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The 2023-24 college basketball season is winding down, and we are getting into the depths of conference play. We have loads of great matchups across the country, and below is my favorite bet of the Saturday slate.   Alabama vs. Kentucky (Kentucky -2.5, DraftKings Sportsbook) It’s a massive SEC battle here as the red-hot Alabama […]

Welcome to Hoops with Noops! The NBA continues its return Friday with another jam-packed slate of games. We had 12 Thursday night, and we have 10 Friday, which means 13 of the 20 teams playing Friday are on the second night of a back-to-back. The impact of that lack of rest is less than usual […]

Welcome to Hoops with Noops! The NBA is finally back — after a few days of wandering around my house completing chores and struggling to fill the hours, professional basketball is back and with a vengeance.   There are 12 games Thursday night and 10 Friday. That means we’ll have plenty of great games to […]

Thursday brings us 64 college basketball betting opportunities, a full slate of sports wagering magic. For the night’s pick, we head to the Pac-12 conference, where Oregon looks to steal a critical road win at Stanford. The Ducks are sitting squarely on the March Madness bubble at 17-8 (9-5 in Pac-12) and cannot afford any […]

One of my favorite things to start looking at as we approach the end of the college basketball regular season is fading teams who clearly are ready for the offseason. Finding the squads who are done for the year can be quite profitable, and we have at least one of those playing Tuesady.  All odds […]

Kentucky Derby Style is the feature that the NFBC utilizes to assign draft spots in the vast majority of fantasy baseball leagues. Instead of assigning draft spots on an entirely random basis, KDS allows fantasy managers to rank their desired spots in order of preference. KDS then randomly selects teams, and they are assigned, in […]

Spring training is a wild time for fantasy baseball players, as we see considerable overreactions to tiny sample sizes, changes in player value due to velocity jumps or drops and other big swings.   So as we head toward the start of the 2024 MLB season, we’re going to go around all the news from […]

Welcome to Vidanta Villarta, land of birdies and big numbers, always welcoming to the biggest of hitters. This will be the third hosting of the Mexico Open for Vidanta Villarta. We saw Jon Rahm take home the title in the debut 2022 edition with Tony Finau posting a runner-up finish. They flipped that script last […]

The 2023-24 college basketball season is winding down, and we are getting into the depths of conference play. We have loads of great matchups across the country and below is my favorite bet of the Tuesday slate.    BYU vs. Baylor (BYU -3, DraftKings Sportsbook) Another massive Big 12 showdown takes place Tuesday, as the […]

With the college basketball season quickly winding down and March approaching, here are my favorite future national title winner bets. Building a futures portfolio is always fun, and sportsbooks tend to offer some exploitable spots to attack.    Of course, value is super important, and even though you may think Team X has the best […]

Welcome to Hoops with Noops! NBA All-Star Weekend is over and players get a few days of rest before the final stretch of the season. Every team has played at least 54 games, which means we are almost 66% of the way through the season. With less than 30 games left, teams are in their […]

Four weeks from today, we will have a bracket to dissect and a workday filled with all sorts of college basketball discourse. Until then, resumes have to be improved and teams have to continue to push for more victories. Let’s try to pick out a winner on Monday.   All odds are per DraftKings Sportsbook. South […]

The 2023-24 college basketball season is in full swing, and we are getting into the depths of conference play. We have loads of great matchups across the country. Below is my favorite bet of the Saturday slate.    Marquette vs. UConn (UConn -7, DraftKings Sportsbook) This is a highly anticipated matchup atop the Big East […]

The 2023 NFL season is now complete, the Kansas City Chiefs have hoisted the Lombardi Trophy, and now we can all turn our attentions to the 2024 NFL Draft. In addition to finishing off the season, last week’s Super Bowl gave us the last piece of information we needed for our draft prep: The final […]

This offseason, there are somewhere between two and five quarterbacks in this year’s NFL Draft who could start in Week 1 for whatever team they land on. There are somewhere between two and five quarterbacks on the trade/free agent market who could say the same. And there are somewhere between 10 and 15 teams that […]

Welcome to Hoops with Noops! It’s the last night before the All-Star break, and as we saw Wednesday, things can get crazy when some teams are looking ahead to the All-Star game or to some time off to rest.   There will be no NBA regular season games until Thursday of next week, but fear […]

The UFC heads to Anaheim this weekend for UFC 298, featuring a featherweight clash between undefeated contender Ilia Topuria and the reigning king Alexander Volkanovski. Topuria is currently undefeated at 14-0 and looking to collect gold this weekend. However, he has an arduous task ahead of him as Volkanovski is also an undefeated featherweight who […]

Edouard Julien seems to be the perfect fantasy baseball breakout candidate. The 25-year-old debuted last season while batting .263/.381/.459 with 16 HR and 3 SB. There is even a chance he could steal more bases after swiping 34 in 2021 and 19 in 2022. His 408 PA in 109 games could prorate to over 600 […]

The final pieces of Super Bowl confetti have fallen, and we can now officially shift our attention to MLB. While baseball season never ends for some of us, the excitement reaches new heights as our timelines are flooded with video clips of players playing catch in Arizona and Florida. Even though a handful of stars […]

It’s Valentine’s Day, so it’s time to proclaim your love for college basketball, the sport where almost anything can happen on any given night as players try for the ultimate prize of a championship. We are just over one month away from Selection Sunday, so teams need to keep winning to get their way into […]

I have a confession to make: I’m obsessed with baseball and fantasy baseball. I love drafting and managing fantasy baseball teams and, every season, take on at least several more teams than I know what’s good for me. In 2023, I had 25 NFBC teams. This year, I’m scaling back, all the way down to […]

Welcome to Hoops with Noops! The All-Star break is almost here. Wednesday and Thursday night feature the last games for every team before about a week off to make time for the All-Star festivities.   This can be a scary time of the season to bet. More than ever we have to question the motivation […]

From ruckus to respect, the PGA Tour heads from TPC Scottsdale over to Riviera Country Club for this week’s Genesis Invitational. This is Tiger’s event, and this year it features a 70-man field with interesting cut-line rules of Low 50 and Ties (or anyone within 10 shots of the lead after 36 holes).   Attracting […]

The 2023-24 college basketball season is in full swing, and we are getting into the depths of conference play. We have loads of great matchups across the country and below is my favorite bet of the Tuesday slate.    Iowa State vs. Cincinnati (Cincinnati -1.5, DraftKings Sportsbook) Another Big 12 battle here as a surging […]

Welcome to Hoops with Noops! We are finally past the end of the football season and can now focus entirely on the stretch run of the NBA season. Teams are about 65% of the way through their season, and once we get past the All-Star break this weekend, we will have a hard push through […]

The Chiefs are once again champions of the NFL, winning back-to-back Super Bowls for the first time since the Patriots nearly two decades ago. Patrick Mahomes won his third Super Bowl MVP and totaled 333 yards and two touchdowns through the air, with an additional 66 yards on the ground.    Like the Patriots, the […]

Now that the Super Bowl is over, more people will be watching college basketball, as we are about a month away from conference tournament time. It’s kind of a weak card for a Monday, so I’m going to give you a couple of futures to play.    Remember, we are looking for value and playing […]

The 2023-24 college basketball season is underway, and we are getting into the depths of conference play. We have loads of great matchups across the country, and below is my favorite bet of the Saturday slate.    Colorado vs. Arizona (Colorado -1, DraftKings Sportsbook) The Cats are fresh off a triple-overtime thriller Thursday night in […]

Welcome to Hoops with Noops! The trade deadline is over, and although no stars changed teams, there were several moves that made good teams better and should make the postseason even more competitive. The Knicks and Mavericks each added players who fix problems and add more dynamism to each squad. The Suns, 76ers and Thunder […]

Another fight week gives us another opportunity to be great. This week’s MMA slate features Joe Pyfer and Jack Hermansson as the main event. Pyfer has been on a meteoric rise since setting the tone for last year’s contender series with a win that had Dana White imploring future contenders to “Be Joe Pyfer” if […]