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Wednesday’s 6-pack:
Interesting college football spreads, Week 8
— Boise State (-3) @ UNLV
— Notre Dame (-12.5) vs Navy (@ Meadowlands)
— Washington @ Indiana (-6.5)
— Illinois @ Oregon (-21.5)
— BYU @ Central Florida (-1.5)
— Texas Tech @ TCU (-6.5)

Quote of the Day
“If a guy is going to cheat you on the golf course, he’s going to cheat you in business.”
Arnold Palmer, as told to Rick Reilly

Wednesday’s quiz
Last two times the New York Knicks won the NBA title, which team did they beat in the Finals both times?

Tuesday’s quiz
Arizona Cardinals have played in one Super Bowl; Hall of Famer Kurt Warner was their QB in that game.

Monday’s quiz
Green Bay Packers are a publicly-owned team; of the other 31 NFL owners, Bengals owner Mike Brown is the least wealthy.

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Wednesday’s Den: Mid-week musings…….

— Celtics 132, Knicks 109
Celtics led 74-55 at halftime.
Boston shot 29-61 on the arc, and they missed their last 14.
Jayson Tatum scored 37 points.

— Lakers 110, Timberwolves 103
Anthony Davis scored 36 points, grabbed 16 rebounds.
Lebron/Bronny James are first father/son to play in same NBA game.
Lakers had lost their last six season openers.

— Sam Houston 10, Florida International 7
Game was scoreless at halftime.
Sam Houston kicked a 20-yard FG with 1:57 left for the road win.
Bearkats are bowl eligible for the first time as a I-A team.

— Louisiana Tech 14, Texas-El Paso 10
Tech was 6-17 on third down, Miners 1-14.
Bulldogs ran ball 30 times for 7 yards, UTEP 47 times for 166 yards.
Tech has won 11 of its last 12 games against UTEP.

— All 32 NHL teams played Tuesday; the over/under on goals scored for all 32 teams was 101.5. Night ended with 98 goals being scored.

— American League teams won last two World Series; leagues split the last 12 Fall Classics.

— When the Rams won Sunday, Sean McVay tied John Robinson for the most wins (79) by a coach in franchise history.

Famous birthdays, October 23rd:
Weird Al Yankovic, 65
Doug Flutie, 62
Mike Tomczak, 62
Keith Van Horn, 49
Ryan Reynolds, 48
Kyle Gibson, 37
Nick Bosa, 27
Dylan Carlson, 26

— Random fact that is kind of amazing; Pittsburgh Steelers have had only three head coaches since 1969- Chick Noll, Bill Cowher, Mike Tomlin.
Steelers are only NFL team that hasn’t played a divisional game yet.

— Indiana Hoosiers QB Kurtis Rourke had surgery on his right (passing) thumb, is out for a while. Indiana, off to its best start since 1967, hosts Washington Saturday.

— Hawai’i is joining the Mountain West on a full-time basis in two years, which figures to hurt their basketball program. Hawaii is 34-21 in Big West games the last three years, but moving up to the Mountain West is a big step up, just ask UNLV.

— If you have a son who is athletic and kind of tall, get him a basketball and send him outside to practice……..a lot
Denver Nuggets signed Aaron Gordon to a 4-year, $133M contract extension.
Washington Wizards signed Corey Kispert to a 4-year, $54M contract extension.
Atlanta Hawks signed Jalen Johnson to a 5-year, $150M contract extension.
Golden State Warriors signed Moses Moody to a 3-year, $39M contract extension.
Houston Rockets signed Alperen Sengun to a 5-year, $185M contract extension.
Minnesota Timberwolves signed Rudy Gobert to a 3-year, $110M contract extension.
It is really, really hard to make it to the NBA, but if you do, it pays off handsomely.

— Fernando Valenzuela, the great Dodger pitcher, passed away Tuesday at age 63.
In 1981, Valenzuela won the NL Rookie of the Year and Cy Young awards as a 20-year-old by going 13-7 with a 2.48 ERA.
Valenzuela went to six consecutive All-Star Games from 1981-86 and also finished in the top five of the Cy Young voting in 1982, 1985, and 1986.
June 19, 1990, Valenzuela pitched a no-hitter against St Louis, the same night Dave Stewart also threw a no-hitter, the only time two no-hitters happened on the same day.
Valenzuela had a 173-153 record in the majors, then was 5-1, 1.98 in eight playoff games.
RIP, sir.
 

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Indiana vs Detroit
Indiana is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Indiana's last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Detroit's last 10 games when playing at home against Indiana
The total has gone UNDER in 13 of Detroit's last 19 games at home

Brooklyn vs Atlanta
Brooklyn is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Atlanta
Brooklyn is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Atlanta
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Atlanta's last 5 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Atlanta's last 6 games

Cleveland vs Toronto
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Cleveland's last 8 games when playing on the road against Toronto
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Cleveland's last 7 games when playing Toronto
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Toronto's last 5 games at home
Toronto is 9-2 SU in its last 11 games when playing at home against Cleveland

Orlando vs Miami
Orlando is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Orlando's last 9 games on the road
Miami is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Orlando
Miami is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Orlando

Milwaukee vs Philadelphia
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Milwaukee's last 7 games on the road
Milwaukee is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Philadelphia
Philadelphia is 13-4 ATS in its last 17 games
Philadelphia is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games at home

Charlotte vs Houston
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Charlotte's last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Charlotte's last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Houston's last 10 games at home
Houston is 17-2 SU in its last 19 games when playing at home against Charlotte

Chicago vs New Orleans
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Chicago's last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Chicago's last 11 games when playing New Orleans
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of New Orleans's last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 9 of New Orleans's last 11 games when playing Chicago

Memphis vs Utah
The total has gone OVER in 12 of Memphis's last 13 games when playing on the road against Utah
The total has gone OVER in 12 of Memphis's last 15 games when playing Utah
The total has gone OVER in 12 of Utah's last 13 games when playing at home against Memphis
Utah is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Memphis

Phoenix vs LA Clippers
Phoenix is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against LA Clippers
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Phoenix's last 5 games when playing LA Clippers
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of LA Clippers's last 5 games at home
LA Clippers is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Phoenix

Golden State vs Portland
Golden State is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Portland
Golden State is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Portland
Portland is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Portland's last 8 games


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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23

GameTime(ET)PickUnits
IND at DET07:00 PMIND -5.0
U 235.0
+500 +500
BK at ATL07:30 PMBK +6.5
O 223.0
+500 +500
CLE at TOR07:30 PMTOR +6.5
U 225.5
+500 +500
ORL at MIA07:30 PMMIA -2.0
O 208.0
+500 +500
MIL at PHI07:30 PMMIL -4.0
O 223.5
+500 +500
CHA at HOU08:00 PMHOU -8.0
O 229.5
+500 +500
CHI at NO08:00 PMNO -5.5
O 226.5
+500 +500
MEM at UTA09:00 PMUTA +2.5
O 229.0
+500 +500
GS at POR10:00 PMGS -6.0
U 222.0
+500 +500
PHO at LAC10:00 PMLAC +4.5
O 225.5
+500 +500
 

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NBA BEST BETS FOR OCTOBER !

10/23/2024.........................10 - 3 - 0....................76.92%...................+ 33.50
10/22/2024...........................2 - 2 - 0....................50.00%....................- 1.00

TOTALS:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,12 - 5 - 0....................70.58%....................+ 32.50
 

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Thursday’s 6-pack:
— Kennesaw State 27, Liberty 24- Liberty was favored by 27.5 points.
— Jacksonville State 42, MTSU 20- Gamecocks outscored MT 21-3 in 3rd quarter.
— Suns 116, Clippers 113 OT- Suns were +14 in 24:00 Royce O’Neale played.
— Grizzlies 126, Jazz 124- Ja Morant had 22 points,, ten assists.
— Pacers 115, Pistons 109- Indiana outscored Pistons 33-19 in 4th quarter.
— Hawks 120, Nets 116- Onyeka Okongwu scored a career-high 28 points.

Quote of the Day
“We are not making any changes.”
New Jersey Giants owner John Mara

Thursday’s quiz
In the old TV show Magnum PI, what holiday did Magnum always spend by himself?

Wednesday’s quiz
Last two times the New York Knicks won the NBA title, they beat the Lakers in the Finals both times.

Tuesday’s quiz
Arizona Cardinals have played in one Super Bowl; Hall of Famer Kurt Warner was their QB in that game.

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Thursday’s Den: Very early college basketball information…….

College basketball starts in 10 days…..some stuff to think about
— UConn won the last two national titles; last team to win three in a row was UCLA, way back from 1971-73. Last spring, Danny Hurley turned down a chance to coach the Lakers; he lost four starters from last year, but his Huskies are still a preseason top 10 team.

— TV/radio personality Doug Gottlieb is the new coach at Green Bay; he’s making $215,000 this year coaching, as well as continuing as host of his national radio show during the week. He was a really good TV analyst on game broadcasts.
Gottlieb played point guard at Notre Dame/Oklahoma State; his late father was a coach, and his brother is still coaching. This should be interesting to follow.

— 6-3 guard PJ Haggerty scored 21.2 ppg last year for Tulsa, more than any freshman in the country; he then bolted to Memphi$, because that’s what happens in college sports now. Rooting for smaller college teams is like rooting for the A’s or the Pirates- your best players are bolting for $$$.

— No Pac-12 this year; it’ll be back down the road, but there is one less automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament this year, and one more at-large bid. Oregon State, Washington State are playing in the WCC this year, Gonzaga’s league.

— 15 of the 18 ACC teams will be in the ACC Tournament……10 of the 13 teams in the MAAC will be in their tournament. In the past, the whole league played in their conference tournaments.

— Since 2015, six ACC teams have made it to a Final Four:
Duke, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Syracuse, Virginia

— College sports has gone mad; realignment of leagues has been to maximize $$$ from football, and basketball (and other sports) are suffering as a result.
Stanford/Cal are in the ATLANTIC Coast Conference; they’ll take two-game road trips this winter. January 15, 18th Stanford plays at Wake Forest/North Carolina; this makes no sense, and must cost schools a ton of dollar$.

Famous birthdays, October 24th:
Kevin Kline, 77
Chester Marcol, 75
Omar Moreno, 72
Jay Novacek, 62
Corey Dillon, 50
Eric Hosmer, 35
Jalen Ramsey, 30
Rafael Devers, 28
Jaylen Brown, 28
Amon-Ra St. Brown, 25

— David Patrick is a coach who has now quit as a head coach twice, to become an assistant coach somewhere else, an unusual career move.
From 2018-20, Patrick was coach at Cal-Riverside; they went 10-23/17-15 at UCR, improving from 4-12 to 7-9 in the Big West in his second year, but then he bolted to Arkansas, where he was an assistant for Eric Musselman.
The last two years, Patrick was an assistant at Sacramento State in the Big Sky, where he went 14-18/10-24 in two years. Last spring, Patrick moved on and is now an assistant at LSU.

— Only three Big East teams made the NCAA Tournament last year, the fewest amount of teams since the league re-booted in 2014. One of those teams won the national title, but St John’s and Seton Hall getting squeezed out of at-large bids was surprising.

— Eric Musselman is going to win big (eventually) at USC; he’s added 10 transfers this season, eight of them seniors. There is only one kid on USC’s team who was a Trojan last year, and he only scored 2.3 ppg last year.

— Last seven years, seven different teams have won the C0nference USA conference tournament; last 11 years, eight different teams have won the Big West tournament.

— Steve Lutz is the new coach at Oklahoma State; he was 22-12 in his one year at Western Kentucky last year, after he was 47-23, 21-11 in two years at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
Oklahoma State was 21-9 in the one year Cade Cunningham played for them, but in the three years since, Cowboys went 8-10, 4-14. 4-14 in Big X games.

— Utah State is on its sixth head coach in 11 years, which is weird because during that time, they’ve had only one losing season.

— Since 2010, Ivy League teams are a surprisingly good 8-14 in the NCAA Tournament.

Coaching carousel was in full gear this past spring:
Rob Lanier went from SMU to Rice
Andy Enfield went from USC to SMU
Eric Musselman went from Arkansas to USC
John Calipari went from Kentucky to Arkansas
Mark Pope went from BYU to Kentucky.
Kyle Smith went from Washington State to Stanford
Danny Sprinkle went from Utah State to Washington
Dusty May went from Florida Atlantic to Michigan
Pat Kelsey went from Charleston to Louisville
Former Louisville coach Chris Mack went to Charleston.
Should be a very interesting season; enjoy!!!
 

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Boston vs Washington
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Boston's last 5 games when playing Washington
Boston is 12-1 SU in its last 13 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Washington's last 5 games when playing Boston
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Washington's last 8 games

San Antonio vs Dallas
San Antonio is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games on the road
San Antonio is 9-2 ATS in its last 11 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Dallas's last 5 games
Dallas is 11-1 SU in its last 12 games when playing San Antonio

Oklahoma City vs Denver
Oklahoma City is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Denver
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oklahoma City's last 5 games when playing Denver
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Denver's last 5 games when playing Oklahoma City
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Denver's last 7 games at home

Minnesota vs Sacramento
Minnesota is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Sacramento
Minnesota is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Sacramento
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Sacramento's last 8 games
Sacramento is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games at home


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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24

GameTime(ET)PickUnits
BOS at WAS07:00 PMBOS -12.5
O 234.5
+500 +500
SA at DAL07:30 PMSA +7.5
U 229.5
+500 +500
OKC at DEN10:00 PMOKC +2.5
U 226.0
+500 +500
MIN at SAC10:00 PMSAC -1.0
U 227.5
+500 +500
 

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NBA BEST BETS FOR OCTOBER !

10/24/2024...........................3 - 3 - 0.....................50.00%..................- 1.50
10/23/2024.........................10 - 3 - 0....................76.92%...................+ 33.50
10/22/2024...........................2 - 2 - 0....................50.00%....................- 1.00

TOTALS:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,15 - 8 - 0....................65.21%....................+ 31.00
 

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Friday’s 6-pack:
Best ERA’s for starting pitchers with 20+ career playoff starts:
2.51— Jon Lester (22 starts)
2.67— John Smoltz (27)
2.71— Whitey Ford (22)
2.98— Gerrit Cole (20)
3.27— Greg Maddux (30)
3.30— Tom Glavine (35)

Quote of the Day
“All of these kids that move around in the portal, none of them are pros. There are no pros in the portal. If they were pros, they wouldn’t be in the portal. They’re all college guys looking to improve.”
Houston basketball coach Kelvin Sampson

Friday’s quiz
Oklahoma City Thunder starting playing in Oklahoma in 2008-09; before that, where did the team call home?

Thursday’s quiz
In the old TV show Magnum PI, Magnum always spent the 4th of July by himself; that was the day his father passed away, when Magnum was five years old.

Wednesday’s quiz
Last two times the New York Knicks won the NBA title, they beat the Lakers in the Finals both times.

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Friday’s Den: Doing some thinking out loud…….

— Wednesday night, Miami Heat named their home court after longtime coach/team president Pat Riley; this is his 30th year with the Miami franchise.
Riley is 1,381-805 as an NBA coach, winning five NBA titles (4 with Lakers, one with the Heat, in 2006). He also led the Knicks to the NBA Finals in 1994.
Miami has won two NBA titles with Riley as team president and Erik Spoelstra as coach; Riley was inducted into the basketball Hall of Fame in 2008.
Coach Riley is from Schenectady, NY; he went to Linton High School, in 1992, Linton merged with Mont Pleasant HS to form Schenectady High School, which is located in the former Linton facility. Coach Riley gave the school a lot of money to help refurbish the gym/locker room. The gym at Schenectady is named after him.
Long time ago (1993-2001), I spent eight years as an assistant basketball coach at Schenectady High; I was the analytics/numbers guy, the geeky coach/scout. This was the most interesting thing I’ve ever done in my life, and one of the most fun.
I was lucky to work for great people and we had really, really good players; we won state titles in 1998 and 2001. When we won the state titles, coach Riley sent us all gifts to commemorate our efforts- I’m looking at them in my living room as I type this.
Congratulations to you Coach Riley, on one of the best careers anyone has ever had. It was an honor to spend eight years working in your gym.

Rams 30, Vikings 20
Stafford was 25-34/279 passing, with four TD’s. (helps to have Kupp/Nacua healthy)
Rams outgained Minnesota, 386-276.
LA was 4-10 on third down, Vikings 2-7.
Rams scored 27-20-30 points in their wins, 20-10-18-19 in losses.
Rams are 6-3-1 ATS last ten games as a home underdog.
Vikings’ first two drives: 18 plays, 140 yards, 14 points.
Vikings’ last six drives: 30 plays, 125 yards, 2 FGs and a safety
Minnesota ran for only 64 yards; they were 2-7 on 3rd down.
WR Jefferson caught eight passes for 115 yards.
Minnesota is 4-8-1 ATS in last 13 games coming off a loss.

— Pitt 41, Syracuse 13
Panthers are 7-0 for the first time since 1982.
Pitt scored three defensive TD’s in the first half, led 31-0 at halftime.
Syracuse ran ball for only six yards on 29 carries; they threw 5 INTs in all.

— Old Dominion 47, Georgia Southern 19
Monarchs led 30-7 at half; QB Jospeh threw 4 first half TD passes.
ODU outgained Georgia Southern, 560-416.
Monarchs ran ball 41 times for 256 yards.

— Kennesaw State 27, Liberty 24
1-6 Owls were a 27-point underdog; Liberty came into the game 5-0.
This is Kennesaw State’s first-ever win as a I-A program.
Liberty had nine penalties for 100 yards.

— Jacksonville State 42, Middle Tennessee 20
QB Huff threw for 137 yards and TD, ran for 151 yards and 2 TD’s.
Gamecocks have won four games in a row for first time since 2020.
Jax State outgained the Blue Raiders, 577-365

— There was very sad news Thursday; South Florida basketball coach Amir Abdur-Rahim passed away at age 43.
Abdur-Rahim was undergoing a medical procedure at a Tampa-area hospital when he died due to complications that arose during the procedure. He is survived by his wife and three children.
Abdur-Rahim was a rising star in coaching; he built the Kennesaw State program from the ground up, going 26-9 two years ago, making the NCAAs as a 14-seed.
He then moved on to South Florida last year, went 25-8, 16-2 in the AAC.
Very sad news. RIP, sir.

Famous birthdays, October 25:
Dan Issel, 76
Dave Cowens, 76
Gifford Nielsen, 70
Mark Vlasic, 61
Pat Swilling, 60
Mike Harkey, 58
Terrell Lowery, 54
Pedro Martinez, 53
Juan Soto, 26

— Dallas Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey missed practice Wednesday for jury duty; he got a letter from the court and was selected as a juror for a felony case. In order to be removed from the jury, both sides and the judge would have to sign off and install an alternate juror.
Cowboys travel to San Francisco Saturday afternoon for their game against the 49ers; they return to Dallas early Monday morning.

— NBA has an in-season tournament starting November 12, kind of an admission that interest in the league is weak before Christmas.
Last year, the Lakers won the tournament; they raised a banner in their arena, but showed their true colors when they fired coach Davin Ham after a 47-35 season and a first-round exit from the playoffs.
If the in-season tournament had any meaning at all, no way does the coach get fired.

— Speaking of the Lakers, the G-League starts November 8; hopefully they’ll send Bronny James to play there, so the young man can play a lot and get the experience he needs.
Lebron/Bronny played a few minutes together the other night, becoming the first father/son to play on same team, but Bronny only played one year at USC— he isn’t as good as his dad, and likely never will be (who is???). He needs to play a lot to progress into an NBA-level player.

— Watching the Phoenix Suns should be fun this winter; 22 of their first 32 shots the other night were 3-pointers. Coach Mike Budenholzer likes a wide-open style, for to watch.

— Congrats to Atlanta Hawks radio announcer Steve Holman, who recently broadcast his 3,000th consecutive game for the Hawks.

— NC State QB Grayson McCall is retiring from football, after he had a concussion in a game earlier this month. He is 23 years old, played six years of college football. We wish him well.

— Carolina Panthers’ QB Andy Dalton got banged up in a car accident this week; he won’t start this week, when the 1-6 Panthers visit Denver.
2nd-year QB Bryce Young will start this week; Carolina lost 47-10/26-3 in the two games he started earlier this season, in Weeks 1-2.

— There are 134 I-A college football teams; Florida State is the only one that hasn’t scored more than 21 points in a game this season.
 

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Philadelphia vs Toronto
Philadelphia is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Toronto
Philadelphia is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Toronto
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Toronto's last 5 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Toronto's last 6 games

Brooklyn vs Orlando
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Brooklyn's last 5 games on the road
Brooklyn is 10-5 SU in its last 15 games when playing Orlando
Orlando is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games at home
Orlando is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home

Detroit vs Cleveland
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Detroit's last 8 games when playing Cleveland
The total has gone UNDER in 13 of Detroit's last 18 games on the road
Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Detroit
Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Detroit

Charlotte vs Atlanta
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Charlotte's last 7 games
Charlotte is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Atlanta
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Atlanta's last 5 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Atlanta's last 7 games

Indiana vs New York
Indiana is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games
Indiana is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing New York
The total has gone OVER in 10 of New York's last 12 games at home
New York is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games at home

Memphis vs Houston
Memphis is 10-4 SU in its last 14 games when playing Houston
The total has gone OVER in 11 of Memphis's last 16 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Houston's last 11 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Houston's last 10 games

Chicago vs Milwaukee
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Chicago's last 7 games
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Chicago's last 11 games when playing on the road against Milwaukee
Milwaukee is 12-2 SU in its last 14 games when playing at home against Chicago
Milwaukee is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Chicago

Golden State vs Utah
Golden State is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Utah
Golden State is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Utah
Utah is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Utah's last 9 games

New Orleans vs Portland
New Orleans is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Portland
New Orleans is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Portland
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Portland's last 5 games when playing at home against New Orleans
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Portland's last 11 games when playing New Orleans

Phoenix vs LA Lakers
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Phoenix's last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Phoenix's last 5 games when playing LA Lakers
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of LA Lakers's last 7 games
LA Lakers is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Phoenix


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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25

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IND at NY07:30 PMIND +5.5
O 224.5
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10/25/2024...........................0 - 2 - 0...................00.00%..................- 10.50
10/24/2024...........................3 - 3 - 0...................50.00%..................- 1.50
10/23/2024.........................10 - 3 - 0...................76.92%...................+ 33.50
10/22/2024...........................2 - 2 - 0...................50.00%...................- 1.00

TOTALS:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,15 - 10 - 0..................60.00%..................+ 20.50
 

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Saturday’s 6-pack:
NBA players who earned most $$$ last year (salary + endorsements)
$155.8M— Steph Curry
$133.7M— Lebron James
$103.7M— Giannis Antetokounmpo
$97.9M— Kevin Durant
$66.8M— Damian Lillard
$59.4M— Joel Embiid/Nikola Jokic

Quote of the Day
“Definitely every player wants to be happy where they’re at. And at the end of the day, whenever you win, you’re going to be really happy. So wherever you are that you have a chance to win a championship, you’re going to be excited to play for them. I think that’s the biggest thing.”
Free agent-to-be Juan Soto

Saturday’s quiz
What was the last team to win a World Series four games to none?

Friday’s quiz
Oklahoma City Thunder starting playing in Oklahoma in 2008-09; before that, they were the Seattle SuperSonics.

Thursday’s quiz
In the old TV show Magnum PI, Magnum always spent the 4th of July by himself; that was the day his father passed away, when Magnum was five years old.

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Saturday’s Den: Wrapping up a busy Friday night…….

— Quite a night in Los Angeles Friday:
Game 1, World Series
Suns-Lakers
Rutgers-USC
East LA Classic at SoFi Stadium (HS football)
Bosco at Mater Dei at Santa Ana Stadium (HS football)
Concert at the Intuit Dome

Famous birthdays, October 25:
Jaclyn Smith, 79
Pat Sajak, 78
Toby Harrah, 76
Mike Hargrove, 75
Rita Wilson, 68
Dylan McDermott, 63
Nick Collison, 44
Francisco Liriano, 41
Monta Ellis, 39

— Minnesota Vikings LT Christian Darrisaw tore up his knee Thursday night, is out for the year. He got hurt on the last play of the first half.

— The longest TD pass in Detroit Lions history happened in 1966, Karl Sweetan to Pat Studstill for 99 yards in a 45-14 loss to the Baltimore Colts. Sweetan/Studstill later wound up as teammates on the Rams in 1969-70.
Studstill wound up having a brief career as an actor; he was in four episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard and an episode of Magnum PI. All in all, he has 12 acting credits on IMDB.

— 6-8 F Guerschon Yabusele plays for the 76ers; he’s scored 19 points in their first two games this season.
From 2017-19, Yabusele played in 74 games for the Celtics, scoring 2.3 ppg in 6.6 minutes/game; he spent the next five years playing pro ball, in China, France, Spain.
My point in this; it is REALLY HARD to make it onto an NBA roster. Lot of really good players make six-figure salaries playing overseas.

— Last season, every team in the NBA took at least 35% of their shots behind the 3-point arc; as recently as ten years ago, no NBA team took 35% of their shots behind the arc.

— NFL teams take out insurance policies on player contracts; if Browns QB Deshaun Watson can’t play next year because of his achilles injury, that $46M is almost entirely insured. On his salary this year, only $13.9M of it appears to be insured.

Movie of the Day: Random Hearts (1999)- A police sergeant and U.S. Representative both lose their spouses in a plane crash, and they soon discover that their spouses were having an affair with each other.
Harrison Ford is the policeman, Kristin Scott Thomas is the politician; this is a very good movie but obviously it is sad too, since two people dying also uncovered their chicanery.
Several good character actors (Paul Guilfoyle from CSI, for one) are also in the movie.

— You know you’re watching an old movie when a guy goes in a bar and asks the bartender for change of a dollar, so he can go use a pay phone.

— Arkansas visits Kentucky February 1st; should be good theater, with John Calipari going back to the arena where he made four Final 4’s and won a national title.

— Top 7 mid-major college basketball teams:
Gonzaga
Memphis
Boise State
Virginia Commonwealth
Dayton
Saint Mary’s
Grand Canyon

— I’m debating buying the NBA TV package, so I can watch any game I want; it isn’t expensive, it isn’t that, it just that it bugs me that guys who are making over $500,000/game aren’t going to play both ends of a back/back. Not that difficult, just play ball.
I also prefer college ball to the NBA, so once that starts my attention will be there; college kids play in conference tournaments- they don’t take games off when they play on consecutive days.

— 20 years ago, Iowa actually won a football game 6-4 at Penn State; Hawkeyes outgained the Nittany Lions, 168-147; they were +3 in turnovers. Teams combined to go 10-36 on third down, and each team punted seven times.
Penn State scored two safeties; the second one was intentional, with 8:11 left.
 

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LA Clippers vs Denver
The total has gone OVER in 4 of LA Clippers's last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of LA Clippers's last 8 games when playing Denver
Denver is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against LA Clippers
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Denver's last 8 games at home

Miami vs Charlotte
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Miami's last 9 games on the road
Miami is 11-2 SU in its last 13 games when playing Charlotte
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Charlotte's last 8 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Charlotte's last 6 games at home

Cleveland vs Washington
Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Washington
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Cleveland's last 6 games when playing Washington
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Washington's last 6 games when playing at home against Cleveland
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Washington's last 6 games when playing Cleveland

Boston vs Detroit
Boston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Detroit
Boston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Detroit
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Detroit's last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Detroit's last 14 games when playing at home against Boston

Oklahoma City vs Chicago
Oklahoma City is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Chicago
Oklahoma City is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Chicago's last 8 games
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Chicago's last 12 games when playing Oklahoma City

Orlando vs Memphis
Orlando is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Orlando's last 5 games
Memphis is 14-2 SU in its last 16 games when playing at home against Orlando
Memphis is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Orlando

Toronto vs Minnesota
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Toronto's last 7 games
Toronto is 10-3 SU in its last 13 games when playing Minnesota
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Minnesota's last 6 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Minnesota's last 11 games when playing at home against Toronto

Houston vs San Antonio
Houston is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing San Antonio
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Houston's last 11 games
San Antonio is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 4 of San Antonio's last 5 games at home

Dallas vs Phoenix
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Dallas's last 6 games
Dallas is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Phoenix
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Phoenix's last 7 games
The total has gone UNDER in 12 of Phoenix's last 15 games at home

Sacramento vs LA Lakers
Sacramento is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing LA Lakers
Sacramento is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing LA Lakers
LA Lakers is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of LA Lakers's last 8 games


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GameTime(ET)PickUnits
LAC at DEN05:00 PMLAC +8.5
U 219.5
+500 +500
CLE at WAS07:00 PMU 228.5+500
BOS at DET07:00 PMBOS -13.5
U 228.5
+500 +500
MIA at CHA07:00 PMCHA +5.5
O 224.5
+500 +500
TOR at MIN08:00 PMTOR +14.5
O 219.5
+500 +500
ORL at MEM08:00 PMMEM -1.5
O 224.5
+500 +500
OKC at CHI08:00 PMOKC -9.5
O 231.5
+500 +500
HOU at SA08:30 PMSA +1.5
O 222.5
+500 +500
DAL at PHO10:00 PMDAL -2.5
U 231.5
+500 +500
SAC at LAL10:30 PMSAC +1.5
U 229.5
+500 +500
 

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