{"id":2661,"date":"2008-11-14T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/making-money-in-sports-betting\/"},"modified":"2008-11-14T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T19:01:00","slug":"making-money-in-sports-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/making-money-in-sports-betting\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Money In Sports Betting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Lakers are the only unbeaten team left in the NBA, and they’ll be looking to keep it that way at home on Friday night. Here’s your Daily Sports Roundup.<\/o:P><\/p>\n

The Gridiron Spotlight<\/strong><\/o:P><\/p>\n

The only college football game on the Friday schedule has No. 22 Cincinnati at Louisville<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:CITY>. Who will cover? The top sports handicapping site has the answer on tonight’s college football, college basketball and NBA betting.<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n

The Bearcats (7-2, 4-4 ATS) knocked off West Virginia 26-23 last time out; that was their second straight victory over a ranked opponent, as they beat South Florida 24-10 back on October 30. The Cardinals (5-4, 4-4 ATS) were thumped 41-7 by Pittsburgh<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:CITY> in their last outing. Cincinnati<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:CITY> is a 3.5-point road fave<\/span> in this Big East game.<\/o:P><\/p>\n

Other Notable Events<\/strong><\/o:P><\/p>\n

Kobe Bryant and company ran their record to 7-0 on Wednesday night with a 93-86 road win over the Hornets. That marked Los Angeles<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:CITY>‘ second win in two days – they also got past the Mavericks 106-99 on Tuesday. The Lakers have also been paying off for their supporters so far this year, posting a 6-1 mark against-the-spread. The team’s next challenge will come on Friday night, when they head home to take on the Pistons.<\/o:P><\/p>\n

There are 11 other games on the NBA schedule for Friday, including 8-1 (4-5 ATS) Boston<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:CITY> playing host to the Nuggets. Completing the slate: Utah at Charlotte, Philly at Indiana, Oklahoma City at New York, Atlanta at New Jersey, Washington at Miami, Portland at New Orleans, Milwaukee at Memphis, Orlando at Dallas, Houston at San Antonio, and then finally Phoenix at Sacramento to round out the Friday night schedule.<\/o:P><\/p>\n

The Rest of the Schedule<\/strong><\/o:P><\/p>\n

There are six games on the ice on Friday, including the Capitals playing host to the Devils in Washington<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:STATE>. The Caps pounded the Hurricanes 5-1 on Wednesday, with top forwards Alexander Ovechkin, Alexander Semin<\/span>, and Nicklas<\/span> Backstrom<\/span> doing most of the damage. Also on the NHL’s slate: Columbus at Buffalo, Carolina at Atlanta, St. Louis at Chicago, Nashville at Anaheim, and Detroit at Florida; Panthers netminder<\/span> Craig Anderson is gunning for his third straight victory, stopping 68 of his last 69 shots.<\/o:P><\/p>\n

News from the Wire<\/strong><\/o:P><\/p>\n

Cowboys<\/span> tight end Jason Witten<\/span> is expected to suit up on the weekend despite his sore ribs . . . Saints running back Reggie Bush’s status is still up in the air for this weekend – he’s been practicing in a knee brace this week. . . Texans quarterback Matt Schaub (torn MCL<\/span>) isn’t likely to return to action for another three weeks . . .Flyers<\/span> forward Daniel Briere<\/span> is injured again; he’s expected to be out for the next week with a groin pull.<\/o:P><\/p>\n

A Peek at the Future<\/strong><\/o:P><\/p>\n

No. 1 Alabama will get a visit from Mississippi<\/st1:PLACENAME> State<\/st1:PLACETYPE><\/st1:PLACE> in college football action on Saturday; the Crimson Tide are<\/span> 21.5-point favorites. Elsewhere around the Top 10 it’s No. 24 South Carolina vs. No. 3 Florida (-22.5), No. 4 Texas (-13) vs. Kansas, No. 6 USC (-23) vs. Stanford, Indiana vs. No. 7 Penn State (-36), No. 8 Utah (-30) vs. San Diego State, No. 9 Boise State (-36.5) vs. Idaho, and No. 10 Ohio State (-9.5) vs. Illinois.<\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Lakers are the only unbeaten team left in the NBA, and they’ll be looking to keep it that way at home on Friday night. Here’s your Daily Sports Roundup. The Gridiron Spotlight The only college football game on the Friday schedule has No. 22 Cincinnati at Louisville. Who will cover? The top … Continue reading Making Money In Sports Betting<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}