- The Greatest Week in Sports? Ever
If you are a gambling girl or guy ? I?m wondering where are you will putting your money over the next few days ? because you certainly have a lot of options.
Like all of them.
Starting this Wednesday, sports fans are going to be in a stretch that is unprecedented in the history of like, ever. That?s because every major league sport that there is, is underway one way or another.
Due to the way the calendar fell, Major League Baseball got kinda screwed up. They like their post-season to start on either the first Tuesday or Wednesday of October, but this year October 1st happened to be a Thursday so everything got pushed back a week until October 7th ? which is way later than usual.
Now, combine that with the NBA, which, due to a calendar quirk of their own are starting up on the 27th which is earlier than usual, you get a rare confluence of events equivalent to a mom having octuplets during a full eclipse of the sun ? while not even knowing she was pregnant.
For what is probably the only instance in your lifetime, MLB, NFL, NBA, and the NHL are all playing games that count, all at the same time.
But wait, there?s more. Come this Sunday you?re going to be so overloaded you?d better start working out your clicker finger - otherwise there will be cramping.
On November 1st the Sony Ericcson Championships final will most likely decide who will be the No. 1 woman tennis player in the World for 2009. A WTA Men?s Final from Lyon is also being played. The PGA tour is still on (believe it or not) with the final round of something called the Viking Classic. There is also the 7th race in NASCAR?s chase, the AMP Energy 500 at Talladega. Then there?s the final race of the F-1 season. And if that?s not enough, the MLS play-offs get underway with David Beckham making his first post-season appearance.
That means the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, PGA, ATP, WTA, MLS, F-1 and NASCAR are all in action.
So ? what to watch? F-1? Probably not as it?s already over except for that psycho high-pitched whining. WTA? Win or lose Serena is No. 1 for the year so there?s no real point. NASCAR? Don?t bother, Jimmy Johnson will win. PGA? Seriously - how can something be called The Viking ?Classic? if no one has ever heard of it? There?s an original six matchup between the Rangers and the Bruins which might peak your interest. Or you could tune in the Raptors vs. the Magic for a taste of the NBA early on in the day. Or not.
Nope, let?s face it, despite all your varied options, for most of the day you?ll be watching the NFL because if you do like to lay the occasional wager on a game, you?d be crazy to spend your time anywhere else.
This year?s NFL season has been nothing short of sports betting Mecca. Forget the Dow going over 10,000. For this season thus far, betting the favorites in the NFL has been as close to a sure thing as there?s been for a long, long while.
Just look at last Sunday: The Patriots were 15 ?-point favorites over Tampa Bay on the road in London. They beat them 35-7. The Colts were 14-point road favorites over St Louis. They whacked ?em 42-6. Green Bay were 9-point road favorites over the Brown. It was a 31-3 beating.
All told the favorites went 8-3-1 against the spread. As for those lovable losers, the Buccaneers, Rams and Browns are a combined 1-20 straight up and 6-15 against the spread this season.
Ouch!
Regardless of what you choose to focus on, the whole day is going to be nothing short of epic: From long before dawn to way after midnight on Sunday you can avail yourself of the greatest variety of sports you?ll ever get to see outside of an Olympic games.
The only difference being, you?ll actually care about these ones.
Cheers ? Gavin McDougald ? AKA Couch
If you are a gambling girl or guy ? I?m wondering where are you will putting your money over the next few days ? because you certainly have a lot of options.
Like all of them.
Starting this Wednesday, sports fans are going to be in a stretch that is unprecedented in the history of like, ever. That?s because every major league sport that there is, is underway one way or another.
Due to the way the calendar fell, Major League Baseball got kinda screwed up. They like their post-season to start on either the first Tuesday or Wednesday of October, but this year October 1st happened to be a Thursday so everything got pushed back a week until October 7th ? which is way later than usual.
Now, combine that with the NBA, which, due to a calendar quirk of their own are starting up on the 27th which is earlier than usual, you get a rare confluence of events equivalent to a mom having octuplets during a full eclipse of the sun ? while not even knowing she was pregnant.
For what is probably the only instance in your lifetime, MLB, NFL, NBA, and the NHL are all playing games that count, all at the same time.
But wait, there?s more. Come this Sunday you?re going to be so overloaded you?d better start working out your clicker finger - otherwise there will be cramping.
On November 1st the Sony Ericcson Championships final will most likely decide who will be the No. 1 woman tennis player in the World for 2009. A WTA Men?s Final from Lyon is also being played. The PGA tour is still on (believe it or not) with the final round of something called the Viking Classic. There is also the 7th race in NASCAR?s chase, the AMP Energy 500 at Talladega. Then there?s the final race of the F-1 season. And if that?s not enough, the MLS play-offs get underway with David Beckham making his first post-season appearance.
That means the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, PGA, ATP, WTA, MLS, F-1 and NASCAR are all in action.
So ? what to watch? F-1? Probably not as it?s already over except for that psycho high-pitched whining. WTA? Win or lose Serena is No. 1 for the year so there?s no real point. NASCAR? Don?t bother, Jimmy Johnson will win. PGA? Seriously - how can something be called The Viking ?Classic? if no one has ever heard of it? There?s an original six matchup between the Rangers and the Bruins which might peak your interest. Or you could tune in the Raptors vs. the Magic for a taste of the NBA early on in the day. Or not.
Nope, let?s face it, despite all your varied options, for most of the day you?ll be watching the NFL because if you do like to lay the occasional wager on a game, you?d be crazy to spend your time anywhere else.
This year?s NFL season has been nothing short of sports betting Mecca. Forget the Dow going over 10,000. For this season thus far, betting the favorites in the NFL has been as close to a sure thing as there?s been for a long, long while.
Just look at last Sunday: The Patriots were 15 ?-point favorites over Tampa Bay on the road in London. They beat them 35-7. The Colts were 14-point road favorites over St Louis. They whacked ?em 42-6. Green Bay were 9-point road favorites over the Brown. It was a 31-3 beating.
All told the favorites went 8-3-1 against the spread. As for those lovable losers, the Buccaneers, Rams and Browns are a combined 1-20 straight up and 6-15 against the spread this season.
Ouch!
Regardless of what you choose to focus on, the whole day is going to be nothing short of epic: From long before dawn to way after midnight on Sunday you can avail yourself of the greatest variety of sports you?ll ever get to see outside of an Olympic games.
The only difference being, you?ll actually care about these ones.
Cheers ? Gavin McDougald ? AKA Couch
