The Falcons were on the immedi ...  read more

AL EAST

BALTIMORE Orioles OVER 80.5 Wins +3300

As much as the Red Sox went in on Sale, I still think this is good value. This is a tough, gritty team. Love their coach. Possible MVP in Machado. Agai ...  read more

Odds to Win the 2017 World Series (compliments of the Westgate Sportsbook, Las Vegas)

While the Chicago Cubs are currently busy celebrating the franchise's first World Series title in 108 years, oddsmakers have listed them as heavy favorites to do it again in 2017. The Cubs are 7-2 favorites to ...  read more

Atlantic Sun: Feb. 27, March 2, 5 – Campus Sites (ESPN)

Big South: Feb. 28, March 2-3, 5 – Campus Sites (ESPN)

America East: March 1, 6, 11 – Campus Sites (ESPN2)

Northeast: March 1, 4, 7 – Campus Sites

Ohio Valley: March 1-4 – Nashville, TN (ESPN2)

MAAC: March 2-6 – Albany, ...  read more

The ATLANTIC SUN kicks of Conference Tournament Action here on Monday, February 27th.

(1) -15.5 Florida Gulf Coast 23-7, 12-2

(8) Stetson 11-20, 3-11

(4) -off- S.C. Upstate 17-14, 7-7

(5) Kennesaw State 13-17, 7-7

(3) -5 No. Florida 13-18, 8-6

(6) Jacksonville 17-14, 5-9

(2) -8 Lipscomb 19-12, 11-3

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The AFC wildcard matchups are interesting as Oakland plays at Houston in the battle of teams with strong defenses and backup quarterbacks. The other matchup is another rematch from the regular season with Miami and Pittsburgh squaring off. Those games will go: Oakland winning in a close contest by three and Pittsburgh will be fired up and use the home field to their advantage to win b ...  read more

With so many college bowl games and so many different types of teams facing one another you might expect us to have a comp ...  read more

I am using 2 different example of NBA results and line moves from Wednesday November 16th to make a point about how SERIOUS it is, especially in the NBA to get down bets early as possible. Yes, believe it or not, there are sports bettors who just like to have money on a game to make it more interesting to watch. Well I have never placed a bet personally to make ...  read more

QB 1- Eli Manning v Dallas Cowboys Manning has passed for 3+ TDs in 3 of the last 5 games. Cowboys have given up 3 of their biggest passing games to opposing QBs this year when playing on the road. Cowboys have also given up 3300+ YDs to QBs this year. PROJE ...  read more

With numerous coaching posts opening up in College Football, there should be a few others not in the headlines. I can name a few for you. Cincinnati, Texas Tech, Arizona, Notre Dame, Missouri, UCLA, Oregon, and most notably not being talked about is once powerful Nebraska. As an alum and avid Husker fan, Mike Riley is not the answer. I have family member’s who are hardcor ...  read more

Minnesota Vikings at Detroit Lions -3 Even

Washington Redskins at Dallas Cowboys -6½

Pittsburgh Steelers -3 -120 at Indianapolis Colts

Sunday, November 27, 2016

San Diego Chargers at Houston Texans -2

Tennessee Titans -1 at Chicago Bears

Jacksonville Jaguars at Buffalo Bills -7

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The best choices of fantasy football players to make sure you get into your fantasy football lineup for the week of 11.6.2016

QB 1- Dak Prescott v Cleveland Prescott has been scori ...  read more

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Boise St. 28 BYU 27

Boise St. jumped out to a 14-0 lead but needed a blocked field goal as time expired to pull out the win. The game was not as close as the final score indicates as the Broncos ou ...  read more

Too many times Super Bowl rings are automatically tossed as the final determination as for how good a QB was in their career. Is it a piece, of course it is. But let’ ...  read more

The Nebraska Cornhuskers, the team of the 90’s who won 3 National Titles under legendary coach Tom Osborne are back in the news again with a Top 8 ranking after a long absence from the college football conversation as one of the top programs in the country. Like the Alabama of today, the Huskers dominated team’s year after year in the 90’s, and when they lost talent t ...  read more

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Memphis 34 Temple 27

Despite getting outgained 531-327, Memphis rallied from a 13-0 deficit to defeat Temple. The Owls committed three turnovers and were just 4-15 on third down. One of the ...  read more

UCF 47 East Carolina 29

Make it three straight games for the Pirates which played better than the final score showed. East Carolina outgained the Knights 521-373 but was done in by five turn ...  read more

Wisconsin 30 Michigan St. 6

Michigan St. outgained the Badgers 325-317 but four turnovers did the Spartans in. Wisconsin scored on a 66-yard fumble recovery while an interception set up anot ...  read more

Teddy Bridgewater looked really good during ...  read more

1. Never fade Bill Belichick when he's an underdog. The Patriots are 6-1 as 'dogs the past two plus seasons. They've won all six of those games straight-up.

2. To paraphrase the late Dennis Green, "The Colts are who we thought they were and the Lions didn't let them off the hook." The ...  read more

1 WAS REDSKINS - Can't believe these guys are +300 to win the division. They won it last year. Total disrespect. Cousins isn't a sexy QB, but he fits Gruden's system well. The WRs are top notch. The defense is solid. Too many flaws in the other clubs.

2 NY GIANTS - Eli to ODB will put up plenty of points. But the OL has holes and I am not sold ...  read more

1 GB PACKERS - Aaron Rodgers has Jordy Nelson back at WR and that will be a huge lift offensively. But the leaner looking Eddie Lacy might be a major factor if GB is to contend for a spot in the Conference Championship. Can't ever count out a team with a healthy Rodgers and an improved defense.

2 MIN VIKINGS - Thought for sure th ...  read more

1. CAR PANTHERS - Have to put these guys here. The defense should be just as good, and they will continue to be hungry after almost doing the impossible last year. Cam took a huge step forward. The offense should be just as balanced and this team is a legit Super Bowl contender.

2 ATL FALCONS - Matt Ryan and frie ...  read more

1 SEA SEAHAWKS - Something just tells me they do just enough to get past Arizona. This is a very good football team. What else is there to say?

2 ARZ CARDINALS - We will find out nice and early how good these guys will be. I think they should battle with Seattle for the division title. Game 1 vs Patriots. I know ...  read more

1 NE PATRIOTS - How can you go against a team that has won the division 7 straight years and 12 of the last 13 years. I think they could have dropped the game in Arizona with Brady. But I don't see them going 0-4 without him.

2 NY JETS - FitzMagic is back. This is a veteran offense that has ...  read more

1 CINCY BENGALS - I have had these guys at the top for the last couple years and thought they could break through to a Super Bowl. I think HC Lewis is on the hot seat. This is a talented group. They need to break through sometime. 12 wins last year and a meltdown in the playoffs.

2 PITT STEELERS - High hopes in the Steel City. I ...  read more

1. IND COLTS - Have to put them here simply because of a healthy Luck. They finally seemed to get it that he needs an OL to keep him upright. Guy isn't made of steel and can't get hit to the ground 15 times a game. 2 years ago he tossed 40 TDs. TY Hilton and Donte Moncrief are nice WRs. Gore is a guy who never quits in the RB ...  read more

1 KC CHIEFS - I'll take the Andy Reid bunch here. They have a solid QB, rush attack. A solid TE. The defense gets pressure. Not much not to like. Andy Reid gets a bum wrap for his time in Philly. But the guy gets the most out of teams. They win. A lot. 2 DEN BRONCOS - I can't put the defending champs at the top. Not ...  read more

LSU Tigers - OVER 9.5 . This is a very talented team. I think they can challenge 'Bama for the SEC Title. If they do that, a 10 win season is guaranteed.

Ole Miss - UNDER 7.5. I know a lot of people are high on them since they recruit well and have a veteran QB under center. But this team had 3 first round pi ...  read more

The draft strategies we hear about, the zero ...  read more

1. Oklahoma – 92

Loaded at skill positions, best QB in the Conference, best RB in the Conference. Quite possibly a Final 4 team. Opener at Houston is tricky early on, also having Ohio State in Norman early (3rd game ) is going to test this talented team. If they clear those hurdles and sky is the limit if the QB stays healthy because ...  read more

PRESEASON QUARTERBACK DEPTH CHARTS

ARIZONA: Carson Palmer, Drew Stanton, Matt Barkley, Jake Coker

ATLANTA: Matt Ryan, Matt Schaub, Sean Renfree, Matt Simms

BALTIMORE: Joe Flacco, Ryan Mallett, Josh Johnson, Jerrod Johnson

BUFFALO: Tyrod Taylor, EJ Manuel, Cardale Jones

CAROLINA: Cam Newto ...  read more

SEC EAST

1 - TENNESSEE - This is it for the Vols. It has been a long climb, but the talent is there to win the SEC. 17 starters back. 9 on an explosive offense. If Dob ...  read more

BIG 12

1 - OKLAHOMA - I always feel like Stoops let's me down when I have them up here. They never really finish went ranked in the pre-season Top 5 and they could up here to start the year. The talent, as always, is there. Baker Mayfield is the best i ...  read more

ACC ATLANTIC

1 - FLORIDA STATE - Yes, I know that Clemson has some unfinished business to attend to. But I think that the conference will come down to October 29th and the game will be played right here at Doak Campbell Stadium. Look. They don't have ...  read more

Big 10 EAST

1 - OHIO STATE - Are we really going anywhere else here? Urban Meyer is an unbelievable 31-1 in regular season Big 10 play. How can we go against him? I mean, I get he has 3 returning starters on both sides of the ball. But until I see otherwise, Buckeyes get ...  read more

The Top 5

Texas +22.5

Baltimore +18.3

Detroit + 7.6

San Fran + 7.2

Cleveland + 6.0

The Bottom 5

Tampa Bay -29.0

Arizona -17.9

Minnesota -14.8

Atlanta -14.7

LA Angels -11.0

Texas has been in a slump due to injuries. They had a ...  read more

1 LA RAMS - Carson WENTZ. Fisher went small school with Air McNair and I will not be shocked when he does it here tonight. Not to get into trades, but I can see Foles getting dealt either back to Chip in ...  read more

AL EAST

Tampa Bay Rays OVER 78 -- Rays added a couple bats over the winter. The pitching is always the strength of this team. They won 80 games last year with a terrible offense. They didn't bring in big name, sexy bats. But they have enough to get us this over.

AL CENTRAL

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1. NEW YORK METS - I'm a Yankees fan, so it pains me to type this. But the Mets, with Harvey, DeGrom and Syndergaard at the top, followed by Matz and Colon/Wheeler rounding out the staff. Wow. We have some hard throwing, strike out tossing arms. ...  read more

1 - ATLANTA BRAVES. Clearly in a rebuilding mode. They are led by JULIO TEHERAN. The kid is a solid 200 inning performer. Any other team, he would probably win 15-18 games. He is followed by MATT WISLER. He wasn't terrible after his June call up. But there will be more bumps over ...  read more

Take Leicester City at -120

It's nothing short of a miracle that we still find Leicester City top of the Premier League table with eight fixtures to go, but here we are. They're five points clear of Tottenham Hotspur in second place and Arsenal is another six points back, and I don't think either London club will be able to catch the Foxes.

Leicester's remaining schedule loo ...  read more

2- 1975 NBA Finals Game 5 When Garfield Heard made his shot at the buzzer. In today's rules would that shot have tied or won the game?

3- 1980 USA Olympic hockey team wins the Gold Medal by defeating Russia ...  read more

Game 1: No. 8 Robert Morris Colonials at No. 1 Wagner Seahawks, 7 p.m.

Game 2: No. 7 St. Francis (Pa.) Red Flash at No. 2 Fairleigh Dickinson Knights, 7 p.m.

Game 3: No. 6 LIU-Brooklyn Blackbirds at No. 3 Sacred Heart Pioneers, 7 p.m.

Game 4: No. 5 Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers at No. 4 St. Francis-Brooklyn Terriers, 9 p.m.

Semifinals: March 5

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Friday, March 4

No. 8 Loyola Marymount vs. No. 9 San Diego, 6:00 p.m.

Saturday, March 5

No. 3 BYU vs. No. 6 Santa Clara, 1:00 p.m.

No. 4 Pepperdine vs. No. 5 San Francisco, 3:00 p.m.

No. 1 Saint Mary’s vs. No. 8/9, 7:00 p.m.

No. 2 Gonzaga vs. No. 7 Portland, 9:00 p.m.

Monday, March 7

Men’s Semifinal No. 1 ...  read more

Game 1: Samford vs. VMI, 5 p.m.

Game 2: Mercer vs. The Citadel, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday

Chattanooga vs. Game 1 winner, Noon

Wofford vs. Western Carolina, 2:30 p.m.

East Tennessee State vs. Game 2 winner, 6 p.m.

Furman vs. UNC Greensboro, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday

Semifinal 1, 5 p.m.

Semifinal 2, 7:30 p.m.

Monday

Championship Game, 9 ...  read more

Game 1: #8 Longwood vs. #9 Charleston Southern, 2:00pm

Game 2: #7 Radford vs. #10 Presbyterian, 4:30pm

Game 3: #6 Gardner-Webb vs. #11 Campbell, 7:00pm

Quarterfinals - Friday, March 4 - ESPN3

Game 4: #1 High Point vs. #8/9 winner, 12:00pm

Game 5: #4 UNC Asheville vs. #5 Liberty, 2:00pm

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AL EAST

Tampa Bay Rays OVER 78 -- Rays added a couple bats over the winter. The pitching is always the strength of this team. They won 80 games last year with a terrible offense. They didn't bring in big name, sexy bats. But they have enough to get us this over.

AL CENTRAL

Clevel ...  read more

The style of basketball has changed drastically over the years. Many like the up tempo style these days brings. Some even could say it is, in fact, much more exciting basketball, than back years ago when the big man dominated the lane. Some feel that the fast pace and up tempo basketball is much more fun to watch, than the migh ...  read more

I'm a big fan of using trends when I handicap NBA games. While team-for-team breakdowns are more exact, let's break down the season so far month by month to see if we can spot any trends and/or if the bookmakers have adjusted throughout the season. 

October
Home Team 15-23 ATS
Over 19-17-2

A small sample, but a clear advantage for the road team to cove ...  read more

Now the Suns are making the old Washington Generals look like the Golden State Warriors. There was a lot of forum and Twitt ...  read more

I, like many of you, comb the Internet for respected bloggers and sports sites and etc for any information pertaining to numbers and stats that can give me an edge against the Las Vegas line for Hoops handicapping. Here is one I found at Covers, some numbers from teams at home after road trips of 3 or more games and I have pasted in the stat table below.

The NBA is har ...  read more