{"id":2705,"date":"2010-02-14T01:36:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T06:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2010-02-14T01:36:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T06:36:36","slug":"biathlon-and-boring-dunks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/biathlon-and-boring-dunks-2705\/","title":{"rendered":"Biathlon and Boring Dunks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Olympic Bet of the Day<\/strong> &#8211; Because everything is a competition, I&#8217;m  going to put a mythical $100 per day on these Olympic bets and keep  score. Feel free to make your own bets in the comments along the way.  Things started out well on this front when Simon Ammann took down the  ski jumping in dominating fashion. Splitting the $100 evenly between my  two picks I wound up making a profit of $75. For today&#8217;s pick we&#8217;re  going to go with biathlon. Ole Einar Bjoerndalen is like the Tiger Woods  of biathlon. He has a record 91 World Cup victories, and he won four  golds at the last World Championships, including the 10 km sprint that  is being contested today. He can be had at +210, and that seems like a  solid price given all he has accomplished. I&#8217;ll put my money on him.<\/p>\n<p>Few  guys have ever had a 24 hour stretch like Steve Nash just had. Friday  night he was one of the five iconic Canadian athletes chosen to light  the Olympic flame at the Vancouver opening ceremonies. Last night he  schooled three youngsters to cruise to an easy win in the Skills  Challenge at the NBA all-star weekend. Just wow.<\/p>\n<p>I slept  particularly well last night, and I got an early start to the sleep  thanks to the slam dunk contest. Wow, was that ever bad. DeRozan had a  nice enough dunk to win, and Robinson was okay, but there was a stunning  lack of creativity or ingenuity in that dog of an outing. So, so ugly.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen  Curry didn&#8217;t quite win the three point contest this year, but I put he  over\/under at career wins for him at three, and I still lean to the  over. the guy has such a sweet stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, Danica  Patrick&#8217;s NASCAR debut yesterday was much ado about nothing. She lost  her NASCAR virginity in the Nationwide event at Daytona, but she was a  total non-factor before crashing out about halfway through and winding  up 35th. She can still hold her head up high on one front &#8211; no woman  over the last decade has finished better than that in her debut race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic Bet of the Day &#8211; Because everything is a competition, I&#8217;m going to put a mythical $100 per day on these Olympic bets and keep score. Feel free to make your own bets in the comments along the way. Things started out well on this front when Simon Ammann took down the ski jumping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,135],"tags":[160,1339,233,14,576],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba-handicapping","category-sports-handicapping","tag-danica-patrick","tag-demar-derozan","tag-olympics","tag-stephen-curry","tag-steve-nash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2706,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}