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**Udog** · 08-26-2015, 08:40 AM

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Random notes on college football bowl games........

-- Sugar Bowl last three years was won SU by underdogs of 8-15-14 points.

-- UL-Lafayette won New Orleans Bowl last four years; they were underdogs in three of the four games.

-- Favorite won/covered the last four Heart of Dallas Bowls.

-- Same thing for the Belk Bowl in Charlotte; favorites won/covered last four.

-- Underdogs won SU in four of last five Quick Lane Bowls (Detroit).

-- Michigan State won its last four bowls, all by 4 or less points; they were the dog in all four games.

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Armadillo: Wednesday's List of 13: Hump Day Happenings.........

13) My high school Chemistry teacher used to use a word: "nonsensical". He used it when he was annoyed or amazed by the stupidity of people, usually one of us back then. These days, he probably uses the word a lot.

Boston Red Sox fired their TV play-by-play guy this week. Don Orsillo has been the TV voice of the Red Sox for 15 years (his first game was Hideo Nomo's no-hitter). He is smart, funny and once had to endure 26 different partners in one season when his usual partner had some personal problems. He works playoff games for TBS, that is how good an announcer he is. Firing him is 100% nonsensical.

12) Red Sox TV ratings are down because the team on the field sucks and people are mainly frontrunners. Orsillo will land on his feet because he is very good at what he does, but office politics are hideous and this is a prime example of that.

11) Jeb Bush's wife is Mexican-American; Mr Bush can speak Spanish, which he did at an event near the Texas/Mexico border earlier this week. Of course, Donald Trump is making fun of him for it. If somehow Trump becomes President, the main question will be whether we get in a war with another country before a Civil War starts here.

10) Sign of the times: apparently Jeb Bush lost 40 pounds recently, in an attempt to look more telegenic for the campaign. It is sad that something like that matters.

9) Pro wrestler Jon Cena is first athlete to grant 500 requests for the Make-a-Wish program; he played football at Springfield College and is very, very generous with his time for charity. Not sure why Jon Stewart hit him with a chair last week, but Cena got his revenge at Summer Slam, so its all good. :-)

8) Mets #1-7 hitters all hit home runs Monday night, the first time that has ever been done in a major league game- they're 5.5 games up on Washington in NL East.

7) Basketball guru Howard Garkinkel has a coaching clinic here in the Albany area on September 19 at Shenendehowa HS. Sean Miller, Jay Wright, Tom Thibodeau, Jim Calhoun are among the speakers. Lot of knowledge in that group.

6) Doing college football prep this month, I laughed looking at a Washington State-Cal boxscore from LY. Cal won 60-59, but Wazzu passed for 734 yards and ran for 78 more, and they still lost!!!! Yikes. Teams meet again in Berkeley October 3.

5) OL Evan Mathis turned down $5.5M from the Eagles and instead signs with Denver for $2.5M (plus another possible $1.5M in incentives). Peyton Manning is an immobile QB who needs a solid OL; he took a $4M pay cut after last season and that money is what Mathis is getting paid with.

4) Steelers signed Michael Vick as their backup QB; not sure what to say about this, other than Big Ben better not get hurt. Vick was stealing money with the Jets the last couple of years, even admitting his prep work wasn't what it should be. Oy.

3) One more Red Sox note: Apparently Hanley Ramirez will be a 1B next season, which shouldn't be too difficult for a former SS, but you watch him play and he just doesn't look like a guy who cares much about defense. He is on the books thru 2018 to the tune of $22.75M a year; they better find somewhere to hide him in the field.

2) Richard Pitino signs a contract extension at Minnesota thru the 2021 season; I'm wondering what the odds are that Pitino will still be there six years from now? If he wins at Minnesota, will he jump for greener (warmer) pastures and if he loses, well all the coaches who lose get fired. It is part of the job.

1) Watching HBO's Hard Knocks (a very well done show), I'm curious why coach Bill O'Brien left Penn State for the insecurity of the NFL. Bigtime college programs are pretty secure jobs, especially at Penn State, where they're rebuilding from the scandal that ended Joe Paterno's career. O'Brien seems like a good guy; was just wondering.

**Udog** · 08-26-2015, 08:41 AM

WNBA
Dunkel

Wednesday, August 26

Los Angeles @ Indiana

Game 651-652
August 26, 2015 @ 7:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Los Angeles
108.762
Indiana
120.559
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Indiana
by 12
157
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Indiana
by 4
152
Dunkel Pick:
Indiana
(-4); Over

WNBA
Long Sheet

Wednesday, August 26

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LOS ANGELES (10 - 17) at INDIANA (17 - 9) - 8/26/2015, 7:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
LOS ANGELES is 26-37 ATS (-14.7 Units) in all games over the last 2 seasons.
LOS ANGELES is 23-41 ATS (-22.1 Units) after a division game over the last 3 seasons.
LOS ANGELES is 79-108 ATS (-39.8 Units) after a win by 10 points or more since 1997.
LOS ANGELES is 151-191 ATS (-59.1 Units) after scoring 75 points or more since 1997.
INDIANA is 37-26 ATS (+8.4 Units) in all games over the last 2 seasons.
INDIANA is 14-5 ATS (+8.5 Units) in August or September games over the last 2 seasons.
INDIANA is 27-14 ATS (+11.6 Units) after a division game over the last 2 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
LOS ANGELES is 3-2 against the spread versus INDIANA over the last 3 seasons
LOS ANGELES is 4-1 straight up against INDIANA over the last 3 seasons
3 of 5 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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WNBA

Wednesday, August 26

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Trend Report
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7:00 PM
LOS ANGELES vs. INDIANA
Los Angeles is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Los Angeles is 4-11 SU in its last 15 games on the road
Indiana is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Indiana's last 6 games when playing at home against Los Angeles

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