By Aidan Elder | Chief sports writer It’s hard not to get bitten by the Olympics bug. For so long it felt like an abstract notion that would never actually come around. It’s finally here and over the next few weeks we’ll all undoubtedly discover a passion for the 50m rifle prone shooting event we […]
Archive | July 27, 2012
Senan Connell’s GAA football betting preview
By Senan Connell | Paddy Power GAA pundit The games are, as always, not that easy to call this weekend. Some of the teams are coming in with just a six-day turnaround and we know what the stats say. In the past 11 years only one team has lost a provincial final and won the […]
Chelsea summer spree could pay off very quickly
The love affair has been rekindled. The passion is back. Things had gone stale for a while, but the romance has returned. Roman Abramovich loves football again. Chelsea’s unlikely triumph in Bayern’s back garden saw the Russian billionaire realise a goal stated early on in his ownership of the club. The Premier Leagues were satisfying, […]
Betting News: Moura, Ruby, Thompson, Oleson
#lunchfillers Afternoon update from the Paddy Power Blog on all the latest betting moves in sport Olympics It’s been billed as the raunchiest Olympics ever with 150,000 condoms being distributed throughout the Olympic Village. With all those fit and healthy young men and women confined to barracks so to speak Paddy Power is offering 6/1 that they run […]
Will Jenson be on the Button in Hungary?
By Lee Dover The wild rollercoaster ride that is Formula One 2012 is enjoying a period of calm, thanks largely to the superb steering of Fernando Alonso. The Spaniard’s victories in the European and German Grand Prix races, as well as a second-place finish in the British Grand Prix sandwiched in between, have calmed the […]
GAA betting: Hurling takes centre-stage
By Sean Goff | Sports Reporter The GAA season is warming up nicely and the football and hurling qualifiers take centre-stage this weekend. Cork’s hurlers play Waterford at 2pm on Sunday while a shell-shocked Kilkenny face Limerick at 4pm still wondering how they lost to Galway in the Leinster final. The All-Ireland quarter-final at Semple […]
No denying Frankel’s Goodwood ‘Sex appeal
By Sean Goff | Sports Reporter Glorious Goodwood comes under starter’s orders next Tuesday and superstar Frankel’s last run over a mile in Wednesday’s Sussex Stakes (4pm) will be one of the highlight of the meeting. Henry Cecil’s colt will be the star of the show in the Group One Qipco Sussex Stakes, that he also won […]
Betting News: Carroll, Team GB,Olympics, Darts
#morningupdate Morning update from the Paddy Power Blog on all the latest betting moves in sport Olympics Big Ben has just started to chime to signal that London 2012 is about to start. One billion will watch live on TV with up four billion watching the action at some stage. But no-one knows yet who will light the Olympic […]
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