Wow, is this ever a terrible Monday night game. If someone paid me to come up with something nice to say about these teams or this game I would have to give the money back. With one exception – Steve Slaton has had a very good game, and that’s becoming a trend for him. The biggest problem is that we are getting exactly the same game that it looked like we would get. I just wish the league would do something about these terrible Monday night matchups – like cancel them.<\/p>\n
The home team is cruising to an easy win tonight, but that was an exception this weekend. Ten of the 12 Sunday games were won by visitors – yet another bizarre anomaly of the kind that the NFL is so good at producing. The visitors were also very kind to bettors, going 9-2-1 ATS. It wasn’t like it was all road favorites, either – there were only four, and they were 2-1-1 ATS. That means that road dogs were 7-1 ATS. That’s really what makes the NFL so interesting – every week seems to have a very strong trend to it, but they are never the same, and it is almost impossible to determine what that trend will be in advance.<\/p>\n
It was a bland Monday night in college basketball action. Only four Top 25 teams were in action, and none of them had to even show a pulse to come out ahead. The only real intrigue is USC – with 16 minutes left in the second half they are currently having far more trouble with San Francisco than they really should.<\/p>\n
There are reports that Notre Dame might be biding their time until they can have a chance to talk to Urban Meyer and try to lure him back to South Bend. I have never heard anything more ridiculous or preposterous. The day Meyer leaves Florida for Notre Dame is the day I leave home to go be the coach in Gainesville.<\/p>\n
First Brady Quinn goes out for the year with a finger injury. Now Derek Anderson is out for the year with an MCL injury. That leaves Ken Dorsey. Man, am I ever glad that I don’t care about the Browns.<\/p>\n
There are now eight Big East teams in the Top 25 – the most ever for one conference. Man, is conference play ever going to be brilliant. January can’t come soon enough.<\/p>\n
Stephon Marbury is banished from the Knicks. The sides can’t come to terms on a buyout. Please lord, just make this ridiculous drama end. It’s time like this that make me wish that I was a billionaire. That way I could just pay Marbury off so he would disappear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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