2019 Big Ten Tournament Expert Picks with Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 3/12/2019

Last year's Big Ten Tournament was a fiasco. The league held their conference tournament a full week before the rest of the major conferences and two weeks prior to the NCAA Tournament. They also decided to hold the tournament in New York City, home to absolutely no one in the Big Ten.

2019 SEC Tournament Expert Picks with Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 3/12/2019

For most of the last decade, the SEC has been a bit of joke when it comes to college basketball. Especially compared to how dominant this sports-crazed league is with regards to college football. From 2009 to 2017, the SEC earned just 35 total bids to the NCAA Tournament. That's an average of fewer than four bids per season, and that's not nearly good enough for a top-tier league. Yet last season the league sent eight teams - more than twice their average - to The Big Dance, and this season appears to be set up for more of the same.

2019 ACC Tournament Expert Picks with Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 3/11/2019

The ACC Tournament is back in Carolina. The last two years this league went honeymooning in New York City, and in 2016 they were moonlighting in Washington D.C. But now the boys of the Atlantic Coast Conference are going to settle their championship in their own backyard, spending the week wrestling in the state's capital.

2019 Sun Belt Tournament Expert Picks with Odds and Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 3/11/2019

The Sun Belt Conference is usually one of the most parity-driven mid-major leagues in college basketball. This year that seemed to shift, though, and the Sun Belt experienced one of its most top-heavy conference seasons in recent memory. Four teams won 12 or more league games, and just one single game separated the No. 1 seed from the No. 4 seed.

2019 West Coast Conference Tournament Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 3/6/2019

Gonzaga needs to just join the Pac-12 and be done with it. Maybe at least wander into the Mountain West. The Bulldogs' lack of a FBS-caliber football team would preclude any move from happening. But at this point it's not even fun watching Gonzaga absolutely demolish the West Coast Conference. Gonzaga, which is currently the No. 1 team in the country, has gone 16-0 in conference play this year while outscoring league opponents by 25 points per game.

2019 Missouri Valley Tournament Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 3/5/2019

Arch Madness will never be the same. With Creighton and Wichita State having moved on to the greener pastures of major conference basketball, the Missouri Valley is missing two of its biggest, best and most accomplished programs. On one hand, it has made the MVC Tournament much more balanced and wide open. On the other hand, one decade ago the Missouri Valley Conference was one of the Top 10 leagues in the country. This year it is No. 17.

2019 Ohio Valley Tournament Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 3/5/2019

The Legend of Ja Morant has been one of the most interesting subplots in mid-major basketball this year. The unstoppable Morant, a likely lottery pick in this summer's NBA draft, leads a high-flying Murray State team that is looking to get back to the NCAA Tournament after its last cameo in The Big Dance.

2019 Southern Conference Tournament Odds and Expert Betting Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 3/5/2019

I know this sounds unbelievable but it is absolutely true: the Southern Conference could end up with the same amount of NCAA Tournament teams as the Pac-12 this year. Now, part of that statement is an indictment of just how pathetic the Pac-12 has been this year. Yet it is should also shine some light on the fact that this might have been the best collective season of basketball in SoCon history.

Best Mid-Major Betting Teams in College Basketball: Time to Buy or Sell?
by Robert Ferringo - 2/26/2019

On Friday I broke down the five most profitable major conference teams in college basketball betting this year. Today I am going to take a look at the five best mid-major bets in the sport this season and figure out if we she tail or fade these teams as we head into March.

Best Betting Teams in College Basketball: Time to Buy or Sell?
by Robert Ferringo - 2/21/2019

Today we're going to take a look at the five most profitable teams in college basketball this year and determine if there is more value betting on them or against them the rest of the way. It helps to look at these teams as stocks. Each of them has overperformed against market expectations this season, as indicated by their positive records against the spread.

NCAA Tournament Projections and Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 2/7/2019

This is a great year to be an NCAA Tournament bubble team. We are still more than a month out from Selection Sunday, and there is a lot of college basketball to be played. But a quick scan of the field tells me there will be a whole bunch of teams going dancing this year that wouldn't get a sniff of The Big Dance in most normal years.

Greatest Super Bowl Teams of All Time Ranked
by Robert Ferringo - 1/25/2019

Let's get this out of the way first and foremost: it is nearly impossible to compare football teams from different eras. The rules, the size of the players, the size of the league, the training methods, the amount of pressure from media; nothing is the same today as it was in the 1990s. Just like nothing in the 1990s was the same as it was in the 1970s.

Top 10 Teams Not to Win The Super Bowl
by Robert Ferringo - 1/25/2019

"History is written by the victors" is a quote attributed to Winston Churchill. That's kind of a historically lazy argument. Yet even though the victors don't necessarily write history it is certainly written for the victors. NFL history is no different. People only remember the 1968 Baltimore Colts as the team that lost to Joe Namath and the Jets in one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history.

Biggest Super Bowl Upsets
by Robert Ferringo - 1/18/2019

Shocking Super Bowl upsets are becoming harder and harder to come by. Parity cloaks the National Football League these days. The disparity between the top and the bottom teams in the league has never been smaller. And because of the preferred style of play - high scoring, high-octane, and pass-happy - it is harder for teams to simply overpower their opponents.

Greatest Super Bowl Betting Moments
by Robert Ferringo - 1/18/2019

We all have our stories - for good or ill - involving gambling and the Super Bowl. Win or lose, it's a right of passage for players across the country to wager on The Big Game. But have you ever found yourself wondering who won or lost the Super Bowl's largest bets? Has the title game ever been under suspicion of a fix? Or what about if anyone ever correctly predicted both the Super Bowl and World Series winners, before either season had started, in the same year?

List of Popular Super Bowl Myths
by Robert Ferringo - 1/17/2019

If you haven't noticed, we have a tendency to exaggerate things in this country. Whether it's Weapons of Mass Destruction or the wealth of Donald Trump, we are a nation guilty of telling tall tales to make ourselves seem more important. It's a cultural thing. Be it our wives breasts or our nuclear weapons programs, we Americans ascribe to the belief that "Bigger is Better'.

Worst Moments In Super Bowl History
by Robert Ferringo - 1/17/2019

My worst Super Bowl Moment involved a blonde Mormon, a gas mask, a missing cigar box and Laura Bush. What was your worst Super Bowl moment? We all know that Super Bowl Sunday is a corridor to sports glory and immortality. But for every winner there's a loser and for every story of a heroic fourth-quarter comeback there's another about a legendary sex-crazed coke binge. The Super Bowl invites extremes. And while the day can be one of bacchanalia and celebration things can also turn quickly and swallow the unsuspecting whole.

The Greatest Moments In Super Bowl History
by Robert Ferringo - 1/17/2019

It's tough to put together a list of the Greatest Plays in Super Bowl history. Do you choose the moments that everyone remembers most clearly? Do you choose the moments that had the biggest impact that specific game? Or do you try to find the moments that helped elevate The Game to its mythic stature by creating an assemblage of shared experiences?

NFL Power Rankings Week 17
by Robert Ferringo - 12/26/2018

Well, this is it. Another NFL regular season is about to settle into the books. This week is the dreaded Week 17 of the NFL season. For some teams, like the Titans and Colts, the playoffs start on Sunday. For others, this week is the last hurdle between their players and an offseason of recreation and recovery.

NFL Power Rankings Week 16
by Robert Ferringo - 12/18/2018

How do you gauge the most valuable player in a given sport? For some, the MVP should simply be the best player. Period. If that is the case, then Patrick Mahomes should easily win the MVP this season. He is set to throw for more than 5,000 yards and 50 touchdowns passes - both by far the top numbers in the league - while leading the Chiefs to a potential No. 1 seed in the AFC. Mahomes has done all this while making any number of jaw-dropping throws, and the kid clearly looks like the Next Big Thing in NFL quarterbacking.