Betting on Sports.com

offers a fair amount of wagering options. Navigation is easy, with links and drop down menus to execute parlays. There's a ticket column on the left to confirm wagers, and a separate link for checking your pending and graded wagers. In other words, the site is moron proof, which is good news if for me.

Standard Bets and Props

You can take NFL lines, halftime lines, NBA lines, college football lines and college basketball lines.

12-Team and Progressive Parlay Wagers

Some people just like taking crazy parlays for big payoffs. And at 1,800 to 1, a twelve team parlay is the epitome of parlay craziness. Imagine putting down $1,000 on a twelve team parlay to win $1.8 million. Just one more reason to finish that time machine. Or like Biff did in "Back to the Future 2," steal one. In any case, offers the opportunity to try and strike it rich by offering you twelve teamers.

A much better bet may be the progressive parlay, which gives smaller payouts, but still pays even money if one of your teams loses, depending on the size of the parlay.

15-Team Teaser Bets

If you enjoy monster teasers, offers up to fifteen teams you can string together. If you couple that with NFL Sunday Ticket or NBA League Pass, you can watch and have action on fifteen different channels, turning your brain into a fragile lump of clay.

Buying Points With Sports.com

Buying points is a useful option if you're looking to get a slight edge. Examples where it might be helpful is turning a touchdown spread to 6.5 on NFL odds. It's only half a point, but there's a big difference when a lot of games are decided by a touchdown. However, on the flip side, you lose about 10% of juice for every half point docked and 20% off the number three on NFL lines.

In-Game Betting

One of the best betting options ever invented has to be "in game betting". You can gauge so many factors: The crowd, the momentum and whether or not one of the players has that "I spent last night with eight hookers and I'm mailing this game in" look in their eyes. This especially comes in handy when you're dealing with a team that has nothing to play for or any team that has Jake Plummer as their quarterback. Then again, you don't need an in-game bet to know the snake is good for at least three interceptions.

If Bets

Whenever you have two games that are playing at the same time, that you don't want to parlay, but you only have enough money to wager on one, the if bet comes in mighty handy. Confusing? Let's say you think both Detroit and Minnesota are going to cover, but you aren't confident enough to parlay the two. You have $500 left in your account and you want to take both teams. You can do and if Detroit wins, place the bet on Minnesota wager. That concludes are gambling lesson. Solve for X and divide by pie.