This Sunday is the 58th annual NBA All-Star Game, so we’ll be going to school for this weekend’s list of the 10 tastiest basketball stats and factoids. But first, here’s a goodie: The Western Conference has won all four All-Star Games played at football stadiums. Next year’s venue is the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in Arlington.
News today out of New York Jets camp is that Brett Favre has officially retired. As a huge Brett Favre fan over the years, not necessarily a Packers fan, the last 5 or 6 games of last season was painful to watch.
by Max Powers, Doc’s CBB Analyst – 02/11/2009
But once conference play opened up things went south and they dropped their first two games to Illinois and Penn State, both middle-of-the-road teams in the Big Ten.
The season has come and gone, and now we look to the 2010 NFL season. Here are updated odds for who will win Super Bowl 44. Or as we call it, Super Bowl XLIV.
It’s not the official slogan for the 2009 Sprint Cup season, but there’s no doubt that the sport of stock car racing is living in interesting times. And it’s exactly in these times of transition that sharp bettors can swoop in and make a dollar – starting with Sunday’s 51st annual running of the Daytona 500.
The best odds on Nascar and the 2009 Daytona 500 online – at betED.com.
Game-day: 2/11/2009
Tip-off: 9:00 pm est.
The North Carolina Tar Heels travel to Cameron Indoor Stadium to take on the Blue Devils of Duke. North Carolina vs. Duke has become the biggest rivalry in the ACC Conference.
Horse Pick of the Day: Santa Anita – Race 6
Race-day: 2/11/2009Race-time: 3:36 pm est.
Often times the best wagers for online racebook fans are maiden races. Maiden races are races where all horses are striving for their first victory.
Syracuse takes on Connecticut in a huge Big East showdown on Wednesday night. The Orange has been a bust against the spread so far this season going 9 and 11 overall and 2 and 4 on the road. Syracuse is okay straight-up at 18 and 6 but they have to make sure they don’t go on a losing streak or else they will find themselves out of the Big Dance come March. That’s how tough the Big East is this season.
The PGA Tour continues their run through California on the golf betting schedule this week with the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am at famous Pebble Beach.
This weekend the PGA travels to Northern California, Pebble Beach to be exact, for the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. One of the most picturesque venues in all of golf, the field will have their eyes on the view but also the prize as the Pebble Beach Pro-Am offers a purse of $6,000,000. Steve Lowery won it last year. Does he have a chance this year?
Because golf is such a difficult sport to find a winner, the BetUS Sportsbook offers betting lines besides the traditional To Win.
One of those betting lines is receiving odds on golfers to finish in the Top Eight. It’s not an easy bet to win but it’s easier than actually picking the winner of the tournament.
All the marbles will be on the line Wednesday night in another fantastic college basketball betting affair when the North Carolina Tarheels (21-2, 9-12 ATS) invade Cameron Indoor Stadium to do battle with the Duke Blue Devils (20-3, 11-10-1 ATS).
The Memphis Grizzlies are struggling again this season but they are backed by a powerful betting system tonight at the Philadelphia 76ers.
Memphis is 15-36, having fired coach Marc Iavaroni and bringing in retread Lionel Hollins, but they are on a roll of late.
Last season, the Memphis front office saw they were going nowhere and decided to start over.
The first half of UNC and Duke’s hoops clash tonight could be the key in more ways than one.
The halftime leader has gone on to win the game and cover the spread the last three meetings. The first half is also the focus of Sportsbook.com’s UNC-Duke First Half Clash – Money Back Special.
We certainly hope you’ve enjoyed our weekly NFL previews this year. Now it’s time to make the full switch from the stadium to the arena and play some hoops. We’ve got the Top 10 basketball games of the week for your consideration – but first, let’s check in on the biggest moneymakers against the spread thus far in college and the NBA.
