Throughout the regular season, NBA highlights are dominated by dunks, buzzer-beaters and the obligatory JaVale McGee “Bonehead Play of the Day.”

Sometimes a ferocious rejection gets sprinkled in, but for the most part, highlights focus on offense. Do you remember the last time Sportscenter’s Top 10 included a fundamentally sound boxout or some solid help defense? I didn’t think so.

While offense rules the regular season, the perception among fans is that once the playoffs begin, teams turn up the defensive pressure. We’ve all heard it before, defense wins championships, right?

But is that perception a reality? We looked back in our archives to answer the question, Do NBA teams really clamp down defensively once the Larry O’Brien Trophy is within reach?  Continue Reading...

We’re just over a month into the 2012 MLB Season and there have already been more surprises than an M. Night Shyamalan movie. As a result, bookmakers have reacted by moving one team to a 19/4 favorite to win the World Series.  Continue Reading...

The storied Red Sox franchise will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park this afternoon and fittingly they will be taking on their longtime nemesis — the New York Yankees.

And despite both sides opening at -110, the public is consistently betting one team in this game.  Continue Reading...

With Vancouver and Pittsburgh facing 3-0 series deficits, two new teams have surfaced as the favorites in Las Vegas to reach the Stanley Cup Finals.  Continue Reading...

This is a great time of the year for sports fans — and especially sports investors — as the baseball season is starting up, the hockey playoffs are heating up, and NBA teams are jockeying for playoff position. This is a particularly interesting time for NHL bettors.  Round 1 playoff series are shifting to the home ice of the “underdog” seed  which typically means that the money line odds for the games are close to even.  Keep an eye on Sports Insights’ proprietary betting percentages to view potential value on these games.  Also, we encourage our readers to revisit our article on NHL  contrarian biases that we have researched over the years.  Continue Reading...