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Start out with the MLB odds preview of the Reds-Dodgers. The Los Angeles Dodgers have the best record in baseball and a comfortable lead in the NL West, but it’s been nearly two months since they won four straight games.

They can end that drought and become the first team in the majors to 60 wins today against the Cincinnati Reds, who haven’t won at Dodger Stadium since 2005.

The current three-game run has boosted their division lead to eight games over second-place Colorado.

The streak has a good chance to continue if Randy Wolf can provide another quality start, something the lefthander has given the Dodgers in each of his last four outings.

Wolf has often looked sharp against the Reds, going 8-2 with a 3.15 ERA in 15 career starts.

The -200 favored Dodgers have never faced Cincinnati’s Homer Bailey, who will get the ball today.

The Reds are 3-18 against the Dodgers overall since the start of 2006.

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Speaking of sports picks, onward to the Indians-Blue Jays preview. The Toronto Blue Jays look to win three straight for the first time in a month today when they open a three-game series with the Cleveland Indians at Rogers Centre.

Toronto went 19-10 to start the season and held a one-game advantage over Boston in the AL East. Twelve of those wins came against teams from the Central.

Toronto hasn’t won three straight since June 21-24, when it improved to 40-33. Since then it has one of the worst records in the AL, going 6-14.

The +107 underdog (according to Bodog) Blue Jays will face reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Cliff Lee, who is looking to build on his first win in a month.

The lefthander is 1-4 with a 4.37 ERA against Toronto.

Brett Cecil will face Cleveland’s pathetic offense. The rookie lefthander made his major league debut against Cleveland on May 5 and didn’t receive a decision.

The -160 favored Detroit Tigers begin a six-game homestand when they face the surging Seattle Mariners tonight.

The Tigers will try to rebound by improving upon their 27-13 home record, second in the majors to Boston’s 31-14 mark.

Detroit has won 12 of its last 14 at Comerica, hitting .295 with 24 homers and outscoring opponents 82-47. The Tigers have taken six of the last seven meetings with the Mariners at home.

The Tigers turn to rookie Rick Porcello, who has struggled recently, to open this three-game series.

The Mariners are 6-2 in their last eight road games and won their third straight overall Sunday, 5-3 at Cleveland to take the last three games of the four-game set.

Garrett Olson, who will start for the Mariners, is 0-1 with an 11.74 ERA in two career starts against the Tigers.

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Finally it’s the Cardinals and Astros.  Looking for his fifth straight winning decision, Wandy Rodriguez will try to help the Houston Astros move closer to the division-leading St. Louis Cardinals when the clubs continue a three-game series tonight.

The Astros, who are 29-18 since losing a season-high seven in a row in May, are three games behind the Cardinals, who have dropped four in a row at Houston dating to last season.

Looking to match a career high for wins, Rodriguez has not allowed a run in 17 straight innings over his last three starts.

The lefthander will have to try and stop Albert Pujols. The two-time NL MVP continues to lead the majors with 34 homers and 90 RBI.

Todd Wellemeyer will make his first start in almost two weeks for St. Louis. Facing Houston for the first time this season, Wellemeyer is 0-1 with a 1.42 ERA in three starts versus the Astros.  Previews from the writers at Bodog.

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One of the most unique position battles to watch for college football gamblers when fall camp begins is the quarterback derby at Clemson.

Last year the Tigers were a preseason Top 10 team with national title aspirations, but inconsistent quarterback play from Cullen Harper and Willy Korn was a big factor in Clemson finishing 7-6 and costing coach Tommy Bowden his job.

This year the Tigers are a pretty sizable long shot at 40/1 on Bodog to win the national championship, and that’s probably in part to the team not knowing who will be under center in 2009. Harper graduated, but Korn, a former top-rated recruit, is back. The sophomore will battle redshirt freshman Kyle Parker and true freshmanTajh Boyd for the starting job.

The problem is that all three guys have some blemishes to go with obvious potential. Korn has the benefit of seeing the field in place of a struggling Harper at times in 2008, going 26 of 38 for 216 yards with a TD and an interception. However, he has been a bit injury prone and is coming off December major shoulder surgery that has forced him to rework his throwing motion. Parker has a bigger arm than Korn and looked better in the spring game but is a baseball star who readily admits he couldn’t do all the offseason football work he would have liked because he didn’t have time with his baseball obligations. Boyd, meanwhile, is just six months off ACL reconstruction surgery, which usually takes 8-12 months to fully heal. He is ahead of schedule but probably will redshirt.

Coach Dabo Swinney says the open competition will continue right into camp and that he may have to play a couple of guys early in the season before naming a full-time starter. Certainly you can see why all three feel a big sense of urgency to get the job this season being as they all have at least three years of eligibility left.

The Tigers have some very nice talent returning and could contend in the ACC and nationally if a quarterback breaks out. All five starters on the offensive line return, as does potential All-American tailback C.J. Spiller, who no doubt will carry a massive load this year. If the Tigers can find the right QB, they can do some major damage. But if the young QBs show their inexperience right away, this team could start 1-4 (early games at Georgia Tech, vs. Boston College, vs. TCU and at Maryland) and face a long year.

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Sorry Florida fans, USC is the preeminent program in college football today.

All Pete Carroll has done is lead the Trojans to seven consecutive top-four finishes in the Associated Press poll (including two national championships), seven Pac-10 titles in a row (league record) and seven straight BCS bowl berths and minimum 11-win seasons (both NCAA records).

Yet I’m here to tell you there’s a very realistic chance all those streaks end in 2009.

USC loses eight starters from a defense that last season led the nation in scoring defense (9.0, the school’s best mark since 1967), pass efficiency defense and pass defense. For good measure it finished second in total defense and fifth in rushing defense. After that shocking loss at Oregon State in late September, that unit allowed just two touchdowns in the next six games and pitched three shutouts.

The fact that it’s eight starters gone and not nine is actually a very fortunate thing for Carroll as two-time All-American safety Taylor Mays decided to return for his senior season. The Ronnie Lott clone quite possibly will be the best defensive player in college football next fall, but he might need to be. Sure, the Trojans just plug in several more high school All-Americans, but will those guys be ready by Sept. 12 when USC visits Ohio State?

The Trojans do have nine offensive starters back, but not at the most important position: Quarterback. Sophomore Aaron Corp is the starter heading into the fall, replacing Mark Sanchez. Corp beat out former national high school players of the year Matt Barkley and Mitch Mustain because he didn’t turn the ball over much during the spring. And all Corp will be asked to do is manage the game and not make mistakes. With their top four rushers and stud receivers Damian Williams and Ronald Johnson back, the Men of Troy should be fine on that side of the ball.

Even if USC beats the Buckeyes again this season, the Pac-10 schedule is tougher than usual. The Trojans travel to both Oregon and California, easily their two biggest threats in the conference (neither game is in November, the month in which USC is invincible). In fact, the last time USC visited Oregon in 2007 the Ducks won. And Cal always seems to give the Trojans trouble. Shoot, don’t even rule out a possible Notre Dame upset in a mid-October non-conference game in South Bend.

I wouldn’t exactly bet against Southern Cal to win the Pac-10 this season, but those 6/1 odds to win the national title on Bodog seem too generous for a team that could easily lose twice in 2009.

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As the UFC 101 odds approach, some of baseball’s top teams are slugging it out like two prize fighters in the octagon. Let’s have a look at some important MLB betting matchups for Wednesday.

Chicago Cubs @ Philadelphia Phillies
Carlos Zambrano (6-4, 3.36) vs Jamie Moyer (9-6, 5.58)
Wednesday, July 22, 1:05 p.m. ET

Tom Watson foiled everyone’s sports betting management with his improbable British Open run. Could 46-year-old Jamie Moyer draw inspiration? He’s alternated good and bad starts lately and there’s more to that fact than meets the eye; almost all the bad starts come at home, where Moyer sports a 6.79 ERA and has allowed a whopping 13 homers in 50 innings. He’s never lost to the Cubs, but that could change if Milton Bradley and Alfonso Soriano have anything to say about it. Bradley hits .350 lifetime against Moyer, while Soriano has four homers off him in 50 at-bats.

Carlos Zambrano has allowed more than three runs just twice in 17 starts this season and has a 2.91 road ERA. He also has pitched fairly well against the Phillies in his career, so he’ll be fine.

Daily MLB pick: Cubs

St. Louis Cardinals @ Houston Astros
Chris Carpenter (8-3, 2.26) vs Roy Oswalt (6-4, 3.65)
Wednesday, July 22, 8:05 p.m. ET

The marquee matchup of the day pits the sputtering Cardinals against the surging Astros with each team sending its ace to the hill. Chris Carpenter returned from the All-Star break with eight scoreless innings against Arizona and he has a 3.00 ERA at Houston’s Minute Maid Park. Another huge plus for Carpenter; his nemesis Lance Berkman (six homers, 12 RBI, 1.348 OPS in just 29 at bats against Carpenter) is nursing a calf strain and likely won’t play Wednesday.

Roy Oswalt has been great in June and July but that Pujols guy owns him worse than the Vikings own Brett Favre in NFL betting, hitting .315 with five homers and 13 RBI in 73 career at-bats against him.

It’s safe to say (a) this will be a low-scoring game and (b) Pujols may be the only guy putting runs on the board for either team.

Daily MLB pick: Cardinals

Soon it will be time to check out the NFLX QB rotations and the NFL exhibition spreads. But the handicappers at Bodog are already previewing the season from a bettors standpoint.

If you think my recommendation a few weeks ago of putting a few dollars down on Notre Dame at 25/1 on Bodog‘s odds to win the BCS National Championship this season was hogwash, then you’ll really laugh at this long shot value bet recommendation: Texas Christian.

But hear me out.

How overlooked are the Horned Frogs? Bodog doesn’t even give them odds to win it all, so they are part of the field at 60/1. This is despite the fact that TCU finished last season 11-2 (ranked seventh in the final polls) and knocked off unbeaten Boise State in the Poinsettia Bowl – that was the Frogs’ fourth bowl win in a row, and only six other teams have streaks that long.

Coach Gary Patterson has 10 starters coming back, six on offense on four on defense. It was defense that carried this team in 2008, as it ranked first in total defense, second to USC in scoring defense, second in sacks and allowed a ridiculous 612 yards rushing all season. Yes, that unit lost seven starters from last season, but TCU has led the Mountain West in total defense every year but one since moving to the conference. So clearly Patterson, a former defensive coordinator, knows what he’s doing.

In addition, one of the four defenders returning in 2009 is the best one: All-American defensive end Jerry Hughes, who led the nation with 15 sacks and six forced fumbles last year.

The offense will be led by Andy Dalton, who emerged as a top-flight quarterback in the second half of last season after returning from an injury. In TCU’s first five games, Dalton had no touchdown passes and averaged 163.6 yards per game. In the Frogs’ final six he averaged 237.3 yards in the air and had 11 TDs. And in TCU’s final two home games, Dalton was 37-of-49 for 655 yards with six touchdowns and no interceptions (of course that was vs. Air Force and Wyoming). Dalton’s leading receiver in 2008, Jimmy Young, also is back.

Texas Christian’s schedule sets up for an unbeaten run. Its toughest tests should come Sept. 26 at Clemson and Oct. 24 at BYU. But the Frogs are 26-13 on the road since 2003, which is the seventh-best winning percentage in the country. Utah is always a threat in the MWC, but the Frogs get them in Fort Worth this season and TCU is 31-4 at home since 2003, the sixth-best winning percentage in the country since ’03.

So would a 12-0 TCU even get a berth in the BCS National Championship game? I might argue yes. After all, Utah earned the Mountain West some major respect with its rout of Alabama in last year’s Sugar Bowl. And if you look at each BCS conference, there is no lock unbeaten in any of those. All the Frogs have to do is steal one spot, and should they get the chance they are 11-3 in their past 14 games against BCS teams.

I’m not saying put your life savings down at 60/1, but TCU is definitely worth a look.

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I want to preface this article by saying that I’m an experienced sports writer, not a Notre Dame fan and not under the influence of any mind-altering substances. You’ll understand my reasoning for getting that out first when I follow with this statement: Notre Dame could win the BCS National Championship this season.

I know the Irish have one bowl win since the 1993 season – and that victory came last year against a mediocre Hawaii team in the Hawaii Bowl, ending a nine-game postseason losing streak for the Irish.

And I also know that coach Charlie Weis nearly was fired this offseason and probably will be next if Notre Dame has another 7-6 season. But the Irish should have 10 starters back on offense, which seemed to finally find itself in Hawaii behind QB Jimmy Clausen’s 401 yards passing and five touchdowns. He will have two stellar receivers back in Golden Tate and Michael Floyd. In addition, the defense welcomes seven starters back. All those top-rated recruits figure to start contributing sooner or later.

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Add to those above reasons an Irish schedule that is very, very manageable in 2009. It’s quite possible that Notre Dame will be favored in every game except for the home tilt with Southern Cal on Oct. 17. The Trojans have beaten the Irish by a combined 76-3 the past few years, but USC has to rebuild its defense and has a new quarterback this season. Notre Dame plays just four road games, all winnable: at Michigan (still building), at Purdue (new coach), at Pittsburgh (no LeSean McCoy) and at Stanford (new starting QB).

I’m not guaranteeing that the echoes will be awakened this year in South Bend, but at 25/1 odds to win the national title on Bodog  that’s worth a look. Even at 11-1, the Irish could get the call to play in Pasadena on Jan. 7.

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