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The most frantic stretch of the NBA regular season has come and gone! The NBA trade deadline passed without any major moves last week. A few trades had already been made DeMarcus Cousins became a member of the Pelicans, Lou Williams is a Houston Rocket, but in general not much more went down outside of a flurry of moves on the fringes. The biggest news is what didn’t happen: The Celtics held on to their assets, leaving Paul George in Indiana and Jimmy Butler in Chicago. With the NBA trade deadline behind, the stretch run of the 2016-17 NBA campaign […]

With the season behind and the offseason at present some teams do what they must and take the necessary actions for the next season. Such is the case of the Astros, in 2016 they didn’t have the results they were hoping for but their 84-78 finish highlighted the many vulnerabilities still present on an incredibly talented roster. Astros management have collected some key supplementary pieces that should contribute to a pennant-challenging run. The work done by general manager Jeff Luhnow in the winter has made the Astros the +190 favorites at some sportsbooks to win the AL West and when […]

This year, the 81st Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic will be remembered as the first time in the game’s history that it was guaranteed to feature a team from the Group of Five. Here’s a great alternative for sports bettors to start the new year, betting on the Cotton Bowl. Broncos: Western Michigan is making only its eighth bowl appearance. The Broncos posted their first bowl victory last season over Middle Tennessee, 45-31 in the Bahamas Bowl. This marks their second postseason game in the Lone Star State. Badgers: Wisconsin has played in 27 bowl games, including 15 consecutive, the longest […]

It seems like forever ago but the Warriors and Rockets faced off in the Western Conference finals just two seasons ago. So much has changed since then. Two years ago, the Warriors were the darlings of the NBA. Compliments for all players were abundant. Fast forward two years, and while you still hear most of those claims, I think most of the NBA is starting to finally tire of the Warriors. But in general, NBA fandom has cooled on the Warriors since last season’s Finals. Excessive media coverage was mostly to blame, but that’s a tough line for journalists to […]

Assuming you have already mastered the basics of betting on football – knowing how to do research for a game, calculate probabilities, manage the spread, and other essential knowledge – it’s time to move on and learn how to bet on football like a real professional that makes a living through sports-betting. The first step is learning to leave keep your ego in control. Don’t bet based on hunches, at least not most of the time. Although you’ll usually hear to keep hunches off the table, reality is that hunches are the way your subconscious tries to tell you something; […]