212 Results for year: 2018
Handicapping Baseball and Situations to Support Opening Day and Game 2
Opening day has arrived in Major League Baseball, and all teams except the Reds and Nationals will be in action March 29. Cincinnati’s home game was postponed one day with inclement weather in the forecast. The start of the season is always met with high hopes for teams and plenty of projections from the pundits. Odds and projections to win the World Series are weighted heavily based on last year’s results, as last ...
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Golden Knights Records Continue with Playoff Spot and More than 100 Point Season
During the Golden Knights remarkable run and history-making season, we provided some insight on the success Vegas was having as the Golden Knights skated into the New Year. But the success wasn’t good for the Vegas sports books as the Golden Knights were ripping through the league and setting records not just as an expansion franchise, but in the betting activity and potential huge payouts for fans and bettors ...
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Improbable Run to the Final Four for Either Loyola Chicago or Kansas State
The madness of March has become magical, and the Elite Eight match-up between #9 Kansas State and #11 Loyola Chicago is going to send a high seed and long shot to San Antonio for the Final Four. But beyond the betting, busted brackets and historical significance of the unprecedented upset of a #16 over a #1 seed, a region (South) missing a top-4 seed in the Sweet Sixteen for the first time ever, and this match-up of the ...
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Will Another Longshot Win Louisiana Derby and Emerge on the Kentucky Derby Trail?
It’s been a difficult for many handicappers and horsemen to determine a true Kentucky Derby contender you can count on, and this year’s Louisiana Derby on the deep Fair Grounds dirt is only likely to make the projections muddier. Saturday’s forecast in New Orleans should feature a fast track with partly cloudy skies and near 80 degree temps with winds up to 18 MPH but very little chance of precipitation.
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Sweet Sixteen Surprises Including Top Seeds Records and History
The Sweet Sixteen pairings are set, and the NCAA Tournament and March Madness continues on Thursday, March 22. The first game of the Sweet Sixteen features a pair of upstarts, as #11 seed Loyola Chicago takes on #7 seed Nevada (-1.5) in Atlanta at Philips Arena. They will be followed by #9 Kansas State against #5 Kentucky (-5.5). One of those teams is going to the Final Four out of the South region, and we’re pulling for ...
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NIT Provides more Opportunities for Profit and Utah Utes Win Big over LSU
A losing day to open the NCAA Tournament last Thursday has been followed by 4-straight winning days after Monday's NIT action and winner on Utah. The Utes jumped out to a big early first quarter lead over LSU 30-11, and then buried the Bayou Bengals 95-71. We posted the game analysis on osga.com (along with losing analysis on Buffalo Sat), and you can read the Utah analysis below.
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Utes Fit some Solid Situational Profiles in NIT and Feature Superior Defense
Following the opening rounds of March Madness in the NCAA Tournament, we turn our attention back to the National Invitational Tournament (NIT), where selected teams still host games. Sure we note less fans attend these games, including in Utah where less than 4,000 turned out for their opening round NIT win over Cal-Davis. That’s nearly 10,000 less fans than a regular season PAC-12 game at the Huntsman Center in ...
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Can the Buffalo Bulls Whip Another Wildcats Team to Advance to the Sweet Sixteen?
The #13 seed Buffalo Bulls were the talk of the NCAA Tournament Thursday night after they whipped the Wildcats of Arizona 89-68 in Boise, Idaho. The Bulls (+9) ran the #4 seed Wildcats off the floor, busting brackets against an Arizona team that many thought could make a run to the Final Four with their NBA caliber players and talent (18% of 7 million CBS Sportsline brackets had Arizona in the Final Four ...
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