"Not exactly an odds-on bet," I tell him.

Martínez lost to Seattle for the first time and the Mets lost a game they were an odds-on bet to win.

The cook's got his whole week's pay down on an odds-on bet with four miners.

And it was an odds-on bet she hadn't even tried to tell anyone what she knew.

But once an odds-on bet to bring in top-10 recruiting classes each year, Penn State has fallen as low as No. 30 the past two seasons in a few of the services that rank them.

"They had two strong co-presidents, and the odds-on bet was that Charlie Denson would be the heir apparent," he said.

In December 2008, bookmakers were offering odds-on bets that the United Kingdom would adopt the euro by 2014.

Mathematically, it's been an odds-on bet that somewhere in our galaxy there'd be another race with, a civilization equal to or further advanced than ours.

It was an odds-on bet that was their quarry.

BY most accounts - including the World Bank's - Vietnam is an odds-on bet to be the next Asian economy to wow the world with double-digit growth.