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Nick Chubb was about to get Cleveland Browns bettors a great backdoor cover. Then he took a left turn just before the goal line. The Browns were 3-point favorites at the beginning of the week, went to 3.5 and then 4 points at BetMGM as the week went on. They led the Houston Texans 10-7 with about a minute to go and it looked like a push or loss for Browns bettors. Then, Chubb broke free. Chubb was running to daylight down the sideline, no Texans defender anywhere near him. It was an easy touchdown. Then, just before he scored,...

The Buffalo Bills closed as a 2.5-point underdog to the Arizona Cardinals at BetMGM. Keep that number in mind. The Bills seemingly had a straight-up win when Stefon Diggs caught a touchdown with 34 seconds left. That gave Buffalo a 30-26 lead. Then Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins did the unthinkable, hooking up on a Hail Mary with 2 seconds left. That gave the Cardinals a 32-30 lead, with the extra point pending.

On the morning of April 11, 2011, University of San Diego basketball coach Bill Grier received a surprise visit at his home from two FBI agents who told him that one of his former players, USD's alltime leading scorer Brandon Johnson, and another ex-USD player named Brandon Dowdy were being charged in federal court at that very moment with trying to fix games. That information was shocking enough, but when the agents told Grier about the third defendant linked to USD basketball, former assistant coach T.J. Brown -- a man Grier thought highly of even as he dismissed him in...

SAN DIEGO — Brandon Johnson became the University of San Diego’s all-time leading scorer for men’s basketball during a game on Feb. 13, 2010, but it was something else that allegedly happened in the same month that was the subject of a federal indictment unsealed Monday. He is accused of fixing a game for money. Johnson was one of 10 people indicted on a variety of charges that included sports bribery, illegal sports bookmaking and marijuana distribution. Two others had ties to USD’s basketball program: former player Brandon Dowdy and former assistant coach Thaddeus “T.J.” Brown. Johnson was arrested in...