College Hoops Betting Preview: Kentucky at South Carolina

Top-ranked Kentucky will try and remain unbeaten as they face South Carolina on Tuesday (9:00 p.m. ET, ESPN). The Wildcats are the only unbeaten team in the country at 19-0. They routed Arkansas on Saturday and seem to be getting better as the season goes along. “I think we would have beat any team (Saturday). [...]

College Hoops Betting Preview: Georgetown at Syracuse

Syracuse will try and continue their home dominance over Georgetown as the two teams meet in Big Monday action on ESPN (7:00 p.m. ET). The Orange have won 10 of their last 11 at home against the Hoyas and are favored to do so again in this game. Syracuse is listed as a 6-point favorite [...]

NFC Championship Betting Preview: Vikings at Saints

The two highest scoring teams in the NFL meet on Sunday in the NFC Championship Odds game with the winner headed to the Super Bowl (6:40 p.m. ET, FOX). It is a matchup of high-profile quarterbacks with Brett Favre leading Minnesota while Drew Brees leads the Saints. Favre threw three TD passes last week in [...]

NFC Championship: Betting options and analysis

While the AFC championship features greenhorn Mark Sanchez against wily vet Peyton Manning, the NFC title game will see two experienced QBs going head to head when Drew Brees faces off with Brett Favre. (6:40 p.m. ET, FOX) Heading into Sunday’s tilt, online sportsbooks have Brees’ New Orleans Saints listed as 3.5-point home favorites and [...]

AFC Championship Betting Preview: Jets at Colts

It will be a David vs. Goliath-like battle when the Final 2 from the AFC battle for the Lamar Hunt Trophy on Sunday. The Indianapolis Colts, who are “supposed to be in the AFC title game,” will host the New York Jets, who “weren’t even supposed to make the playoffs” (3:00 p.m. ET, CBS) On [...]

AFC Championship: Betting options and analysis

While Sunday’s AFC championship game between the Indianapolis Colts and the New York Jets is a rematch of a game played just a month ago, just how much we can take from that first encounter between these two teams is debatable. Indy played half that game with its starters, and half that game at about [...]

2010 NFL Playoff Odds: AFC & NFC Championships

By Richard Gardner, Bodog Sportsbook Manager For the first time since the 2004 season, we will see the No. 1 seeds in each conference playing on the NFL’s championship weekend. Both of those seeds, the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts, won and covered the spread easily in the divisional round last weekend. Unfortunately, we [...]

Home field less of an advantage in Conference Title Games

This is it, the final weekend of games before the Super Bowl. The last month we’ve been hearing about playoff seedings, bye weeks and home-field advantage. Are all those things really important? Historically it has been during the second round of the playoffs. Teams with the bye have home-field advantage and two weeks to prepare, [...]

With softies knocked out, the real NFL Playoffs begin

“You can look at the 13-0 Saints, or the ones that finished the season 0-3, and we know that we’re the 13-0 Saints, ” quarterback Drew Brees said this weekend. “And we played like that.” Sure, they played like that in whipping the Cardinals, 45-14. But hold on, Drew: Arizona was banged up badly in [...]

NFL Conference Championships: Video Previews and Picks

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