Pac 10 Conference Tournament Preview
The Pac 10 has caught a lot of flack for being down this year and deservedly so. There isn’t one dominant team in the league that looks to be a threat to make it to the Final Four. California is however the best team in this conference and have to be regarded as the favorites. They won the regular season crown going 13-5 in conference play, finishing one ... read more
March Madness is the U.S. college basketball championships, also known as the NCAA Tournament. It covers both men's and women's NCAA college tournaments, which take place throughout March to determine the men's and women's college basketball champs in the U.S. The tournament starts with 64 teams and after each round of play, the number of teams is whittled down until only two men's and two wome ... read more
Big 12 Conference Tournament Preview
Kansas is the top team in the country and by far the most talented team in the Big 12. Everyone will be gunning for the Jayhawks in order to solidify an automatic bid. Kansas checks in at 29-2 overall and 15-1 in conference play. The next best team in the conference is arguably Kansas State and Kansas has already beaten them twice this year including a d ... read more
Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament Preview
There are three teams in the top tier of the Atlantic 10 Conference and all three have a great shot at winning this tournament. Temple is obviously the favorite as they enter the post-season with an overall record 26-5 and an outstanding conference record of 14-2. The next best team in the conference hands down has got to be Xavier. Remember Xavier ... read more
Big East Conference Tournament Preview
Year in and year out, the Big East is always the most wide open conference tournaments. This due to the strength of the league as the Big East boasts eight teams with at least 20+ wins. Syracuse won the regular season title posting a 15-3 conference record, finishing 2 games ahead of Pittsburgh and West Virginia. Syracuse, however, took a step backward ... read more
Last week we reviewed the possibilities of what occurs with tired teams, this week we’ll engage in the exercise of NBA squads with no days off all the way to three or days between games for the 2009-10 campaign. As one might expect, teams with roughly 24 hours between games don’t fare well and are generally a losing proposition, though exceptions do exist. It’s a mixed bag for clubs with a day or ... read more
Kentucky Seeks Revenge
The Kentucky Wildcats will be looking to avenge their only loss of the entire season when they play host to South Carolina on Thursday night. As this is a classic revenge situation, odds makers have the proper adjustments by installing Kentucky as 16½ point home favorites over the Gamecocks. South Carolina won by a final score of 68-62 on January 26th led by Devan Downe ... read more
In the late 1990’s, a person I had known for a number years had told me about a method of betting college and professional basketball that he used as part of his way of picking games. His reasoning was sound; though I’d never taken the time to go on a fact finding mission to see if what he was saying was true.
Over the years I never forgot he told me and would use his methodology as one la ... read more
Every year, the NBA All Star game comes along and the basketball world stands still. They put aside the race for the playoffs, team affiliations, and just have a good time with the game of basketball. Anytime you put such a huge collection of the best players in the world in one place, there are bound to be some amazing things that happen. The East find themselves now favored by 2 points in thi ... read more
For a number of years now the Western Conference has been superior to the East. This is easily shown by the fact Eastern Conference has six teams with winning records (one is one game over .500) and the West has just four teams with losing records among its 15 members.
One aspect this year besides the dominance once again, the wagering aspect comes into play more than one might think. The ... read more
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The NFL AFC Championship game is set for this Sunday January 24th at 3:00 PM ET with the New York Jets vs. the Indianapolis Colts. This is a must win game if you want to make it to the 2010 Super Bowl 44 on Sunday February 7th. The current betting lines for the match up have the Colts favored by 7.5 points with a posted total of 39.5.
The fifth seeded Jets have won seven of their last ei ... read more
Both New York and Minnesota are road underdogs this upcoming Sunday, yet each in their own way has proven to be a valuable play for the sports bettors. The postseason tournament has revisited yesteryear this season, as the two top seeds from each conference advanced to the conference titles games for the first time since 2004. However, if history has shown us anything, the higher seeded favorite n ... read more
Breaking the century mark in professional basketball offers insights into many different areas of the game for teams, fans and sports bettors. For those in attendance at an NBA game, the home team breaking 100 may mean a free drink or free food depending on the club’s list of sponsors. For any team, scoring 100 points might lead to a near certain victory, however scoring that many points and givin ... read more
We are getting close to the end of the regular season and many fans have officially given up on their teams for the year. Other fans are still glued to the games as part of their team's playoff race. We still have two undefeated teams which many are speculating could lead to a Super Bowl of unbeaten teams. So what should we expect out of Week 15 in the NFL? Here are a few things to watch out for. ... read more
If you played Jacksonville or Kansas City this past Sunday, your nerve-endings were tingling, only to be slapped upside the head late in the game. The Jaguars came into their game against Miami well-positioned at 7-5 to take an AFC playoff berth despite being outscored on the season. Midway thru the second quarter it was apparent, the Dolphins had everything Jacksonville did not. A better running ... read more
The Southeastern Conference was the innovator of the Conference Championship game back in 1992 and when you think about, this has helped propel them to being arguably the best conference in college football year in, year out. The leaders of the SEC knew their customer was a football starved fan and would relish the opportunity for one more game to decide the league’s title. Most years this has pro ... read more
The more you read about trends and angles the more you can get confused with making a profitable NFL pick. Over the years I have been successful in utilizing trends and angles as a part of my NFL picks handicapping arsenal. One such slant on these trends that has been useful is that of the head coaches. Yes, the players are the ones who ultimately excute the coaches NFL picks game plan but i ... read more
The fabric of college football is wrapped in its traditions and many of its colorful rivalries that make college football such a great sport. This upcoming week, many of the more historic matchups will take place yet again this holiday weekend starting Thanksgiving night.
Let’s stop all this talk about changing out Detroit and Dallas on Thanksgiving to allow other teams to play. The Lions have been bad for years, so what, we still watch at least a good portion of the game and would it kill you to talk to a family member if the game isn’t a classic. We have three games to choose from during the course of the day, let’s just enjoy what we have.
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We are officially past the midway point of the season and the first part of the year has flown by. It seems like it was just Week 1 the other day. Now we're getting into the playoff hunt and the best teams are starting to show themselves. A lot of the teams that no one expected to do anything are right in the thick of things, while other teams that were supposed to contend are near the bottom. So ... read more
This weekend, the Big 10 will have the biggest game of the year in the conference. The winner of the game will have a spot reserved for them in the Rose Bowl. The loser will most likely go on to a lesser bowl and have to deal with a lot of disappointment.
The Ohio State Buckeyes and the Iowa Hawkeyes will square off at Ohio State this weekend and the stakes couldn't be much higher. So what shoul ... read more
This Friday night, two Big East football powers will square off when Cincinnati and West Virginia take the field. The Bearcats are 9-0 and hoping to ride a few more wins to the National Championship game. The Mountaineers are 7-2 and were nationally ranked recently as well. There should be some good football played in this one. Last year, the Bearcats had their lowest offensive output of the ye ... read more
Thursday Night College Football Preview
South Florida at Rutgers
South Florida enters this game coming off a huge conference victory over West Virginia last week. The Bulls are 6-2 overall and 4-3 ATS in 2009 but are in desperate need of another conference victory as they are just 2-2 in conference play. Not only will South Florida be seeking to go over the .500 mark in conference play but ... read more
At this point of the year, the conference battles in college football are really starting to heat up. This Thursday night's game between the South Florida Bulls and the Rutgers Scarlet Knights should be no exception.
The Bulls and Knights have had some good battles in the last few years, with Rutgers recently coming out on top. In fact, the Knights beat the Bulls handily when they square ... read more
This Thursday night, two of the most exciting teams in the NBA will square off when the Cleveland Cavaliers take on the Miami Heat. Anytime you combine as many big NBA stars as you will have in this game, it will be very exciting. The Cavs are hoping to get things going, while the Heat have been on a roll and hope to continue that in the early part of the season. This should be a very fun game ... read more
This article will focus on the top teams in the NBA this season. There are six teams with a chance to take home the championship this year.
The team with the best chance this year to win the NBA championship is the defending champion LA.Lakers. The Lakers are loaded with talent once again. This year they have Ron Artest in the mix in a bold move to improve the team defensively. Departing is ... read more
We have passed the halfway point in the season and we've experienced a lot of highs and lows. Your favorite team has either established themselves as contenders or pretenders at this point and you pretty much know whether they have a shot at the playoffs by now. This has been one of the strangest seasons in recent memory with so many teams at the top of the league and so many teams in the cellar. ... read more
Over the course of the last few NFL Picks years there has been much talk about parity. In fact, for the most part, if you were a bettor who just loved to wager on the favorites you would have drained your NFL Picks bankroll and made your book maker very happy. However, this season has seen the reversal of fortunes. So much for parity as the NFL Picks favorite has dominated this season. With ... read more
The Virginia Tech Hokies travel to East Carolina this week for a Thursday night football showdown. The Hokies are still ranked #22 despite suffering their third loss of the season last week at the hands of North Carolina. The Hokies come in at 5-3 while the Pirates come in with the same record. Although the Hokies come in as 13 point favorites, the Pirates should provide some good competition f ... read more
Thursday Night College Football Preview
Virginia Tech at East Carolina
For the second week in a row Virginia Tech will play in an ESPN Primetime Thursday Night game. Last Thursday the Hokies were upset by unranked North Carolina as 14.5 point favorites. They will try to avoid losing their third straight game this week on the road at East Carolina. The 22nd ranked Hokies a ... read more
This Thursday, two teams from the ACC that have underwhelmed this season will face off. The one-time National Championship hopefuls Virginia Tech will face the one-time Top 25 North Carolina Tarheels. Since those lofty expectations were thrown on both teams, they have stumbled a few times and looked sloppy at times. The Hokies are favored to win in this one, but it should be a pretty good game ... read more
If you were one of the sports bettors who had Carolina at -7 at home against Buffalo last Sunday, you were robbed. No it wasn’t by the oddsmaker and it wasn’t by Jake Delhomme (though he played a strong supporting role), it was the Carolina kicker John Kasay.
As advanced steps have been taken to analyze sports, one not given nearly enough credit is lost opportunities and how they relate to ... read more
NFL Monday Night Preview
Eagles at Redskins
Last week’s 13-9 loss to the Oakland Raiders was not only disappointing to the Philadelphia Eagles players but also most of the betting public. More than 80% of the betting action on that game came in on the Eagles as 14 point road favorites. Despite the loss to one of the worst teams in football, the public is plunking down hard cash on the Eagle ... read more
Monday night football features two teams that are coming off of embarrassing losses to AFC West teams last week. The Eagles loss to the Raiders was the biggest surprise as the Eagles looked like huge favorites going in. However, the blitzing defense of the Raiders harassed Donovan McNabb all day long and he never got in a rhythm. The Redskins are in complete disarray after losing a game to the ... read more
This should be the marque match-up in Week #7. Lets take a look at some news and notes. These teams don't normally play each other. MINNESOTA ... read more
Although it seems like we just got started, we’re getting close to the midpoint of the season. We’ve had a few preseason contenders turn out to be pretenders and vice versa. However, it’s still early in the season and there is a lot of football left to be played. So what can we expect in Week 7 of the NFL season? Here’s a preview of this week’s action.
Thursday Night College Football Preview
Florida State at North Carolina
Both Florida State and North Carolina have had disappointing seasons thus far given the fact that both were ranked in the pre-season Top 25 polls. The Seminoles are just 2-4 straight up and 1-5 against the spread in ’09. They enter this game on a current three game losing streak with their most recent loss coming two ... read more
In these times of trying to be environmentally friendly, it is good for the earth to do so. The three R’s are at the centerpiece of this movement, recycle, reuse and reduce. Buying in larger quantities helps reduce the amounts of garbage is placed in landfills. Other tips include product lifecycle, sustainability and value. In the spirit of looking to do what’s right for the earth, adding Green to ... read more
NFL Week 5: What We Learned
Oakland, St. Louis, and Tampa Bay can’t cover any number:
The Oakland Raiders were 15.5 point road underdogs against the New York Giants this past Sunday and got beaten to a bloody pulp, losing 44-7. Their offense is just plain awful. They are averaging 9.8 points per game and only 191.6 yards of total offense. JaMarcus Russell, the former numb ... read more
NFL’s Most Profitable Teams in 2009 Thus Far
Denver Broncos: 5-0 ATS
The Denver Broncos are the most surprising team of the 2009 season. No one expected them to be both 5-0 SU and 5-0 ATS heading into Week 6 with Kyle Orton at quarterback and a suspect defense. However, the Broncos have been outstanding on both sides of the ball. Defensively, they are allowing just 8 ... read more
Red River Shootout
Oklahoma v.s. Texas
Texas faces its first real challenge of the season on Saturday afternoon when they take on Oklahoma in the Red River Shootout. The number 2 ranked Longhorns have cruised to a 5-0 start but are just 1-4 against the spread so far this season. They have been beating up on inferior opponents and have been heavy favorites in all 5 of their ... read more
We’ve all heard veteran NFL players talk about the league as “just a business”. If you think of the National Football like say a McDonald’s, you have 32 franchisees within its framework. While Mickey D’s would never allow certain bone-headed people to be in charge of their operations, on Sunday, we saw the differences in a well-run franchise and one’s that should be going out of business or at le ... read more
It seems a little dull, at least at this time that Florida and Alabama are clearly the two best teams in the country and not much excitement stands in their way until they play in one BSC semifinal game again this year, referred to as the SEC Championship Game brought to by Dr. Pepper. (No money changed hands for product mention; it’s just how the announcers promote the game).
College Football Week 6: What We Learned
Nebraska is the team to beat in the Big 12 North:
Nebraska squared off against an undefeated Missouri team on Thursday night and came away victorious. The weather conditions were extremely poor with the rain causing both teams to make mistakes. Nebraska trailed 9-0 at halftime and 12-0 at the end of the third quarter. They came out and put up 27 ... read more
Monday Night Football Preview
Jets at Dolphins
Two AFC East division rivals square off on Monday night when the Jets travel to south Florida to take on the Miami Dolphins. The Jets have played extremely well under new head coach Rex Ryan getting off to a 3-1 start and are also 3-1 against the spread. Miami on the other hand got their first win last week, blasting Buffalo 38-10. The two hea ... read more
College Football Week 5: What We Learned
Oklahoma not a BCS Team without Sam Bradford:
Oklahoma has played two ranked teams this season and failed to win either one of them. This past week they went on the road to play Miami as a 7 point favorite and lost the game outright. The Sooners sorely miss the reigning Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford. Landry Jones was highly touted out of high ... read more
NFL Week 4: What We Learned
Saints get signature win and look like an elite team:
The New Orleans Saints took on the undefeated New York Jets this past Sunday and came away with a 14 point victory as 7 point home favorites. It appears that no one can stop the balanced offense of the New Orleans Saints, not even Rex Ryan’s attacking 3-4 defense. Drew Brees didn’t have a big day numbers wise ... read more
Sunday Night NFL Preview
Colts at Titans
The odds makers have set an intriguing line on this game making the Indianapolis Colts just 3.5 point favorites over a team in the Tennessee Titans that has struggled mightily to start the season. Monday morning the opening line had the Colts just 1 point favorites but the public quickly jumped all over Peyton Manning and the Colts, forcing the number ... read more
College Football’s Most Profitable Teams Thus Far
IDAHO: 5-0 ATS
Most experts picked the Idaho Vandals to finish at or near the bottom of the WAC standings heading into the season but they have been cashing tickets for their backers all season long. Idaho is 4-1 straight up but an astounding 5-0 against the spread making them the most profitable team in college football through the first f ... read more
