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Your best source for winning sports picks including expert MLB baseball picks, hockey picks and NBA picks is now available.A Note From Doc  Our company opened for business back in 1971. We were only one of a small number of sports handicapping services in existence at that time, and most of those have now fallen by the wayside. When you have been in the sports handicapping industry for more than 30 years, you definitely see some major changes.
 The Chicago Cubs have been one of the most disappointing teams in baseball this season, entering play on Thursday a game under .500 and closer to NL Central doormat Pittsburgh than to division-leading Milwaukee.
 We hear it all the time - defense wins championships. That's not a magic formula, but it's generally pretty true when it comes to the NFL. Last season, for example, the Steelers were at the top of almost every defensive statistical category, and they have a Super Bowl to show for it. Of more interest to bettors, though, is whether solid defense contributes to healthy payroll growth.
 The biggest drama around the NBA Draft this year wasn't which team was going to pick which player with which picks, but rather the trades of veterans that were made before and immediately after the draft. We usually see some trade action around this time of year, but rarely with names like this - major stars like Shaq, Vince Carter and Richard Jefferson have new addresses.  Hot Dog Contest Odds and Analysis from a Bookieby SPORTSBETTING.COM - 07/02/2009 What's July 4th without a hot dog or two….or 60, as it will be for Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi in the 94th annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. Read more about Hot Dog Contest Odds.
 Sorry Alabama fans, you are not destined for a national title in 2009. Neither are you, Sooners, Utes, and Trojan-backers. However, if you are a fan of Virginia Tech, Texas, or the Iowa Hawkeyes you may just have something to cheer about.
 The circus comes to L.A. on Friday. That's when the disgraced and seemingly clueless Manny Ramirez makes his return to action for the Dodgers after serving a 50-game suspension for a failed drug test. The return will obviously set off a media firestorm, so we will be subjected to even more ridiculous 'insights' than we have had to hear from experts over the course of the last two months. That will be incredibly annoying.
 Don Wakamatsu may not be having the same level of impact that Ichiro Suzuki had in his first season in Seattle, but he's still doing pretty damn well. "Wacky," as absolutely no one but me calls him, has been the man behind the scenes of the Seattle surge through the first half of the season.
 Pitching is getting to be a young man's game. All you have to do is look at the lists of statistical leaders in any of the major categories and you'll see a surprising number of guys that are 25 or younger. Pitching seems to be a cyclical thing - older pitchers were largely the dominant ones before, and they will be again.
 If you were pondering a futures bet on the Houston Rockets for the 2009-10 NBA season (hey, it's only three months away), don't waste your money. Well, let me temper that statement by saying don't waste your money on those NBA championship odds.
 The 2009 Tour de France gets underway this week, and for the first time since 2005 a lot of Americans will actually care. That was when Lance Armstrong retired after winning seven straight editions of the race. As you surely know by now, Armstrong has made his return to action, and with him he has brought some real drama and intrigue to this race.
 The World Series of Poker has been underway since May 27 at the Rio in Las Vegas. So far 56 different events have been held, with buy-ins ranging from $500 to $50,000. That means that there is just one more event left to start, and it's the one that everyone cares about - the Main Event.
 It's the final day of June, which means it's the final month without football - if you count reporting to training camp as the start of football season. Of course we'll start hitting gridiron topics hot and heavy soon (the weekly survivor pool column will be back this fall, for example), but we'll continue to dole out the advice on baseball right through November, too.
 Allen Iverson is likely going to be a basketball hall of famer. But at this stage of the game the prideful point guard is absolutely acidic in a locker room and within a franchise. Yet Iverson's name has to be No. 1 when talking about the best players available in this summer's free agent market. 2009 CFL Preview and Predictionsby T.O. Whenham - 06/30/2009 The long, long football drought is about to come to and end. Finally. It's not the best option out there, but the Canadian Football League is better than nothing, and it starts up an 18-game season on July 1. Read more about CFL Preview.
 Manny Ramirez returned to action in the minors this week in preparation for his return to the pros next week, and as you would expect from him it was a bit of a circus. His first stop was in Albuquerque, where he was hitless in two Triple-A games while generally ignoring the media. A change was in order, so he headed to California to play A-ball.
 Players not on the field have been making just as much news as the ones currently playing on the diamond. Whether it is missing critical time on the disabled list or 50 games on the suspension list, teams throughout Major League Baseball are scrambling as they await the return of key components. 2009 NBA Draft Grades  When everyone is clamoring for the 2010 NBA Draft class and talking about how "deep" and "exciting" it is remember that the only reason for their gushing is because the 2009 NBA Draft class sucked. MLB Handicapping: NL Central a Three-Horse Race  For as many teams as the National League Central has, six, the amount of contenders to win the division is even more unusual. Even deep into June Las Vegas has pegged three teams, the Cubs (+125), the Cardinals (+175) and the Brewers (+275) as more than capable of winning it. College Basketball Handicapping: Continuity Key for 2010 Success  No single offseason event impacts the college basketball season like the NBA Draft. With the annual Is-He-or-Isn't-He and Should-He-or-Shouldn't-He debates and decisions raging on campuses everywhere, the NBA early entry list is like a roll call for college programs headed for heaven or for hell. by Christopher G. Shepard - 06/26/2009 There are 10 races to go before the Chase for the Sprint Cup. By virtue of a second-place finish at Sonoma last week Tony Stewart extended his lead to 84 points over Jeff Gordon in the Sprint Cup standings as NASCAR heads to New Hampshire and the short, flat-track of Loudon Speedway for the Lenox Tools 301 this Sunday at 2:15 p.m. TNT will televise the event. Read more about Lenox Tools 301 Odds. Factor Umpires into Your MLB Wagers  If people wanted to get an edge betting on baseball they would probably be best served looking somewhere where few people bother to pay any attention - the umpires. More than any other officials in any sport, the home plate umpire can directly impact the outcome of a game. Their strike zone can determine how effective the pitchers are going to be, and the speed and way in which they call the game can affect the tone and outcome of the game. NFL Handicapping: Correlation Between QB play and ATS performance  We are in the one true dead time in the NFL. Most teams are on a break before training camp, most of the significant roster moves have been made, and there is really not much to get excited about - unless you are one of the seven people who aren't sick of hearing about Brett Favre yet. Because there is not a lot of pressing news to absorb, now is as good a time as there is to look back at what happened last year to see what we can learn and apply to this year. College Basketball Futures Odds - Movement and My Perceptions  I've always heard that to stay ahead in the Gambling Game you have to be thinking a couple moves down the road. So while I watch March Madness and the NCAA Tournament I'm trying to project guys out into the NBA Draft and their professional careers. And when I watch the NBA Draft I'm just thinking about how it will affect college basketball teams next fall. MLB Handicapping: Disappointing Pitchers  If there is one recurring theme so far in this baseball season it has been disappointing pitchers. Whether it is because of injury or poor performance, there have been many cases this year of guys who have had inexplicably bad performances. Some guys, like Cole Hamels, have worked their way out of it. Some have had good seasons marked by inexplicably terrible outings - Johan Santana comes to mind there. Others, take Chien-Ming Wang and Daisuke Matsuzaka for example, are in a deep hole that they can't seem to find their way out of. MLB Handicapping: Phillies are Road Warriors  I'm not sure I've ever seen anything as strange as the record that the Philadelphia Phillies have put together this year. They have played reasonably well this year - their .536 record is good enough for a 1.5-game lead in their division, as of this writing. It's how they have amassed that record that is is puzzling. They have the best road record in the league at 24-10. NBA Draft Props: Odds and Predictions  This is the fourth and final installment of my NBA draft prop stories, and hopefully I've provided a little insight. Obviously it's a total crapshoot, with the Timberwolves now likely to be very active on Wednesday and/or draft day after acquiring that No. 5 pick and flotsam from the Wizards for Randy Foye and Mike Miller. NBA Draft Betting: Conference Props  In a story yesterday, we already hit on betED's ACC props odds, with that conference's first-round over/under being at 5 ˝ players chosen in Thursday night's draft. We recommended the over on that and stick with it. NBA Draft Predictions: Betting on the Top 5  With the Los Angeles Clippers taking all the uncertainty out of which player will be chosen first in Thursday night's NBA Draft (although how can you not just put a few bucks down on betED's odds of Blake Griffin playing for a team other than the Clippers at +3500), let's see if we can give you some NBA Draft predictions for betting the rest of the Top 5 of the draft. NBA Draft Betting: Tar Heels Odds and Predictions  If you want to see a crazy amount of NBA draft odds check out betED, as the site has just about every scenario covered. With that said, I will hit the draft hard for the next few days. Blake Griffin is most certainly going to be taken No. 1 overall by the Clippers on Thursday night - thus dooming Griffin to a career of mediocrity if you go by past No. 1 overall Clipper picks. Confederations Cup Semifinals Odds and Predictions  The Confederations Cup - a dress rehearsal for next year's World Cup - has been ongoing in South Africa for the last couple of weeks. Eight teams started - the winners of the last regional tournament in each of the world's six regions, the defending World Cup champ Italians, and the host South Africans. Now just four remain. Spain will play the Americans on Wednesday after the U.S. made it to the second round with some impossibly good luck. This Week in Betting, A-Z  The circus is coming to New Mexico on Tuesday. That's when Manny Ramirez is scheduled to report to the Albuquerque Isotopes for a conditioning stint in Triple A before he is eligible to return to the Dodgers on July 3. It's hard to believe that it has been almost 50 games already since Manny disgraced himself and his sport. I can only imagine what the media coverage will be like surrounding his return. MLB Handicapping: Stadium Quirks Provide Challenges for Totals Bettors In certain Major League Baseball parks the answer to the question "open or closed?" can be the key determinant in the answer to the betting questions "'over' or 'under'?" When it comes to sports handicapping Doc's Sports Service has some of the best sports handicappers on the web. Started in 1971, (on-line since 1995) our company has earned an excellent reputation for picks and predictions in football handicapping, basketball handicapping and baseball handicapping as well other major sporting events. Because of demand, in 2006 we added five additional top rated sports betting handicappers and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive............ Read More
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