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Golf fans everywhere are excited to witness this year’s Masters Golf Tournament that begins in April. The Masters Golf Tournament is one of the longest running sports tournaments that’s been around for fans to enjoy since the early 1930s. The tournament will take place this year in Augusta, Georgia at the Augusta National Golf Club and as always will bring with it many of the top golfers in the sport. There’s one thing everyone is talking about with this upcoming tournament, however, and that’s Tiger Woods.
Experts everywhere are betting on Tiger Woods this year at the tournament after he’s proven that he’s more than willing and capable of getting back into the game. Woods has been able to put ten wins under his belt since November of 2009 and he’s only got one more tournament left in his schedule at the Arnold Palmer Invitational before he’s ready to put all he’s got into the tournament in April. He’s won the Arnold Palmer Invitational several times in the past and now he’s ready to kick it into gear at the Masters.
While some people speculate that his good fortunate at the Invitational and the Cadillac Championship has left him with nowhere to go but spiraling downward, the fact of the matter is that Tiger Woods is looking much better than he has in years. It’s not completely out of the question that he might take the Masters by storm with his two earlier successes only just being a small taste of what’s to come from him.
The only thing that Tiger Woods needs to work on to be completely back on par with what he used to be is to get his weekend play times under control. He hasn’t been doing so well in that department lately, but it looks like he’s en route to fix those issues as well. It’s safe to say that it won’t be very surprising if Tiger Woods ends up winning the Masters – everyone’s already expecting it.
There are many great names appearing at the tournament this April, but no one has created as much buzz as Tiger Woods. With two big wins already on his sleeve this year, there’s no reason why anyone should believe that he won’t be able to take the Masters as well. He’s got not only his skills back, but he’s also been able to retain his confidence, which will go a very long way to helping him win this April.
Ever since the end of the football season, Sunday has been a day for a lot of the top teams in the league to face off in some marquee matchups. The big ones this Sunday are all games that we think the road team is going to be the right side to back.
The Boston Celtics have played well of late, picking up four straight wins and covers going against teams from all over the league. They’ve got the Oklahoma City Thunder on the road on Sunday, and that’s a game that probably won’t be won. Still, these gritty teams that play stellar defense have given the Thunder fits all year long, and Boston is probably going to be another one of those that sticks around until the final gun sounds.
Later in the afternoon, the Chicago Bulls are traveling to the Staples Center to face off with the always-overrated Los Angeles Lakers. Again, we have a team at home that is likely to be favored on the NBA odds against a team that is a pain defensively. C Joakim Noah can neutralize C Dwight Howard, and if that turns out to be the case, the rest of the game could be wide open. Can G Kobe Bryant do it all against a great defense? If the answer is no, Chicago can win this one outright.
And finally, the Miami Heat figure to have a 17-game winning streak headed into Sunday’s soiree with the Indiana Pacers. Miami has the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday night, a game that shouldn’t be problematic, but coming home to face Indiana might be a different story. The Pacers have already picked up a win this year against the boys from South Beach, and they are looking to send a real message to what could be their foe in the Eastern Conference Finals. Could this be the day that the Heat finally fall? Perhaps it will, and perhaps it won’t, but either way, we want the points on our side.
Mike Piazza, the greatest hitting catcher in the history of baseball, is best known for his time with the LA Dodgers from 1992-1998 and NY Mets from 1998-2005. LONG SHOT; (Feb. 12, 2013) is PIazza’s candid, surprising, inspiring, autobiography. From his inauspicious draft selection to the achievements that earned him 58% of the Hall of Fame vote on his first appearance on the ballot. Long Shot provides invaluable insight on the most controversial era in Major League Baseball. Piazza addresses many of the controversies that dogged his career including his confrontation with Roger Clemens, rumors of being gay, and the steroid controversy that hovered over the sport. He describes the thrill of his game-winning home run on September 21, 2011, the first sporting event in New York after 9/11 and adjusting to life after baseball.
MV Note: Overall, this is a great book. Very candid description of Piazza and his place in baseball history. A must read for baseball fans! Buy it today on Amazon.
The rumor mill is always swirling, and as we get closer and closer to the trade deadline, there are teams that have to make up their minds whether they are buyers or sellers. There are some trades that have already happened and some that could happen any moment now.
The seemingly pending deal is the one involving Carlos Boozer of the Chicago Bulls and Andrea Bargnani of the Toronto Raptors. The Italian has made it known that he has wanted out of Toronto in the past, but he also might be helped out with the Rudy Gay trade. Boozer would bring the team a big frontline starter though, and the Bulls would get the swingman that they really need to add to a team that already has a lot of bigs for the stretch run. If we had to make our NBA predictions, this would be the first trade that we would say is going to happen.
The price on JJ Redick took a hit when he banged up his shoulder, an injury that has cost him back to back games for the Orlando Magic. Redick is going to be the most tradable asset that the Magic have, and since they are going nowhere in a hurry, they need to unload everything that they’ve got. This is a man that will be on the move by the deadline.
Two players that are rumored to not be going anywhere are Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. GM Danny Ainge has declared that there is virtually no chance that either of these cornerstones of the Boston Celtics will be traded by the deadline. With as well as the C’s are playing with five straight wins, it seems as though he is going to go for it again and try to make the trade to help the team now, instead of later.
The Iona Gaels were a tremendous oddity in 2011-12, as they made it to the NCAA Tournament as an at-large bid out of the Metro Atlantic. There won’t be an at large this year from this conference, as there will be just one ticket to the dance, and the Gaels and the Marist Red Foxes try to improve their positioning in conference play when they meet on Thursday night.
Marist is likely the worst team this year in the MAAC at just 5-18, and the club hasn’t won a game since January 19th. Since that point, the Red Foxes are just 1-3 ATS and 0-4 SU, and they have averaged just 59.5 points per game. The team isn’t particularly deep, as five players played all but a total of 10 minutes against the Rider Broncs on Sunday. However, the club only has two legitimate scorers in G Chavaughn Lewis (15.4 PPG) and G Devin Price (14.0 PPG).
As a result, it’s a lot easier to make free college basketball picks on the Gaels. Yes, they have lost two in a row, but both defeats at the hands of the Niagara Purple Eagles and Canisius Golden Griffins came on the road in crushing fashion, as the two losses came by a total of just six points. Prior to that, Iona had covered four out of five.
The Gaels are led by G Lamont Jones, who is good for 21.9 points per game. He is one of the top scorers in the country, and he is the man that is responsible for this 5-1 ATS mark that Iona has this year while playing in New Rochelle.
Iona is set to run up and down the floor in this one once again, as it is averaging 81.8 points per game.
Earlier this year, the Red Foxes gave the Gaels everything they could handle in an 86-82 defeat. Marist was a 9 ½-point underdog in that game that stuck in front of the spread.
Once upon a time, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights were an 11-3 team that looked like it had the ability to get into the NCAA Tournament. However, they have since lost five out of six and four in a row, and they badly need to sweep these next three games in Piscataway starting with the visit from the Louisville Cardinals on Wednesday night.
The NCAA basketball betting lines are going to feature the Scarlet Knights as heavy underdogs in this game, though the number won’t be quite as bad thanks to the fact that Louisville has been struggling as well. The Cards only finally snapped a four-game ATS skid when they knocked off the Marquette Golden Eagles by 19 points over the weekend at the KFC Yum! Arena.
The real question in this game is going to be whether Rutgers can figure out how to score against the stout Cardinals’ defense. Louisville is conceding just 57.6 points per game this year, and clubs are shooting only 39.9 percent from the field against it. The Scarlet Knights have failed to score more than 60 points in three straight games.
Interestingly enough, the Scarlet Knights’ top two scorers, G Eli Carter and G Myles Mack both come off of a very deep bench. They have a legitimate nine players in their rotation, and they are going to have to use all nine effectively to win this game.
Rutgers has another big problem in this game, and that’s its all-time history in this series. These two have met six times since the 2007-08 season, and the Scarlet Knights have lost all six times SU and five of the six from an ATS standpoint. There have been some ugly results, including here in Piscataway. The most recent meeting in the Garden State ended with a 55-37 win for the visiting Cardinals.
The Syracuse Orange will put their perfect record in the Big East on the line when they travel to take on the Villanova Wildcats on Saturday. The Orange are 18-1 overall and 5-0 out of the gate in conference play, while Villanova brings in an overall mark of 12-7 and 3-3 in the Big East.
Syracuse may be playing the best basketball in the country at present and are positioning themselves to be a No. 1 seed . The Orange, which are an excellent 10-5 against the spread this season, is coming off consecutive two-point wins over then-No. 1 Louisville last weekend and Cincinnati on Monday.
Villanova had lost three straight in the Big East before also beating Louisville, 73-64 as an 11-point road underdog, on Tuesday. The Wildcats are led by forward Jay Vaughn Pinkston, who is among three players averaging double-digits in points for the Villanova.
Friday night is a light night on the collegiate hardwood, but it’s also a night where the Metro Atlantic will star, as the Manhattan Jaspers take on the Loyola Maryland Greyhounds at Draddy Gym.
It would appear that making NCAA basketball picks on the Greyhounds would be the right call to make, knowing that they are in second place in the MAAC, going 5-1 SU and 4-2 ATS in six conference games. We’re not really all that sure against the Jaspers, though.
Manhattan has been losing games, but losing them in close fashion. The team hasn’t been beaten by more than nine points in conference play yet this year, and it does have an upset over the St. Peter’s Peacocks at the outset of the MAAC campaign. The Jaspers are also 5-1 ATS in spite of their 1-5 SU record since the conference schedule started on January 4th.
Saturday is headlined by a huge Big East matchup pitting No. 6 Syracuse at No. 1 Louisville. These teams have combined 32-2 to start the season. Louisville, which is led by the dynamic guard tandem of Peyton Siva and Russ Smith, ascended to No. 1for just the second time in the program’s history this week following wins against South Florida and Connecticut. They have beaten the number in their last three games. Syracuse, which is an excellent 9-4 against the spread, is led by leading scorer Brandon Triche. Three other games pit Top 25 teams on Saturday—No. 11 Ohio State at No. 17 Michigan State; No. 16 Missouri at No. 11 Florida; and No. 8 Gonzaga at No. 13 Butler. Ohio State (13-3) handed arch-rival Michigan its first loss of season of this season earlier this week, while Michigan State (15-3) has won four straight since losing its Big 10 opener to highly-regarded Minnesota. Florida (12-2) has won five straight games and brings in a perfect 7-0 record at “The Swamp.” Missouri (13-3) suffered its first SEC loss at the hands of Ole Miss earlier this week, but rebounded nicely with a sharp 79-62 win over Georgia as a 13-point favorite Thursday.
All of these teams figure to make plenty of noise later this year when filling out your March Madness bracket picks.
