Sportsbooks await the World Cup draw. American sports bettors focus on the college football betting line on Florida-Alabama, Texas–Nebraska and other key games including the MAC Championship Ohio vs. Central Michigan, a game in which Matt Rivers has the pick.

Rivers has  free picks daily including the  Knicks plus the number Friday night. Bodog has Atlanta -12 over the NY Knicks.
 
Of course Mike Woodson’s Hawks are better than Mike D’Antoni’s Knicks but after just scoring 146 points against Toronto I don’t see Atlanta really and truly ready to beat up another opponent. This is the perfect time to catch the Hawks as Joe Johnson and the gang probably think right about now their you know what doesn’t stink. But the Raptors were in a three games in a four night stretch and had no legs at all.
 
New York has been terrible at 4-15 this season but there is talent there with Danilo Gallinari bombing away from three and Al Harrington and David Lee banging down low. Add in Wilson Chandler and Nate Robinson and a few others and on any given night we can see this team rise up and compete just like we saw a few nights ago at home against the Suns as the touchdown dog.
 
No doubt on any given night we can see a quitting performance from these same Knickerbockers as the franchise continues to only care about this offseason when LeBron and others become free agents but to get around a dozen points here is well worth the risk. The Hawks have gotten out of the gate very nicely and are a pretty solid team with Johnson, Josh Smith, Mike Bibby and Al Horford leading the way but they are also not yet a team that can be laying so much lumber. This is not the Celtics or the Cavaliers we are talking about that can pound you on their home floor and then step on your necks in a total burial.
 
It would not all that shocking if the Knicks won the game as the visitors have enough of an upside to show themselves well today. I see a lot of value here as this type of a number is reserved for the truly best against the truly worst, it’s the Lakers at home against the Timberwolves and these two teams are not close to having such a big gap between them.

For more information: Rivers says, “I am off 2-0 Thursday sweep with 75,000* Oregon State and 50,000* Texas Tech outright. I have swept the board in two of the last three days and now am raising that bar. MAC Championship No-Brainer: 100,000* Ohio-Central Michigan, plus bonus lock: 50,000* Charlotte-New Jersey.” Click now to purchase the best sport bets