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**Udog** · 06-11-2017, 09:56 AM

Armadillo: Sunday's six-pack

Phil Steele’s top six teams in college football this season:

6) Penn State— Have 15 starters back this season.

5) Oklahoma— Wonder if coaching change will lower their rating?

4) USC— Last three times they were preseason top 10, they finished 22nd once and out of top 25 twice

3) Florida State— Play Alabama, Clemson Florida this year; none of them at home.

2) Ohio State— First two times Urban Meyer lost a bowl game, he won national title the next year. Buckeyes lost their bowl LY.

1) Alabama— Jump up to #67 in experience this year, after being #126 LY.

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Armadillo: Sunday's List of 13: Wrapping up a sports Saturday…….

13) RIP Adam West, 89, TV’s Batman from the late 60’s, one of my favorite TV shows when I was a little kid, maybe my first favorite TV show. Late in his life, West did voiceovers for animated TV shows; Showtime did a special couple years ago on his family’s (successful) efforts to get their dad a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Lot of famous actors were guest villains on Batman; the show was great fun. RIP, sir.

12) I’m in a 16-team dynasty fantasy baseball league, which means you keep your players from year-to-year. Our league is 12 years old; I’ve had Giancarlo Stanton on my team since he was an 18-year old in the Class A Florida State League.

So I turn the Marlins’ game on Saturday and Ichiro Suzuki is already on first base, Yelich is batting— I figure they gave Stanton the day off, but no, he got drilled on the wrist and has already left the game. This is not good.

Jose Abreu got drilled on the knee Friday night and left the game— he’s on my squad too. No bueno when your two best hitters are both hurt, though Abreu did come back and played Saturday night.

11) Which reminds me of a story: I’m coaching a Little League All-Star tournament in Spring Valley, NY, about two hours south of where I live. This is 1995; my team needs to beat the same team twice in one night to win the title- they only had to beat us once to win.

So the first inning of the first game, one of our batters gets hit; then my pitcher gets hit in the head while batting in the same inning. Kid is lying on the ground; as we’re trying to make sure he is OK, have to tell the 2nd game pitcher to warm up to pitch this game.

Out of the blue, one of our fans (we’re in the third base dugout) yells out: “Stop throwing at our players!!!” Now this is a game in a foreign environment; the nightcap, if there is one, will be an actual night game under the lights— I don’t need this. Umpires did a good job of keeping most everyone calm.

Story has a happy ending; we win the first game, the kid who got hit in the head showed lot of guts by pitching (and winning) the second game. We advanced to Maryland for the next round of the tournament, a great example of the players carrying their coach!!!

10) Clark Griffith and Rockies’ manager Bud Black are only two men in baseball history who won 100+ games as a pitcher, and then 600+ games as a manager. Griffith wound up owning the Washington Senators; he was 237-146 in a career than spanned from 1891-1914.

9) Cardinals shook up their coaching staff Friday and also DFA’d SS Jhonny Peralta. Apparently the assistant hitting coach was put on a leave of absence; hard to believe their slump is that guy’s fault.

8) South Florida’s leading scorer Geno Thorpe (15.1 pts/game) will play at Syracuse next season as a graduate transfer. Hope he has some warm clothes.

7) Rays’ OF Kevin Keirmaier broke his hip on an awkward slide at 1B this week, is on the DL.

6) Detroit Lions’ LT Taylor Decker tore his labrum, could be out 4-6 months.

5) Houston Astros have some hard decisions to make; if Dallas Keuchel’s neck injury is serious, then they have to trade for one, probably two starting pitchers. Even if Keuchel comes back, the Houston pitching is shallow- they have a ton of good position players.

4) Milwaukee Brewers lost their last six extra-inning games.

3) Quote of the Day, part 2, from ESPN.com and Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo, which refer to the rescheduling of a rained out Nationals-Orioles game to this past Thursday:

“It rained all day that day (May 11), and the forecast said it would rain until 9:30 or 10. I sat in Buck’s (Showalter) office at 6:30, and we talked about it for 20 minutes. He was 100 percent on-board. He didn’t say anything about not canceling the game.

Their GM [Dan Duquette] was nowhere to be found for three, four hours. We wanted to play the next day. They refused to play then, so the next [open] day was [Thursday]. They drove 32 miles to get there. We flew 3,000 [expletive] miles, and we beat their [behinds]. So quit your whining. Quit whining.”

2) College football teams with best turnover ratio last year:
Washington/Western Michigan, both +18. Ohio State +!5

Teams wth worst turnover ratio last year:
Purdue/Southern Miss, both -17, East Carolina/Bowling Green, both -16.

1) Three college football teams with most returning experience on the offensive line this year:
San Jose State, Tennessee, Auburn

**Udog** · 06-11-2017, 10:07 AM

WNBA
Long Sheet

Sunday, June 11

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INDIANA (4 - 5) at WASHINGTON (6 - 3) - 6/11/2017, 3:00 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
WASHINGTON is 5-3 against the spread versus INDIANA over the last 3 seasons
WASHINGTON is 5-3 straight up against INDIANA over the last 3 seasons
5 of 8 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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SEATTLE (5 - 3) at NEW YORK (5 - 3) - 6/11/2017, 3:00 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
SEATTLE is 4-2 against the spread versus NEW YORK over the last 3 seasons
NEW YORK is 4-2 straight up against SEATTLE over the last 3 seasons
4 of 6 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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MINNESOTA (8 - 0) at DALLAS (4 - 5) - 6/11/2017, 4:30 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
DALLAS is 4-4 against the spread versus MINNESOTA over the last 3 seasons
MINNESOTA is 7-1 straight up against DALLAS over the last 3 seasons
4 of 8 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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WNBA

Sunday, June 11

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Trend Report
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3:00 PM
INDIANA vs. WASHINGTON
Indiana is 16-8 SU in its last 24 games when playing Washington
The total has gone UNDER in 17 of Indiana's last 24 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Washington's last 11 games when playing at home against Indiana
Washington is 6-16 SU in its last 22 games when playing at home against Indiana

3:00 PM
SEATTLE vs. NEW YORK
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Seattle's last 7 games when playing on the road against New York
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Seattle's last 7 games when playing New York
The total has gone OVER in 4 of New York's last 5 games
New York is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games when playing Seattle

4:30 PM
MINNESOTA vs. DALLAS
Minnesota is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Minnesota's last 8 games when playing on the road against Dallas
Dallas is 3-8 SU in its last 11 games at home
Dallas is 8-15 ATS in its last 23 games at home

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**Udog** · 06-11-2017, 10:53 AM

WNBA
Dunkel

Sunday, June 11

Minnesota @ Dallas

Game 637-638
June 11, 2017 @ 4:30 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Minnesota
116.450
Dallas
115.628
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Minnesota
by 1
170
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Minnesota
by 11
165 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
Dallas
(+11); Over

Seattle @ New York

Game 635-636
June 11, 2017 @ 3:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Seattle
115.598
New York
110.014
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Seattle
by 5 1/2
151
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Seattle
by 2
159 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
Seattle
(-2); Under

Indiana @ Washington

Game 633-634
June 11, 2017 @ 3:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Indiana
105.896
Washington
114.315
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Washington
by 8 1/2
168
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Washington
by 4
161
Dunkel Pick:
Washington
(-4); Over

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