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The Celtics were one of the few teams in sports who have done what they had promised before the season started: the championship. The challenge of putting three great players together on the same team and with the pressure of winning immediately never seemed to be easy, but Garnett, Pierce and Allen left their ego's at home and focused on team work. The team finished with a regular season...

We had some terrible luck. If you bought my package for the Monday game, you know I picked Denver, and most of the analysis was based on Jay Cutler vs. Matt Cassel at QB and the comparative strengths of the offensive line. We were completely correct about the weakness of New England's offensive line, as indicated by the huge six sacks of Matt Cassel. The second part of our reasoning for the pick...

Bryan Colangelo has been doing a good job in making the Raptors a competitive team and for the second season in a row, the Raptors went to the Playoffs, just to lose in the first round. The team won the Atlantic division two seasons ago with a 47-35 record, but their record last season was just 41-41, far away from the eventual champions Celtics. One of the main problems of the Raptors last season...

Will Zac Robinson and the Cowboys hook the 'Horns on Saturday? "Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle ." Let me ask you. Is there any better feeling than watching two undefeated teams squaring off head-to-head late in the season? I think not. Like a battle of unbeaten heavyweights, both football teams come...

Missouri wide receivers Jerrell Jackson (right) and Jared Perry (left) sit on the bench to wait out the final minutes of play during a game between Missouri and Texas at Austin, Tex. (Chris Lee/P-D) By Tony George If there was any doubts who the best team in the Big 12 is to this point, those doubts were silenced in a Texas style ass kicking of Mizzou Saturday Night. That was one of my free play...

Florida @ Ottawa 7:05 PM EST Play On: 1* Ottawa -180 Ottawa is 7-1 SU and ATS overall vs Florida last 3 years including 4-0 SU and ATS at home. Panthers are 1-5 in their last 6 vs. Northeast. Panthers are 1-6 in their last 7 Wednesday games. Senators are 14-5 in their last 19 games playing on 3 or more days rest. Senators are 68-33-4 in their last 105 vs. Southeast. Senators are 37-18 in their last...

Experts discuss the 2008 World Series between the Tampa Bay Rays and Philadelphia Phillies, NFL football betting preview of New York Giants vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, and FREE picks from Marco D Angelo, Vegas-Runner, Tommy Rider and Matty O Shea! Click...

Modern day video games are very realistic when it comes to stats, names, game play, and graphics. No matter how much of an old school gamer you are, it is very difficult to say that the greatest football game of all time, TECMO BOWL, is as good on paper as the newest Madden. Trust me, I spent a portion of my life in Tony's basement with a group of friends drinking beer and playing tournament after...

The Sixers were the team with the biggest hype in the offseason, after all the team didn't lose any important player and they managed to get in the market Elton Brand. This addition makes the team to be now appointed by the analysts as one of the candidates to win the East. Let's remember the Sixers reached the Playoffs last season, when nobody was expecting that and they were actually...

2008 Heisman Trophy Top 10 Update after Week 8 By Larry Ness Pregame Pros Handicapper 1) COLT MCCOY (Texas) Last Week: 3. Just two weeks ago, the Longhorns were No. 5 in the AP poll but consecutive wins over Oklahoma 45-35 and Missouri 56-31 have seen the Longhorns become the nation's unquestioned No. 1 team (for now). Texas jumped from No. 5 to No. 1 after its win over Oklahoma and its win this...

Is it possible for a team to enter the 2008/2009 season already thinking more on the 2010 season than in this season? If that's possible, then the Nets are clearly doing that. The Nets were one of the biggest disappointments of the league last season, ending the season with a 34-48 record, when they were before the season one of the main candidates to win the Eastern conference, together with...

Rested vs. Unrested For the third consecutive week, our theory of taking rested vs. unrested teams produced the most mediocre of results with the teams off a bye covering four games and failing to cover four games. However, it needs to be noted that double-digit favorites on Saturday, playing with the week of rest and matched up against a foe that is not, are now 10-2 ATS over the last three weeks...

The Knicks have finally done what their supporters were asking for: changes! Isiah was finally fired and for his place, GM Donnie Walsh has hired Mike D'Antoni, the former coach of the Suns and the past seasons of the Knicks and D'Antoni have been antagonistic. While D'Antoni had a 232-96 record in the past four seasons in Phoenix, the Knicks had a 112-216 record in the same period...

Here are the best props for the Monday, October 24 game between Denver and New England. As I said last week, proposition bets are the most profitable bets available for the small bettor. Unfortunately, you can't bet them big, but you can win an unusually high percentage. TEAM TOTAL: Take N.E. under 26. With Matt Cassel at QB expecting 27+ points is wishful thinking. N.E. has scored more than 26...

As part of our continuing effort to teach you all the language of Tout Speak, here's another entry from Crowne's New World Dictionary of Tout Speak: "Million-Star Play" - adj. + adj. + n. phrase The tout started with a 1000-star play, and lost 10 in a row. Sometimes combined with the terms "Millenium" or "My Lifetime," to form the sentences "Million Star Play...

HERE COMES THE BREEDERS' CUP This year's Breeders' Cup will be run at Santa Anita Racetrack in California. Santa Anita will also host the Breeders' Cup next year, making it the first racetrack to get the coveted honor twice in a row. Last year marked the first time the races were run on two separate days. This year it will again be run on two days. On Friday,...

The Lakers are the clear favorites to win the West and everything worse than another NBA final for them will be considered as a failure. These expectations are curious, as one year ago, a lot of people were doubting that they could even reach the Playoffs and that Kobe was more interested in leaving the Lakers than staying in LA. Everything changed with the breakout season of Andrew Bynum, who...

The Warriors were one of the main highlights of the league on the past two seasons. In 2006, they caused one of the biggest upsets ever on the history of the NBA by eliminating Dallas in the first round of the Playoffs, who was coming from a 67-15 regular season. And last season they "managed" to finish the regular season with a 48-34 record and still stay out of the postseason. If we...

North Carolina @ Virginia 3:30 PM EST Play On: 1* Virginia +5 North Carolina is 3-10 SU on the road the past 3 years. Virginia is 3-1 SU at home this year. Virginia is 12-4 ATS overall vs North Carolina since 1992. Virginia is 8-0 SU and ATS at home vs North Carolina since 1992. Tar Heels are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games after allowing less than 100 yards rushing in their previous game. Home team...

The Mike D'Antoni era in Phoenix is now over, with the coach going to New York and even though the Suns played some amazing basketball in the last seasons, the truth is that they couldn't even reach a NBA final. Since Steve Nash joined the team in 2004, the Suns had a record with more than 70% of wins in the regular season and always they had to face the Spurs in the postseason, the result...

Trent Edwards is expected to return for the Bills this week A new No.1 team tops the College Football polls while the NFL is down to one undefeated team as Halloween weekend draws near. Listed below are a half-dozen of the top games on this weekend's College and NFL cards. With upsets galore happening on a weekly basis, let's see how many of the these matchups have upset potential. ...

Will Texas become the next unbeaten to fall? By Larry Ness Pregame Pros Handicapper Three of the AP's top-four teams lost last weekend (No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 3 Missouri and No. 4 LSU). That marked the second time that had happened on the same weekend this year and it allowed Texas, which beat Oklahoma 45-35, to jump from No.5 to No. 1. The Longhorns were able to leapfrog No. 2 Alabama which was...

NFL Free Play from Tony George NY Jets -3 @ Oakland In the wild and crazy world of the NFL, anyone can beat anyone on any given Sunday. The past few weeks have been an example of this scenario. More times than not I look at lines set by Vegas oddsmakers as an acid test to the general public. Oakland is a bad football team, with no direction and little chance of winning more than 4...

The Kings were one of the less talked teams last season, but managed to do better than the regular supporter was expecting, whose expectations were pretty low. The team managed to finish the regular season with a 38-44 record, despite several problems. Mike Bibby just started the season in January and after playing 15 games left to Atlanta. Artest missed the first 7 games of the season, due to...