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The NFL preseason is treated one of two ways by football bettors. Some fans ignore these tuneup games and believe they hold nothing of value for wagering the regular season.
Others are hungry for NFL action after a long summer and analyze every preseason tilt looking for an edge.
Two remarkable performances that took place virtually simultaneously stood out above all others this past weekend – and both were only for second place.
Perhaps never before have there been two such magnificent losers.
One in Scotland, the other in Switzerland, the sporting world were riveted as these living legends attempted to turn back their respective clocks, only to both came up just the teeniest bit short.
Everybody gets to play. That’s the spirit of the 2010 World Cup, which actually started back in 2007 with a record 204 teams. They’ll be whittled down by November to the 32 countries who will participate in South Africa – assuming the tournament doesn’t have to be relocated because of strike activity or any of the other logistical challenges facing the organizers. Last month’s Confederations Cup appeared to go off without a hitch; FIFA president Sepp Blatter estimates the hosts are “75 percent” of the way there.
It had been a pretty quiet off-season over in the AFC North, as the teams prepared to head for training camp, but that changed with yesterday’s news cycle and the Ben Roethlisberger story breaking.
The internet and sports talk radio buzzed throughout the day with the news that Big Ben had been named in a sexual assault civil suit. All was no longer quiet on the Northern front….
In our quest to be the ONLINE LEADER in NFL Gambling & NFL Handicapping information we’re way out ahead of the rest with our 2009 Divisional Previews for all 8 NFL divisions.
We will be covering the entire off season for each team and giving you a preview of the upcoming 2009 season with updates from now through kickoff of Week 1 of the NFL 2009/10 Season.
Following the extremely suspenseful Open Championship at Turnberry, the PGA Tour crosses another border this week at is heads to Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ontario for the RBC Canadian Open. This will be the 25th time this track has hosted this event but just the 3rd time since the redesign took place in 2001.
2009 Canadian Open Preview/Picks
Hold your horses, UFC 101 betting fans. You’ll have your fun again soon but, for now, the spotlight belongs to PGA betting. The Canadian Open is not the British Open, and it’s certainly missing many of the Tour’s top players, but it features a better field than you may think. Let’s have a look at some of the more intriguing picks at the Jack Nicklaus-designed Glen Abbey Golf Club this week.
The 2009 NCAA College Football season is fast approaching – week one kicks off Sept. 3 – so now would be a good time to make your picks for the BCS National Championship.
NFL Football Futures Betting – 2009 NFL PreSeason Analysis – Packers Football Gambling
You could excuse the Packers if they were a bit distracted last season, as fans throughout the country speculated as to whether Aaron Rodgers was going to self-destruct in taking the quarterback reins from Brett Favre.
NCAA Football Futures Betting – Notre Dame Fighting Irish – Poised for a Comeback
Today we take a look at the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, a team that has won only ten games in the last two seasons.
2008 Record: 7-6 SU & ATS
Three-Year record (’06-’08): 20-18 SU, 16-21-1 ATS
The sportsbook is cleaning up on all of the Chicago Cubs futures at this point as one of the team that was expected to win the National League – or at least the Central – by many bettors, has turned out to be a fraud.
The Cubs are just four games over .500 but it took a second-half opening four-game series sweep of the lowly Washington Nationals to get to 47-43.
NFL Football Futures Betting – 2009 NFL PreSeason Analysis – Lions Football Gambling
I’m not sure how much can really be said about the Detroit Lions’ 2008 season except that they lost every game and were near the bottom of the NFL in almost every meaningful category.
The British Open is the hardest event in golf – hardest to win, and hardest on the soul, as Tom Watson can tell you.
Watson went to the 18th tee at 3-under and one stroke ahead of Stewart Cink, who earlier drained a 12-foot birdie putt on the final hole to stay within shouting distance of the 59-year-old legend. Needing only to make an eight-foot par putt to claim his sixth Open Championship and first since 1983, Watson came up short. Then Cink easily put away his opponent by six strokes over the four-hole playoff to hoist the Claret Jug for the first time.
Monday’s “Need To Know”
A look at the hot and cold pitchers going on Monday. The information you need to know whether it is for fantasy baseball or wagering contests.
Probable Hot Starting Pitchers going on Monday:
Doug Davis (Arizona Diamondbacks)
One of the most under rated starting pitchers in baseball he is only owned in 11.4% of fantasy baseball leagues despite having a 3.26ERA on the season.
Ben Burns
Last week ‘s Bad Beats column either spawned the most intellectual conversation ever had in a Sports betting forum or the dumbest, depending how you look at it.
To quickly summarize, some of you believe there is no such thing as a bad beat. A loss is simply and ultimately a bad bet.
