January, 2011

Opener: Because I loved the rant so damn much, I'm taking a page out of the Greg Shaker handbook and eliminating the Promo section ALMOST entirely. I know the Promo stuff is minimal compared to the over 2,500 games I've previewed in the...

Opener: WELCOME TO THE CONVERTED WEEKEND BLOG! Sports Wagering: NBA Memphis Grizzlies @ Philadelphia 76ers (-3.5) with a total of 192; The Sixers have covered 5 in a row and have won 3 in a row, straight up. The Grizzlies are coming off a loss...

WEEKEND THREAD! - feel free to ignore the old blog below, though I don't want to delete it (since I like to have record of all my writeups) Sports Wagering: NBA Detroit Pistons @ New Jersey Nets (-2) with a total of 190.5; Situationally, this...

Saturday Recap: Not quite the furious beatdown we laid on Friday but still pretty darn good! Saturday featured a 2* winner on the Chicago Bulls, as they got their sweet revenge on the Boston Celtics, and we rode that to profit! We lost a tiny play...

Monday Recap: One play on Monday, a Money Line selection on Oregon, and we dropped it in heartbreaking fashion. Just a damn fine game played by both teams, and we came up on the short end of the stick. That, unfortunately, put us at a 4-4 Bowl Season...

Thursday Recap: We were all set to pull the trigger on a pair of plays, but some injury news and some lingering sour feelings from Tuesday, Thursday was a full NO PLAY. Pro Notes: Despite doing some nice work, the "new" Season Pass...

Opener: Sometimes all I can do is scratch my head. On the betting side, we had YET ANOTHER game that was looking good after 36 minutes of action only to flop harder than Rob Schneider's latest flick. No excuses - time to pick a side (or total)...

Opener: Things got moving in a better direction last week (won 5 straight in NBA leading into Sunday, Celtics and Suns pending), and after seeing team after team blow a lead in the final 90 seconds two weeks back, those late leads began translating...

Opener: Earlier this morning I thought of some great stuff to rant about in the opening section, and courtesy of a few hours of errand-running, car-under-snow-digging, some exercise (amazing though it may seem), and whatever else my brain is processing...

New Year's Weekend Recap: A rather up-and-down-and-slightlydown trifecta of days that left us with a tremendous conclusion to 2010, and a rather sluggish start to 2011. More specifically, we had a perfect 3-0 sweep on Friday, with 2 wins in...

Wednesday Recap: I was simply so excited to put out Thursday's card for FREE, that I didn't even wait to see how Wednesday turned out. We can fill this in later, if anyone cares. Pro Notes: Despite doing some nice work, the "new"...

Monday Recap: Our Monday came down to Chauncey Billups and Chris Paul hitting free throws -- if they went 4-of-4, we go 2-0. As it was, they hit 3-of-4, and we got ourselves a nice 2* winner on the Hornets, and a Push on the 1* Freebie on Denver. Two...

Opener: Getting this blog out early, but I will say that one of the big things I'm going to be assessing at the end of the Wednesday slate will be how the inordinately large number of road favorites performed. You guys know I generally am not a...

Opener: Pretty short NBA slate from Tuesday to discuss, though I suppose the news that LeBron wasn't quite at full strength should be the all-time non-shock of the year. What's that? Miami lost a few games and James rushed back? Big deal. ...

Opener: Rumbling into a new week, trying to shake off the stink of all those blown leads. Nothing we can do about those now, and I know a lot of cappers say it, but I think we can all agree that we'd make those same wagers again. I mean, really...

Tuesday Recap: Just a small 1* play, but a loss regardless, as Sacramento just got completely outclassed, and the signs of life they showed at home the previous few games were nowhere to be found. Again, the weak Tuesday card was precisely why we only...

Tuesday Recap: An NBA play that I am straight up angry about. I know it's just one loss, and I should say something like, "Moving on," but I truly believe this was a loss that we could have avoided, and that falls on me. As I said yesterday...

Opener: That's two straight winning days, so that's nice. 'Bout freaking time our teams that led going into the 3rd led at the final horn. In any case, rumbling along into Tuesday - I'll be flying most of the day, but I still damn...

Weekend Recap: Not bad...not bad at all. Going all the way back to Friday, it was an NBA-only weekend! On Friday, we collected from the Monopoly guy, cashing the 3* GOW and both 1* Freebies. On Saturday, we dropped the early fraction-of-a-unit...

Opener: Well, I largely missed the action yesterday, I admit, while flying across this fine nation (well, first across it, then up it...thank to you all the airlines that make getting to Detroit so time-consuming). Still, I must say, landing and...

Wednesday Recap: Terrible, terrible performance. Among my five worst days of the year, for sure. But, fortunately, it was just one day, and that's why we spend the absurd hours we do -- to make sure that one bad day doesn't ruin a season. Thursday...

Opener: Those of you that were part of the MLK Day blog, thank you! It was a damn fine time, we nailed 5 of 6 free plays (to make the afternoon even a little better), and we churned out one of the biggest NBA blogs since I've been at Pregame. ...