Miracle Covers Winning at Sports

From Pinnacle NY Jets @ Indianapolis -7.5 Minnesota @ New Orleans -3.5 Standings are a few posts down. Email your picks by 3pm Sunday and I’ll post an update Sunday night/Monday morning.

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 [...]

Only two still in it to win it. Blame Norv. Standings

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 [...]

From Pinnacle this morning: Saturday Arizona @ New Orleans -7 Baltimore @ Indianapolis -6.5 Sunday Dallas @ Minnesota -2.5 NY Jets @ San Diego -7 Picks due by 4pm Saturday. Post in comments and/or email to me or Sean.

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 [...]

I was all fired up yesterday to bet on Arizona +7 @ New Orleans for this weekend as I hate all of the other games/lines, but then I had to go and read this: The Cardinals scored touchdowns on 70.4 percent of their trips inside the opponents’ 20-yard line. No offense fared better…. The Cardinals’ [...]

Allen and Pat lead with three from four on the weekend. Playoff Picks Contest

I’m not sure if this quote from Cardinals QB Kurt Warner shows the high level of their execution, the inability of the Packers to disguise their defense, or both: “I knew early on it was going to be a good day,” he told me as he drove home. “Sometimes I know when I’m on, when [...]

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 [...]