You guys who like to gamble on those kids learning to play basketball seem to think it's the big thing at sportsbooks.
But every week the NASCAR race brings in more wagers for Vegas than any baby ball game...
"Vegas is always the No. 1 bet [NASCAR] event of the year, just because of all the foot traffic through the casinos," Roberts [18 years as Vegas linesman] said. "That's a targeted audience and they love it. Then second would be Daytona and third would go to maybe the Coca-Cola 600 or the Brickyard. Talladega is always a popular event as well.
"There are only 36 [Cup points] races, so when you're comparing only 36 events to the other sports, you're comparing apples to oranges. In the NBA, each team has 82 games and they have 30 teams. You multiply that over the long haul and there's no way NASCAR as far as the weekly handle could collectively compare to that. But as one event, you put that one event against any one basketball game over the weekend and it will be the most bet-upon event of the weekend. Even a big college basketball game, there won't be anything that comes close to what that one event does for NASCAR. And that's on a weekly basis.
http://www.nascar.com/news/110302/la...dds/index.html
Nothing comes close. Are you betting with the big boys?