LeBron James has been arguably the greatest basketball player of a generation, but his offspring is ready to prove the family can do more than ball. LeBron “Bronny” James Jr. has signed on to join the esports FaZe Clan.

The 15-year old James, who will now go by his gamer tag “FaZe Bronny,” will stream for the clan, likely for his two favorite games, Fortnite and Call of Duty: Warzone. Terms and financial details of how he joined the team were not disclosed.

A few years from now, Bronny could follow in his father’s footsteps. James Jr. is ranked No. 24 on ESPN’s 2023 collegiate basketball rankings sheet. But an NBA draft spot is still several years off, and college basketball doesn’t exactly pay well, so esports is a great way to make a few bucks in the meantime.

And he hasn’t been doing too badly for himself before joining FaZe. Bronny has 4.3 million followers on TikTok and 300 thousand on Twitch. He joins recently added FaZe Clan members like Philadelphia 76ers star Ben Simmons, now going by “FaZe Simmo,” Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster (FaZe Juju) and Miami Heat player Meyers Leonard (FaZe Hammer).

On the eve of the U.S. Open, men’s tennis has been split, with a breakaway group of players insisting that they want to leave the ATP and form their own Players Council in protest at the treatment of players by the governing body of tennis.

Led by Novak Djokovic, the proposed Professional Tennis Players’ Association is in direct competition with the ATP Players Council, which Novak Djokovic quit to set up this independent player body.

Djokovic is also in direct conflict with the other two men who form the ‘Holy Trinity’ of male tennis legends – Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and the Serbian himself. Both Nadal and Federer remain members of the Players Council in the ATP, and Andy Murray hasn’t joined the splinter group either.

That said, well over five dozen players have signed up, including players such as John Isner, and Vasek Pospisil, the Canadian being one of the players who are behind the PTPA too.

After nearly 2 years of campaigning, we’re nearing the home stretch of the U.S. 2020 Presidential election. Both President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have accepted their nominations, and we have just over 2 months to go until election day. But did either candidate get a bump from their respective conventions? Bodog has the odds to let us know.

During last week’s Democratic National Convention (DNC), most media pundits celebrated just how professional the whole affair was, with celebrity hosts, a diverse selection of speakers and, as many center-left pundits hailed, a new mom for America in V.P. pick Kamala Harris. But for the more cynical observer, a convention has a problem when the most exciting thing about the entire thing was an appetizer.

Rhode Island was a big sensation at the virtual Democratic National Convention for its unconventional video plugging calamari — the state’s official appetizer. https://t.co/C8j5epDiZI #odd

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It might seem like the 2019/20 Premier League season has only just finished, but old rivalries are about to be renewed as the Community Shield heralds a new dawn of the most popular soccer league in the world.

Arsenal, last season’s F.A. Cup winners, will take on Liverpool, the 2019/20 runaway Premier League champions in a game that may say more about where each team’s fitness is rather than guide us towards value in picking where either team will end up.

Finding Form

While Liverpool have rather stumbled over the line, not beating anyone of note at the tail-end of the season, Arsenal come into the 2020/21 season in fine form. Mikel Arteta is clearly building a great team ethic and while some of the players at his disposal wouldn’t get near the Liverpool team in the same positions, the collective is steadily improving with virtually every game.

Odds courtesy of OddsShark.com

Two of the NBA’s first-round Western Conference playoff series could wrap up on Thursday, and the first Eastern Conference semifinal game also will be played from the Orlando bubble.

At 4 p.m. ET, the Utah Jazz try for a second straight contest to eliminate the Denver Nuggets as they meet in Game 6 of their series, with the Jazz sitting as 2-point favorites. Denver stayed alive and ended a three-game losing streak by rallying from a 15-point deficit and winning 117-107 on Tuesday behind 42 points from Jamal Murray – he’s averaging 30.8 points in the series.

Murray’s 33 points in the second half tied for the most by any player facing elimination in the past 20 postseasons. Utah’s Donovan Mitchell, who has two 50-point games in the series, was “held” to 30. Denver is 6-2 ATS in the past eight meetings overall.

With domestic football having already restarted in France, the transfer window well and truly open and leagues in England, Italy, Germany and Spain poised to renew rivalries, there’s no better time than now to appraise the chances of the top sides.

While last year’s champions such as Real Madrid, Liverpool and Juventus will be strong, there are no shortage of teams who have the financial capabilities to challenge those current title holders in any of Europe’s top five divisions.

Who’ll take the title next May in England, Italy, France, Germany and Spain? Let’s take a look at the odds and pick some winners.

English Premier League

US football fans are in for an unprecedented deluge of betting-related broadcasting this fall, from dedicated programs talking odds and lines to endless commercial pitches.

As the clock counts down to a new NFL season – assuming it’s not sacked for a loss by COVID-19 – bettors in states where such activity has been legalized are taking to social media to vent about the inescapable betting-related promos from local licensees.

Some viewers claim at least one, and often more than one, wagering promo features in every single ad break on some sports-focused outlets. The nonstop pitches are causing some viewers to have unfortunate flashbacks to 2015, when today’s betting leaders DraftKings and FanDuel ran (literally) 214 hours’ worth of daily fantasy sports promos in the month of September alone.

Among the more outlandish/irritating spots features Howie Long and Terry Bradshaw, Fox Sports personalities and now brand ambassadors for Flutter Entertainment’s Fox Bet brand. The two released a promo that really needs to be seen to be believed, with lots of shouting, frequent yelling of the word ‘boom’ and more fake lightning than Back to the Future.

The latest winner of a World Series of Poker bracelet, Huahuan Feng, didn’t just win any WSOP bracelet, he won a ‘Big 50’ bracelet, which meant he only paid $50 to enter the event and took home the top prize of $211,282. 

As if that achievement was not astonishing enough, Feng also won a package to the World Series of Poker Europe worth $12,000 – not a bad return for what a cockney might call a ‘bullseye’.

Ploughing through 44,575 other entries, Feng of course didn’t have to eliminate all of them. With a $2 million prizepool instead of the initial $1 million put up as a guaranteed prizepool, there were over 4,000 players in the draw for a Day 2 seat and they included GGPoker ambassador Daniel ‘Kid Poker’ Negreanu, the most successful tournament poker player of all time in Chris Moorman and Jack Salter among others.

While Moorman would be among the many who busted before the money bubble, messrs Salter ($230) and Negreanu ($611) both cashed, along with hundreds of others. Once at the final table, Thailand’s Wade Gillett busted first, in 9th place for $15,302. He was followed by British player Dean Lipscombe, before two Chinese players departed with Xiong Huang (7th for $29,906) and Di Lu (6th for $41,809) both departing.