The NFL betting season is down to its final three games, meaning handicappers are tuned in and oddsmakers are setting their sharpest lines of the year.
In the AFC Championship, the Pittsburgh Steelers are now 6-point home favorites against the Baltimore Ravens, who have seen the bulk of the action all week. The Ravens have something to prove against the Steelers, who got the best of both matchups this season – albeit by a slim margin in both wins.
Gulfstream Park is starting to take its rightful place as the number one, or at least number two, meet of the winter and spring. Sports betting fans should always turn their eyes towards Florida during the winter and spring where a number of terrific horses are kept.
Gulfstream Park usually provides not only some of the best dirt racing in the nation but some of the best turf racing in the nation as well. Successful online racebook fans have to be able to handicap both for the dirt and the turf.
The weekend NHL betting schedule delivers two top-notch matchups on Saturday night, as the top two teams in the East (Boston and Washington) and the top two teams in the West (San Jose and Detroit) collide.
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Defense should be the name of the game in the Steel City, especially with a birth in Super Bowl XLVIII on the line, and NFL bettors will have all of the football betting lines available to them from Bookmaker Sportsbook when the Baltimore Ravens (13-5, 14-4 ATS) do battle with the Pittsburgh Steelers (13-4, 10-7 ATS) at Heinz Field in the AFC Championship Game.
The first ticket to Super Bowl XLIII will be punched on Sunday afternoon in Phoenix, Arizona, allowing Bookmaker Sportsbook members a chance to sink their teeth into a fantastic showdown when the Philadelphia Eagles (11-6-1, 12-6 ATS) head to the desert to do battle with the Arizona Cardinals (11-7, 11-7 ATS) in the NFC Championship game.
The question today is: which teams have made the biggest strides toward fulfilling their goal of unseating the Philadelphia Phillies as World Series champs, and because of the changes (or even lack of same), who offers value in the BetUS odds?
Let’s start with the numbers:
We’re down to the NFL ‘Final Four’ and there may be ways to predetermine who will advance by looking at past trends from conference championship games.
I’ll be looking at past pointspreads and totals, home/road dichotomy, and providing an update on the angles focusing on statistics of teams left.
Visit our live odds page for the latest lines for all of this weekend’s action.
The Portland Trail Blazers (23-15 SU, 17-20 ATS, 15-22 O/U) had their modest three-game winning streak snapped on Wednesday, getting routed by the red-hot Philadelphia 76ers 100-79 while failing to cover the spread in the BetUS Sportsbook as 2-point road favorites in the BetUS Sportsbook. The New Jersey Nets (19-20 SU, 21-18 ATS, 20-19 O/U) were also beaten senseless in their 118-86 shellacking at the hands of the defending-champion Boston Celtics on Wednesday.
The Cleveland Cavaliers (30-6 SU, 26-10 ATS, 17-19 O/U) have won three consecutive games, covering the spread for my beloved BetUS NBA sports betting enthusiasts each time out. The young Chicago Bulls (17-22 SU, 17-22 ATS, 21-17-1 O/U) snapped their two-game losing streak the last time they took the floor, beating the struggling Toronto Raptors 102-98 on Wednesday.
The Minnesota Golden Gophers (15-1 SU, 7-3-1 ATS, 3-7 O/U) have won three consecutive games in the BetUS Sportsbook, covering the spread for BetUS NCAA college basketball betting backers each time out. The Wisconsin Badgers (12-4 SU, 7-7 ATS, 7-6-1 O/U) had their three-game winning streak snapped the last time they took the floor, getting handily beaten while failing to cover the spread for the third time in its last five games.
The North Carolina Tar Heels (14-2 SU, 6-8 ATS, 8-6 O/U) were upset in their last contest and have dropped two of its last three overall. The Virginia Cavaliers (7-6 SU, 4-4 ATS, 4-4 O/U) also lost the last time they took the floor and have an identical 1-2 mark over their lat three games.
The fourth-ranked Connecticut Huskies (14-1 SU, 5-4 ATS, 4-5 O/U) have won three straight games in the BetUS Sportsbook, covering the spread in each of their last two contests. The St. John’s Red Storm (10-5 SU, 3-5-1 ATS, 5-4 O/U) is coming off an emphatic loss the last time they took the floor and have dropped three of its last four overall.
Two of the historically more consistent teams in the NBA, the Phoenix Suns and Denver Nuggets, battle it out on Thursday night in a game where the Suns have to show something to sports betting fans. Phoenix has been an enigma this season. Even though they are riding a three game winning streak including a terrific victory over the Dallas Mavericks by 28 points, the Suns aren’t nearly as intimidating as they used to be.
With a few days left before the NFL Conference Championships, sports betting fans have a chance to get some money down on a few long shots for the Super Bowl MVP.
The reason to bet long shots right now is because both the conference championship games figure to be very tough contests. The Baltimore Ravens are definitely good enough to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals are good enough to take down the Philadelphia Eagles.
We’re all agog over this week’s NFL Conference title games, and the Super Bowl after that. Which makes this a great time to get a jump on the basketball betting market. We kick off this weekend’s list of 10 stats and factoids with this hoops curiosity: The inventor of basketball, James Naismith, was also the only losing head coach in Kansas Jayhawks history. Naismith finished in 1907 with a record of 55-60.
