Jim Feist Odds

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but he bought out Don Best odds
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. This was a wise idea because for all the money the JimFeist.com conglomerate
had, Don Best
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Don Best Odds

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Preseason NFL Betting Information

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Here are some early news and notes for this week’s
preseason NFL games. Key info will be updated until kickoff and as it comes in
at OffshoreInsiders.com

Thursday

Ravens-Patriots

For those who love to bet on teams with quarterback
competitions, the Ravens are your team. Middling veteran Kyle Boller gets the
nod to start and is expected to play most of the first half. He will be
followed by Troy Smith and rookie Joe Flacco.

John Harbaugh makes his debut as
Ravens head coach. Baltimore
will be without several key players on offense: running back Willis McGahee,
tight end Todd Heap and OTs Adam Terry and Jared
Gather. Rookie Ray Rice from Rutgers gets the
opportunity as starting running back.

New England has only 11 offensive
linemen.

Chiefs-Bears

Rookie DT Glenn Dorsey is out. Chicago
has numerous injuries on the offensive line.

Saints-Cardinals

Saints running back Deuce McAllister and tight end Jeremy
Shockey are out as are wide receiver Devery Henderson
and CBs Mike McKenzie and Tracy Porter. Arizona
will be without starting WR Anquan
Boldin.

Giants-Lions

The Giants have been slowed by a long series of nagging
injuries, with WR being among the hardest hit. Eli
Manning will start at quarterback from Big Blue but will quickly yield to
Anthony Wright.

Jets-Browns

Cleveland will
start Brady Quinn at quarterback and he may play the entire first half. Normal
starter Derek Anderson will follow but because the Browns have only three
signal callers on the roster, expect to see plenty of front liner playing time
behind center. Ken Dorsey is their No. 3 starter.

Saturday

Cowboys-Chargers

Bolts starting quarterback Philip Rivers is expected to
start and test his surgically repaired knee. He will play one or two series and
no more than a quarter. As is per usual, Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson
is not expected to carry the ball at all.

Colts-Panthers

Indianapolis
has a game under the belt following their thrashing Sunday night at the hands
of Indianapolis. Many sports handicappers like betting on
squads that have already played a game.

The Panthers have been dealing with the distraction of the
ugly fight when wide receiver Steve Smith blindsided CB Ken Lucas. Starting WR Maques Colston
has missed several practices and is doubtful.

Peyton Manning remains out for the horses.

Rams-Titans

Rams running back Steven Jackson is a holdout and will
miss the game. The Rams have had a double digit number of players miss practice
in several days, hence continuity may be a factor
according to MasterLockLine.com’s Cy McCormick.

Falcons-Jaguars

Brian Gould, football betting expert of ScoresOddsPicks.com says that all
indications are that the Falcons will put a high priority on winning in the
preseason.


Phil Steele

We have no compunction whatsoever giving attaboys to our competitors and have done so in previous
articles many times over. Another example is Phil Steele of Northcoast Sports. Their preseason publication is part of our research and a major reason
why GodsTips enters the football season as the most prepared sports service in the world.

They correctly state that a favorite source of ours, Stassen.com declared Phil Steele to have the most accurate publication in comparing preseason predictions to the end-of-season polls.

What is falsely presumed is that the other periodicals draw no distinction between “preseason polls” and “postseason predictions”.

This season is a perfect illustration. Though we rate no not rank teams, our preseason ratings agree with the USA Today preseason poll that has Georgia No. 1. Does this mean as per Stassen’scriterion, we are projecting that they will be No. 1 at the end of the season? Absolutely not. Just wait a Dawg gone minute.

In the dog eat Dawg world of the SEC, the Bulldogs schedule includes back-to-back games against two other serious BCS Championship contenders, Floridaand LSU. The game against the Tigers is in Baton Rouge and of course against the revenge-seeking Gators, it’s in the so-called “neutral” state of Florida.

They also travel cross country for a brutal non-conference test at No. 16 Arizona State, play at dangerous South Carolina (27thranked based on “others receiving votes”) and at cross-divisional Auburn. Even if by some miracle they go undefeated in SEC play, their reward would be giving rival Georgia Tech golden opportunity to play BCS spoiler, then a trip to the SEC Championship game, which would likely be a rematch to the Tigers of LSU or Auburn.

For 2008, if GodsTips converted our ratings to rankings, we would have Georgia our preseason No. 1. In looking at the Dawgs schedule however, Steele’s prediction that they will finish 9th is more likely.

Putting side by side one magazine’s preseason Top 25 to another publication’s projected post-bowl Top 25 is comparing apples to oranges. Or perhaps more accurately, it’s comparing Sugar, Rose, and Fiesta to Oranges.

GodsTips is smart enough to acknowledge the difference, just one of the many reasons why we are the football betting specialists and the anchor of OffshoreInsiders.com

Colts-Redskins

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The National Football League gets back on the sporting schedule on Sunday
night, as the Indianapolis Colts meet the Washington Redskins in the annual
Hall of Fame Game as football betting
takes center stage.

However, Indy will be missing a future Hall of Famer
in the game at Fawcett Stadium, as starting QB Peyton Manning won’t be in
uniform. Also skipping the game for the Colts will be WR
Marvin Harrison, who isn’t quite ready to test out his knees. New ‘Skins head
coach Jim Zorn and his West Coast offense will make their debuts in this contest.

BetUs Sportsbook oddsmakers
like Washington’s chances of starting the preseason with a win, as they’ve been
pegged as 6-point favorites for Sunday. The game’s total is at 31.5 points.

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On the diamond the Cubs and Brewers will both send stud pitchers to the
mound on Sunday. Carlos Zambrano (12-4, 2.80 ERA) will get the ball for Chicago
in their home game against Ian Snell (4-8, 6.04 ERA) and Pittsburgh.
Ben Sheets (10-4, 3.14 ERA) will be the starter for the Brewers against Atlanta
and Jorge Campillo (5-4, 2.76 ERA).

Other NL games on Sunday: Colorado at Florida, Cincinnati at Washington, the
Mets at Houston, San Francisco at San Diego, Arizona at the Dodgers, and
Philadelphia at St. Louis (with Brett Myers (4-9, 5.46 ERA) battling with Todd Wellemeyer (8-4, 4.13 ERA)).

Over in the American League Daisuke Matsuzaka (11-2, 3.04 ERA) will be
looking for his 12th win of the year when the Red Sox host Dallas
Braden (2-1, 4.39 ERA) and the Athletics. The Yankees will finish out their
series against the Angels and ace John Lackey (9-2, 2.93 ERA), while the Rays
will once again host the Tigers in Tampa
Bay
.

Rounding out Sunday’s Junior Circuit slate are the White Sox at Kansas
City
, Baltimore
at Seattle, Toronto
at Texas, and Cleveland
at Minnesota. Twins pitcher
Francisco Liriano is now back from the minor leagues,
and he’ll get the start on Sunday afternoon.

In the Sprint Cup Series, Jimmie Johnson will be looking to make it two wins
in a row on Sunday when he takes to the track at Pocono Raceway for this year’s
Pennsylvania 500.

Johnson took the checkered flag in the troubled Allstate 400 at the
Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway last weekend, keeping his tires from
exploding just long enough to grab the victory. That was Johnson’s second win
of this Sprint Cup season.

Kurt Busch won the Pennsylvania
500 last year, while Kasey Kahne
visited victory lane in the Pocono 500 on this track back in June. Jeff Gordon
took the checkered flag in the Pocono 500 last year, and he has four career Cup
victories on the Pennsylvania track.

Meanwhile, overseas, Lewis Hamilton is back on top of the drivers
championship as the Formula One series hits the track in Budapest
for the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday.

Hamilton picked up his second
straight victory last time out, beating Nelsinho
Piquet across the finish line to take the checkered flag in the German Grand
Prix. The win pushed Hamilton four
points ahead of Felipe Massa in the current F1 driver
standings.

Hamilton won the Hungarian Grand
Prix in 2007, holding off Kimi Raikkonen
and Nick Heidfeld for the victory. Fernando Alonso,
Robert Kubica, Ralf Schumacher, Nico
Rosberg, and Heikki Kovalainen rounded out the Top 8 finishers in Budapest
last year.


Betting the NFL Preseason

The Washington Redskins and the Indianapolis Colts kick
off the 2008-09 football betting season (official
handicapping preview
). Sports
betting
offers are rare opportunity for likely dividends during a tough
economic period. Gamblers do their own version of “offshore drilling”.

The great Emmitt Smith did a commercial in which he said
that championships are won in the preseason.
Of course I found it ironic that in said year he missed the entire
preseason and the first two games of the regular schedule before leading Dallas
to the Super Bowl. But I digress. The
thrust is that handicappers have a whole heap to win in the preseason as well.

I am exceedingly sure that you have heard it and
percentages say that you have uttered it as well. When I first began
handicapping I espoused the costly naivety too.

The fallacy is that nobody in their right mind would try
to foretell preseason battles. The
belief is that there are too many unknown factors to consider, too many
nameless and faceless Division II players on each side of the ball who will be
getting their only taste of the show for a few plays or series of downs.

True the argument behind this deduction is certainly based
on fact, but the conclusion in not only untrue, but very much the
contrary.

The reality is that smart players realize that such
mentioned disadvantages actually apply to the oddsmaker and not the
gambler. With the proliferation of
offshore sportsbooks and the competitiveness leading to sportsbooks posting
advanced lines earlier and earlier, the advantage continues to swing more and
more towards the player, well at least to the wise player.

Preseason lines
are made now a week in advance. After
the first week, so often once both opponents have completed their preceding
contest, a line is posted as rapidly as possible for the upcoming week.

The truthfulness is that the linesmakers have to deal with
a lot more uncertainty that the bettor does.
Of course lines do adjust—sometimes over adjust based on this
information and the public responding to it, but the sportsbooks are still
limited in exactly how much they can move the lines or they would get destroyed
by line shoppers and “middle” players.
“Bette Middlers” is what my cohort OC Dooley likes to call them.

Hometown newspapers are a Godsend for handicapping preseason
football. Rarely is there a game in
which coaches will not give out accurate information on quarterback and key
player rotations as well as injuries. It
is not remotely uncommon to find out because of injuries and other reasons that
a team for example may be without four of their top six offensive linemen or
many analogous situations.

As a general rule of thumb both offensive and defensive
schemes are pretty vanilla in the exhibition games (apologies to the late Mr.
Rozelle, that’s what they are). But yet
when teams have a new head coach or new coordinator or a lot of new players
projected to play key positions often coaches will throw in more stunts,
blitzes, etc.

But because the purpose is for the players to learn a
system and not to catch their opponent off-guard, such game plan is almost
never kept secret. However rarely in
preseason do coaches actually prepare for their opponent. Thus when research
uncovers that one team is working on some more sophisticated packages, while
the opponent is going to keep it
straightforward, the big plus goes to team planning on mixing it up.

There are eternal issues that affects how critically each
team approaches a particular preseason game, such as new systems on both or
either side of the ball, the number of established veterans on each team who
will only play some token downs merely for timing and getting in shape, the
number of positions and roster spots up for grabs, individual coaches
philosophies on how to approach a preseason game. The inventory really never ends.

But so often the coaches and key players own comments will
give strong insight into whether or not there is an enormous dichotomy in how
each team is approaching a forthcoming game.
Inevitably a coach especially one of a young or perennially losing team
will flat out state something to the effect, “We need to instill a winning
attitude and habit early. We want to
enter the regular season with some wins under our belt.” Not-so-uncommon annotations like that set off
sirens at GodsTips, anchor of OffshoreInsiders.com

The Dallas Cowboys for years were one of the great
preseason go-against plays, especially during the “Triplets” era of Irvin,
Smith and Aikman because most of the key starting positions were already etched
in stone. Whether or not Jimmy Johnson
or Barry Switzer was the coach, the Cowboys played future Arena Football
players using the most basic schemes.

Read those newspapers and you will find that on any given
preseason weekend, there will be several matchups in which one team will be
play key members longer than their opponent or that one team because of
injuries and precautions will be much more shorthanded at kickoff than their
foe.

It is always important to keep a close eye on teams whose
first and second string players were on one side of a dominating
performance. So often such will effect
how much work the key players will get the following week. If a veteran first unit outscored their foe
14-0 one week, there is a good chance that they be given little work the next
week. But do not assume this to be the
case. Hometown newspapers leave little
to speculation by printing coaches’ answers to the obvious questions.

It is a pretty good general rule of thumb that teams off
of humiliating losses will come out with vengeance the following week. But there is a reason that I qualified such
statement with “pretty good” and “general”.
Final scores can be deceptive in any and all sports but such is the case
even more so in preseason football.

If a team loses 28-7 but the first and second teams were
outscored 21-0, while the mop-up guys played evenly, it is a huge difference
than if it were visa versa. The third
and fourth stringers if totally outplayed are digging ditches and contacting
the Barcelona Dragons. But if it were
the primary players who were humiliated, they are the ones who have a fire lit
under them.

It is much more important to look at how the respective
top two units played than the actual final score. However one must very much take into account
all the extenuating factors involved entering the game, as illustrated
above. Perhaps a teams top two units
were shorthanded against an opponent who used complicated schemes breaking in
new systems. But I do love betting on
teams whose first and second units got a good ole fashioned no-excuses butt
whipping to rebound accordingly.

One has to though find that fine line between going with
all of the above factors and being mindful of line moves. This is particularly
so with the public jumping on the same side that you are.

I honestly can not give a definitive scientific
explanation of exactly how my handicapping has been complimented so well by
line moves, other than to know that it defies any laws of probability. But
somewhere there is a congruency amongst my handicapping techniques, the opening
line and public perception that affects the line moves.

I can with full honesty say that in preseason just as I do
during the regular season; I win a lot more than I lose. However so many times if early in the week I
pencil side A as a play only to have the public bet side A so much that the
line moves enough to scare me off of the game, only to have side B cover both
ends of the line move. Somehow there is
a complimentary congruency in my handicapping that increases my winning
percentage even further.

But all factors equal, I very much like going against
preseason line moves of 2’
or more points. When those moves are not justified by the factors outlined
about, I often make selections based about 85% on unjustified line, moves. But line moves that I deem justified more
times than not results in a no-play.

The modus operandi that applies in the regular season and
postseason handicapping are completely different than that of the preseason. Once a talented handicapper realizes that, he
has taken first step towards a nice regular season bankroll. But after that, it
still takes research, research, research…

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Olympic Betting 2008



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Can the Redeem Team bring back the Gold Medal in men’s
basketball to the USA?
Despite recent ineptitude, Team USA
led by Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Chris Paul, Carmelo
Anthony and Dwayne Wade are overwhelming 1/4 favorites to not flop this campaign.

The Americans did look impressive in sweeping all three
tune-up contests. Spain,
led by Pau Gasol,
Jose-Manuel Calderon, and Juan Carlos Navarro is next at 7/2. Clutch Manu
Ginobili leads Argentina,
which seems like a fantastic long shot at 10/1.

The Argentineans also have NBA players Fabricio
Oberto, Luis Scola, Andres Nocioni, and Carlos Delfino.

Russia
is 14/1, followed by Lithuania
at 20/1. In contrast to previous Olympiads, neither of the former Soviet
countries features a current NBA athlete.

The famed “Miracle on Ice” when the USA shocked the world
and won the 1980 Olympic hockey Gold Medal, is widely considered to be the
biggest sports story of last century, as voted by virtually ever media outfit
that compiled such a list.

The oddsmakers are apparently given little credence to a
major factor in the stunner: being the host country. Host China
is a mind-boggling 50/1 despite being led by current NBA stars Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, former NBA player Wang Zhizhi and several CBA
contributors. All the ingredients for a “Miracle on Rice” are there.

Perennial power Croatia
is also considered a probable also ran at 100/1. Check out all the Beijing Olympic
betting odds
.