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Recent Examples of handicapperBut there are hints that the unleashed-animal-spirits theme that kicked in late last year and was part of every handicappers upbeat 2025 outlook is bidding for a do-over.—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 17 May 2025 So some handicappers like to forecast the Kentucky Derby by analyzing how horses perform down the stretch of their last prep race before Churchill Downs.—Peter Keating, New York Times, 1 May 2025 Democrats are early favorites to win governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia this year, according to a leading elections handicapper.—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 30 Apr. 2025 More seriously, Baffert noted that he’d been pleasantly surprised by the increasing maturity Rodriguez had exhibited in training recently, which, in Baffert-parlance, is the trademark laconic New-Mexico-cowboy sort of praise that handicappers would do well to take seriously on Saturday.—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for handicapper
This story has been updated with the latest bookmakers' odds.
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James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 July 2025
In a rehashing of the arguments made ahead of the state’s decision to legalize sports betting, bookmakers are appealing to lawmakers to allow Bay State residents to do their casino gambling from home legally and remove the industry from black market hands.
The Casino element is obvious: speculators bought $SCIHUB hoping for returns, driving its $20 million market cap despite only $500,000 reaching Sci-Hub.
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Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
Ginsberg also noted that the grind back to record highs comes as large speculators take out larger short positions, betting that prices will fall.
Following an intriguing first round of the 2025 NBA Draft, oddsmakers quickly installed No. 1 overall pick Cooper Flagg out of Duke as the heavy favorite in the 2025-26 NBA Rookie of the Year odds.
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Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
McCoy’s alma mater, Texas, is a favorite to win the upcoming national championship according to oddsmakers, and despite the Longhorns’ recent success, the school hasn’t been to a national championship game since 2009 when McCoy was still starring in Austin.
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Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 June 2025
And since the first leak, another tipster with exceptional track record has weighed in, and responses have been dramatic.
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David Phelan,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
An anonymous tipster told the Indiana State Excise Police on Dec. 13, 2021, that the club, 8120 Melton Road, was serving vodka cocktails without a license, which state records later confirmed, charges state.
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Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2025
Yet as Russian war atrocities have become more evident, and Ukraine’s need for heavy armor has increased, the lines have grown blurrier and the rhetoric sharper.
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David E. Sanger,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2022
Both offer blistering acceleration and sharper handling than the standard model.
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