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Sunday Tailgate Info

 

 

12:27:37 PM
Green Bay Green inactive

12:15:41 PM
Titan starting running back Chris Brown a surprise inactive

Irrelevant but note that we edit in
Word.
  Apparently when we quit out
and come back to a file, Word updates with the current time.  We had Harrington starting much earlier and
beat the screen by a good half hour.

11:40:22 AM
Adding not only does Harrington start for Miami,
but Culpepper is inactive

11:40:17 AM
Joe Duffy’s
Godspicks
 6-1 SATURDAY, 41-18 AND 19-4 FOOTBALL RUNS,
WISE GUY SIDE COWBOYS EAGLES

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Harrington starts at
QB for Miami

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service plays at OffshoreInsiders.com   Injuries:

Tennessee:
David Givens out

Green
Bay
: Ahman Green probable

Chicago:
Desmond Clark probable

Carolina:
Dan Morgan, Shaun Williams out

Miami:
Dante Culpepper questionable, Harrington could start

Washington:
Shaun Springs out

Kansas
City
: Trent Green out

Jacksonville:
Matt Jones, Marcus Stroud out

Philadelphia:
Stallworth questionable, Westbrook game time decision

 

Weather:

Some places with 20
chance of rain at kickoff: Chicago,
New England, Green Bay, NY
Giants, Arizona, San
Francisco
, and Philadelphia

Jets-Jacksonville: 30
chance of rain at kickoff

Clev-Carolina:
40 chance of rain at kickoff, currently raining


Sunday Computer Trends From OffshoreInsiders.com

Sunday, October 8, 2006

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Godspicks

NFL

·       
Washington
under 14-3 on the road to team averaging more than 350 yards per game

·       
Tampa
under 35-14 total of 35 or less

·       
San Diego
12-2 to teams with a losing record

·       
Washington
25-9 road underdogs of 3.5-7 points

·       
New Orleans
4-0 this year

·       
Pittsburgh
under 8-1 road

·       
New Orleans
under 7-0 off consecutive covers

·       
Tennessee
over 8-0 after scoring 14 or less in consecutive games




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Saturday, October 07, 2006

35-17 FOOTBALL RUN,
2 WISE GUY PLAYS INC TENN-UGA

Joe Duffy’s Godspicks
is 13-3 the last 16 football plays including MTSU
Friday. Saturday includes two college Wise Guys led by a game many will be
watching: Tennessee-Georgia side. We have seven winners in all. Please note our
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Among the awesome angles for Saturday.

Ø
A coach who scheduled this game for recruiting
reasons, hence plenty of motivation run up the score

Ø
A clear cut case of the difference between
ratings and rankings. One team appears
to have better numbers. We explain why
this is not even close to being true

Ø
A chalk in which 19 players had the stomach flu

CFB

WAKE FOREST
+17 Clemson

This is one of the biggest games in Wake
Forest
history as they would
actually be ranked if they can pull of the miracle. We even gave long thought
to the moneyline in part because home teams after two straight wins by 17 or
more to a team that scored 37 or more points last game are 41-8 SU +41.6.

Wake also has Clemson’s number at home winning the last
two. The Demon Deacons routed Clemson 45-17 in ‘03 and won 31-27 last season
when they scored the game-winning touchdown with 33 seconds left. Keep in mind,
especially with the new rules cutting down on the number of plays in a game, run oriented huge favorites should be long looks
as go against plays. After years in which the Tigers were perceived as a
pass-happy bunch, they’re firmly grounded in a rushing offense that makes the
faithful recall the 1980s. They’re seventh nationally in rushing yards per game
(240.5), and they’re running the ball 61 percent of the time. It’s by far the
greatest frequency of coach Tommy Bowden’s eight years on the job.

Clemson is now without their best receiver. Chansi Stuckey has 25 catches. He had 64 receptions as a
junior last fall, when he earned All-ACC honors. “When you take that out of
your offense … it’s going to hurt you,” coach Tommy
Bowden said. “You lose leadership, you lose productivity.” Clemson will turn to
freshman Jacoby Ford as Stuckey’s replacement.

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Saturday, October 7, 2006

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Knockout Picks
, Joe
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and MasterLockLine.com are now all part of OffshoreInsiders.com

CFB

·       
Ohio
State 12-2 their last 14 home

·       
West Virginia
9-1 last 10

·       
Michigan
State
3-8 skid

·       
Wake Forest
2-8 home

·       
Louisiana Tech 5-15 road

·       
Mississippi
State
1-6 home

·       
Nebraska-Iowa
State
, home team 12-2 series

·       
Missouri
11-3 to Big 12 South

·       
Navy 6-1 to Air Force

·       
Tulane 2-9 skid

·       
LSU 12-2 road run


Friday Godspicks


Friday, October 06,
2006

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MLB

NY YANKEES (JOHNSON
-1.5 P Moneyline) Detroit (Rogers)

Kenny Rogers is horrible when the game is important. In
seven starts to the Yankees since 1997, Rogers
has a 8.78 ERA and 2.171 WHIP. Detroit
is 1-6 to Johnson. Going against runline dogs with a
starting pitcher who strikes out three or less per start with a pitcher who is
working on seven or more days rest is 163-116 +77.6 units. The Yanks are 32-17
versus the runline this year +20.1 to teams
outscoring foes by .5 or more runs per game. They are a stunning 18-4 to the runline +16.6 if they lost four or five of their previous
games.


Thursday News and Notes


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Thursday, October 5,
2006

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CFB

Florida State-NC
State

Seattle Post Intelligencer

N.C. State
is the only Atlantic Coast Conference team with four wins against Florida
State
since the Seminoles joined
the league 14 years ago. Three have come under Amato, now in his seventh season
at his alma mater after spending the previous 18 years at FSU as an assistant
to Bobby Bowden. No matter the reason, the Wolfpack (2-2, 1-0 ACC) has always
found a way to match up with the Seminoles (3-1, 1-1) under Amato. N.C.
State
was the first ACC team to
beat Florida State
on the road in 2001, then followed that with a 17-7 win here the following season.
Last year, Andre Brown ran for 179 yards and two touchdowns to lead the
Wolfpack past the Seminoles 20-15 on the road, becoming the first ACC team to
win twice at Doak Campbell Stadium. Even the recent
losses have been close, with N.C. State
losing in double-overtime on the road in 2003 and 17-10 here in ‘04. The
Seminoles are more worried instead about coming out of a bye week with a league
win. Florida State
opened the year by beating league rival Miami,
but lost to Clemson 27-20 three weeks ago to drop in the ACC’s Atlantic
Division standings. Now it’s N.C. State
sitting atop the division – along with unbeaten Wake
Forest
– after a last-second win
against Boston College
two weeks ago.

MasterLockLine.com

Florida State
will be starting three players in the secondary with a combined one start. NC
State QB Daniel Evans will be making just his second start

TCU-Utah

Associated Press

TCU went from having the nation’s
longest winning streak to dropping out of the Top 25.

The defending Mountain West Conference champions are
trying to keep the damage from getting even worse when they visit Utah
on Thursday. Until a week ago, the Horned Frogs (3-1, 0-1 MWC) had won 13 straight and had the longest winning streak
in Division I-A.
That ended with a 31-17 loss to Brigham Young last
Thursday in Fort Worth. The Utes
(3-2, 1-0) can sympathize. Utah
had an 18-game winning streak – the nation’s longest at the time – before
losing to the Horned Frogs 23-20 in overtime in TCU’s
Mountain West debut. After going unbeaten in the league a year ago, TCU is 0-1 in the Mountain West and out of the AP poll for
the first time this season. A loss to the Utes on Thursday could all but knock
the Frogs out of contention to defend their conference title even with six more
games to play. Patterson said quarterback Jeff Ballard, who injured his
shoulder against BYU, will start Thursday. He rested
this week as backup Marcus Jackson worked with the first team. TCU is 11-1 with Ballard starting.

TCU running back Aaron Brown did
not make the trip because of a sore right ankle. Lonta
Hobbs, who returned last week after missing a year with a groin injury, is the
probable starter Thursday. Utah
had won three straight before the Boise
State
game, which was the Utes’
worst home loss since 1989.

Star Telegram

An MRI exam showed no
significant damage to the throwing shoulder of TCU
quarterback Jeff Ballard, and coach Gary Patterson
said Tuesday that the senior will start Thursday night, when the Horned Frogs play
at Utah. However, Patterson said,
TCU will be without three key players in another
important Mountain West Conference game as the Frogs try to rebound from their
first loss since early 2005. Sophomore Aaron Brown, TCU’s
leading rusher, won’t travel to Utah
after injuring his right ankle against BYU. Brown,
whose injury originally was thought to be minor, didn’t take any snaps during
practices this week.Senior running back Robert
Merrill also will not travel with the team as he continues to rehabilitate from
off-season back surgery. The rushing load will fall to senior Lonta Hobbs, who played against BYU
for the first time since last season.

On defense, junior safety David Roach will remain in Fort
Worth
with an injured right ankle. Defensive end Chase
Ortiz, however, practiced with the first-team defense Tuesday and is expected
to play with a shoulder injury.


Republicans About to Lose Gamble

Joe Duffy (JoeDuffy.net)

Many years ago I was a two-time executive board member of
the North Fulton (GA) Young Republicans.
I’m no longer young. As I got
older, I preferred to describe my political beliefs aligned more with
conservative ideology than any political party.

As I transitioned into a middle aged Republican, my eyes
were opened to the fact that both parties are guilty of putting partisan needs
ahead of the country’s well being.

I preferred to align myself with ideals. When my choice
lost, rather than proving I was smarter than those who voted for the winning
candidate, I judged the elected official on performance and not which letter is
in parenthesis after his or her name. Conversely, when my chad hung for the
right person, blind defense of such elected official could not enter the
equation.

So there you have my leanings on the table, but I honestly
believe I’ve always had a political slant, yet never a bias.

I generally have been pretty accurate predicting the
outcome of elections, my rooting interests never shading me.

Most observers were shocked at the last major election. The
Republican Party became the first since Franklin Roosevelt to win both the
White House and gain seats in both houses while already holding a majority.

Mind you, I can’t say I have the political handicapping
skills to match my sports prognostication abilities, but I foresaw the
Democrats losing the last elections much more so than the Republicans “winning”.

Their Presidential frontrunner Howard Dean and lead attack
dog Tom Daschle rallied the far left but alienated the center—the
undecided—with melodramatic, Chicken Little, sky-is-falling rhetoric.

Dean plummeted quickly in his party’s own primaries and
Daschle, once unbeatable is now a private citizen thanks to a contingency that
tired of their refusal to keep the debate honest. George Soros, Hollywood
and Air America
cheered the venom and histrionics, while the undecided gave more power to an
unpopular majority party.

Republicans clearly, two years later, are hell bent on
returning the favor. The right wing counterparts to MoveOn.org, Al Franken and
the incorrigibles have commandeered the party. Republican insurgents such as Jerry Falwell, Anne Coulter, and Michael Savage may feel
invigorated by their party’s Gambling Prohibition. But every survey I have ever
seen says that rank and file Americans believe in the right to bet five bucks
on how many points will be scored on the Monday Night Football game.

This political handicapper believes—and with a
conservative slant at that—the Republican Party’s insistence on kowtowing the
right-wing fringe is a gamble that will fail miserably.

Joe Duffy is CEO of
OffshoreInsiders.com your source for free sports picks from the
nation’s top handicappers as well as exclusive sports betting information.


Wednesday News and Notes

Wednesday, October 4,
2006

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CFB

Central Florida-Marshall

Sun Sentinel

Before joining Conference USA
a year ago, UCF and Marshall were together for three
seasons in the MAC. Marshall was
3-0 against UCF before the Knights broke through with
a 23-13 victory last season in its first C-USA
game. In addition, that victory snapped UCF’s overall
17-game losing streak. Marshall has
one of the best home-field advantages in the league, and there is expected to
be some added emotion. Actor Matthew McConaughey—star
of the movie We Are Marshall, about the 1970 crash of the team charter that
claimed 75 lives in the worst air disaster in American sports history—will be
at Wednesday’s game. UCF’s game at Marshall
will mark its second consecutive road trip in which it will play on a non-grass
surface. The Knights practiced for part of the week inside their indoor
facility to get reacquainted with the artificial surface. Including the Sept. 9
game it played at Florida, UCF will play four regular-season games on Field Turf in
2006.

Daily Mail

Both the Herd and Golden Knights have seen enough
fireworks, thank you. Marshall players still are talking about the fireworks Tennessee
let off over Neyland Stadium when the Volunteers
scored. MU defenders clearly were irritated by the
fireworks display. As for UCF, the Knights’ defense
has seen pyrotechnics of a different kind—bombs bursting in air. UCF has given up so many long pass plays,
its pass defense ranks a dismal No. 117 out of 119 Division I-A schools. UCF is allowing 297.75 yards per game passing. Marshall
isn’t much better, yielding 239.0 yards per game passing for a ranking of No.
100. Although both teams’ rushing defense is respectable (UCF
No. 51, MU No. 78), the porous pass defense drags the
total defense rankings into the basement. Marshall
is only No. 99, allowing 384.5 yards per game, and UCF
is No. 109, yielding 416.25 yards.

MLB

As first reported on JoeDuffy.net Orlando Hernandez
may be scratched for the Mets.  However
he is still listed in the box by most sportsbooks, so we will include his
stats.  Check out JoeDuffy.net for the latest
late breaking information.

·       
LA Dodgers Lowe 16-8 personal record

·       
Oakland
Loaiza under 17-9

·       
Minnesota
Bonser under 11-6

·       
Detroit Verlander 17-9 personal record

·       
NY Yanks Mussina 15-7 personal record

 

Personal record is a pitcher’s record in his decisions
including relief appearances.  Team record
is how the team did in his starts whether or not he was involved in the
decision.