{"id":5327,"date":"2009-08-19T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/nfl-betting-college-football-spread-trends-and-mlb-picks-headline\/"},"modified":"2009-08-19T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T16:17:00","slug":"nfl-betting-college-football-spread-trends-and-mlb-picks-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/nfl-betting-college-football-spread-trends-and-mlb-picks-headline\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Betting, College Football Spread Trends, and MLB Picks Headline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Now that Brett Favre is officially a member of the Minnesota Vikings and Michael Vick a Philadelphia Eagles <span class=SpellE>slasher<\/span>, and Tom Brady looks sharp the <a href=\"http:\/\/record.partners.betus.com\/_jZT527Sb1WVutv7iXV6HvmNd7ZgqdRLk\/1\">NFL odds to win the Super Bowl<\/a> has Minnesota +1500, Philadelphia +1200 and the Patriots the favorites at +475 to win the 2010 Super Bowl. As a point of reference, the defending champion Pittsburgh Steelers are +900. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Just as one should leave the Hurricane Bill updates to the trained professionals, tracking the projected paths of NFL preseason betting should be too. The first look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-7384-Sports-Betting-Examiner~y2009m8d19-NFL-handicapping-notes-to-beat-the-NFL-spread-preseason-week-2\">NFL preseason odds betting<\/a> is up and the top football handicappers analyze the congruent angles for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-7384-Sports-Betting-Examiner~y2009m8d18-College-Football-Betting-Week-1-Spread-Trends-Part-1\">college football betting opening week picks<\/a>. . <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Today in the Daily Sports Roundup: The Diamondbacks take on the Phillies, the Cardinals try to defeat the Dodgers, and the Blue Jays play host to the Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p> <strong><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Meeting up on the diamond . . <span class=GramE>.<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;ll be Dan <span class=SpellE>Haren<\/span> (12-7, 2.50 ERA) vs. Cliff Lee (3-0, 1.13 ERA in the NL) on Wednesday as the Diamondbacks take on the Phillies in the night&#8217;s marquee pitching matchup. <span class=SpellE>Righthander<\/span> <span class=SpellE>Haren<\/span> dominated the Dodgers last time out, holding them to one earned run on six hits over eight innings in the win. Lefthander Lee continued to pay dividends for the Phillies in his last start, giving up just one earned run over eight innings vs. the Cubs; Lee last lost on July 10.<\/p>\n<p> Elsewhere around the National League on Wednesday it&#8217;ll be Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, Colorado at Washington, San Francisco at Cincinnati, Atlanta at the Mets, Florida at Houston, the Cubs at San Diego, and St. Louis at the Dodgers. Adam Wainwright (14-7, 2.62 ERA) will get the ball for the Cardinals; the <span class=SpellE>righthander<\/span> blanked the Padres over seven innings last time out. The Dodgers counter with Clayton Kershaw (8-7, 2.91 ERA); <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>L.A.<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost his last five outings.<\/p>\n<p> Over in the American League the top matchup has <st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Clay Buchholz (1-3, 4.45 ERA) taking on <st1:City><st1:place>Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Roy Halladay (13-5, 2.65 ERA). <span class=SpellE>Righthander<\/span> Buchholz took a hard-luck loss against the Tigers last time out, surrendering one earned run on five hits over his seven innings of work. Buchholz beat the Jays back on July 17. <span class=SpellE>Righthander<\/span> Halladay has won two straight starts over the Rays and Orioles, and he picked up a complete-game victory over <st1:City><st1:place>Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> on July 19.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=GramE>Rounding out the <\/span><st1:State><st1:place><span   class=GramE>AL<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:State><span class=GramE> slate for Wednesday: the Angels at <\/span><st1:City><st1:place><span class=GramE>Cleveland<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City><span class=GramE>, Seattle at <\/span><st1:City><st1:place><span class=GramE>Detroit<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City><span class=GramE>, Baltimore at <\/span><st1:place><st1:City><span class=GramE>Tampa   Bay<\/span><\/st1:City><span class=GramE>, <\/span><st1:State><span class=GramE>Minnesota<\/span><\/st1:State><\/st1:place><span class=GramE> at <\/span><st1:State><st1:place><span class=GramE>Texas<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:State><span class=GramE>, the Yankees at <\/span><st1:City><st1:place><span class=GramE>Oakland<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City><span class=GramE>, and <\/span><st1:City><st1:place><span class=GramE>Kansas City<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City><span class=GramE> at the White Sox.<\/span> Royals starter Zack Greinke (11-7, 2.33 ERA) held the Tigers scoreless over seven innings last time out, but still took a no-decision; the <span class=SpellE>righthander<\/span> has just one win since the start of July. The White Sox go with Jose Contreras (4-11, 5.40 ERA) as he tries to keep a spot in the rotation.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Last night <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font color=blue><span style='color:blue; font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>The Great One<\/span><\/font><\/i><\/b> went to the chalk more than usual, but one does not pay juice when one wins and Stevie sweeps again. ALERT: the founder of forensic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/betonsports360com_1.html\">sports handicapping<\/a> has his both his first Level 5 side and total going this weekend in <span class=SpellE>NFLX<\/span>. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>He&#8217;s 6-1 the last 7 Level 4 and Level 5 and has a Level 4 over\/under and a Level 4 side tonight. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Packages\">Click now to purchase<\/a><br \/> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'><br \/> <strong><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Tipping off on the hardwood&nbsp; . . <span class=GramE>.<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p> There are two <span class=SpellE>WNBA<\/span> games on tap for Wednesday, with <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>New   York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at <st1:State><st1:place>Connecticut<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> and <st1:State><st1:place>Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at <st1:City><st1:place>Los   Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. The Lynx have been one of the coldest teams in the league lately, losing three straight contests to sit at 11-13 both straight-up and against-the-spread on the season. <st1:State><st1:place>Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> fell 79-76 to <st1:City><st1:place>Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> last time out, despite 25 points from <span class=SpellE>Roneeka<\/span> Hodges. The Lynx last played the <st1:City><st1:place>Sparks<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> July 28, and they were defeated by a score of 76-70 at home.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Entertainment betting odds\u2026<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Eric Dane tape video is all the rage of <span class=SpellE>YouTube<\/span>. The latest <span class=GramE>reality show<\/span> Megan Wants a Millionaire has some guy named Ryan Jenkins stealing the show. The original Survivor superstar Richard Hatch has been arrested. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Brett Favre is officially a member of the Minnesota Vikings and Michael Vick a Philadelphia Eagles slasher, and Tom Brady looks sharp the NFL odds to win the Super Bowl has Minnesota +1500, Philadelphia +1200 and the Patriots the favorites at +475 to win the 2010 Super Bowl. As a point of reference, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/nfl-betting-college-football-spread-trends-and-mlb-picks-headline\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NFL Betting, College Football Spread Trends, and MLB Picks Headline<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-5327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327","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=5327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}