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**Udog** · 09-20-2020, 08:24 AM

Armadillo: Sunday's six-pack

Major league leaders in strikeouts:
112— Shane Bieber, Clev
88— Trevor Bauer, Cin
87— Gerrit Cole, NYY
86— Lucas Giolito, CWS
84— Lance Lynn Tex, Aaron Nola Phil
83— Tyler Glasnow TB, Corbin Burnes MIl

Americans who have died from COVID-19: 198,921
Please wear a mask when you go out.

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Armadillo: Sunday's Den: Wrapping up a sports Saturday

13) Louisiana 34, Georgia State 31 OT— Ragin’ Cajuns sprung an upset at Iowa State last week; but had to fight like hell to avoid being upset here- they trailed 21-7 midway thru the third quarter.

Louisiana outgained Georgia State by 100 yards, but converted only 3-14 on third down. Both teams ran the ball for 200+ yards.

12) Back in the day when ESPN first started, 1980 or so, one of the first leagues that let ESPN show its basketball games was the Sun Belt Conference. ESPN needs to show the Sun Belt some love and give their games more airtime. Besides, Sun Belt football is at a pretty high level and is fun to watch.

By the way, and I’m rambling here because its 2:30am and Korean baseball is on, but in 1980, Sun Belt basketball included VCU, South Alabama, Charlotte, South Florida, among others. Some of those teams are lot higher on the food chain now, but it is still a good league, and ESPN needs to give the league its own weekly time slot.

11) Dodgers 6, Rockies 1— In his career, LA’s Clayton Kershaw has started 43 games against Colorado; the Dodgers are 32-11 in those games.

10) Sounds like both the NBA/NHL might not start next season until January; college basketball is rumored to be starting November 25, which means the first part of November is going to pretty desolate for sports, except for football on the weekends.

Good thing I have a very large stack of books to read; you’ll be getting some book reports in November, and lots and lots of football stats.

9) Navy 27, Tulane 24— Midshipmen were down 24-0 at halftime, after losing their opener 55-3 at home, so this was an emotional win for them after a huge second half.

8) Astros’ P Justin Verlander will have Tommy John surgery, will miss next season, then he’ll be a 39-year old free agent.

7) Miami 47, Louisville 34— Miami’s kicker made 48 and 57-yard field goals, which means we’ll be seeing him kick on Sundays fairly soon. Hurricanes were +3 in turnovers.

6) Best wishes to Florida State football coach Mike Norvell, who tested positive for COVID and is on the shelf for a while. Seminoles play Miami next week, leaving deputy head coach Chris Thomsen as the interim coach.

Thomsen was the head coach at Abilene Christian from 2005-11; he spent the past three years coaching the offensive line at TCU.

5) NC State 45, Wake Forest 42— Deacons stormed back from down 35-21 in third quarter to lead 42-38, but State scored with 5:51 left and held on for the win.

4) Lot of carping on social media about individual awards and who certain people voted for; to me, this is a total waste of time. I don’t give a rat’s ass about individual awards, other than who gets into the Halls of Fame. Too much drama about these NBA awards; its a team game, people.

3) Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire abruptly retired Saturday for health reasons; he has a career record of 1,068-1,039 in regular season games. Lot of people posted stuff on social media about how well-liked and well-respected Gardenhire is. We wish him well.

2) Celtics 117, Heat 106 (Miami leads 2-1)
— Four starters scored 20+ points for the Celtics.
— Only six Celtics played double figure minutes.
— Miami was 12-44 behind the arc; no bueno.

1) If the baseball playoffs started today (they don’t):
AL East: Tampa Bay, New York
AL Central: Chicago, Minnesota
AL West: Oakland, Houston
AL wild cards: Cleveland, Toronto

NL East: Atlanta, Miami
NL Central: Chicago, St Louis
NL West: Los Angeles, San Diego
NL wild cards: Philadelphia, Cincinnati

**Udog** · 09-20-2020, 08:27 AM

WNBA
Dunkel

Sunday, September 20

Connecticut @ Las Vegas

Game 611-612
September 20, 2020 @ 1:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Connecticut
113.902
Las Vegas
117.248
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Las Vegas
by 3 1/2
170
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Las Vegas
by 6 1/2
163 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
Connecticut
(+6 1/2); Over

Minnesota @ Seattle

Game 613-614
September 20, 2020 @ 3:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Minnesota
116.228
Seattle
114.607
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Minnesota
by 1 1/2
160
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Seattle
by 6 1/2
162 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
Minnesota
(+6 1/2); Under

WNBA
Long Sheet

Sunday, September 20

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CONNECTICUT (12 - 12) vs. LAS VEGAS (18 - 4) - 9/20/2020, 1:00 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

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

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MINNESOTA (15 - 8) vs. SEATTLE (18 - 4) - 9/20/2020, 3:00 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
SEATTLE is 8-2 against the spread versus MINNESOTA over the last 3 seasons
SEATTLE is 8-2 straight up against MINNESOTA over the last 3 seasons
7 of 10 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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WNBA

Sunday, September 20

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Trend Report
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Connecticut @ Las Vegas
Connecticut
Connecticut is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Connecticut's last 9 games when playing Las Vegas
Las Vegas
Las Vegas is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Las Vegas is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games at home

Minnesota @ Seattle
Minnesota
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Minnesota's last 9 games on the road
Minnesota is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games on the road
Seattle
Seattle is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Minnesota
Seattle is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Minnesota

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