The X-Factor returns to our screens tonight and, love it or hate it, tv betting fans will be glued to their tellies for the next three months or so struggling to anticipate how each public vote will go in their efforts to predict the almost unpredictable. It’s one thing weighing up talent and charisma as a measure of potential success of an act. It’s quite another when public sentiment is included in the equation. That’s why overweight people sometimes win.

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With new Premiership 08/09 season just around the corner we thought it best to bring you the latest Premiership betting odds for who is likely to win the Premiership but also who is favourites to be relegated from the Premiership. So here’s your chance to support your Premiership team before a ball is kicked in anger and get the best deals going from all of the major online bookies. Click on any of our special Premiership betting deals and receive free bets when you sign-up for a free account.

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The Olympics sits in a strange position in our collective view of great sporting events. Clearly, to some, it is a much anticipated and glorious pageant of sporting excellence, celebrating the dedication of committed athletes the world over. To another, more bemused group of observers, it seems little more than an overblown exercise in the self-promotion and expression of nationalistic pride of both the host nation and the main medal contenders, usually the richest countries, to demonstrate dominance over their rivals.

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It’s Day 4 at the Beijing Summer 2008 Olympics and Team GB is already in amongst the mix for Olympic Gold. There has been some astonishing performances, especially from the women, in Team GB’s early events. Here we highlight some of the athletes for Team GB and why their magnificent performances is really an inspiration for the rest of the team and Olympic betting fans alike.

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Padraig Harrington has pulled off an amazing win in the USPGA Championship after a nail-biter of a final day which saw Spaniard, Sergio Garcia and American, Ben Curtis fall prey to the sheer determination of the Irishman to hold his ground and take the title. The significance of this win, marking the first time in 78 years that a European has won the competition, must not be underestimated by golf betting fans. Harrington, long seen as a top contender, has now won three of the last six majors and can now be viewed as one of the golfing greats.

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The 2008 Beijing Olympics finally get under way today with an eagerly anticipated opening ceremony expected to be a spectacle on a scale never seen before. Of course, every Olympic opening ceremony is bigger than the last as each host country attempts to outdo the one before but this time the billions watching can expect a display which will reach new levels in the art of blowing away the rest of the world.

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There is one thing about the Olympics that really makes the games worthwhile and that is Boxing. So many great fighters and champions of this sport made an early name for themselves at the Olympics and here’s hoping boxing betting fans that the Beijing 2008 Olympics follows this trend.

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The appointment of Kevin Pietersen as England Captain for both test and One Day International matches, following the resignation of Michael Vaughan has caused much eyebrow raising and controversy among cricket betting enthusiasts, hard-line cricket fans and commentators alike. That we have to resort a South African in the absence of a suitable English candidate itself underlines the fundamental problem Pietersen will have to address – the crisis which exists in English cricket today.

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The start of the Scottish Premier League is in jeopardy because of a strike threat from Scottish refs over a pay dispute. The SRA (Scottish Referee Association) has demanded that match officials payment rise from £575 to £800 per SPL match. The SPL have offered £600 per match and now strike action seems imminent, unless an agreement can be reached. Scottish football betting fans will be aware at the fixture congestion schedule at the end of last seasons SPL campaign that saw Rangers play 5 games in 11 days and lose the UEFA Cup final and also the SPL title on the final game of the season.

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I wrote about Andy Murray a month or so ago, just after his defeat in the quarter finals at Wimbledon. I imagine tennis betting enthusiasts had seen the same sort of comment on the bulletin boards as I did. The general view seemed to be that here was another Tim Henman, destined to fail. So desperate are the British for a success in the men’s or women’s final at Wimbledon that they become oblivious to the power they have to crush the spirit of our players by writing them off as failures if they don’t win the Championship. It will happen with the young Laura Robson, if we’re not careful.

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