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CBB Top 25 Weekend Preview (Feb. 26th)

Top 25 Matchups for Friday and Saturday, February 12 and 13, 2010

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

Kentucky Wildcats (2) at Tennessee Volunteers (17) 12:00 PM ET

Kentucky has pretty much cruised in the eight games since suffering its first and only loss of the season at South Carolina. The two exceptions however were against Mississippi St. and Vanderbilt and like this one, both of those were on the road. The Wildcats were fortunate to win both of those games and they came home and laid some payback on the Gamecocks by 21 points on Thursday.

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NBA Handicapping – NBA Schedule Analysis

Five Toughest Remaining NBA Schedules

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

The NBA regular season is winding down quickly and Matt Fargo took a look at the remaining schedule of the 30 teams in the league to see what teams could have a tough time down the stretch.

Here are five teams he thinks have the toughest roads coming in.

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CBB Top 25 Weekend Preview (Feb. 11th)

Top 25 Matchups for Friday and Saturday, February 12 and 13, 2010

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

West Virginia Mountaineers (4) at Pittsburgh Panthers (23) Friday 9:00 PM ET

A rare top 25 matchup takes place on Friday night in the rematch of the Backyard Brawl.

The first meeting in West Virginia saw the Mountaineers win by 19 points, sending Pittsburgh to its fourth loss in five games but it was the extracurricular activities that made the headlines. There were a couple small scuffles as well as fans throwing objects onto the floor at one point.

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Northern Trust Open Preview – Golf Handicapping

Northern Trust Open – Riviera CC, Pacific Palisades, California

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

Purse: $6,400,000

The PGA Tour continues with the California swing as it stops at Riviera Country Club for the Northern Trust Open. Formerly known as the Nissan Open, this event usually brings in a solid field and that is the case again this year.

The strong field is a plus but going up against the Super Bowl isn’t ideal even though kickoff will be after the trophy is hoisted.

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CBB Top 25 Weekend Preview

Top 25 Matchups for Saturday, January 30, 2010

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

Duke Blue Devils (7) at Georgetown Hoyas (11) 1:00 PM ET

After starting the season 1-3 on the road, Duke was able to gain some confidence with a rather easy road win at Clemson last weekend. On Wednesday the Blue Devils improved to 5-2 in the ACC with a home win over Florida St. and now steps out of conference for the second to last time this season. This will be the third and final road game this month against a ranked opponent and starts a stretch of a brutal four games. Following this, Duke has a home revenge meeting with Georgia Tech, who won the first matchup this season, followed by two tough road games at Boston College and at North Carolina.

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Golf Handicapping: Farmers Insurance Open Preview

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

If you have never heard of the Farmers Insurance Open, don’t feel bad because you aren’t alone. The PGA recorded an eagle when it inked Farmers Insurance to be the title sponsor just last week which filled a five-month absence of a sponsor of this San Diego tournament formerly known as the Buick Invitational.

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CBB Top 25 Weekend Preview

Top 25 Matchups for Saturday, January 23, 2010

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

Ohio St. Buckeyes (25) at West Virginia Mountaineers (12) 2:00 PM ET

Ohio St. was going through some struggles to start the month but the Buckeyes are currently riding a three-game winning streak that includes big wins over Purdue and Wisconsin.

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CBB Top 25 Weekend Preview

Top 25 Matchups for Saturday, January 16, 2010

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

Syracuse Orange (5) at West Virginia Mountaineers (9) 12:00 PM ET

Easily the marquee matchup of the day, we get started early with a great matchup. Syracuse is 16-1 on the season including a perfect 5-0 away from home. It has played only two true road games on the season however and those came at Seton Hall and Rutgers so this will easily be the biggest road test thus far and mark the first road game against a ranked opponent.

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CBB Top 25 Weekend Preview

Top 25 Matchups for Saturday, January 9, 2010

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

(13) Connecticut Huskies at (12) Georgetown Hoyas 12:00 PM ET (ESPN)

Connecticut is 11-3 on the season and all three of those losses have come against teams that are ranked or were ranked at one time. The Huskies lost on a neutral floor against Duke, a neutral floor against Kentucky and at Cincinnati, who is no longer ranked. The game against the Bearcats has been the only true road game this season for Connecticut and it is coming off back-to-back home conference wins over Notre Dame and Seton Hall.

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Golf Handicapping: Canadian Open Preview

2009 RBC Canadian Open Championship Preview

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

Following the extremely suspenseful Open Championship at Turnberry, the PGA Tour crosses another border this week at is heads to Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ontario for the RBC Canadian Open. This will be the 25th time this track has hosted this event but just the 3rd time since the redesign took place in 2001.

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Golf Majors Handicapping: British Open Preview

2009 British Open Championship Preview

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

The third Major of the golf season takes place this week with the Open Championship at Turnberry in Ayrshire, Scotland. This will be the fourth time the Open has been played here and the first since 1994 when Nick Price finished birdie-eagle-par and held off Jesper Parnevik to win by a stroke. The other times were in 1986 (Greg Norman) and 1977 (Tom Watson). The reason for the time off from the rotation was due to traffic issues to the course but all has been fixed.

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Matt Fargo MLB Handicapping Tips

MLB Second Half Schedules

Minnesota Twins

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

The Twins will enter the break right around .500 and still be in contention in the American League Central. That is the good news. The bad news is that after the break, 40 of their remaining 73 games are on the road. Minnesota finished the first half with a 17-24 record on the road and it will come out of the gates with 10 straight road games beginning July 17th.

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Golf Handicapping: John Deere Classic PGA Preview

John Deere Classic Preview

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

The week before a Major can be a crapshoot on which players are going to tee it up and which players will be taking the week off to rest. In the case of the week before the Open Championship, it is pretty cut and dry as most big name players are going to relax and take their time heading over the pond to Turnberry and the year’s third Major.

That leaves the John Deere Classic with a lack of star quality this week but it nonetheless should be a quality tournament.

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Golf Handicapping: AT&T National PGA Preview

AT&T National Preview

Matt Fargo
Matt Fargo

The tour heads to Bethesda, MD and Congressional Country Club for the AT&T National which is hosted by none other than Tiger Woods. Tiger missed his own tournament last season because of the knee surgery that sidelined him for nearly 10 months. He is back and is the big favorite this week in what is a healthy but not overly impressive field.

Only four of the OWGR Top Ten players are in action with Paul Casey (3), Vijay Singh (9) and Jim Furyk (10) joining Tiger.

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MLB Baseball Handicapping & Wagering Tips

Hot and Cold Baseball Teams Week 12

The baseball season is in full swing and Matt Fargo will be examining teams that are hot and teams that are not and how they can make us some money.

This week he takes a look at some hot teams that may be providing some good MLB baseball betting value to play on in the upcoming schedule.

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MLB Baseball Handicapping & Gambling Tips

Hot and Cold Baseball Teams Week 11

The baseball season is in full swing and Matt Fargo will be examining teams that are hot and teams that are not and how they can make us some money.

This week he takes a look at some cold teams that may be providing some good value to play against in the upcoming MLB baseball betting schedule.