NFL Weekly Predictions

Sports Central | Jeffrey Boswell ( Sports Central | Thursday, November 8th, 2007 )
Atlanta @ Carolina (-4 1/2)
The Panthers are a team at a crossroads. They can either go forward or backwards, but with quarterback David Carr at the helm, they’re stalled on the tracks. It’s the railroad tracks, and Carr can’t [...]

In Praise of the Quarterback

Sports Central | Kevin Beane ( Sports Central | Thursday, November 8th, 2007 )
Longtime readers of this column know that I am a fan of the Montreal Alouettes. They have an interesting play in their arsenal.
Every time they have less than a yard to go for a first down, they bring in [...]

World Cup England Expects

Sports Central | Will Tidey ( Sports Central | Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 )
Hooray. The English Football Association is to bid for the 2018 World Cup and it’s almost certain England will not only win that, but the whole tournament, too. After all, that’s what happened in 1966. Omens don’t come any [...]

D-III’s a Charm

Sports Central | Eric Poole ( Sports Central | Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 )
Two Saturdays ago, Trinity University and Millsaps College figured out exactly how a pair of Division III football teams could get on “SportsCenter.”
Simple. Just have a 15-lateral, 45-second, rugby-style kickoff return for the game-winning play as time expires [...]

The Top Five Overrated

Sports Central | Piet Van Leer ( Sports Central | Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 )
The Patriots and Colts, along with Adrian Peterson, dominated the Sunday NFL coverage, and I really don’t know what I could add that hasn’t already been written. But now that every team has played at least eight games, I [...]

Odds on Patriots Undefeated

Doc`s Sports | Jason Shimberg ( Doc’s Sports | Thursday, November 1st, 2007 )
BetUS has released some props for winless and undefeated teams this season and many of them will hinge on this week’s mega-matchup between New England and Indianapolis. The most intriguing of these bets has to do with the odds on [...]

Boston Celtics Betting

Doc`s Sports | T.O. Whenham ( Doc’s Sports | Thursday, November 1st, 2007 )
What in the world should we do with the Boston Celtics? The offseason moves have given the franchise and their fans renewed hope, but all it has done for me and most sports bettors is give us a headache. [...]

NFL Power Rankings

Doc`s Sports | Robert Ferringo ( Doc’s Sports | Thursday, November 1st, 2007 )
Here it is: the Super Bowl in November. The New England-Indianapolis game this weekend has already received more individual bets than any other two games this weekend combined. It’s clearly going to be the biggest handle of any game [...]

Five Months to March

Sports Central | Seth Doria ( Sports Central | Thursday, November 1st, 2007 )
When you look at the Missouri Valley Conference going into the 2007-08 season, it’s tempting to focus only on all the talent that’s gone.
Of the 10 teams combined, only 24 starters return. The losses include Nate Funk and Anthony [...]

Types of Football Bets

Doc`s Sports | Josh Nagel ( Doc’s Sports | Friday, November 2nd, 2007 )
Sports books hire extra staff just for the football season – many of them stay open 24 hours during football weekends – and they draw everyone from hardcore sports bettors to otherwise casual sports fans who annually baptize themselves [...]

NFL Survivor Pool Advice

Doc`s Sports | Drew Mangione ( Doc’s Sports | Thursday, November 1st, 2007 )
 
Another perfect week for me and even though the stock of sure-fire selections available has dwindled, so finally has the population of my survivor pools. There may well be light at the end of the tunnel. The Bears [...]

The BCS is a Good Thing

By Sports Central | Matt Thomas ( Sports Central | Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 )
Just a few weeks into the “BCS-this, BCS-that” portion of the college football season, most fans have already spent their yearly allotment of soapbox time protesting the sinister Bowl Championship Series rankings and lamenting the obvious lack of a true playoff [...]