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 Golden Contender: Tuesday MLB Totals Preview "A Battle of 2 Tribes"Golden Contender - 8/26/2013 10:25 PM GC: Tuesday MLB Totals Preview "A Battle of 2 Tribes" In This Piece we will Preview the total in the Cleveland Indians at Atlanta Braves game on Tuesday night and offer a totals system that has won 15 of the last 16 times. On Tuesday night its a Battle of 2 tribes from different leagues. The Cleveland Indians travel down to Atlanta to take on the Braves in the Opening game of this interlea... |
| 2013 College Football's Top 1-20 Jim Feist - 8/25/2013 7:25 PM by Jim Feist The countdown continues! Last week we looked at my Top 21-40, this week is my Top 20. The college football season kicks off August 29th and here's a look at college football's best! 20. UCLA: The Bruins won 9 games and feel primed to take the next step under second-year coach Jim Mora, Jr. This offense is terrific behind dual-threat sophomore QB Brett Hundley (29 TDs, 11 INTs) a... |
| 2013 College Football's Top 21-40 Jim Feist - 8/18/2013 10:05 AM by Jim Feist It's time to kick off a new football season. College football begins Thursday, August 29th and here's a look at the top teams, starting with my top 21-40. 40. BYU: The Cougars are off an 8-5 SU, 7-6 ATS season and return 8 starters on offense, 4 on defense. The offense average 28.7 points, 247 yards passing (50th), 153 yards rushing despite using 3 QBs be... |
| Rocketman Sports 2013 NFL Preseason Preview - How To Win! Rocketman Sports - 8/16/2013 2:26 PM NFL PRESEASON 2013 The NFL Preseason is upon us and the smell of football is in the air. Football is what most gamblers await year after year. However, a lot of people don't play the NFL Preseason. Its easy money ladies and gentlemen if you know what you are doing. Lets look at some things that may help you be a winner this year. With the NFL Preseason, as all other sports, make sure y... |
| NFL Preseason Betting Tips Jim Feist - 8/11/2013 5:43 PM by Jim Feist It may be HOT and many folks are still on vacation, but August kicks off the best time of the sports betting calendar: Football season! Competition on the field won't be as intense as September, of course, as wins aren't as important as evaluating young talent and trying to keep players healthy. However, there will be betting lines available on preseason pro action and it... |
| NFL Preseason Pointers Jim Feist - 8/5/2013 11:37 AM by Jim Feist The pro football preseason kicked off this past weekend in the Hall of Fame game as the Dolphins battled the Cowboys. Remember that each season is different, with players changing teams, new coaches and assistants coming aboard, and star college players joining the pros as highly touted rookies. August football offers fans their first peak at all the new additions. ... |
| A Toast to New NFL Coaches! Jim Feist - 7/30/2013 6:12 PM Coaching in football, more than in any other sport, is essential to a team's success. The Harbaugh brothers are flying high after meeting in the Super Bowl. New York fans have called for Tom Coughlin's ouster a few times over the last six years, but he has helped deliver two Super Bowl titles, while Bill Belichick has had one losing season (his first, 2000) since taking over the Patriots, taking t... |
| College Football Teams with Something to Prove Jim Feist - 7/23/2013 4:20 PM Frustration and failure can prove excellent motivating factors in sports. We see quality teams get beaten badly all the time, then bounce back the next game with a terrific performance with an easy win. This can also take place with teams that are off disappointing seasons. Two years ago Notre Dame had close losses to Michigan, South Florida, Stanford and Florida State. The loss to the Se... |
| New Coaches Hope to Upgrade College Programs by Jim Feist Jim Feist - 7/16/2013 4:45 PM Football head coaches get all the glory, but top assistants can be extremely important in a team's success or failure. Offensive and defensive coordinators have great influence on game plans and a unit's effectiveness. Gus Malzahn was the offensive coordinator when Auburn won the national title and this year steps in as coach to replace Gene Chizik. Notre Dame overachieved and made a bowl the... |
| Baseball: Second Half Surges by Jim Feist Jim Feist - 7/9/2013 2:07 PM The first half of the 2013 baseball season is in the books. There were surprising winners, such as the Royals, Diamondbacks and Pirates, a lack of hitting league-wide again, and some surprises such as the high payroll Dodgers and Angels stumbling. With the surprises out of the way, here's a look at some teams that might be active at the trading deadline and primed to make a second half surge. In... |
| Baseball: First Half Roundup Jim Feist - 6/30/2013 11:21 PM by Jim Feist 162 games is a long season. Every year teams sprint out of the gate in April and May with October dreams, only to come back to the pack by July. It's not a sprint, of course, but a marathon, where a strong balance of pitching, defense and offense carries the best teams into the postseason. Injuries, too, are key, as well as trades made before the July deadline. Teams have figu... |
| MLB Law of Averages + Hot and Cold Streaks! Jim Feist - 6/24/2013 11:46 AM by Jim Feist Baseball is a game of stats and streaks. The Orioles started 7-7 and 23-21 before getting it together, now battling Boston for first place. Cleveland got off to a 5-10 start before playing some impressive baseball, while the Dodgers started 7-4 with their "super payroll team" before falling apart and settling into last place. Last year the Yankees started 0-3 and 21-21 with... |
| MLB Betting: Give Me Some Relief! Jim Feist - 6/16/2013 9:59 AM by Jim Feist Starting pitchers in baseball get much of the attention (and money) thrown their way. The average starter is asked to go 6-7 innings, while aces are expected to give 7-8 quality innings. Many games are decided in the last three innings, however, making relief pitchers an extremely important, and often overlooked, element. The Boston Red Sox had a train wreck 2012 season und... |
| NBA Finals: Spurs/Heat Showdown Jim Feist - 6/9/2013 10:29 AM by Jim Feist The NBA Finals continues this week moving to the Alamodome for Games 3, 4 and 5, the Spurs stealing Game 1 in Miami. Many fans find this odd, as all the previous series are in a 2-2-1-1-1 format, but then the Finals shifts to a 2-3-2 format. It is odd, but there are two reasons for the change: Money and Ratings. The NBA prefers a longer series to build up interest and inc... |
| NBA Finals Fever: An Old Man's Game? Jim Feist - 6/4/2013 1:18 PM by Jim Feist Heat/Spurs! Lebron versus Duncan! The last two years were supposed to be the year the kids stepped up in Miami and Oklahoma City and start a new era in the NBA Finals. Well, Miami came close in 2011, carving out a 2-1 series lead before collapsing, but it was those old fogies in Dallas who came away with the title - another veteran team winning the whole thing. Last year Okla... |
| Did these NFL teams address their needs? Mike Neri - 5/30/2013 7:35 PM Did these NFL teams address their needs? During the NFL offseason, I will be conducting an analysis to see if each NFL team across the NFL addressed their most dire needs. These needs come from the statistical website of ProFootballFocus.com. Pro Football Focus looks at every player on every play and determines with a grading system if that player did his job correctly. If a player did his job... |
| Did these NFL teams address their needs? Mike Neri - 5/30/2013 7:34 PM Did these NFL teams address their needs? During the NFL offseason, I will be conducting an analysis to see if each NFL team across the NFL addressed their most dire needs. These needs come from the statistical website of ProFootballFocus.com. Pro Football Focus looks at every player on every play and determines with a grading system if that player did his job correctly. If a player did his job... |
| Baseball Injuries, Soft Lines and Live Biting Dogs! Jim Feist - 5/27/2013 6:44 PM Baseball has a long regular season, almost twice as many games as pro basketball, and ten times more games than the NFL regular season. Baseball athletes have to play just about every day and sometimes even have to play twice in a day during double-headers. This is why it's essential to keep up on injuries. In football, if a starting quarterback or star running back is injured and expected to miss... |
| Lean Toward Big Dogs More than Big Chalk Jim Feist - 5/19/2013 12:08 PM by Jim Feist April and May means that many novice sports bettors may look at the matchups and lean toward ace pitchers and lay the big price. But let me give you three words of advice: Don't do it. Baseball is unique from football and basketball in that there is no point spread. Instead you bet merely on which team will win the game and this translates into a money-line wager. When bett... |
| NBA Playoffs: Be Cautious of Blowouts Jim Feist - 5/12/2013 4:46 PM by Jim Feist The NBA playoffs are in full swing, which means overall the better teams are battling each other. This is different from the regular season when many nights great teams are playing bad teams and bad teams are playing worse one. Astute sports bettors should pay very careful attention to blowouts. For instance, after losing Game 1 at the Lakers a year ago, 103-88, the Nuggets... |
| Baseball Hot and Cold Starts Jim Feist - 5/5/2013 1:42 PM by Jim Feist More than any other sport, baseball is a game of patience. It's not how you start, but where you finish, and with a 162-game regular season, there is a LOT of baseball left. Did your team get off to a bad start? Well don't panic. There is plenty of time to make adjustments and turn things around. Did your team get off to a hot start? Don't start making World Series reservations ju... |
| Postseason Basketball and GAD Theory Jim Feist - 4/28/2013 12:06 PM by Jim Feist As the NBA playoffs roll on, handicappers should take careful note of how teams did against each other during the regular season. Examine head to head matchups individually and as a group. Does one team dominate another? If so, are the reasons for this, or was it merely a fluke during the long grind of the 66-game schedule? The Heat opened their title defense against the B... |
| Defense and Totals in the NBA Playoffs Jim Feist - 4/21/2013 12:12 PM by Jim Feist The NBA playoffs are rolling along, which is a good time to revisit an old sports adage: Defense wins championships. Some teams are already in that playoff mode while fighting for positioning, with the Grizzlies on a 42-19 run under the total playing on one day's rest. Even an attacking offensive team like the Oklahoma City Thunder ended the regular season on a 10-3-2 run under t... |
| Pitchers and Early AL Surprises Jim Feist - 4/14/2013 11:32 PM by Jim Feist As we start the baseball season, we have already seen some surprises. The Oakland A's have been terrific on offense, top 5 in runs, but let's not read too much into that. This is a team that was 14th runs scored a year ago and plays its home games in a huge, pitcher friendly park. They opened against the Mariners and Astros and the rest of the month is a tougher test against the Ra... |
| Two on Tuesday from Triple Threat Sports! Triple Threat Sports - 4/9/2013 12:16 PM First things first since he reads this every week...HAPY BIRTHDAY to my Dad, who at age 73 is still going to the racetrack five nights a week and running two businesses while he is at it. You always have been, and still are, a great inspiration! <br><Br> This week's article looks at an NBA game as well as my first foray into MLB for 2103. Hope you enjoy it!<br><Br>Our... |
| NBA Stretch Run: The Best of the East Jim Feist - 4/7/2013 3:38 PM It's been a long haul, longer than last year's abbreviated 66-game NBA regular season, but the playoffs are just around the corner. So who wins the NBA title? The most talented team? The luckiest? The favorites? We all know the favorites don't waltz to the NBA Finals. Last year San Antonio was a No. 1 seed and up 2-0 on the young Thunder in the NBA Finals. Then, WHAM, Oklahoma City won 5... |
| GC: 2013 Toronto Blue Jays Preview " Building a Strong Nest" Golden Contender - 3/31/2013 11:28 PM The Toronto Blue Jays are coming off a disappointing 2012 campaign. Their season diminished rather quickly when Jose Bautista broke his wrist and the pitching staff suffered several Key injuries. This off season,General Manager Alex Anthopolous decided to go for it and try and win now. He had accumulated several high end prospects that weren't going to be ready for the majors in 2013, and ac... |
| 2013 The Final Four! Jim Feist - 3/31/2013 11:27 AM It is a great week for sports fans with the start of baseball, the NBA stretch run, the Final Four and the culmination of the college basketball season next Monday in Atlanta, Georgia for the national championship. It's clear that it's not the teams the start the season hot, but the ones that get hot when it really matters -- March and April! Many things happen over the course of a long s... |
| Tourney Shockers: Beware of No-Names Jack Clayton - 3/24/2013 2:09 PM by Jim Feist College tournament play is one of the most enjoyable times of the year for sports fans and bettors, with a seemingly endless stream of action and excitement. Big name schools often end up playing for the title. Florida of the SEC took home back to back national championships by beating UCLA and Ohio State in 2006 and '07. Then it was Kansas, North Carolina, Duke, UConn and Ke... |
| Two on Tuesday from Triple Threat Sports! Triple Threat Sports - 3/19/2013 2:27 PM Our first game today is a star rated play in an NIT encounter: (546) 2* St Joes (-) over St Johns [7pm - NIT] <Br><br> St John's is just 1-7 SU in its last eight games and will again be missing star Harrison for this contest. St Joe's is a veteran team that suffered a first round loss in the NIT last season, so they should be excited and ready to play well in this contest. One more... |
| Tourney Matchup Tips Jim Feist - 3/17/2013 12:13 PM It's the final stretch of a long college basketball season. There are better teams, tougher matchups, and defensive intensity. It's a good time of the season to look backward -- to look back, that is, to conference regular season tourney play and early season matches against different conferences. That's because it can be tougher to analyze matchups during the Big Dance, with teams from the East C... |
| The Value of Senior Leadership Jim Feist - 3/10/2013 7:07 PM by Jim Feist It's time! Time for college basketball teams to begin conference tourney play, also known as separating the contenders from the pretenders. It's important to understand and closely examine the schedule of college hoop teams. Some teams start off the season playing a bunch of cream puffs, while others face a mixture of good and bad teams. What has taken shape the last few mon... |
| College Hoops: Stretch Run for the Pac 12! Jim Feist - 3/4/2013 12:01 AM by Jim Feist There's the Big 5 in Pac 12 in basketball with a string of teams battling for the top spot. Here's a look at the strengths and weaknesses of some of college basketball's best teams in the Pacific 12. Arizona: The Wildcats were young and talented last year, now they are just talented. The Wildcats are getting it done with defense and rebounding behind 6-6 senior Solomon... |
| College Hoops: 2013 SEC Jim Feist - 2/24/2013 3:38 PM by Jim Feist The SEC has a bunch of teams that play great defense and are loaded with talent, depth and athleticism. Kentucky won the national championship in 1998 and again last season. Florida knocked on the door in 2000, getting to the title game against Michigan State, before winning back to back titles in 2006-07. Here's a look at some of college basketball's best teams in the SEC... |
| Two on Tuesday from Triple Threat Sports! Triple Threat Sports - 2/19/2013 3:16 AM Every Tuesday we look at two games in college or NBA basketball and try to provide some solid information and some winners. Some weeks we have swept the two, others we have split, and we have also missed completely a couple of times. Today we look to go 2-0 as we stay in College Hoops completely, as we tend to stay away from the NBA right after the All Star Break. Enjoy! Both games toda... |
| Big East: What A Conference! Jim Feist - 2/17/2013 9:11 PM by Jim Feist Once again the Big East is loaded with talented teams. Marquette, Cincinnati and Louisville came aboard back in 2006, among others, joining powerhouse schools like UConn, Syracuse, Villanova and Pitt to form a 16-team Super Big East conference. A Big East representative won college basketball's national championship twice in the last ten years (UConn, 2004 + 2011) and severa... |
| Two on Tuesday from Triple Threat Sports! Triple Threat Sports - 2/11/2013 11:59 PM Every Tuesday we look at two games on the hoops schedule in our Two On Tuesday feature. The first one saw us go 2-0 and the next two saw us split but win the Top Play. The next two weeks also saw splits but Top Play losses, and last week we dropped both plays. Now is the time to go back up the ladder with a 2-0 day.<br><Br> We will start in college hoops and take a look at a... |
| College Hoops: Best Big 10 Teams Jim Feist - 2/10/2013 8:57 PM by Jim Feist A Big 10 representative hasn't won college basketball 's national championship since 2000 (Michigan State), but Indiana got to the title game in 2002, as did Illinois (2005), Ohio State (2007) and MSU (2009), so they've been knocking on the door. Here's a look at some of the best of the Big 10 with the March tournaments on the horizon. Michigan: Not a lot about Michigan you ca... |
| College Hoops Takes Center Stage Jim Feist - 2/8/2013 10:58 AM by Jim Feist With the Super Bowl in the rear view mirror, the next big event on the sports stage is college basketball's season-ending tournaments. Since 1997, college basketball's national champion has come from several different conferences: the Pac 10 (Arizona), SEC (Kentucky and Florida), Big 10 (Michigan State), the ACC (Duke, Maryland, North Carolina), Nig 12 (Kansas) and the Big Ea... |
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| Super Sunday! Jim Feist - 1/27/2013 6:47 PM by Jim Feist Welcome to Brother Bowl I! Both the Ravens and 49ers lost in the conference championship games a year ago, but won this season to set up a fascinating Super Bowl of Harbaugh brothers coaching against each other. Back in August the Ravens were 8-to-1 and the 49ers 4-to-1 to win the Super Bowl. We had been in a golden age for the AFC for a while, almost as if the pendulum had... |
| GC: NBA MID SEASON TEAM + TOTALS RECORD WITH NO REST Golden Contender - 1/27/2013 6:43 PM We are Now at the Middle of the season in the NBA. Below we will see the Each teams record when playing with no rest. The teams are arranged alphabetically by team name and our query also shows their totals results. After each team we then look at the Conferences and finally how each division breaks down. When looking at how each team has done when playing with No rest, we find that most of the... |
| Super Bowl Countdown! Jim Feist - 1/21/2013 2:15 PM by Jim Feist Bring on Brother Bowl I! In the world of eleven to ten, there's nothing quite like Super Bowl week. In this case, it's two weeks, as the teams have two weeks to prepare for the Big Game. It's also one of the most creative weeks of the sports betting season. While there's only one game left on the football calendar, there are still ample opportunities for betting with hundreds of... |
| Humana Challenge Preview and Picks Matt Fargo - 1/16/2013 9:37 AM Last week at the Sony Open in Hawaii, Russell Henley became the first rookie in 10 years to win in his debut as a PGA Tour member. The PGA Tour leaves the island of Hawaii and heads to the mainland this week for the Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation, formally known as the Bob Hope Classic. The legendary entertainer had his name added to this event back in 1965 and it rema... |
| Two on Tuesday from Triple Threat Sports! Triple Threat Sports - 1/15/2013 2:51 PM Every Tuesday we will look at two basketball games, college or pro, and go into them in detail, trying to find the edges for you. Last week we split our Two on Tuesday offerings, winning with Creighton but losing with Missouri State. We look to get a sweep today and this time we are focused on an ACC matchup and are going back to the MVC for our second play. Enjoy!<br><br> Wake For... |
| NFL Playoffs: Conference Champions at Stake! Jim Feist - 1/13/2013 1:10 PM by Jim Feist This is it, the final weekend of games before the Super Bowl. The last month we've been hearing about playoff seedings, bye weeks and home field advantage. Are all those things really important? Historically it has been during the second round of the playoffs. Teams with the bye have home field advantage and two weeks to prepare, both of which are usually important edges this ti... |
| Sony Open in Hawaii Preview and Picks Matt Fargo - 1/9/2013 10:40 AM The PGA Tour officially got underway last week with Dustin Johnson bringing home the Hyundai Tournament of Champions on Tuesday which was a winners only event. This week, the Sony Open in Hawaii takes center stage with it being the first full-field event on the PGA Tour this season. You won't see many big names this week and you will see a lot of rookies, 23 in all, and we are officially off and... |
| NFL Playoff Time! Jim Feist - 1/6/2013 10:13 AM by Jim Feist As the playoffs begin, those who earned the top two seeds in each conference have a key edge, as they get a bye the first week while watching the others duke it out. Sitting at home this past weekend were the Patriots, Broncos, Packers and Falcons. Why is that significant? A year ago the 4 bye teams were the Ravens, Patriots, Packers and 49ers. The Pats made the Super Bowl a... |
| BCS Showdown: No. 1 vs. No. 2! Jim Feist - 12/30/2012 6:08 PM by Jim Feist Happy New Year! After recovering from the weekend's New Year festivities, we glide through the end of the bowl season. A few more bowls are appetizers for the tune-up that is the January 9 Alabama/LSU rematch for all the marbles. Outback Bowl (Tues., Jan. 1): A great matchup as South Carolina battles Michigan in Tampa, Fl. South Carolina (10-2 SU, 8-4 ATS) hasn't lost si... |
| Bowl Bonanza! Jim Feist - 12/23/2012 9:45 PM by Jim Feist Happy Holidays! As 2012 draws to a close, we find ourselves smack in the middle of the bowls. You shouldn't be bowled-out, either, as they build to the crescendo that is the Notre Dame/Alabama showdown for the national title. Little Caesar's Bowl (Wed., Dec. 26): Western Kentucky (7-5) got here with a strong offenses (28.8 ppg) behind senior QB Kawaun Jakes (21 TDs, 11 IN... |
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