The AL West has been pretty predictable in the past. This year will be no different. The Los Angeles Angels have been the steady front runner in this division for some time. They play a smart brand of baseball but will be tested this year.
The National Football League begins its 14th week of football betting action on Thursday night, and Bookmaker Sportsbook customers will get their chance to sink their teeth into all of the fantastic action when the Oakland Raiders (3-9, 5-7 ATS) invade Qualcomm Stadium to do battle with the San Diego Chargers (4-8, 4-7-1 ATS).
The Oakland Raiders take on the Miami Dolphins in a game where one team has been downright awful, that would be the Raiders, and the other team has been respectable, that would be the Dolphins. Miami has exceeded almost every sport betting fans’ expectations by going 5 and 4 straight-up and 5 and 4 against the BetUS online wagering spread.
While they seem to be flying under the radar, the Carolina Panthers (6-2 SU, 4-3-1 ATS, 2-6 O/U0 are quietly putting together a fine season in the NFC for fans and online sports betting backers. The same can’t be said about the totally dysfunctional Oakland Raiders (2-6 SU, 3-5 ATS, 4-4 O/U) who are in the midst of what is arguably the most trying season in franchise history.
The Oakland Raiders (2-4 SU, 3-3 ATS) would like to think they are on a high after beating the New York Jets. On Sunday they will tackle the Baltimore Ravens (3-3 SU, 4-2 ATS) in NFL action that is set to get underway at 1 PM ET at M&T Bank Stadium (artificial turf) in Baltimore.
Week 3 NFL Picks – Sunday Sept 21st, 2008 1:00 PM ET
Ralph Wilson Stadium (73,967) — Orchard Park, New York
The nightcap game is out in Oakland with the Raiders getting three points from the hated Denver Broncos. The spread for this game opened at one-point with the Broncos getting the bulk of the early action.
The Boston Red Sox will debut the newest member of their starting rotation when they play host to the Toronto Blue Jays Friday night. Here’s your Daily Sports Roundup . . .
Event of the day . . .
An injury to Tim Wakefield left a hole in Boston’s rotation – and they’re hoping that Paul Byrd can plug it through the end of the season. The righthander was picked up from the Indians in a deal on Tuesday afternoon, and he’s going to take Clay Buchholz’s start at Fenway Park on Friday. Buchholz, though, will probably remain in the rotation, since the team’s Charlie Zink experiment didn’t turn out well in that slugfest on Tuesday night.
Byrd (7-10, 4.53 ERA) had earned the victory in each of his last four starts as a member of the Indians, giving up just four earned runs over 29 innings of work in that span. As well, Byrd’s last outing actually came against Toronto on August 9, and he surrendered only two earned runs on six hits over a full nine innings in that game. Byrd hasn’t given up a home run since July 4 in a loss to the Twins.
