Sports Gaming Today

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Basketball, Racing, Soccer, Football, Baseball, Hockey, Cycling, etc...Sports Gaming is evolving and it is more popular today than ever. How far will your team go this year?

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Interest in sports gaming is at an all-time high and growing. Whether you are talking about sports betting, sports handicapping and other forms of sports gambling; or you are talking about sports games both professional and collegiate, fantasy sports, or video games, fan interest continues to grow.

Every year more and more people are turned on to a variety of sports. Some stay and other change venues to enjoy a new sport. Each year new college students play their hearts out to win glory for their colleges and universities and to position themselves for a high lottery pick in the draft. Yes, everyone plays for the love of the sport, but at the end of the day, the best players are going to get the biggest contract regardless of the sport that they choose to play.

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Look at what Tiger Woods has done to the sport of golf. Not only is golf cool, but the prizes for the winners of tournaments have increased tremendously. As more and more people turn their attention on to any given sport, so do advertisers vying for the business of those viewers. It becomes a marketing bonanza for everyone involved.

The athletes are able to command bigger paychecks, television networks are able to command higher advertising costs, sports owners are able to generate more advertising dollars through merchandise and ticket sales, etc. Currently EA Sports dominates the sports games arena with exclusive licensing deals that make it very difficult for upstarts to come into the arena and compete.

As the level of interest in each of these individual sports grows, more and more people will find ways to place wagers on each game and in each sport. It doesn’t matter what the sport is, there is someone willing to place a bet. Sports betting has gotten to be an extremely lucrative market and continued interest in each sport allows the potential winnings to continue to grow.

Sports gambling is something that has always been around. While it may have found its early roots in a “friendly” bet between two friends cheering for their favorite teams, its reach is now on a global level. Sports handicapping can be done online or by visiting your personal bookie to place a bet.

The most common types of sports bets are Straight Bets, Money Line, Over/Under Totals, Parlay, Teasers, and Futures. Although these are the most common types of sports bets, they are not the sole types of bets done in sports. There is really no limit to type of sports betting out there. As long as there is someone out there interesting in taking your wager, which there usually always is, you will be able to make it happen.

When it comes to sports games, you have a tremendous amount of options, whether it be online or via a variety of gaming platforms.

Top 10 List of Gaming platforms:

1. Xbox 360
2. Nintendo Wii
3. PS3
4. PSP Go
5. Nintendo 3DS
6. PSP 3000
7. Nintendo DSi XL
8. Nintendo DSi
9. Nintendo DS Lite
10. PS2

Sports Illustrated List of Top 10 Sports Video Games of 2011:

1. NBA 2K12
2. FIFA 12
3. MLB 11: The Show
4. Forza Motorsport 4
5. NHL 12
6. NCAA Football 12
7. Tiger Wood’s PGA Tour 12: The Masters
8. Mario Kart 7
9. Dirt 3
10. Madden NFL 12

With the level of technology utilized by these top gaming platforms, it is no wonder how much interest in sports gaming has grown, both on your gaming system and online.

If you are looking at sports games popularity on a global level, soccer is number 1. The number 2 most popular sport on a global level would be cricket. Surprisingly enough the 3^rd most popular sport on a global scale is listed as field hockey. Tennis is listed as the 4^th most popular sport in the world, and volleyball rounds out the list as the world’s 5^th most popular sport.

In the United States the list of most popular sports is definitely different than those of the rest of the world. In America, American football is the most popular sport. Baseball is listed as the second most popular sport. Many people argue the reasons why this is so, but generally it is considered that the faster pace of the game is what wins more people over to football than baseball.

Basketball is the 3^rd most popular sport in the U.S. Hockey is the currently the 4^th most popular sport in United States, and soccer rounds out the list as the 5^th most popular sport in America. There has been recent reports that indicate that growing popularity of soccer in America. There is even talk that it may soon jump past hockey and possibly move even higher. Only time will tell.