Hawks Hope The Road Will Cure Their Woes – Visit Flames Tuesday Night
The defending Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks are in some sort of funk – three straight losses and a 4-3-5 record in their last 12 games. On Tuesday they take their show on the road to visit a Calgary team that rides a tidy two game win streak into Tuesday’s clash.
Betting on the Super Bowl 48 Over/Under has been a inimitable experience so far this year, in large part because of the two teams involved.
The next National title game is nearly a year away, and the format with which a championship game will be decided will be drastically different, yet odds are out and that means an opportunity to identify value.
This is a very good Cowboys team but they are not travelling very well in conference with two losses and a near loss at West Virginia. Now losses to Kansas State and Kansas by a combined 5 points is nothing to be embarrassed about but if they can not win on the road it is hard to consider them among the elite teams in the NCAAs.
This season Duke is 12-8 ATS with an O/U record of 8-11 and Pitt is 7-9-1 ARS with an O/U record of 11-5.
Fourth-ranked Villanova arrive in the Nation’s Capital on Monday, looking to build on its one-game winning streak against a Georgetown squad that has not won a game in four straight tries.
Canucks Look to Extend Dominance Over Oilers Monday Night
It is a short turnaround for both the Edmonton Oilers and the Vancouver Canucks but both teams will meet Monday night looking to build off impressive wins from Sunday night.
The Los Angeles Kings make the trip over to the SAP Center on Monday for a date with an instate rival, the San Jose Sharks. The teams enter heading in very different directions as San Jose has won six in a row, while Los Angeles has dropped each of their last five games.
Broncos Early Favorites to Win Super Bowl
A terrific season of NFL action culminates February 2 in New Jersey when the best offense in the NFL, the Denver Broncos squares off with the best defense in the league, the Seattle Seahawks. It’s the first time since 1990 that the league’s top offense will face the No.1 defense in the Super Bowl.
The Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos have punched their tickets to Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey in the first cold-weather Super Bowl of the modern era. Seattle defeated San Francisco in thrilling fashion to win the NFC, while Denver handled New England on their home turf.
It’s been interesting to many NFL handicappers and observers that the Super Bowl 48 points spread has not only remained a low number, but has only moved 2 points since it opened on Sunday.
Michigan is 9-6-1 ATS with an O/U record of 8-7-1 and Michigan State is 10-6-2 ATS with an O/U record of 9-9.
The Indiana Pacers will make the trip over to Oakland on Monday for a late night visit with the Golden State Warriors. Indiana enters with a comfortable lead in the Eastern Conference after winning seven of their last eight games, while Golden State has hit a bit of a rough patch with losses in three of their last five games.
The Bears have not been very good since B12 play started. They have dropped 3 of 4 games including both last week…however, they are still ahead of Kansas in the national rankings (go figure).
The Grizzlies are playing some of their best basketball of the season and will aim to take advantage the Pelicans who are flying straight into a storm of nine straight losses, when the two meet in Memphis on Monday night.
This season the Knicks are 7-13 at home and the Nets are 6-13 on the road.
In their last games the Knicks lost to the L.A. Clippers 109-95 and the Nets beat the Atlanta Hawks 127-110.
