Sports Betting

20+ hour, 41+ min ago   (655+ words) The Chicago White Sox and St. Louis Cardinals will play the second game of a three-game series on Saturday at 7:15 p.m. ET at Busch Stadium. Chicago is limping into the contest on a four-game losing streak. The away team had wound…...

20+ hour, 41+ min ago   (159+ words) Sep. 12—Beat writer Scott Richey previews the Illini's showdown with Duke ahead of the kickoff at Gies Memorial Stadium in Champaign: Three major storylines Don't forget about second down Next man up worked at linebacker "His first play of college…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (852+ words) The Duke Blue Devils take on the Illinois Fighting Illini in Champaign, IL. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. ET on FS1. Illinois is favored by -6 points on the spread with a moneyline of -230. The total is set at 51.5 points. Here's my Duke vs....

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (570+ words) The Illinois Fighting Illini will square off against the Duke Blue Devils Saturday at 3:30 p.m. ET at Gies Memorial Stadium (Champaign, Ill.). Both come into the game bolstered by wins in their previous matches. Illinois is looking to give their home crowd…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (491+ words) We know ESPN's Football Power Index isn't the biggest fan of Illinois, but to be fair, it isn't alone. SP+, which was created by Bill Connelly (also of ESPN), is comparatively low on the Illini - though, notably, it wasn't going…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (495+ words) On Thursday, Illinois football is set to open its 2026 campaign against Group of Six squad UAB, which is now under the direction of head coach Alex Mortensen. The Illini hope to break in a bunch of new players starters and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (443+ words) The Chicago White Sox (72-64) and the Houston Astros (69-68) open a 4-game series Monday at Daikin Park in Houston, Texas. First pitch is scheduled for 8:10 p.m. ET. Let's analyze MLB odds around the White Sox vs. Astros odds and make our expert…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (213+ words) Illinois legalized video gaming terminals in 2009. The market that followed was still taking shape, with many operators treating video gaming as one part of a broader business. Jeff Rehberger looked at that landscape and saw something else: a regulated, scalable…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (447+ words) The Prairie State’s online and retail sportsbooks generated a 20% handle increase compared to the same month in 2025, while bets placed were up over 1 million. Illinois continued a trend felt across the largest sports betting jurisdictions in the U.S. during June…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (253+ words) Gambling is nothing new in Chicago. Legal gambling is. City Hall’s handling of it still looks like the rackets of yore. With a suffocating debt and pension load, and another looming budget deficit, Chicago cannot afford incoherence on this important…...