Sports.com Sportsbook Promotions

offers two free promotions, which are like mini quiz games to play for the hell of it. And why not? They're free. On the other hand, they're far from the greatest thing since sliced bread and you have to sign up separately for them outside of the sportsbook.

Registering your Online Gambling Account with Sports.com

Upon registering, they ask if you are interested in the following subjects: Sportsbook, Casino, Horses and Poker.

Three for Free Betting

The first of 's contests that catches your eye immediately is the one with girls and bikinis. Of course, the actual contest has nothing to do with girls and bikinis, but would you click on the link if there was a picture of Ben Wallace and Emeka Okafor wearing jock straps? I guess it depends on what you're into. As for the contest, it basically involves answering questions like "The score of the Ohio St/Oklahoma game" and "Total athletes to sleep with Paris Hilton in 2005."

You compete with other users for both weekly and daily bonus prizes, with the top cash prizes going to the top scores of the day or week. When it comes down to it, your chances of winning are hardly good, but the promotion is free and worth a shot. It is amusing to note that has a series of quotes from contests winners attesting to the greatness of the "Three for Free" promotion. One user exclaims:

"Thanks Megasports! 3 for Three (I think he means 3 for "Free") is a great new game!!!"
--Ronald Chow, Contest Winner

Well, what did you expect him to say? Does a lottery winner say, "Winning the lottery was great and all, but I'm against the whole idea because it's taxation for the poor and a complete waste of time for 99.9% of the people who play." Or how about posting something like, "I've never actually won playing three for free, but I don't care because I'm having one hell of a time." I can go on and on.

College Bowl Blitz Wager

With College Football Bowl season, there is also a pick 'em against the spread Bowl Challenge involving the New Year's Day games. Of course, every year these games get pushed further and further from New Year's and I suspect the USC/Oklahoma matchup is happening sometime in the middle of August. In any case, the winner receives a hefty cash prize of $5,000, with prizes going as far as the fifth place winner getting a nice $500. By the way, anything to do with the Bowl season serves only to remind me how funny it would be if the NFL had the Bowl system in place. And the Vikings, after another 9-7 season, are headed to the Outback Bowl...

All and all, the promotions are worth a shot if you can deal with the incoming slew of junk mail that comes with giving out your email address. And hey, who knows, you might even get lucky. Then maybe you'll see your testimonial on the wall, just like those guys who won millions with Ed McMahon.