Sporting News

NCAA Commissioner’s Office Sandbagging On Johnny Football

NCAA investigators had Texas A&M Quarterback Johnny Manziel in for questioning over the weekend in a session that lasted almost 6 hours. As expected, Manziel denied taking money for signing autographs. According to unconfirmed reports, Johnny Football signed his name more than 4,400 times in six sessions for memorabilia dealers at the beginning of 2013.  I don’t know about you, …

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by admin on August 29th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Pete Rose Picked The Wrong Vice

How come Alex Rodriguez is still playing baseball and Pete Rose is banned for life?  For life sounds like a long time, right? I mean, Rose still holds the record of the all time Major League Baseball leader in hits with 4,256 although he only played in 3,562 games.  Pete Rose won three World Series rings and three batting titles. …

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by admin on August 15th, 2013 Leave a comment »

The Johnny Manziel Odyssey Polarizing Fans & Writers

Fans, writers and commentators are lining up on opposite sides of the field either supporting or damning Johnny Manziel with words and speculation. One national TV sports commentator recently proposed that if the NCAA continued its relentless pursuit of Manziel for relatively minor offences… perhaps the SEC will secede from the NCAA and still count on 30 million TV viewers …

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by admin on August 14th, 2013 Leave a comment »

The Dodgers Are On A Roll

Before the recent 4 game series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Dodgers, there were many who speculated that this series could well be a preview to the pending National League title games. Of course the Pirates and the Braves could also enter into that picture.  Pittsburg currently leads the Cards by 4 games and are the …

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by admin on August 10th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Blackhawks Beat The Odds & Win The Cup

Professional Ice Hockey is a fast moving, occasionally brutal, sport which attracts its own base of fans that describe term ‘fanatic’.  The entire game can go by with those big guys sliding up and down the ice rink chasing a little black disk called a puck but without anyone actually putting the puck in the net. Maybe they just can’t …

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by admin on June 25th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Heavy Handle On The Hockey Championship For 2013

Professional Ice Hockey has got to be one of the wildest sports on the agenda today. Coming from a place where no ice forms and there were no ice rinks, I never could make much sense of it until I started watching the playoffs for the Stanley Cup this year. The first conclusion that I came to was that ‘these …

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by admin on June 24th, 2013 Leave a comment »

The Golden Nugget Puts Up Early Lines For College Football

Tony Miller, the director of the SportsBook at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas, has already put up opening lines on next years’ NCAA college football games.  Miller said in an interview that the book received more action in the first hour after opening the lines than they received on the whole first day of action last year. In …

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by admin on June 20th, 2013 Leave a comment »

LVH Superbook Announces The 2013 Pro Football Supercontest

One of the biggest, most attractive, options available for bettors just itching to get in on the maximum NFL wagering experience is to be found at the LVH SuperBook in Las Vegas.  The Vice President on LVH, Jay Kornegay, said in a recent interview, “The LVH SuperContest is the most prestigious pro football handicapping contest in the world.” LVH SuperBook …

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by admin on June 19th, 2013 Leave a comment »

Nevada Closes Sports Wagering Kiosks In Bars & Pubs

It became very clear recently just who controls the real power with the Nevada Legislature.  The ‘Big Guys’, which in Nevada means the big casinos, have called the shots once more and convinced the lawmakers to strike down a system that has been working well for the past couple of years in the state of Nevada. It allows bettors to …

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by admin on June 14th, 2013 Leave a comment »

The Mad Hatter Takes The Over

All work stopped for a while at the 24 story One American Place Building in downtown Baton Rouge as the people inside the offices rushed to the glass walls with cameras in hand to take pictures of some nut rappelling down the side of the building in the middle of the morning. Wait a minute, that’s a nut alright… but …

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by admin on June 13th, 2013 Leave a comment »