2015 NCAA Tournament Bracket Predictions: South Region
by Robert Ferringo - 3/18/2015

The teams down South are completely combustible. Duke, Gonzaga and Iowa State have each experienced early-round flameouts in recent NCAA Tournaments and could all be vulnerable. And even after four months it’s tough to get a read just how good Utah, Georgetown and SMU are relative to top-tier teams in other conferences. Mix in the fact that no other region has as many double-digit seeds poised for potential upsets and the South Region is a powder keg ready to blow up many a bracket.

2015 March Madness Bracket Picks: West Region
by Robert Ferringo - 3/17/2015

Every year there is clearly one NCAA Tournament region that can be considered The Region of Doom (which would be college basketball’s equivalent to the World Cup’s Group of Death). This year the Region of Doom is clearly the West, with two legitimate national title contenders and a host of supremely talented boom-or-bust squads lurking throughout the pods. I think that this is the most difficult bracket in the tournament to predict. But it could also end up being the most entertaining.

2015 March Madness Bracket Predictions: East Region
by Robert Ferringo - 3/17/2015

It’s dйjа vu all over again for Villanova and Virginia. Just one season ago they were the top two seeds in the East Region, with Virginia earning the top slot. Flash-forward a year and they are once again: the top two teams in the East and the favorites to advance. However, they are both hoping that things go a little better this time around as Villanova failed to survive last year’s opening weekend and Virginia couldn’t do better than the Sweet 16.

2015 NCAA Tournament Bracket Picks: Midwest Region
by Robert Ferringo - 3/17/2015

I completely understand that The Powers That Be (see: the anti-capitalist fascists that run the whore-outfit known as the “NCAA”) desperately wants to soak the “Can Kentucky go undefeated” storyline for every single penny. TPTB absolutely want the Wildcats to advance to the Final Four and national title game because it would dominate the sports headlines, drive viewership for those games, and ultimately lead to more revenue for the corrupt organization that is responsible for the NCAA Tournament.

2015 Al Central Predictions with Odds and Expert MLB Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 3/13/2015

The Detroit Tigers will try to become the first team since the 1999 Cleveland Indians to win five straight American League Central titles. They were able to hold off Kansas City by just two games last year to make it three in a row. But with the Tigers grasping desperately at one last World Series run and the rest of the league gaining ground quickly we could see a Central that is up for grabs late in the summer.

2015 NL West Predictions with Odds and Expert MLB Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 3/12/2015

Los Angeles was home to two division winners and two of the four best records in baseball last year. San Francisco is home to the Commissioner’s Trophy (again) for the World Series win. And San Diego is the new home of the biggest and most headline-grabbing acquisitions of the offseason.

2015 Al West Predictions with Odds and Expert MLB Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 3/12/2015

The American League West was the best division in baseball last year. Not only did they host the league’s top regular-season team, but three clubs won 87 or more games and they were just two games (and a late Kansas City surge) away from sending three teams to the playoffs. It was a banner season for this bunch.

2015 AAC Tournament Expert Picks and American Athletic Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/11/2015

No one takes the American Athletic Conference seriously. The league is the illegitimate child of the old Big East and Conference USA and was essentially thrown together by a bunch of schools that still wanted a piece of big time college football money. However, as comically mismatched as this league is, the fact of the matter is that the defending national champion hails from the AAC and this league should end up sending no less than four teams to the NCAA Tournament next week.

2015 Big West Tournament Expert Picks and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/11/2015

The Big West is one of my favorite mid-major conferences. The league is an oasis for transfer players and cast-offs from major conference programs. It is also a bit of a throwback league in that most of the teams still play in bandbox “arenas” that closely resemble what you’d expect a major metropolitan high school team or a quality junior college team to play in.

2015 SEC Tournament Expert Picks and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/10/2015

Kentucky is going to win the SEC Tournament. The end. The Wildcats have dominated this second-rate conference all season long and followed last year’s Florida team’s lead by posting an undefeated 18-0 league mark this season. Kentucky is 31-0 and is looking to pick up three more wins in their quest for a perfect season. They should have little problem doing so against the rest of this rag-tag league.

2015 Big 12 Tournament Expert Picks and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/10/2015

The Big 12 has been by far and away the best conference in the country this year. With eight of its 10 teams potentially going to the NCAA Tournament, the Big 12 is an extremely deep and talented league with Sweet 16-caliber clubs up and down the standings.

2015 Pac-12 Tournament Expert Picks and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/10/2015

After a two-year Renaissance in which the Pac-12 was the most underrated league in college basketball, the conference has fallen on tough times. Much like the SEC and Big Ten, the Pac-12 has been dominated by one team, Arizona, who is so far head-and-shoulders above the mediocrity in the rest of the league that it hasn’t been very pretty to watch. But the Pac-12 Tournament offers one last chance for the second tier of this league to step up and take down the seemingly unstoppable Wildcats.

2015 Mountain West Conference Tournament Expert Picks and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/10/2015

The slow, steady decline of the Mountain West continues. Two years ago the Mountain West was the No. 5-rated league in the country, ahead of the SEC and the Big 12. But heading into Championship Week the Mountain West is rated just No. 12 in the nation, behind mid-major leagues like the Atlantic 10 and Mid-American Conference.

2015 Big Ten Tournament Expert Picks and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/9/2015

You remember how bad the Big Ten was in football this past fall? The league rankings were basically 1. Ohio State, 2. A Lake Superior Size Gap, and 3. Everyone Else. Well, the same sickness – imbalance and anarchy – has infected Big Ten basketball this year with one dominant team trailed not-at-all closely by a bunch of disastrous ones.

2015 Atlantic 10 Tournament Expert Picks and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/9/2015

I know that college basketball isn’t for everyone. A lot of people don’t want to waste time following the smaller conferences and prefer big-name schools with star players. But for fans of just pure, unadulterated hoops competition it won’t get any better than the Atlantic 10 Tournament this year.

2015 ACC Tournament Expert Picks and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/9/2015

The bloated ACC is just two teams away from staging its own Sweet 16 tournament. Fourteen teams will descend on North Carolina this week to fight for a championship in one of the more convoluted conference tourneys in the nation. They have two rounds of eliminations before they even get to the quarterfinals, and one of the final four seeds could potentially have to win five games to cut down the nets in this one.

2015 Big East Tournament Expert Picks and Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 3/9/2015

The Big East has been the most underrated conference in the country this year, and it is obvious why. ESPN no longer owns the right to this league (that honor belongs to Fox), so the Worldwide Skeever has all but ignored this conference all season long. The Big East is the No. 2 RPI conference in the country and is No. 2 in Ken Pomeroy’s rankings. They also dominated the nonconference portion of the schedule and house the second-best team in the nation. But you won’t hear a single word about this league on ESPN, the manipulator of all national sports discussion.

2015 NL Central Predictions with Odds and Expert MLB Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 3/9/2015

For the second straight year it looks like the National League Central will be the deepest and most parity-driven division in baseball. Now that the Cubs have pulled their heads out and put together an actual functioning organization, there can be an argument made that any one of five teams could capture the Central crown this year.

2015 NL East Predictions with Odds and Expert MLB Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 3/9/2015

The National League East is the Senior Circuit’s construction zone. With four teams actively rebuilding, the division is a mess. Washington appears like a legitimate contender for the N.L. pennant, and no one in the East seems capable of derailing them during the regular season. In fact, the East is so one-sided the Nationals are the largest favorite to win their division in baseball, sitting at nearly 1-to-4 odds. This one appears to be just a formality.

2015 Al East Predictions with Odds and Expert MLB Betting Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 3/5/2015

It wasn’t long ago that the American League East was the clear-cut best division in baseball. In 2013 they boasted four teams with 85 or more wins, and in 2012 they featured three teams that won 90 or more. But like the current epidemic with America’s infrastructure, the franchises in the East are rotting at their foundations. Age and unfulfilled hype have crippled the Yankees and Red Sox, financial limitations and no fan support continue to shackle the Rays, and the Blue Jays and Orioles continue to fight a three-decades-old inferiority complex (and weak pitching) compared to their most successful rivals.