New Year’s is almost upon us, with several major championships coming up and a lot to engage the excitement of fans and sports bettors in 2016. We’ll keep providing those who utilize our handicapping consulting services with picks to enhance their pocketbook, but for now we’d like to take one last moment to look back […]
Should We Begin Paying College Athletes?
For quite some time, there has been a debate regarding whether or not we should begin paying college athletes. Not only do many of them work hard for the sole benefit of eventually going pro, but their performance tends to bring the school quite a bit of money. When we recently discussed college football teams […]
Hall of Fame Candidates Worth Discussing
A recent article posted by ESPN examines how legitimate each Hall of Fame is in regards to the four major sports of baseball, basketball, football, and hockey. To come to their conclusions, they used a number of factors such as the likelihood of any one specific player making the Hall of Fame due to the […]
Academic Fraud Cases of 2015
If you don’t pass, then you don’t play. It’s one of the most fundamental rules in college sports, helping to ensure that student athletes work hard to maintain their scholarships and don’t skate by without focusing on their education. Unfortunately, the rules don’t always work out precisely the way they’re supposed to. And while there […]
Sports Betting for Beginners – Basketball
The NCAA Division I Tournament is over, and anyone who bet on the Duke Blue Devils is rolling in the dough while people who wagered their hard-earned cash on this year’s sure thing, the Kentucky Wildcats, are pulling extra shifts to make up for their loss after the team failed to even make it through […]
Final Four Preview 2015
The Division I quarterfinals are taking place in Indianapolis this weekend, after which this year’s nail-biting, bracket-busting tournament will finally reach its climax. There has been a lot of speculation regarding which two teams of this year’s Final Four will make it to the championship, and it’s definitely a fair toss-up between them. Many are […]
Roadblocks to Kentucky’s Championship
Now that the first four in have been decided (Hampton, Dayton, Robert Morris and Ole Miss), Round 2 of the Division I championship is underway. Even with more than sixty great teams on the bracket this year, one team remains at the forefront of everyone’s mind: the Kentucky Wildcats. They managed to get through the […]
March Madness Seeding – Elite 8 Breakdown
Selection Sunday is fast approaching. It has been a little while since we made our Final Four predictions, and there have been some changes in most prediction brackets. Teams like Kentucky and Duke tend to stay pretty solid in the public eye, and even the lineups for the first round have remained intact on most […]
March Madness Final Four Predictions
We’re still a long way off from Selection Sunday, so it’s anyone’s guess who we’re going to see competing in March Madness this year. While everyone has their top picks, technically anything can happen between now and the end of conference season. Let’s take a look at some bracket predictions this year, leading up to […]
Should the NCAA Pay Players?
“Billions and billions made”; that could easily be the slogan underneath the NCAA sign in Indianapolis. Because they’re often said to have a mint they can print money from. Overwhelmingly the thing that infuriates people more than anything when it comes to college athletics governing body is the hypocrisy that comes about when talking about […]
