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Now that football is over here, our focus here will shift in other directions. We’ll hit lots of sports along the way, but college basketball will likely get the most attention over the next six weeks or so.
Which brings me to an announcement of great sadness – coach John Brady has been fired by LSU. As a sports bettor that is perhaps the saddest news of the year (And I mean the whole year, even if it is only February). Brady was probably the worst recruiter on the planet, and he was only barely better as a coach. His team …read more

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If you tried to come to the site in the last 24 hours you probably didn’t succeed. Apparently the computer gods weren’t very happy with the Super Bowl, either, and they figured that a service outage would be the best way to show their disgust.
Things should be smoother going forward. Thanks for your patience.

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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 – Aggies. It’s been a pretty great 10 days for Texas A&M, with big conference wins over Oklahoma State, Texas and Oklahoma. The 17-point victory over Texas was particularly striking. The only problem is that the team preceded this nice string with three conferences losses in a row, and they weren’t close in two of them. This is one of those teams I find …read more

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I have a hangover today. I’m not talking about the after effects of all that beer, though that didn’t help. Rather, I’m talking about the stark reality that football is over, and it is a long time until it rolls around again. The worst part of being a football fan is that the off-season is longer than the season itself. Sure, there are things along the way to break the monotony – signing day this week, the draft and all the chaos around that, spring practices, free agency and the like – but it’s just not the same. Before I …read more

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I’ve gone back and forth on this game for two weeks now. I am confident that the Patriots are going to win, but the question has been by how much. The problem is, in my mind, the line is pretty solid. It could go either way. In the end, though, I am going to do the reasonably unthinkable and jump on the favorite. Here are seven reasons I will take the Pats:

1. I can’t get over the fact that Bill Belichick and company have seen Eli Manning once already, so they know what to expect from him. If you listen …read more

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This is an article I had fun writing this week for Doc’s Sports. There is a ton of good information and articles over there for you to check out about the Super Bowl and everything else.
It’s incredible to see the number of Super Bowl prop bets that are being offered by books this year. You can bet on almost everything from the relevant and interesting to the truly ridiculous. As hard as it is to believe, though, there are quite a few bets that I was looking to make that I couldn’t find anyone offering action on. Here, then, …read more

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Yesterday it was player props, and today it is team bets. As a general rule, I think that the team props almost always offer more value than the player props – you don’t have to rely on just one player doing the right thing in order to cash a ticket. There are quite a few attractive team bets this year. I’ll post mine, and you can add any you like in the comments.
Will the game ever be tied after the first score? – Yes +130 – $250 – The score has been tied twice in the Pats two playoff …read more

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There are so many different prop bets available for the Super Bowl that I can’t do them justice in one day. So many options mean lots of potential value, though, so it is worthwhile to spend the time looking around at what is offered. I’ll look at the player props today and the team props tomorrow. For each one I’ll make it more interesting by taking a $1000 bankroll and spreading it around in a way I hope will ultimately be profitable. Feel free to add your favorites in the comments.
Eli Manning’s first pass of the game will be …read more

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Before I make my Super Bowl pick I want to go through the exercise of looking at the teams one at a time and considering the ways that they could win the game. Yesterday it was the Patriots, and today it is the Giants. I should say up front that I am confident that the Patriots are going to win. The point of this exercise is to see if they can win by enough to cover the spread. The Giants can cover because:

1. The Pats are struggling ATS. After covering their first eight games the Patriots have covered just …read more

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Before I make my Super Bowl pick I want to go through the exercise of looking at the teams one at a time and considering the ways that they could win the game. I’ll start with the favorites today and hit the underdogs tomorrow. The Patriots can cover because:

1. Tom Brady. The guy is the best quarterback in the league, and the biggest asset, too. He can single handedly win this game if he decides to.
2. Depth. The offense is scary. They have pass catching threats everywhere, Brady will get the time he needs, and they can run at …read more

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