Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: Mississippi St vs. Alabama
Saturday, November 10, 2018 3:30 PM
Play: Point Spread: 26.0/-117 Mississippi St
Free Play from Doc’s Sports. Take #181 Mississippi State Bulldogs over Alabama Crimson Tide (3:30p.m., Saturday, November 10 CBS) This line is inviting you to take Alabama after their dominating performance last week against LSU. But unlike ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: Miami Marlins vs. St Louis Cardinals
Thursday, July 06, 2017 1:45 PM
Play: Money Line: -154 St Louis Cardinals
Free Pick on Cardinals -154 Miami has won the last two in the series and it's created some good value here on St Louis in the series finale Thursday. The Cardinals will have a massive edge on the mound here with Michael Wacha facing of ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: Tampa Bay Rays vs. Baltimore Orioles
Friday, June 30, 2017 7:05 PM
Play: Total: 11.0/-110 Over
Free MLB Baseball Prediction From Doc’s Sports: Take ‘Over’ Tampa Bay at Baltimore (7 p.m., Friday, June 30) Baltimore has won four of the six games they have played against Tamp Bay this season and neither team had any problems scoring runs in th ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: Baltimore Orioles vs. Chicago White Sox
Monday, June 12, 2017 8:10 PM
Play: Money Line: -122 Baltimore Orioles
Monday, June 12, 2017 U.S. Cellular Field Probable Pitchers: Wade Miley vs. Mike Pelfrey U.S. Cellular Field is the site of the matchup between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox on Monday, June 12, 2017. The probabl ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: West Virginia vs. Gonzaga
Thursday, March 23, 2017 7:39 PM
Play: Point Spread: -3.0/-104 Gonzaga
Free Play from Doc’s Sports. #816 Take Gonzaga -3 over West Virginia (Thursday 7:35 pm TBS) Gonzaga has yet to play a complete game in the NCAA Tournament this season and I believe they are due for one on Thursday. Gonzaga has a great chance to make ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: New Mexico State vs. Baylor
Friday, March 17, 2017 12:40 PM
Play: Point Spread: 12.5/-110 New Mexico State
Free College Basketball Prediction From Doc’s Sports : Take New Mexico St over Baylor (12:40 p.m., Friday, March 17) The Bears are heavy favorites here, but this team has been far from dominant the last two months of the year. Baylor fini ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: South Dakota State vs. Gonzaga
Thursday, March 16, 2017 2:00 PM
Play: Point Spread: -22.0/-108 Gonzaga
Free Play from Doc’s Sports. #738 Take Gonzaga over South Dakota State (Thursday 2 pm TBS) This is not as strong of Jackrabbit team as in past tournament teams and thus the Bulldogs will make short work of them on Thursday. Not many people are gi ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: Oklahoma State vs. Iowa State
Thursday, March 09, 2017 12:30 PM
Play: Point Spread: 0.0/-109 Iowa State
Free College Basketball Prediction From Doc’s Sports : Take Iowa State over Oklahoma State (12:30 p.m., Thursday, March 9) I've started the week with a pair of wins. There is more where that came from! I am looking for a big week on the hard ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: Indiana State vs. Evansville
Thursday, March 02, 2017 7:00 PM
Play: Point Spread: 1.0/-102 Indiana State
Free College Basketball Prediction From Doc’s Sports : Take Indiana State over Evansville (7 p.m., Thursday, March 2) As for this play, it's time for a little Arch Madness. This game is the play-in game of the Missouri Valley Tournament and ...  read more

by DOC'S SPORTS - 3/2/2017 The 89th Academy Awards (Oscars) were Sunday night, and the winner for 'Best Documentary Feature' went to ESPN Films and their 30 for 30 series O.J.: Made in America. This five-part miniseries directed by Ezra Edelman was not only an outstanding documentary but it also it got me asking myself, when is O.J. Simpson up for parole? In 2008, Simpson was convicted of 12 ...  read more

by Doc's Sports - 2/27/2017 La La Land just made the recent championship-costing collapses by the Warriors, Indians, and Falcons pale in comparison to its demise on Sunday night at the Academy Awards. After all, the three aforementioned teams had not entirely won (well, the Falcons basically had) before they ended up losing. La La Land, however, did win Best Picture-before it didn't. That's rig ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: Syracuse vs. Louisville
Sunday, February 26, 2017 2:00 PM
Play: Point Spread: -10.0/-110 Louisville
Free College Basketball Prediction From Doc’s Sports : Take Louisville over Syracuse (2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26) The Orange beat the Blue Devils and now they will be in a letdown spot here on the road. Syracuse never plays well against Louisville ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: St Bonaventure vs. St Josephs
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 7:00 PM
Play: Point Spread: -5.0/-110 St Bonaventure
FREE PLAY FROM DOC’S SPORTS. #719 TAKE ST BONAVENTURE -5 OVER ST JOES (7 PM) The Hawks will not win a game the rest of this season and therefore we will go against them whenever the line is below single digits. They lost their two best p ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: Miami Florida vs. Virginia
Monday, February 20, 2017 7:00 PM
Play: Point Spread: -10.0/-110 Virginia
Free Play from Doc’s Sports. #704 Take Virginia over Miami (7 pm ESPN) Much like Wisconsin yesterday, the odds makers have making it very inviting for you to take Miami in this game. Maryland looked attractive yesterday against a 7 point spread but ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: Richmond vs. George Mason
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 7:00 PM
Play: Total: 150.0/-108 Over
Free Play from Doc’s Sports. #710 Take Over in Richmond @ George Mason (7 pm) George Mason has posted a perfect 4-0 record to the over in their last four games where they faced a team with a winning record and they have gone an excellent 22-8 to the over in t ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: Villanova vs. Depaul
Monday, February 13, 2017 9:00 PM
Play: Point Spread: 18.5/-110 Depaul
Free Play from Doc’s Sports. #538 Take DePaul over Villanova (9 pm CBSSN) This is a lot of points to be laying on the road with both teams coming on short rest. The Blue Demons lost by just three points in Philadelphia earlier this season and getting this m ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: Arizona vs. UCLA
Saturday, January 21, 2017 4:00 PM
Play: Point Spread: -6.5/-110 UCLA
Free College Basketball Prediction From Doc's Sports : Take #588 UCLA over Arizona (4 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 21) Both teams are having outstanding years, but I believe Arizona is doing it with fool's gold and they are not has good as their record indicates. The Wi ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: Rider vs. Manhattan
Friday, January 13, 2017 9:00 PM
Play: Point Spread: -1.0/101 Rider
Free College Basketball Prediction From Doc's Sports : Take #725 Rider over Manhattan (9 p.m., Friday, Jan. 13) The Broncs have had an impressive season thus far currently at 11-5 and have won six of their last eight games. They are playing a Jaspers team that ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: Loyola Chicago vs. Bradley
Saturday, January 07, 2017 8:00 PM
Play: Point Spread: -2.0/-106 Loyola Chicago
Free College Basketball Prediction From Doc's Sports : Take #851 Loyola Chicago over Bradley (8 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 7) No bet against Bradley is a bad bet during the 2016-2017 season. The Braves are terrible and when they lose games they ...  read more

Free Sports Game Preview and Prediction: Iowa vs. Florida
Monday, January 02, 2017 1:00 PM
Play: Point Spread: 3.0/-115 Iowa
Free Pick on Iowa + I like the value here with Iowa, who I trust a lot more to show up in this game. Bouncing back from a loss in a conference championship game is really hard to do. That’s not the only factor here that has me concerned with the Gators being mot ...  read more

A. ATP Tour . The ATP suspended Nick Kyrgios for eight weeks after he blatantly tanked a match last week in Shanghai. Kyrgios blooped in serves and often did not run for balls in a 6-3, 6-1 second-round loss to Mischa Zverev. The 21-year-old Australian can have the ban reduced to three weeks if he enlists the help of a sports psychologist. It's safe to say he needs one.

B. Byrd, Dennis ...  read more

One of the reasons being cited for the decline in football viewership this year is fans' exasperation over how convoluted the NFL's games have become. No one seems to know what a catch is, no one seems to understand how the games are officiated (or why officiating is so inconsistent), and on the whole there are a lot of average fans out there that just don't seem to be able to follow what is g ...  read more

NFL Survivor Pool Picks and Advice: Week 3 by DOC'S SPORTS - 9/21/2016 I almost broke my own rule last week in that I was considering saving a team, in this case the Carolina Panthers, for use in my Survivor Pool down the road. So I was pondering taking the Detroit Lions at home against the Tennessee Titans in Week 2. But then I remembered that I used to live in Michigan and have watched ...  read more

Thank you College Football Playoff and ESPN! It used to be that Week 1 of the college football season was cupcake city. But now? Teams know they have to schedule at least one marquee nonconference opponent, and ESPN has ponied up big dollars for power programs to face off Week 1 at neutral sites such as Arlington, Texas, Atlanta, Houston and now Orlando. Thus, this year's opening weekend is th ...  read more

I truly believe that Coach Marvin Lewis had his best Bengals team yet in 2015 until quarterback Andy Dalton, who was having a career year, suffered a season-ending thumb injury in the first half of Cincinnati's Week 14 home game versus Pittsburgh. Dalton broke his thumb making a tackle after throwing a pick. (When will quarterbacks learn to just crawl into a shell and hide when throwing picks? ...  read more

Golf is a crazy game at times as typically, hot players stay hot and cold players stay cold which is usually a big factor in trying to predict tournament winners. Last week was a complete aberration as James Hahn, who had missed the cut in eight straight tournaments, defeated Roberto Castro in a playoff to win the Wells Fargo Championship. He was such an underdog that he was one of six players tha ...  read more

Adam Scott held off Sergio Garcia and the rest of the field to capture his 12th career PGA Tour title at the Honda Classic. The tour continues on the Florida swing, heading to Doral this week for the WGC-Cadillac Championship. This is the second straight event that features a star-studded field with close to the entire top 50 in the world playing. With the Match Play again playing later than it us ...  read more

by Doc's Sports - 1/27/2016 Betting on the Super Bowl over and under this year is a study in contradictions. Every year the majority of Super Bowl bettors play the total to go 'over'. However, this year the public recognizes that the game features two phenomenal defenses that should control what will obviously be a low-scoring game, and that means an easy bet on the 'under'.

So how are we ...  read more

by Doc's Sports - 1/18/2016 It sure hasn't been a year for long shot bettors or value seekers. The four lowest-priced teams in the Super Bowl futures market last week all won their games. We have Championship games involving the top two seeds in both conferences. No Cinderella stories this year. That means, predictably, that there are not any fat prices to be had right now in the futures pool. ...  read more

by DOC'S SPORTS - 12/27/2015 Oregon Ducks vs. TCU Horned Frogs, Saturday Jan. 2, 6:45 p.m. ET If you don't like scoring then you'll want to find something else to do the day after New Year's day. If you like sound defensive play and slow wars in the trenches then this is definitely not the game for you. If things go at all as expected then this will be one of those games where the team with ...  read more

We were able to cash with Jason Day last week at the Farmers as he won in a playoff. The PGA Tour remains in California this week for the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Pebble Beach Golf Links is one of three host courses for the event along with Spyglass Hill and Monterey Peninsula Country Club Shore Course. A traditional playing cut of the top 60 and ties will be made after 54 holes on Satur ...  read more

The Tour leaves California and heads to Arizona for the Waste Management Phoenix Open, played at TPC Scottsdale. This is the sixth year for sponsor Waste Management and the goal remains to be the "Greatest Show on Grass". This is the most attended event on tour and the par three 16th hole rivals some of the best parties around and it has become very popular among the players. In addition, with the ...  read more

by Doc's Sports - 1/26/2015 The seventh edition of the Schedule Spot Fade Plays weekly article is here. For the second straight week, the schedule spot fade plays split at 2-2. The first two plays were losers on Wednesday night as Wake Forest +8 and Loyola (Chicago) -1.5 both fell short. Loyola was dealing with some injury issues that ended up being too much to overcome. Wake Forest simply ran ...  read more

by Doc's Sports - 1/8/2015 There is no shortage of hype surrounding the Oregon Ducks heading into the National Championship Game. Quarterbacked by the Heisman winner, they absolutely crushed the most hated elite team in the country with an explosive offense and a pretty solid defense. Ohio State was great in their game as well, but the Ducks did enough to make them the solid favorites heading i ...  read more

by George Monroy - 4/16/2014 The Los Angeles Dodgers immediately put their high-priced roster to work during the beginning 2014 Major League Baseball season. Los Angeles started the year by winning nine of its first 14 matchups and producing excellent betting numbers on both the moneyline and runline. Savvy baseball bettors have probably been salivating at how well the Dodgers have been playing ...  read more

by Alan Matthews - 4/9/2014 I'm going to quickly recap last week's picks at the Shell Houston Open instead of a more in-depth look back as usual because there are so many Masters props that I could write at least five stories alone on the season's first major championship that begins Thursday at historic Augusta National. For the first time I will head into the Masters having not picked a s ...  read more

by Aaron Smith - 1/28/2014 Anquan Boldin was the first player to score in Super Bowl XLVII last year at the Superdome in New Orleans. The Ravens ended up winning the Super Bowl, while the 49ers and the lights at the Superdome were the big losers last year. Super Bowl XLVIII is historic in that it will be played outdoors in a cold weather environment at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. The act ...  read more

by Ricky Dimon - 12/9/2013 Here’s hoping you have the Red Zone channel, because the finishes of Sunday’s 1 p.m. NFL games were out of control. Among them was a miracle comeback by New England (and spectacular choke by Cleveland). The back-nine showdown between Tiger Woods and Zach Johnson out in Thousand Oaks, Ca. was equally wild and hard to believe. All of it has people wondering just what th ...  read more

Some of the best betting value in college football is hiding beyond the BCS, in the small conferences. Each week, Covers Experts’ Doc’s Sports will look at the little programs that could help you make big cash this college season. Team to watch: Rice Owls This week: -6.5 vs. Kansas Rice kicked off its season with a tough road date at Texas A&M, but it accounted itself relatively wel ...  read more

by Trevor Whenham - 5/24/2013

If the playoffs were to start today, the Pittsburgh Pirates would be a wild-card team. It’s not even close, either — they have a full three game lead over Colorado and Arizona. Now, it’s only May, so it is far too early to get excited — especially because Pittsburgh started strong last year before remembering who they are.

This year is different, though. ...  read more

by Trevor Whenham - 5/31/2013

There is still some uncertainty about the field for the Belmont Stakes — as you would expect a week before the entries are due. As the prospective field sits now, though, eight probables stand out as horses than can win the Belmont Stakes. (Odds to win are from Sportsbook.ag)

Orb (+350)

It’s still not entirely certain that the Kentucky Derby winner w ...  read more

by Trevor Whenham - 5/8/2013

As we get ready to bet the second jewel of this year’s Triple Crown, we need to be focused on finding the winner. These four Preakness betting tips will help you make a winning bet on May 18:

Don’t just default to the Derby winner

I want to see a Triple Crown winner more than I want to see anything else in sports. That can blind me to all horses other ...  read more

by Trevor Whenham - 1/23/2013

When it comes to betting on the Super Bowl, the biggest secret to success is simple — avoid common Super Bowl betting mistakes. Here are six mistakes that bettors make far too often surrounding the big game:

Buying into the hype - There will be about 5,000 accredited media members in New Orleans, and many times more people sitting at home sharing their opi ...  read more

by Alan Matthews - 1/8/2013

After Alabama coach Nick Saban joined a truly exclusive coaching club by winning his third national title in four seasons and fourth overall – one with LSU – on Monday night in an utter domination of Notre Dame, Saban said he would enjoy the championship for about 48 hours before getting back to work and focusing on next season. Well, I’m not going to even wait that ...  read more

by T.O. Whenham - 11/29/2012

When it comes to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, there isn’t much grey area. You either believe in them or you detest them. They are the New York Yankees of college football. I decidedly fall into the group made up of doubters. I don’t even know who they will be facing in the BCS Championship Game yet, and I am confident they will lose, and lose decisively. Here a ...  read more

by Alan Matthews - 10/10/2012

You really can’t criticize any SEC team for scheduling a cupcake nonconference schedule these days. For example, look at LSU’s conference schedule. The Tigers played and lost at No. 10 Florida last week, host No. 3 South Carolina this week, then have to go to No. 22 Texas A&M, host No. 1 Alabama and host No. 19 Mississippi State. That’s borderline criminal.

...  read more

by David Schwab - 5/2/2012

This Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville marks the running of the 138th Kentucky Derby, which is the Crown Jewel of the Triple Crown racing season for the top three-year-old thoroughbred horses in the United States.

While the betting public tends to focus most of their handicapping efforts on picking the winner for this race, there are a number of prop ...  read more

by Scott Johnson - 5/1/2012

Jim Miller and Nate Diaz will meet in the main event of the latest UFC on FOX card this Saturday. Miller (-225) has long been at the top of the division, but despite an 8-1 record since mid-2009, a shot at UFC Lightweight Title has eluded him. Diaz (+175) has been living in the shadow of his older brother, but with back-to-back impressive performance he has thrust ...  read more

by Nicholas Tolomeo - 3/22/2012

A – Adam Schefter and Chris Mortenson. The ESPN tag team of Adam Schefter and Chris Mortenson broke the Peyton Manning to Denver news with a simple tweet around 11:30 a.m. EST on Monday morning. Kind of like how the LeBron James to Miami Heat story broke minus a one-hour ESPN primetime special with Jim Gray.

B – Big Ten. The Big Ten has four teams in the ...  read more

by Robert Ferringo - 3/7/2012

With as much depth and talent as any mid-major league in the country the Atlantic 10 Tournament should be one of the most competitive and hard-fought March Madness brackets played this weekend. With as many as eight teams with a realistic chance to win the A-10 tournament a lot of teams on the bubble should be watching this one closely this week and hoping that ...  read more