Michigan at Indiana Picks and NCAA Basketball Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 2/2/2013

Indiana was able to steal a win from Kentucky last year in the biggest and best regular season game in college basketball last year. On Saturday they will try to repeat that feat as they once again host the top team in the country in a marquee college hoops situations.

NCAA Tournament Field Projections and Predictions, Jan. 29
by Robert Ferringo - 1/29/2013

What the hell happened to January? Maybe I am just blacking this month out of memory banks because for the last two weeks I’ve been in what feels like some Eli Roth-concocted torture chamber with my college basketball picks. But I feel like it was just yesterday that I was shaking off that New Year’s hangover and lying to my wife about why her Christmas present was late (because I ordered it Christmas Day, honey. Sorry.).

New Mexico at San Diego State Picks and College Basketball Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 1/26/2013

Quick: name me the top three college basketball conferences in the country. I am willing to bet – because that’s what I do – that you forgot about The Mountain West. According to the RPI, the most commonly referenced tool for gauging college basketball strength, the Mountain West Conference it he second-best conference in the country. Ken Pomeroy, one of the most well respected statisticians in the sport, has the Mountain West Conference as the No. 3-ranked conference in the country, behind only the Big Ten and the Big East.

Super Bowl First Player to Score Props Predictions 2013
by Robert Ferringo - 1/25/2013

Baltimore will take on San Francisco in Super Bowl XLVII at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 3, at the Superdome in New Orleans. One of the more interesting and unpredictable proposition wagers that bettors will make on the Super Bowl is to gauge the odds on the first player to score a touchdown in the Super Bowl.

Gonzaga at Butler Picks and College Basketball Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 1/19/2013

Who is the best mid-major program in the country? That has been a consistent argument in that weird little subculture of people in the world that argues about mid-major college basketball programs. For the past decade, people have discussed the merits of the best teams from the non-BCS-affiliated conferences. There are a host of great teams worthy of acknowledgment; VCU, Creighton, UNLV, San Diego State, BYU, Xavier, Memphis, and George Mason have all been excellent in this millennium.

College Basketball Handicapping: the Importance of Injuries
by Robert Ferringo - 1/15/2013

Duke is not the same team without Ryan Kelly. It’s one thing to say that. But it is another thing to see the Blue Devils in action and realize how much they miss their 6-feet-10 swing forward. Duke suffered its first loss of the season on Saturday, 84-76, at North Carolina State. Without their third-leading scorer, second-leading rebounder, and sharpest three-point shooter, they were outscored, outrebounded and shot just 30 percent from deep in their ACC defeat.

Duke at NC State Picks and College Basketball Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 1/11/2013

Can you have a basketball game with two favorites? No. 1 Duke heads down Tabaco Road to take on No. 21 NC State at noon on Saturday. This is one of the biggest games in the ACC this season, and the first of two matchups takes place in Raleigh.

Packers at 49ers Picks and NFL Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 1/9/2013

When listing the top playoff rivalries in the NFL, it might take someone a long time before they get to Green Bay vs. San Francisco. But when the Packers and 49ers square off this weekend, it will be reminiscent of some of the most epic postseason battles of the last quarter-century.

Ohio State at Illinois Picks and College Basketball Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 1/4/2013

While the dead cold of winter and coming of the New Year attends the dying embers of one college sport, football, we can throw a new log on the fire and stoke the flames of regional rivalries and gambling debauchery thanks to the dawn of college basketball’s conference season.

Seahawks at Redskins Picks: NFL Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 1/3/2013

Two of the hottest teams in the NFL are on a collision course this Sunday at FedEx Field. The Seattle Seahawks (11-5) and the Washington Redskins (10-6) will bang heads at 4:30 p.m. EST on Sunday in Washington. The Redskins, the NFC East Champions, are the No. 4 seed in the conference and, therefore, earned the right to host the top wild card team, No. 5 seed Seattle.

2012 NFL Power Rankings – Week 17
by Robert Ferringo - 12/26/2012

Let’s keep this short and sweet, shall we? This is the end. All 32 teams started this season with so much hope and promise, but for 20 of those teams the season is going to end in a fiery wreck of defeat and disdain. The other 12 will move onto The Second Season, where glory and riches await the winners and shame and regret cloak the losers.

2012 NFL Power Rankings – Week 16
by Robert Ferringo - 12/18/2012

Positioning. The last two weeks of the NFL season are all about positioning. The teams still in the playoff race are motivated by postseason positioning right now, jostling for bye weeks and home games. For several teams, next week will be a glorified scrimmage, so that means that Week 16 will be the last hurrah for a lot of clubs that want to get their positioning sewn up before Christmas.

College Basketball Picks: Florida at Arizona Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 12/14/2012

Saturday marks the end of “Finals Week” across the college basketball landscape. The national schedule has been reduced throughout most of the week due, in large part, to players (remember: they have to hold up their end of the whole student-athlete charade) having to take final exams at their respective institutes of higher education.

2012 NFL Power Rankings – Week 15
by Robert Ferringo - 12/11/2012

This week has the chance to be one of the most entertaining and unpredictable weekends of the season. With six games featuring teams with winning records and host of teams still alive to make the playoffs (10 of the 16 teams in the NFC are still very much alive), we should see a very high level of football played on Sunday as the fighting and clawing for postseason positioning continues throughout the league.

2012 NFL Power Rankings – Week 14
by Robert Ferringo - 12/4/2012

Maxing out and mailing it in. That is the theme for December football. Each team in the NFL has its own motivation heading into the final month of the league’s grueling 17-week regular season campaign. For teams in the top-tier it is all about playoff positioning and trying to secure bye weeks and home games. For teams in the second-tier it is all about just making it to the postseason and securing a spot in do-or-die January.

2012 NFL Power Rankings – Week 13
by Robert Ferringo - 11/27/2012

An underrated story of the last two football seasons is that we have had, nationally, back-to-back years with mild, extended falls. The weather has had little to no impact on late-season football over the last two seasons and that has helped pass-wacky favorites continue to cover big spreads deep into December.

2012 NFL Power Rankings – Week 12
by Robert Ferringo - 11/21/2012

OK, so it’s a huge week for gamblers the world over, and from Maine to Maui there is wall-to-wall betting action this week. So I’m going to keep this one short and sweet. Here are Doc’s Sports Week 12 NFL power rankings:

College Football Power Rankings: Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 11/20/2012

The Ferringo 15 strikes again! Our teams went 8-4 against the spread last week, with three clubs either on a bye week or having played a mid-week game. That 8-4 ATS mark was good enough to turn a profit, and that is now seven of eight winning weeks for the teams listed in the Ferringo 15.

College Football Power Rankings: Ferringo 15
by Robert Ferringo - 11/15/2012

Last week was another sensational one for the Ferringo 15, as our teams went 9-2 against the spread to post our fifth straight profitable week overall. That is now six of seven winning weeks overall by simply betting every team on our list, and the F-15 has been the best moneymaker in college football betting this season!

2012 NFL Power Rankings – Week 11
by Robert Ferringo - 11/14/2012

It was another strong week for the betting public last week, as the most heavily bet favorites on the board – Indianapolis, Denver, Tampa Bay and Dallas – came through again. That now makes back-to-back profitable weeks for the bettors…but anyone that has been around NFL betting for any length of time knows that it is a matter of “when” and not “if” the books are going to turn the tables and get it back.