Ultra Sports Bet

This is a column I do every week for Doc’s Sports. You can, and should, check them out at docsports.com for all sorts of information, insights and picks. I do a lot of writing for them.
A – Absolutely Cindy. Look out Rags to Riches, there’s a new filly on the Triple Crown scene. Absolutely Cindy wasn’t well regarded in the John Battaglia Memorial Stakes at Turfway on Saturday – she went off at 20-1. It will be a long time until she sees a price like that again. She was dead last at the top of the stretch before making …read more

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There’s not much basketball action tonight, and even less that is interesting. Taking a day off is bad for karma, though, so there’s one game I think is worth a look tonight.
Harvard (+7) at Columbia – I like Columbia here for several reasons:

They beat Harvard by nine on the road two weeks ago.
They are an impressive 10-4 ATS, and 6-2 ATS in the last eight.
John Baumann, the Columbia forward who is the only real scoring threat on either team, is in fine form recently and he will be able to feast on the truly pathetic Harvard D.
I hate Tommy Amaker, …read more

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This picture made me very excited when I saw it today. I can’t stand the Red Sox, and though I really like Josh Beckett it wasn’t him that made me giddy, either. It was that baseball season got under way. Sort of. The Red Sox beat the life out of Boston College in a ridiculous exhibition by a decidedly non-baseball like 24-0 score.
I could care less about this game, obviously. It just means that we are only a month away from the regular season of baseball. As a sports bettor, I love baseball. It goes on every day, there are …read more

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Today is one of those days where I have a lot of research I am doing, and as a result I am reading a lot of sports websites and news articles. In other words, I have the best job in the world. As I have been reading around, these are 10 things have have stuck in my mind for further reference in my sports betting journeys:
1. Yao Ming’s season ending injury. My first reaction – wow, that sucks. My second reaction – with Rick Adelman at the helm, the team isn’t going to struggle as much as people think. That …read more

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This is a column I do every week for Doc’s Sports. You can, and should, check them out at docsports.com for all sorts of information, insights and picks. I do a lot of writing for them.
A – Again. For the second time in just over half a season, Gerald Green has a new home. Minnesota traded him to Houston for Kirk Snyder. The only place Green has shone in his brief career is the slam dunk contest. Beyond that, the athletic freak who was drafted out of high school has been disappointing. He’s from Houston, so maybe the change of …read more

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As I have done in the past, I thought it would be fun to take a mythical $1000 bankroll, figure out how I would bet it on the Oscars, and see how it goes. There’s a problem, though – there just isn’t a lot of value out there. There are a couple of interesting props, like a total on the number of speeches that will be interrupted by music because they go too long, but without historical data on that it is just a guess. I hate betting on a guess.
The problem this year is that, for people who have …read more

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The action on Friday night is a slim as we would expect, but there is one game that is interesting and which provides a decent amount of value in my mind.
Davidson (-3) at Winthrop – Off the top I’ll say that I like Davidson here. The Wildcats are playing well, especially on the road, and they match up well. Winthrop is at the top of the Big South, but that doesn’t mean too much. Of course, Davidson has faced only marginally better competition in the Southern conference. It comes down, then, to three things;
1) Non-conference competition – Winthrop has played …read more

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I normally don’t write about a college basketball game three days in advance, but then again I’m normally not this excited about one regular season college basketball game. I have had the Memphis-Tennessee game circled on my calendar for months. I was pretty sure that it was going to be a good one when I first saw the schedule, but I had no idea that it would be anywhere near this good. Number one and number two don’t play very often, and in-state rivals in the top two seeds virtually never play. This is one to remember.
The other way that …read more

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The fun thing about sports betting is that you never know what is going to happen. Coincidentally, that is also the frustrating thing. Indiana is a perfect and truly fascinating example.
For those that missed it, Indiana has been in turmoil for more than a week now. It basically boils down to this – head coach Kelvin Sampson is a total moron. He left Oklahoma before he got fired, but not before he caused that school to have to suffer sanctions for his recruiting violations. He somehow managed to get the job at Indiana despite being a total slime bucket. Proving …read more

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This is a column I do every week for Doc’s Sports. You can, and should, check them out at docsports.com for all sorts of information, insights and picks. I do a lot of writing for them.
A – Adios. Now is the time every year when we see just how ruthless the NFL can be – it’s the time when formerly valued players get tossed aside by their teams to clear up cap space. There have been some impressive names given a pink slip so far – Trent Green, Zach Thomas, Byron Leftwich, Alge Crumpler. That’s just the tip of the …read more

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