These would normally be boom times for sportsbooks. Instead, they're taking bets on the weather. adamkraymond reports
Las Vegas is a ghost town. Photo: Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg via Getty Images On March 18, 2019, nine NBA games and four NHL games happened. The Major League Soccer and Premier League seasons were in full swing, the NCAA tournament was three days away, and Major League Baseball’s opening day was coming up in a little more than a week.On March 18, 2020, the sports world is largely, though not entirely, dormant.
“The severity of what’s going on in the world right now, it’s bombarding us,” Pat Morrow, head oddsmaker at Bovada, told Intelligencer. “You can’t really flip away from cable news. You can’t have your usual distractions. So we figured: What else are people talking about? What else are people engaging with? Hopefully this could be our own way to provide distraction.”
These would normally be boom times for Bovada and other sportsbooks. March is routinely one of their busiest months, thanks to the NCAA Tournament. But instead of college basketball — plus a full slate of the NBA, soccer, and hockey — bettors are now left with arcane offerings like table tennis in Ukraine and horse racing in South Africa.
So on Wednesday morning, he pulled up Bovada’s new betting lines. “I looked at regional cities close to Louisville and took the over in Cincinnati and the under in Indianapolis,” he said. “It’s supposed to be 60 here.”
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