Cal Crutchlow knows that if he keeps his LCR Honda both wheels up on Sunday he has every chance of winning his home British MotoGP. Crutchlow has not taken the top step of the podium before at his home MotoGP race, finishing runner-up in 2016.
With the regular PGA Tour season over, attention in the States turns to the first of the FedEx Cup play-offs. The Northern Trust is a limited field event for the top 125 on the FedEx Cup standings, after which the top 100 move on to TPC Boston for the Dell Technologies Championship.
Qualifying for the 2018 Ryder Cup started with last year’s D+D Real Czech Masters and this year’s tournament is the penultimate event in the battle to seal an automatic place in Europe’s team. Now in its fifth year at the Albatross Golf Resort in Prague, the event has a strong history with the biennial team event.
Tyson Fury continues on the comeback trail when facing Italian heavyweight Francesco Pianeta in Belfast and should have little trouble in extending his unbeaten record to 27-0. The former world champion returned from a long absence to brush aside Sefer Seferi and is expected to be sharper for that outing.
We’re eyeing an 11/2 handicap treble with this week’s Super League predictions, as teams gear up for the second round of matches in the Super 8s. The focus now is on which sides will boost their hopes of making the Grand Final at Old Trafford in late October and these selections are all hungry for success.
After picking out US PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka and Francesco Molinari (6th), the task is to keep the good run going with our Wyndham Championship betting tips. The first selection from the top of the market is Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, who has hinted at a return to peak form.
With the final major of the season in the books, we return to regular European Tour action and another new course for the Nordea Masters. Our golf guru Phil Casey hit the target with 18/1 winner Brooks Koepka at the US PGA Championship and is eyeing another nice pay-out this week.
The Crusaders and the Lions will meet in a repeat of last year’s Super Rugby final and the New Zealand outfit are red-hot favourites to come out on top again. Scott Robertson’s side survived a late fightback to prevail 25-17 in Johannesburg 12 months ago and should enjoy a more comfortable victory now in Christchurch.
One of the best fields in golf is assembled for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and good cases can be made for a number of star names in Akron. Firestone Country Club hosts the limited-field event for the final time before moving to Memphis next year.
Joseph Parker can push his claims for a rematch with Anthony Joshua by beating Dillian Whyte at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday night. Both boxers have only suffered one defeat in their pro careers, each losing to heavyweight world champion Joshua, but Parker is a far more polished fighter in our book.
Green Eagle Golf Course in Hamburg hosts the Porsche European Open for the second year running and England’s Jordan Smith is back to defend the title he won in a play-off with defending champion Alexander Levy.
England are 10/1 to go one better than five years ago and win the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco. England, world sevens champions 25 years ago when their squad included the likes of Lawrence Dallaglio, Matt Dawson and Tim Rodber, are seeded fourth in the 24-team tournament behind South Africa, Fiji and New Zealand.
Bwin have several different betting markets available for The Open 2018 and as well as picking our best bets to be the outright winner, we’ve also studied the match betting odds to find some value.
Marc Marquez must be feeling on top of the world as he heads into the German MotoGP at the Sachsenring. To say the Repsol Honda rider owns the circuit would also be pretty accurate as the Spaniard has won the last five MotoGP races there.