The bettor’s “push” is just like what they say about playing any competitive game to a tie: It’s like kissing your sister. Well, we kissed two sisters this past week, ending up at 7-5-2. All things considered, maybe we should be grateful. If Brett Favre holds onto the ball at the end of the Packers/Rams game, we might’ve had overtime and an eventual Packers victory. So we’ll take that push. As
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Division III Football: Alive and Well in Dubuque, Iowa
Posted on 5:22 PM by ergeg
There aren’t 103,000 screaming, raucous fans in the stands. There’s little media coverage. The major networks don’t even scroll their scores along the bottom of the television screen during the high-profile Saturday broadcasts. The games don’t generate millions of dollars. You probably can’t get odds in Vegas on the outcomes. Welcome to the world of Division III college football. What Division
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
NFL Week 5 ATS: Tweaking the Game Plan
Posted on 4:34 PM by ergeg
The SMA “swami” again scored 8-5-1 against the spread (ATS) last week. Consistency is an okay thing, and at 16-10-2 for the year, we’re not grousing. But we’re not jubilant either. Oh, to have shown some faith in those upstart Jets and Chad Pennington. Oh, to have listened to that inner voice that whispered, “The Titans really suck.” Oh, to have realized that it’s never wise to underestimate Tom
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
NFL Week 4 ATS: Building on Success
Posted on 1:36 PM by ergeg
Our first 2006 foray into handicapping the NFL last week yielded good results. We finished 8-5-1, the push being the Indy/Jacksonville game. We got nice winning efforts from the Rams, Jets and Packers on the road; also the Redskins, though their decisive victory at Houston was less a surprise. This week looks particularly tricky, and these early lines from FootballLocks.com, quite frankly, look
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
“Do You Know What It Means, to Dismiss New Orleans...?”
Posted on 4:05 AM by ergeg
The Monday Night Football extravaganza in New Orleans last night was so excessively championed as a big American celebration that I had to stop and remember what exactly was being celebrated. Ummm... Let’s see... Pardon my cynicism. How many billions of our non-New Orleans-based tax dollars have been injected into that dire, now practically pointless economy? The number is so high that no one
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
NFL Week 3 ATS: Contenders and Pretenders
Posted on 10:24 AM by ergeg
We're off to a late start in our 2006 battle against the spread. Life gets in the way of "real life" sometimes. My preseason predictions for the entire season eventually got published elsewhere this year. To view my prognostications, with complete playoff and Super Bowl projections, go to http://www.sportsmemo.com/articles/archive/nfl/ and check out the submissions under "Staff Writer." I'm
Saturday, September 2, 2006
Titans 2006: Fasten Your Seatbelts, It's Gonna Be a Bumpy Ride
Posted on 11:19 AM by ergeg
The Tennessee Titans were 9-23 the past two years. They were trying to rebuild and achieve at the same time, which simply doesn't work. Mediocrity is the only result of that strategem. Now the last vestige of recent success, Steve McNair, is gone, and it's anybody's guess whether the team is doing any rebuilding or achieving. Peter King, Sports Illustrated's football guru, was heard recently on
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