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**Udog** · 06-02-2017, 07:37 AM

Armadillo: Friday's six-pack

Early pointspreads on some interesting college football games this fall:

— Sept 16: Clemson @ Louisville (-2)

— Sept 23: Notre Dame (-4) @ Michigan State

— Sept 30: Colorado @ UCLA (-4)

— Oct 7: Wisconsin (-8) @ Nebraska

— Oct 14: Oklahoma (-8) vs Texas

— Oct 21: Louisville @ Florida State (-6.5)

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Armadillo: Friday's List of 13: Random stuff with weekend here…….

13) Nike’s Phil Knight turns 80 years old this year; to commemorate this, there is a 16-team college hoop event (actually two 8-team tournaments) in Portland Thanksgiving weekend, with lot of heavy hitters in the field. Here are the first-round games:

North Carolina-Portland, Arkansas-Oklahoma,
Georgetown-Michigan State, UConn-Oregon

Duke-Portland State, Butler-Texas
Florida-Stanford, Gonzaga-Ohio State

This is a one-time event, being staged to celebrate Phil Knight’s 80th birthday.

12) There will also be a solid mid-major tournament in the Bahamas Nov 17-19, with Bradley, Coastal Carolina, Duquesne, Iona, No Kentucky, Tex-San Antonio, Vermont, Weber State.

Lot of solid mid-major teams here; this’ll be a good tournament.

11) There have been two major league games this season where both starting pitchers gave up 10+ hits; surprising that Sale/Quintana Tuesday nite was one of them (other one was a Nova-Colon matchup).

10) Bryce Harper’s suspension was reduced to three games, Hunter Strickland got six games but the big loser in the Nats-Giants fracas Monday was Washington’s Michael Morse, who went on the 7-day DL with a concussion sustained in the scuffle.

9) Mike Trout’s thumb injury is same one the Clippers’ Chris Paul had; Trout talked with Paul before his surgery this week.

Trout had surgery on his left thumb Wednesday, but was at the ballpark that night and came out in the dugout for each of Albert Pujols’ at-bats, in case Pujols hit his 600th home run.

8) Weird play in the Brewers-Mets game Thursday; Milwaukee had bases loaded with one out and Eric Sogard up. Sogard hits a foul pop by the Brewers’ dugout; the bat boy grabs his chair, but runs into the Mets’ 3B and the ball drops.

The home plate umpire calls the batter out, then the umps huddled and the call was reversed, which sent Terry Collins off the edge- he was ejected, but then Sogard hit into a double play, so the Mets benefitted from the changed call.

7) Last time the National League won the season series against the American League was 2003, and they ain’t gonna win it this year, either.

6) Golden State 113, Cleveland 91— Warriors had four turnovers, Cleveland had 20. LeSean McCoy of the Buffalo Bills bet $200,000 on Golden State to win the series- he gets $262,500 back if the Warriors win the championship. He made the wager at Planet Hollywood in Vegas.

I’m sure the NFL was thrilled to see the picture of his $200K ticket on Twitter.

5) Someone on Twitter captured Mr Met giving a fan the finger as he ran down the stadium tunnel after the Mets’ 7-1 home loss to Milwaukee Wednesday nite. Was that kind of a night.

Problem is, Mr Met can’t flash his middle finger, since he has only four fingers on each hand- there is no middle finger. If you’re an aficionado of loopholes, this is a good one for Mr Met’s attorneys, if the feisty mascot sues to get its job back.

No truth to the rumor that Kathy Griffin has applied to be the new Mr Met.

4) ESPN’s Mark Adams posted a list of each Division I basketball budget last year on Facebook; somehow he left Siena’s out, but all the other ones are there.

Kentucky’s basketball budget last year was $18,910,412; next highest in the SEC was Texas A&M, at $9,301,170. Gonzaga got to the Final Four with a budget of $7,261,657.

3) Cincinnati Reds have scored in the first inning in each of their last six games; they went 2-4 in those games.

There were 1,060 home runs hit in May, 2nd-most in any month ever, behind May 2000. Of the 1,060 homers last month, 630 of them were solo blasts; the other 430 came with men on, including 16 grand slams.

2) Los Angeles Angels have scored two runs in seven home games this year; with their pitching, you’d figure that would be bad news, but they won five of the seven games. Go figure.

1) Oakland A’s have already used 11 batters in the #2 spot this year. In 53 games. Those 11 players have combined to hit .175 while batting in the 2-spot. Oy.

**Udog** · 06-02-2017, 08:47 AM

WNBA
Dunkel

Friday, June 2

Dallas @ New York

Game 661-662
June 2, 2017 @ 7:30 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Dallas
105.854
New York
110.392
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
New York
by 4 1/2
166
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
New York
by 2 1/2
161
Dunkel Pick:
New York
(-2 1/2); Over

WNBA
Long Sheet

Friday, June 2

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DALLAS (3 - 2) at NEW YORK (2 - 3) - 6/2/2017, 7:30 PM
Top Trends for this game.
DALLAS is 5-14 ATS (-10.4 Units) against Eastern conference opponents over the last 2 seasons.
DALLAS is 5-14 ATS (-10.4 Units) in non-conference games over the last 2 seasons.
NEW YORK is 100-66 ATS (+27.4 Units) after a loss by 10 points or more since 1997.
NEW YORK is 5-16 ATS (-12.6 Units) in home games over the last 2 seasons.
NEW YORK is 5-16 ATS (-12.6 Units) in a home game where where the total is greater than or equal to 150 over the last 2 seasons.
NEW YORK is 3-13 ATS (-11.3 Units) in home games in May, June, or July games over the last 2 seasons.
NEW YORK is 7-17 ATS (-11.7 Units) against Western conference opponents over the last 2 seasons.
NEW YORK is 7-17 ATS (-11.7 Units) in non-conference games over the last 2 seasons.
NEW YORK is 4-12 ATS (-9.2 Units) in home games after allowing 75 points or more over the last 2 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
DALLAS is 3-1 against the spread versus NEW YORK over the last 3 seasons
DALLAS is 3-2 straight up against NEW YORK over the last 3 seasons
3 of 5 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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WNBA

Friday, June 2

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Trend Report
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7:30 PM
DALLAS vs. NEW YORK
Dallas is 3-9 SU in its last 12 games on the road
Dallas is 3-9 ATS in its last 12 games on the road
New York is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Dallas
New York is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games when playing at home against Dallas

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