Article is focused on gambling in football. Please contact 1-800-GAMBLER for help related to addiction Recently Barstool Sports posted a story on a fellow who parlayed a mere 89 cents on 20 different football matchups. The first 19 were successful and all that was needed was a Washington Redskins win on Monday Night football. The…
The 2019 Major League Baseball postseason will highlight two teams entrenched at the bottom of the yearly payroll rankings. Resources for the Oakland Athletics and Tampa Bay Rays tend to be scarce in comparison to the juggernauts that perch at the top of the payroll rankings. Baseball does not have a set salary cap, meaning…
Something is different with the baseballs being hit in 2019. Commissioner Rob Manfred has vehemently denied this. Claiming that no changes were made in order to benefit the offensive player. The players say differently. Many pitchers have come out and stated the ball clearly benefits offense. They cite pitches normally “safe” as balls that are…
Take a walk through the Boroughs of New York City and with the exception of Brooklyn, you will run into astronomically more Knicks fans than Nets. New York basketball, and the Knicks, have been embedded into American sports culture. So much so that Madison Square Garden is commonly referred to as the mecca of basketball.…
On June 25th, Stu Sternberg the principal owner of the Tampa Bay Rays, announced the revolutionary idea of a shared team concept with the city of Montreal. The idea is to split home games early in the season in Tampa Bay then later in the season with Montreal. The Rays owner thinks that the volume…
A few weeks back the initial All-Star voting for Major League Baseball was released and one player in particular was not happy about the results. Tommy Pham, who is having a magnificent year, griped “We won’t get credit, man,” Rays outfielder told The Athletic in a story published Wednesday. “It’s always unfair. Big market vs. small…
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QB Trevor Lawrence / SO / Clemson Others receiving votes: Tua Tagovailoa / JR / Alabama Justin Herbert / SR / Oregon Adrian Martinez / SO / Nebraska Jalen Hurts / SR / Oklahoma RB Travis Etienne / JR / Clemson Jonathan Taylor / JR / Wisconsin Others receiving votes: AJ Dillon / JR /…
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College football couldn’t have picked a better game to start the football season in 2019. Ignore the fact I bleed orange and green, but Florida vs Miami is a game that should be a yearly contest. Oh wait! It used to be until Florida tucked their tail between their legs and wanted Miami off of…
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Does modern day infatuation with “pitch counts” really help to prevent arm injuries? The question mentioned above opens up many new questions to ponder. To quickly answer it, I will say that preserving a player’s arm goes much deeper than tracking and monitoring their pitch count. Any casual baseball fan will tell you that if…
Hitting a baseball is not easy. In fact, it is one of the hardest tasks to do in all of sports. In this art, you can fail 70 percent of the time and still be considered a quality hitter. Historically speaking, quite a few of these hitters were built upon pulling the baseball and made…
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