBride, ‘like a fish’, many bookmakers were elated to see the unhinged, sociopathic side of Tyson reemerge before his Saturday night bout. Especially when he’s currently marked at -800 to win. Although he’s a heavy favorite, many bookmakers are hesitant to once again lose money on Tyson this time around. Bookmakers would prefer a quick fight, under three rounds, but are also fearful that Tyson may once again lose control and start eating the clothes off of children as seen in the photo to the right.
Tyson Needs This One [Covers]
Tyson Vows To Gut Opponent Like a Fish [ABC Australia]

USA Soccer Favored, Moms Declare it Taco Night

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The United States Soccer team takes on lowly Panama tonight in its quest to clinch a World Cup berth in the final round of qualifying matches. If the US team wins tonight it will not only propel US soccer into its fifth straight World Cup competition, but also reinvigorate interest in the sport that has been so popular in America for years, especially for parents who won’t let their kids play football. You know, real football. The kind with helmets and shoulder pads. Bodog has the US Team favored at -200.

Favored US Cautious in Panama [Covers]
World Cup Qualifying Odds [Bodog]