Miscellaneous Articles

2009 Gator Bowl Odds and Predictions
by Matt Severance - 12/28/2009

Based on their record, the Florida State Seminoles (7-5) completely don’t belong in the Gator Bowl, which has third choice of ACC teams behind the Orange and Chick-fil-A Bowls. Is FSU the ACC’s third-best team? Not hardly – the Noles had the sixth-worst overall record in the conference and lost to Miami, Clemson and Boston College, all teams with better records that the Gator Bowl could have chosen.

2010 Papa Johns Bowl Odds and Predictions
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 12/28/2009

As far as matchups go this is an interesting one. On Jan. 2 at 2 p.m. we have a Big East and SEC matchup in January. It won’t be the cream of the conference crop but instead two very capable teams in Connecticut and South Carolina, a pair of 7-5 teams.

College Bowl Picks – College Football Bowl Game Predictions
by Max Powers - 12/24/2009

The snow is falling and the holidays have arrived. This is our favorite time of the year at Doc’s Sports and we are expecting a monster 2009-10 college football bowl season. Hundreds of our members rely on our college bowl picks each year and we always do our best to produce winning bowl game predictions that our clients can profit from.

Free Sports Picks: Christmas NBA Doubleheader On ABC
by Matt Severance - 12/24/2009

Boston has won two in a row after the Sixers ended their 11-game winning streak last Friday. The Celtics have only covered two of their past seven overall. The Magic have won three in a row, with the latest being a 102-87 home win over the Rockets on Wednesday.

Free Sports Picks: NFL Marquee Matchups
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 12/24/2009

An easy straight up win on Saturday with underdog Dallas and a late Steelers’ rally to force a push leaves me at 3-0-1 in NFL picks and 7-2-1 in my free football picks this season. For this weekend I have a pair of rivalry games on tap with an AFC title game rematch with major playoff implications when Baltimore visits Pittsburgh and a Sunday Night Football showdown between the playoff bound Dallas Cowboys and the hard-to-figure-out Washington Redskins.

NBA Power Rankings
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 12/24/2009

When is having Christmas Day off a bad thing? When you are in the NBA. The association puts their best of the best (or at least tries too) on Christmas Day, while the rest of the NBA gets to sit at home and watch the teams they are trying to chase. About two weeks away from the halfway point in the season, eight of the 10 teams playing have winning records and four have 20-plus wins.

2009 Holiday Bowl Odds and Predictions
by Jay Horne - 12/24/2009

The Nebraska Cornhuskers displayed a valiant effort to upset the Texas Longhorns in the Big 12 Championship Game, but Hunter Lawrence nailed a 46 yard field goal as time expired to crush the Cornhuskers and deny them a trip to the Fiesta Bowl. Instead of a trip to Arizona, the Cornhuskers will now meet up with the Arizona Wildcats in the Holiday Bowl in an annual meeting between Big 12 and Pac-10 schools.

Sports Betting Christmas Wish List
by T.O. Whenham - 12/24/2009

Dear Santa, I've been a good boy this year. I was going to come see you in person to tell you that and give you my wish list, but I have this thing about sitting on the laps of grown men. I'll write it all down instead. I don't want much, and nothing on here is unreasonable.

NFL Sunday Predictions - Week 16
by Josh Nagel - 12/23/2009

Handicapping NFL games in the last two weeks of the season often comes down to motivation. That is, which teams still have something left to play for, which teams have mailed it in and which others have wrapped up their postseason berths and might be resting for the playoffs

2009 Champs Sports Bowl Odds and Predictions
by T.O. Whenham - 12/23/2009

The Champs Sports Bowl has been in existence since 1990, but it hasn't exactly had a smooth history - this is the eighth different name that it has had in that time, and it has gone through five different sponsors. Wisconsin brings their cheese into the sunshine, and into Miami's backyard, to play this bowl game in Orlando.

2010 Rose Bowl Odds and Predictions
by T.O. Whenham - 12/22/2009

Both of these teams are respected programs that are consistently good, so it's hard to believe how long it has been since either has played in the signature bowl of their conferences. Ohio State hasn't been there since 1997 when Joe Germaine led the Buckeyes to a 20-17 win over Jake Plummer, Pat Tillman and the second-ranked Arizona State Sun Devils.

2010 Cotton Bowl Odds and Predictions
by T.O. Whenham - 12/22/2009

This is one of the classic bowl games, having been played continuously since 1937. It will have a very different look this time around, though - after having been played in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas every year, it is moving over to Arlington and the gargantuan confines of the new Cowboys Stadium this year.

NHL Power Rankings
by T.O. Whenham - 12/22/2009

The deeper we get into the season, the fewer dramatic changes we see in the NHL Power Rankings. Teams still rise and fall, but the more we know about teams the less we get surprised by their strengths and their inconsistencies. That means that you'll see more teams treading water in these power rankings than you have seen in the last few.

2010 Alamo Bowl Odds and Predictions
by T.O. Whenham - 12/22/2009

The Alamo Bowl has been in existence as long as I have been out of high school - it was first played in 1993 in the Alamodome in San Antonio, and has been played there every year since. Things will be a little unfamiliar his time around, though - this is the first time that the traditional December bowl has been played in January.

2009 Music City Bowl Odds and Predictions
by Matt Severance - 12/22/2009

Are you tired of watching the Dallas Cowboys, who seem to be on national television every week in the NFL? I only ask because you have a football alternative to Sunday night’s Cowboys-Redskins game this week, and that’s the Music City Bowl in Nashville between Kentucky (7-5, 6-6 ATS) and Clemson (8-5, 8-5 ATS).

2009 Meineke Car Care Bowl Odds and Predictions
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 12/21/2009

One of the premier non-January bowl games, the Meineke Car Care Bowl is now in its eighth year. The bowl game played in the ACC backyard of Charlotte, North Carolina, features Big East representative Pitt and ACC representative, for the second consecutive year, North Carolina.

2009 Emerald Bowl Odds and Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 12/21/2009

USC (8-4) will take on Boston College (8-4) in the 2009 Emerald Bowl, held at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 26. The game, which was formerly called the San Francisco Bowl, will take place at AT&T Park, the home of the San Francisco 49ers. The Trojans are currently an 8.0-point favorite and the total for this game rests at 43.5.

Free Sports Picks: NFL Marquee Matchups
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 12/18/2009

Thanks to two road underdog wins on Sunday I was 2-0 in my first edition of free NFL picks and now I am now 5-2 in football this season, including college. For this weekend I have two free picks, first on Saturday night in the Cowboys/Saints primetime showdown and also a pick in the Packers and Steelers FOX national broadcast game at 4:15 p.m. EST.

Free Sports Picks: NBA TNT Doubleheader
by Matt Severance - 12/17/2009

The Magic (19-6, 13-11 ATS) enter on a two-game win streak, which followed a two-game losing streak. Orlando beat visiting Toronto and former Magic star Hedo Turkoglu, 118-99, on Wednesday night thanks in large part to hitting 57 percent of its shots overall and 14-for-30 from three-point range.

NFL Sunday Predictions - Week 15
by Josh Nagel - 12/17/2009

Tom Brady and the New England Patriots used to beat the tar out of the perennial AFC East patsies twice a year for the sheer enjoyment of it. If that weren’t enough – and usually, it is – this time around the Patriots have a double-dose of motivation working in their favor against the Buffalo Bills.