This is our waiver wire pick-ups column. The staff will scour the free agent pools in fantasy land for the best available talent every week. Availability, of course, depends on the league. We’re using 12 team, 15 roster spot leagues as the median, but we’ll look for roster candidates for leagues of all shapes and sizes. Grab the following before NFL Week 12.
Sportsbook.com has posted odds on whether the Tennessee Titans can match the perfect 16-0 mark the New England Patriots set last season.
This enticing proposition bet has just been released and the Titans are 6:1 odds to run the regular season table. The odds that they can’t are 1:10.
The New York Giants may be the best team in football but they have quite the challenge on their hands this week at the desert-hot Arizona Cardinals.
These teams are a combined 16-4 straight-up and 15-5 ATS, so it makes sense that it’s a close spread with the Giants three-point favorites. The early betting for this game is a little surprising with 95% backing New York.
The Chicago Bears and St. Louis Rams meet in Week 12 of the NFL season with both teams reeling from big losses this past Sunday. The Bears were throttled by their most hated rivals, the Green Bay Packers, in a mistake prone game that had to cause more than one sports betting fan to shudder. The Bears have now lost two games in a row and are in second place in the NFC North Division.
The young Oklahoma City Thunder (1-10 SU, 5-6 ATS, 6-5 O/U) have lost eight straight games in the BetUS Sportsbook. The Los Angeles Clippers (1-9 SU, 1-9 ATS, 5-5 O/U) have dropped three straight games while failing to cover the spread each time for BetUS sports betting backers.
Believe it or not, the owner in this game of racing is often overlooked by a racebook bettor and sometimes it can be a mistake.
Take, for instance, the King of Chicago Frank Calabrese. The owner has seen over 1,000 of his runners reach the winner’s circle at a near 30% clip in his lifetime and his runners have earned over $21 million in purse money.
The Niagara Purple Eagles (1-0 SU, 1-0 ATS, 0-1 O/U) got their 2008-09 regular season off on the right foot, beating Towson, 79-62 in the BetUS Sportsbook on Wednesday. The Villanova Wildcats (2-0 SU, 1-0 ATS, 1-0 O/U) are hoping to contend for the national championship and have also gotten off to a positive start for BetUS NCAA college basketball sports betting buffs.
Can You Smell What Boston Is Bruin?
Whatever is happening in Boston is working. They’re averaging 3.06 points per game and allowing only 2.28 behind Tim Thomas’s burly efforts in net. That ranks their defense third in the league. Not bad for a team that was estimated to hover in the doldrums of the NHL
The South Florida Bulls (1-0 SU, 1-0 ATS, 0-1 O/U) got their 2008-09 regular season kicked off with a solid win and cover over SMU in the BetUS Sportsbook on Monday. Two days later, the Virginia Cavaliers (1-0 SU) did the same by beating the high-scoring VMI Keydets in a thrilling matchup.
The Washington Wizards (1-7 SU, 2-6 ATS, 3-5 O/U) have dropped two straight games in the BetUS Sportsbook and have gotten off to a horrific start this season. The Atlanta Hawks (6-4 SU, 6-4 ATS, 5-4-1 O/U) looked like ‘world beaters’ just over a week ago with a spotless 6-0 record but haven’t won since.
The Toronto Raptors (5-5 SU, 5-5 ATS, 6-4 O/U) made some nice offseason transactions but have been maddeningly inconsistent over the season’s first two weeks in the BetUS Sportsbook! The Miami Heat (6-5 SU, 5-5-1 ATS, 4-7 O/U) have alternated wins and losses in each of their last seven games, but got a rare road win in their last game.
The Philadelphia 76ers (5-5 SU, 5-5 ATS, 3-7 O/U) have won and covered the spread in three straight games for BetUS NBA sports betting buffs everywhere. The Minnesota Timberwolves (1-8 SU, 4-5 ATS, 3-6 O/U) have dropped eight straight games and look like they’re in a world of trouble even at this early juncture of the 2008-09 regular season.
The Portland Trail Blazers (6-5 SU, 6-5 ATS, 7-4 O/U) have dropped two of their last three in the BetUS Sportsbook. The Chicago Bulls (5-6 SU, 7-4 ATS, 5-6 O/U) are coming off a loss in their last outing snapping the team’s modest two-game winning streak for fans and BetUS NBA sports betting backers.
Tennessee is the last NFL team standing without a loss. The Titans are living up to their name at 10-0.
Seven of the 10 teams during the Super Bowl era that achieved the same record from 1972 through last year went on to play for the championship. And five won it all.
The Baltimore Ravens (6-4 SU, 7-3 ATS), who were turned back in a big way against the New York Giants last week, will get a chance to redeem themselves against another NFC East team this week as they play host to the Philadelphia Eagles (5-4-1 SU, 6-4 ATS) in NFL pro football sports betting action that is set to begin at 1 PM ET at M&T Bank Stadium (natural turf) in Baltimore.
The Bengals travel to Pittsburgh to take on their hated rival, the Pittsburgh Steelers. For the Bengals things haven’t been going very well this season. They are coming off of a very good tie versus the Philadelphia Eagles, but the thing is that the Bengals caused the Eagles to commit four turnovers but they couldn’t capitalize on any of them. They ended up tying the Eagles at 13 to 13.
