Posts tagged as: handicapping

Handicapping Stephen Strasburg’s Future Starts

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The third chapter of the truly captivating Stephen Strasburg story will be written on Friday when he starts at home against Jake Peavy and the Chicago White Sox. Strasburg entered the league as perhaps the most hyped pitcher ever to debt thanks to the age of the internet. He’s also one of the rare prospects [...]

Belmont Stakes Handicapping

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The 142nd running of the Belmont Stakes, the third and final jewel in the Triple Crown, takes place on Saturday at 6:30 pm ET. It’s not a star-filled event – for the first time since 2006 and only the third time since 1970 neither the Kentucky Derby nor Preakness are in the field – but [...]

Preparing For 2010 World Cup Betting

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It seems like it has taken forever to get here, but the World cup is finally less than a month away. The tournament gets underway on June 11 when the host South Africans play Mexico, and Uruguay meets France, and it ends a month later with the gold medal game in Johannesburg on July 11. [...]

Five Things To Do Now To Get Ready For The NFL Season

We are still several months away from the start of the NFL season, and there is a whole lot of quality sporting action between now and then. For a huge number of sports bettors, though, the NFL is the only thing that really matters. If the players aren’t currently dancing with other stars then they [...]

Thoughts on Basketball Eve

I’m going to weigh in tomorrow with in-game analysis during both games. Until then, I just wanted to share a couple of interesting things that have popped up today and provide us with more to think about as we try to make winning picks on the big games:

Rules For Handicapping the Final Four

I was sitting down to take my first long look at the Final Four today when, as I often do, I started to think about whether there were overriding rules that should be followed when handicapping college basketball’s last three games of the year. I tend to do this kind of thing whenever I am [...]

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