A few days, weeks, whatever ago I made a post saying I was going to start picking games and keeping track of them. But a few roadblocks have managed to stop this from happening. So I am going to do something different and for the next week I am simply going to force myself to [...]
There is a chnace I read the line wrong last night but I am pretty sure the opening line on Cavs/Celtics was Celts -1. The latest line is Cavs -2.5, meaning the line has moved 3.5 points in twelve hours. Let’s see what happens.
Michael Vick is back in the news this week. From Mark Bradley of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: I was encouraged to hear that Michael Vick, in advance of his reality show that debuts Tuesday on BET , is saying he led “a double life,” and I use the word “encouraged” advisedly. Because you don’t know how [...]
Here are my final four picks at this moment, obviously forsaking the fact that we don’t know actual brackets yet Syracuse Mich St Kentucky Texas Leave a comment if you want to make your own four picks and throw money on things.
I am going to start keeping a record of picks I like. They will be broken down by a variety of classifications (sport, confidence in pick, underdog, road, etc.) depending on how much effort I put into this thing. This will be Day 1 Grizzlies (-1.5) @ Detroit – Two units Bulls (+5.5) @ Oklahoma [...]
Lots of inspiration this week… Follow-ups and excerpts from the Marvin Harrison story. Jason Fagone also wrote an awesome story on Tim Tebow a few months back. All these humanizing details tend to take the edge off the fact that Tebow’s entire role-model persona doesn’t work unless he can convey that, fundamentally, he’s better than [...]
Word to your mothers, the three articles below are looooooooooong. Awesome stuff though and as good as anything I could ever hope to write. Print and read. 36 hours with the Atlanta Hawks by Lang Whitaker. “This team has a chance to do something special if you believe in each other,” Woodson said. “If you [...]
So I have posted on this site the game where you try to guess the line. Now I am popping a big ol’ cherry and doing this for the NBA. The results could very well prove comedic. I have been watching more NBA this year than I normally do so let’s see how much of [...]
Starting off in the D-League The NBA D-League’s Idaho franchise is aptly named. The Stampede run, gun and make themselves quite a bit of fun for their fans to watch. The team scores 111.2 and allows 105.6 points per game, primarily as a result of the fact that its contests consist of an average of [...]
First of all, thanks to the referee/Shane Graham combo below in Wk 4 that hit a FG in OT versus the Browns that was the key Miracle Cover in my Browns Under 5.5 bet (Season review here). oddly, I really liked the way Mangini and Co. played and the end of the year and profited [...]