Outpoll Weekly Recap: Sport (December 2 – 8, 2025)

Alright, folks, buckle up for a wild week in the sports world. The NBA, as always, is serving up the main course of drama, with the Lakers and Celtics throwing down in a Finals preview that felt like it had playoff intensity in December.LeBron, somehow still defying Father Time, dropped a casual 35-point triple-double, but it was Jayson Tatum’s cold-blooded step-back three over AD with 2. 1 seconds left that stole the show and broke prediction markets.The ‘Celtics to win the East’ odds on Outpoll shot up 18% overnight, while the Lakers’ championship stock took a hit, proving that even in early December, these games matter. Over in the NFL, the chaos continued with a Monday Night stunner where the previously winless Panthers somehow upset the NFC-leading Eagles—yeah, you read that right.The prediction market for the Eagles’ Super Bowl odds plummeted faster than a quarterback facing a Micah Parsons blitz, and suddenly the entire NFC playoff picture looks like a game of Jenga someone just kicked. Meanwhile, in the soccer universe, the Champions League group stage wrapped up with the usual suspects advancing, but the real story is the brewing civil war at Manchester United after another dismal performance.The ‘Ten Hag Out’ market is hotter than a stadium nacho cheese pump, with bets flooding in. And let’s not forget the wild card: the World Baseball Classic qualifiers kicked off, and Team Great Britain, led by a couple of MLB journeymen, pulled off a massive upset over South Korea, sending shockwaves through the futures market for the main event. All in all, it was a week that reminded us why we obsess over this stuff—the narratives shift in a heartbeat, the underdogs bite, and the only sure bet is that next week will be just as unpredictable.

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