Burns’ Big 12 Preview
The Big 12 is spewing confidence.
Texas coach Mack Brown and Nebraska AD Tom Osborne claim their conference is top to bottom as competitive as the mighty SEC.
Whatever.
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MLB Gambling Bad Beats
Bad beats: Did you commit gambling’s biggest sin?
One man’s greatest comeback victory is another’s worst beat.
That was the case in last Tuesday’s Red Sox-Orioles game.
We’ll go out on a limb and bet the majority of you who were invested in that game were on the Sox.
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Ben Burns’ Bad Beats
Bad beats: Bad defense and the bad Nats
Through Saturday, the Twins had committed the second fewest errors in all of baseball.
That’s what makes Wednesday’s loss in Milwaukee so tough to swallow.
Leading 3-2 with two outs in the eighth inning, emerging Twins ace Nick Blackburn (+$154 on the season) was cruising toward his second straight complete game, when J.J. Hardy blooped a harmless single into center field.
Burns’ Big Ten Preview
All you Big Ten haters better be changing your tune. The Big Ten is back, with four teams capable of making a BCS-sized impact and a couple of upstarts flying under the public’s radar. In recent years, the conference’s reputation has taken a major beating. The Big Ten went 15-26 ATS in non-conference games in 2008.
Ohio State and Penn State each got clobbered by USC, and the Buckeyes looked slow in BCS Championship Game losses to Florida and LSU.
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MLB Sportsbook Bad Beats
Bad Beats: Sportsbook Rule Interferes With Sure Win
Rules are rules … sucky, freakin’ rules.
Sometimes a sportsbooks rules help us. But more often it seems they don’t.
Everytime one goes against us, it acts as a reminder that the odds are stacked heavily against us. Take Friday’s Brewers-Tigers tilt in Detroit.
Burns’ Big East Preview
If you thought the Big East has been bad in recent years, just wait ’till this season.
There is no favorite, just a bunch of mediocre teams, for the most part lacking big-time talent.
College Football Oddsmakers seem to like South Florida to win the conference. The media prefers Pittsburgh, with the Panthers picked in multiple preseason publications. Rutgers and West Virginia also should be in the mix. But none of the above is heads and shoulders better than UConn, Louisville or even Syracuse (gasp).
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MLB Baseball Handicapping Bad Beats
Ben Burns – Bad Beats
What in the world was in the Gatorade this week?
(Vodka goes best, by the way).
Pop-ups were causing havoc in New York and Tampa. Birds were doing the same in Cleveland. And in Chicago, Milton Bradley still doesn’t have a clue.
We’ll start at the backyard known as the new Yankee Stadium, where Gold Glove-second baseman Luis Castillo handed Mets’ backers an atrocious bad beat that may not be topped this season.
Ben Burns CFB Picks – ACC Predictions / Preview
Each Friday, Burns and Payne prepare college football bettors for the upcoming season. This week the pair break down the ACC and highlight several items to keep in mind when September rolls around.
The ACC has a reputation as a second-tier conference.
It has the potential to exceed its bad rep this year.
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MLB Baseball Handicapping Bad Beats
Burns’ Bad Beats: Hinch manages D’Backs to loss
Going by the Book guarantees nothing.
But it would be nice if your manager at least acted like he was aware when he was taking huge statisical gamble.
For example, in Tuesday’s Diamondbacks-Dodgers game, Arizona manager A.J. Hinch’s squad was in a bind.
Bad beats: Blown saves frustrating MLB bettors…
There have been just 44 complete games tossed through the first two months of the season.
They have occurred in less than six (5.8) percent of this year’s games.
In contrast, there have been 209 blown saves-about 28 percent of games–already this year.
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Bad Beats: NBA Betting
Bad beats: Athletes teasing total players
Burns’ Bad Beats
Nothing hurts more than when a player intentionally elects not to score the uncontested and, for bettors, winning touchdown or basket.
Those of you who had over 193.5 in Game 1 of the Rockets-Lakers series know exactly how it feels.
Fantasy players might remember when Brian Westbrook did it against Dallas in 2007.
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CBB Betting Analysis
Burns’ Bad Beats
David Payne writes for Ben Burns.
If times weren’t tough enough, does it feel like our little hobby, betting college hoops, is becoming more and more difficult?
That’s because it is.
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2009 CBB Handicapping The Brackets
Mid-Majors: Bracketbusters Breakdown
David Payne writes for Ben Burns
Come March, it pays to have paid attention to BracketBuster Saturday.
Since its inception in 2003, the made-for-TV event has produced an average of 14.5 NCAA tournament teams per season.
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Super Bowl 43 Betting Recap
Super Bowl Bad Beats – Do the side or total qualify?
David Payne writes for Ben Burns.
Admit it. Pittsburgh and the under were the rights sides of the Super Bowl.
That’s not a lot of solace for anyone who played the Steelers -7 and / or under 46.5.
In fact, those tickets are as worthless as the majority of the Super Bowl commercials. (Lame.)
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CBB Betting Analysis
Ben Burns’ Bad Beats
David Payne writes for Ben Burns.
ESPN analysts Jay Bilas and Bob Knight were singing the praises of Washington’s Jon Brockman Saturday on “College Gameday.”
Anyone who had the Huskies Thursday against USC probably isn’t as impressed with Brockman.
An All-Pac-10 candidate, Brockman went 0-for-8 against the Trojans, including a bloopers moment that Washington backers weren’t laughing about.
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Handicapping Overtime Covers
Burns’ Bad Beats – OT bites G-Tech backers
David Payne writes for Ben Burns
Is there a bad beat tougher to swallow than the dreaded overtime cover?
Your underdog has kept pace and even led for the parts of the game. But a couple of bad breaks seem to rattle your squad.
The favorite grabs the momentum and forces overtime with a late run.
