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  • Saturday's Trends and Indexes - 10/18 (General News and Notes)

    Trends and Indexes

    Saturday, October 18

    Good Luck on day #291 of 2014!

    At this time, the sports menu in this thread consists of MLB, NHL and CFL until their seasons are played out. Also, general sports news and notes will be posted.

    NOTE:
    As information becomes available, we will attempt to post the trends and indexes as soon as possible.
    Information is posted from what we believe are reliable sources.
    Any opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the posting member or BettorsChat.


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  • #2
    Armadillo: Saturday's six-pack

    Some college football knowledge to ponder with Week 7 upon us........

    -- UCLA lost its last seven visits to Berkeley, losing last five by 14+ points each

    -- K-State covered 10 of its last 11 games as a road underdog- they’re 13-2 overall as an underdog anywhere since 2011.

    -- FSU is 18-9-1 overall as home favorites under Fisher. Notre Dame is 5-2 as road underdogs under Kelly

    -- Favorites covered five of last six Purdue-Minnesota games.

    -- Georgia Tech won 14 of its last 16 games with North Carolina, winning last five (4-0-1 vs spread).

    -- Tulane scored total of 31 points in last three games; favorites covered all six of their games.

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    Armadillo: Saturday's List of 13: Random thoughts on an autumn day.....

    13) Seattle traded Percy Harvin to the Jets Friday, which says to me that Jets' GM John Idzik ain't getting fired. If the owner was going to can the GM, why would he let him trade a draft choice the next GM might want to use next spring?

    From what you read, Harvin isn't a great teammate; he's missed 27 of 85 games in his career, has been traded twice already and wasn't popular in Seattle's locker room.

    12) UCLA's basketball team still can't practice at Pauley Pavilion, 2.5 months after a water main break flooded the historic arena.

    11) Want to feel old? Sam Cassell Jr. is a player at UConn; his dad is an assistant coach for the Clippers these days.

    10) Apparently the Dodgers' cable TV deal isn't the bonanza they thought it would be, so they're expected to slash $50M off their payroll next year, which explains why they went after Andrew Friedman, who has done more with less resources down in Tampa Bay.

    9) Congress has an approval rate of 12%; its hard to believe there are that many people who think they're doing a good job.

    8) Steve Kerr and his wife donated $1M to the athletic department at Arizona, his alma mater; Kerr earned a total of just under $16M in his 14-year playing career.

    7) Lot of old Oakland A's work for the Diamondbacks now: Larussa-Stewart-Hale-McKay-Duncan. Arizona's spring training next March is going to look a little like an A's fantasy camp.

    6) Good news from Arizona; D'Backs brought Mark Grace back to the majors as an assistant hitting coach. Grace was a tremendous analyst on Arizona TV, really funny, but he had a couple DUIs and lost that job. Good to see he is doing OK.

    5) Eldrick Woods isn't getting those big appearance fees to play golf in the Middle East anymore; then again, he doesn't play golf much anymore, either.

    4) Virginia Tech's basketball coach Buzz Williams posted a picture on Twitter of his young daughter doing some reading; she was supposedly reading Shotgun News. Once saw a pic of Williams and his son with wrestling legend Ric Flair. Williams is an unusual guy; what basketball coach leaves Marquette for Virginia Tech?

    3) Tim Bogar went 14-8 as Rangers' interim manager, but Texas hired the Pirates' bench coach Jeff Banister as their new manager. Banister worked for Clint Hurdle for four years; Hurdle was once the hitting coach in Texas and was well-liked there, so his endorsement of Banister had a lot of clout.

    2) I like the way they do overtime in the NFL, with both teams getting the ball unless the team that gets the ball first scores a TD. Seems like the fairest way.

    1) If the NBA were to reduce from 82 to 64 games, thats a 22% reduction; would NBA players be OK with earning less money for playing less games?

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