A winning New Year's Day; Closing things down
Not a bad New Year's Day of betting for me at all. Had I stayed away from the Hawaii/Georgia Sugar ...
History of 2007 Bet Announcements
Welcoming 2008
I love New Year's Day, relaxing all day and watching as many games as I can stand. Here are the ...
New Orleans Bowl
Time for the annual high-glitz, high-glamour clash of teams from the Sun Belt Conference and Conference-USA.
ACTION: 12/21
New Orleans Bowl: ...
The bowls begin
With bowl season beginning and an NFL game going on, there are some lines available tonight that look OK. Not ...
Winter storms and football
Here are the bets I have working so far today. I'm still looking at a couple of possibilities for the ...
More small-college football
The Division I-AA championship worked out nicely for me last night, going 2-0-1 (and would have been 3-0 had the ...
Playing the little guys tonight
Both of the teams playing in tonight's Division I-AA (or whatever the hell they want to be called these days) ...
Back to earth with my betting
After getting so extremely lucky last Monday night -- turning a big loss into a moderate gain by making a ...
A very Brady MNF
I'll go on record as saying I think the New England Patriots will lose a football game this season. That ...
Closing college football's regular season
Today's the day for conference championship games, the Army/Navy matchup and a few other wrapup games. That means not a ...
Much anticipated: Cowboys vs. Packers
I'm really looking foward to tonight's Packers/Cowboys game, even though the greedy bastards at the NFL Network and Time-Warner Cable ...
Dolphins/Steelers on MNF
A pretty good Pittsburgh team goes up against a really bad Miami squad tonight. I'm looking for a repeat of ...
Plays for Sunday, Nov. 25
Since college football continues to beat me down so, let's hope the NFL continues its kind ways. Here's what I've ...
Late in posting, but here they are
I'm getting a very late start in posting today, but here's what I'm on (includes a second-half bet I have ...
Post-Thanksgiving plays
After a nice day of betting yesterday, I only have action on two games today. I have a couple of ...
Riding with the faves on Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. I absolutely loving completely relaxing all day long, enjoying wonderful food (I've got ...
NFL action for Nov. 18
My NFL plays today. There are more than usual, but most of those are a variety of picks on the ...
Light 'em up, Mean Green
All eyes will be on the Oregon/Arizona game tonight, and I'm taking the Ducks at -10 here in a bet ...
A chance for a double middle I couldn't pass up
Games between MAC teams are usually a good place to bet the Over no matter what, but tonight's matchup between ...
Offsetting the full-game loser
What a bad bet taking the 49ers against the Seahawks was. Luckily that was made very clear very early, so ...
Sometimes pretty good is good enough
While yesterday won't join my list of all-time great betting days, a near-sweep of plays on the nighttime games, including ...
A full Saturday slate
I got a nice little win last night with the Rutgers team Over, so let's hope the ball keeps rolling ...
Something to do in the evening
I've got a trio of half-unit action bets going. I won't make a lot of cash if they all turn ...
Clash of the directional school non-titans
As far as crappy MAC games go, tonight's matchup of Directional Michigan universities could actually be a fun one to ...
It's a rainy Monday night in Steel City
I again turned a profit with my NFL bets yesterday, although it wasn't a giant day. I'll never turn up ...
THE Big Game of the regular season
Today should be a good day for NFL football. I don't know how long it's been since I've looked forward ...
And November begins…
We're now in the last full month of college football's regular season, and I'm still below .500. Luckily I've kept ...
Unranked team favored over a ranked
I like the situation in Georgia tonight. An unranked team (Georgia Tech) favored over a ranked team (Virginia Tech) is ...
Monday night with the dog
My trend of good Sundays continued this week, going 5-2 yesterday. I'll look to tack on a little more NFL ...
Another Sunday rolls around
Eh, wasn't a good day yesterday with my college football picks, but not an excepionally bad one either. I went ...
Color me chalky
As I look at my card for Saturday I realize I'm going with all favorites. (To be fair, I do ...
WAC on WAC
A person could do dumber things than to blindly bet the Over in any given WAC game. That's not what ...
Score, BC, score
The numbers I've been looking at tell me Boston College wins tonight, but my gut tells me just the opposite, ...
A MNF play, semi-serious at best
I'm going to go ahead and play the Over 44.5 in tonight's Monday Night Football game, even though my confidence ...
Handful of pro plays
There's not a large slate of NFL plays for me today, and that's probably a good thing. I could likely ...
No more weirdness, please
That was kind of a tough way to lose a bet Friday, Connecticut winning on the strength of "the fair ...
My cash is on the Cards
There are a lot of differing opinions on the Lousiville/UConn game, but I placed one of my largest bets of ...
How things have changed
Had you told me three or four years ago that I would really be looking foward to a Big East ...
A good roll in the NFL, tougher in college
I continue to do far, far better with my NFL betting than college -- yesterday my pro bets went 5-2-1 ...
Parity in college; Looking forward to Pats/Cowboys
It was very much a mixed bag in college football yesterday. My biggest bets won -- including that nice middle ...
My favorite days
I love Saturdays in October. The weather is finally beginning to cool down (That's a relative term, of course. This ...
All eyes on Hawaii
Hawaii finally gets a chance to play in the spotlight tonight and it ends up happening with a banged-up quarterback ...
Wanny's the worst
Dave Wannstedt may be the worst head coach in Division I college football. Going against mighty Navy in overtime his ...
A unit on Pitt
Navy runs and runs and runs. When that doesn't work, they run some more. They go up against a Pitt ...
Nothing on Cowboys/Bills game, but a lean
The numbers say the Cowboys should roll all over the Bills, a team with a pitiful defense even when healthy ...
Big bets win, small bets lose
It was a pretty decent day in college football for me yesterday, although the record itself doesn't really show that. ...
There ARE things to do other than bet on a football game
No bets at all for me on tonight's Utah/Louisville game. I'm taking the evening off to enjoy a bit of ...
Betting small to have something to do
I'm making a pair of small plays tonight, mostly just to have a little action on a Thursday night and ...
Coming down hard against Rice
Rice looked so good last season -- by Rice standards, of course -- even going to a bowl game for ...
A week full of football
This should be a fun week. There was Monday Night Football last night, now there are college games every weeknight. ...
Here's hoping the bad run is done
West Virginia's Friday upset loss and Saturday's near-disaster of a day gave me my first losing weekend of the season. ...
Moving on to the pros
A solid day in the NFL would go a long way toward shaking off the remnants of yesterday's college crash. ...
Is a Friday loss an omen for Saturday wins?
West Virginia gave me a knock last night. A 2-unit loss just after I had increased by base unit up ...
Mountaineers and Bulls
It's been a while since I've been looking foward to a Friday game as much as tonight's West Virginia/South Florida ...
Never did get the line I really wanted
I kept hoping and hoping to get Arkansas State at -3 in tonight's game (they host lousy Memphis), but the ...
Having fun on Monday ight
Sunday Night Football turned out pretty nicely for me. After a 3-3 first half I had given up on my ...
Sundays at home
I enjoy it when I get to watch "Sunday Night Football." Most weeks I play softball on Sunday evenings, but ...
A fast post before blowing town
I'm heading out of town this weekend, going up to Dallas to help my lovely niece celebrate her 3rd birthday. ...
Hurricanes on Thursday night
I like Thursday night games. Eyes of football fans across the country are on a pair of teams, and that's ...
I snoozed, I lost
Before going to bed last night I scoured the online books looking to get the Saints -3 at Tampa Bay ...
That's the kind of day I like
Now that was a nicely productive Saturday of betting. I went 8-3-1 on the day, but now I'm really wishing ...
Today's card is a full one
Time to get another happy Saturday of college football started. None of the games I'm really interested in start before ...
ACTION: 9/14
Oklahoma State, by all rights, should run away with tonight's game. Here's what I've got:
Oklahoma St. (-10) at Troy
I'll ...
2 Monday night games, but just 1 bet
There's a Monday Night Football doubleheader tonight, but I only see 1 bet I like. I look for the Cardinals ...
Win one, lose one
Lots of bets were in action yesterday, but when Saturday ended I was in the same spot as when it ...
Starting with the Saturday slate
West Virginia has looke terrible in the first half against Marshall, but I'm willing to bet adjustments are made at ...
Still splitting
I remain hanging right around that .500 bubble on the season. My two Friday-night bets split -- the loser ...
9/7 ACTION: Second-half plays on a Friday night
Navy has been hanging around with Rutgers for almost the entire first half, with the Scarlet Knights pulling away a ...
ACTION: 9/6 - Looking for Louisville early
It's going to be a good Thursday night of football. Three games on TV all at the same time, and ...
ACTION: 9/3
It's nice to have Labor Day off and college football on TV. I'm starting with two plays on the Texas ...
The beginning of a long season
It's not been a bad start to the season, with my first three bets going 2-1. I wouldn't be unhappy ...
ACTION: College football's opening weekend
My first batch of plays for the 2007 season (and I'm happy it's finally here). I'm very much putting up ...
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