Oh. And the NBA starts in mid-october until the finals ending in mid-april. Games during the week are usually in the evenings local time. There are afternoon games on weekends. And there are games almost daily throughout the season.
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So this is all pre-COVID info but NFL is 1pm and 415pm and one game 820pm eastern time zone on Sunday. 815pm est Monday and Thursday nights. NFL runs Labor Day to Valentine’s Dayish.
NBA is usually 7pm or 10pm eastern any weeknight. Couple games randomly on Sundays and Saturdays. It use to run Halloween to mid-June but I think they might change to start Xmas day to stop competing with the NFL.
MLB is generally every night 705 or 1005 eastern for pretty much every game except weekends when they are usually afternoon games at 105 or 430ish eastern. Season is April 1 to Halloween basically.
College football is anytime Saturday from noon to midnight. Some Thursday and Friday night games too. Labor Day to New Years Day.
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Thanks, so some of those look out time-wise for a Brit placing bets in the hour before the start. Trying to get my head around the time zones and geography but maybe
NFL - September to February
Sundays - 1pm all; 4:15pm Eastern, Central, Mountain
MLB - April to October
Weekends - 1.05pm all; 4.30pm Eastern, Central, Mountain
NBA - October to Spring, moving later?
Weekends
Looks like a decent number of games.
Not sure how big of an action junkie you are but betting on golf is fun too for a slower burn. Most of the time it’s just playing bingo but there are some pretty good sized payoffs if you get the right guy at the right course.
I was thinking about golf too but the high odds put me off a bit (long losing runs). Unless there are place markets (eg top 3 finish)?
Can someone who is better than I at EPL make an EPL thread? I can’t do it justice but EPL is back and I’m so happy right now
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One of those stories that just seems like it can’t possibly be true, and yet there are the court docs
The lawsuit, launched in Toronto on Thursday afternoon against the Canadian Hockey League, the Western League, the Ontario League and the Quebec League, was brought forth by Daniel Carcillo and Garrett Taylor. And the allegations are explosive and disturbing. According the lawsuit, players in the class were, among other things, forced to masturbate in front of teammates and coaches and forced to sexually assault teammates, to consume saliva, urine, semen and feces of other players and to sexually engage with animals. It is also alleged that players had heavy objects tied to their genitals, had their genitals dipped in irritants and toxic liquids and had objects such as hockey sticks, brooms and food forced into their anuses. It is also alleged that players were forced to consume large amounts of alcohol and illicit drugs.
Super gross. Always heard rumours about terrible hazing in junior hockey. Sadly I’m not that surprised :(
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Wow, that’s the worst hazing I’ve ever heard of. In college it was usually either making them drink too much and/or humiliating them, in the military it was kicking the shit out of each other. That’s some sick, twisted B.C. stuff.
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Junior hockey has real problems. Hazing reputation worse than US fraternities. Maybe it’s why Canadians are always apologizing.
Kinda amazing Carcillo ends up the one suing as he’s well known as a perpetrator as well. Guess he represents the systemic nature of it all.
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Mlb and nba are daily
In the before times, there was usually also a Sunday night game and a Thursday night game, but the big prestige game of the week was on Monday nights.
And then there’s college football, which is mostly held on Saturday afternoons and Saturday evenings to avoid conflicting with the NFL.
Also, there’s the NHL. And also MMA is becoming a bigger and bigger thing in the US.
All of this was in the before times, obv.
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Thanks, but my list was for games I’d be able to bet on taking into account the time difference.
Just being nitty, but I think Sunday night passed Monday night in prestige a long time ago.
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That’s because NBC pays handsomely for the rights to pick which matchup gets flexed to Sunday night. They can look at the slate of a whole Sunday and pick which matchup they want to flex into primetime.
The Monday night schedule is set in stone before the season, and they try to spread primetime games around, so you frequently see Panthers vs Jets or other clunkers between two sub .500 teams.
It is true that Monday night gets the most gambling action, by far, from both square and punter sports bettors. Historically, live bookies would settle up on Tuesday, so Monday night is the last chance to get even from the weekend.
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Also keep in mind that historically, all my rowdy friends are here on Monday night.
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The other networks are able to protect some games each weekend. I’m not sure when they have to specify or how many they can protect.
To further nit it up, college football on Saturdays predates NFL on Sundays. The fledgling NFL was staying out of the way of college at first.
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So apparently ESPN is running the ESPYs tonight did you guys know that?
This BLM intro is very good, Russell Wilson did well.