Bowl Predictions ~ 2009 College Football

Meineke Car Care Bowl - North Carolina +3
Pitt doesnt want to be here! Game played in North Carolina. UNC has super defense.

Independence Bowl - Texas A&M +7
A&M passing game will not be stopped.

EagleBank Bowl - UCLA -4
UCLA is underated. Temple sucks.

Chick-fil-A Bowl - Tennessee +4.5
VaTech doesn't execute well. SEC vs ACC is an easy call.

Capital One Bowl - Penn St -1
Everybody I know or read about likes LSU in this game. Wrong.

Alamo Bowl - Texas Tech -7.5
Blowout, blowout, blowout

Orange Bowl - Iowa Hawkeyes +4
Super defense and time to prepare for GTech

BCS Championship - Under 44
Not sure about the outcome, but it will be low-scoring


Betting big on all of these!

~Cat

Poker After Dark -- So Good!

If you like poker, you will love the current Poker After Dark episodes. Phenominal television! I've actually caught myself laughing out loud a few times. Phil Helmuth is just getting abused. Tom Dwan is dominating the table. They are doing $100,000 a man blind gambles before the cards are dealt. And so much more. You really gotta watch it.

12 Stock Picks For 2010

2010 will be a Super year for the stock market.

2010 Stock Picks/Portfolio:

RVBD 23.10 Riverbed Technology
PBR 48.50 Petrpbras
CNQ 64.75 Canadian Oil
DNDN 25.40 Dendreon
COST 59.30 Costco
POT 119.55 Potash
CAGC 27.45 China Agritech
ICE 109.00 Intercontinental Exchange
MGM 9.90 MGM Casinos
LVS 15.25 Las Vegas Sands / Venetian Casinos
JPM 41.00 JP Morgan
ALTR 22.35 Altera

The perfect portfolio for 2010! Buy call options on twelve of those babies one year out. Huge year coming!

Online Sportsbook Review Update:

Online Sportsbook BETUS.COM is the worst. Betus charges $40 Fee for every single withdrawal. Can you say Ripoff! Keep in mind most sportsbook have free withdrawals.

Another litte tidbit about online sportsbook BetUs.com: If you happen to win too much, they will label you a ‘professional’ and suspend your account and keep your money!!?!!

Stay away from this shady Costa Rican sportsbook.

Godaddy.com is the Worst

The Worst Run Company in America: Godaddy.com.

My website goes down monthly. It costs me money every time. Godaddy never fixes it quickly. Godaddy never explains what the problem is. Godaddy customer service is completely clueless. Godaddy never tells you when the problem will be fixed. Godaddy doesn't even let you talk to technical support!?!! You are only allowed to talk to sales support.

I've been using Godaddy for years. Nothing ever imporves; same old Website is down problems. I'm finally starting to migrate some of my domains and hosting accounts elsewhere.

My advice, DON'T EVER USE GODADDY. You will regret it.

Poker blog - pocket Kings

Playing at local SoCal cardroom this past weekend. $5-$10 no limit $1500 max buy in. I bought in for $1k.

Immediately I built my stack from $1000 to $3000. Then I built it from $3000 to $5000. I was dominating the game. Never risking all my chips, and never playing big pots unless I had the best hand. But I was bluffing a good amount. That's why I kept getting paid off when I made a big hand.

That's when this hand unfolded.
Second to act, I look down at two red Kings. Dorky old bald Persian with huge belly, first to act, calls $10. Playing tricky, and with so many players after me, I just call the $10 instead of raising.

Five other dudes call. Damn! The sixth dude on the button raises to $45. Whew! I needed that! Now I can reraise big and take it down. It will be an easy $100 profit with no risk. Thats what I like, winning with minimal risk.

Old guy in the big blind who looks just like my grandpa calls the $45. Rolly poly Persian on my right re-reraises to $255. Wow! What a big raise!
Great!

He's got a big stack of about $2500. Should I reraise again and take his $255 and the rest of the pot, or go for his whole stack? I'm sure he doesn't have Aces -- I'm sure I have the best hand. I smooth call the $255. Trying to look like I have AK. If the flop comes something like 5-5-5 or 2-3-2 and he has QQ or JJ, I will take his whole stack, and he won't see it coming.

Everyone else folds. But now old grandpa dude acts! He calls $255!?! Did not expect him to join the party!
Now there is $800 in the pot!

Flop comes J-5-2 (two cards are spades)

Thats a pretty good flop. But there is definitely a chance one of these guys has JJ. Im last to act, which is great. Old grandpa dude is first, and he shoves all-in $950! WTF!!?

Wow, what a bet. Especially because he hasn't even seen what me or Rolly Poly Persian will do.

Rolly Poly hems and haws....and finally folds. Now I have a decision.
What does he have????

JJ is definitely a possibilty. AK of spades is possible. AJ is very possible. Thats the only three scenarios I thought were possible. I should have considered one more: QQ.

I thought for a long time. If I called the pot would be huuuuge....about $2800 bucks.
I finally decided to call.

The old coot did indeed have QQ. He turned it over right away. I was so happy to see that. I was 87.5% favored to win.

The next card was 3 of spades, final card was 8 of spades.

He made a Queen high flush.

I let out a loud crying yelp NOOOOOOOOO and threw my cards in the muck.

That was a really hard bad-beat to cope with. I was shell-shocked for about an hour. I kept looking over at his $3000 dollar stack thinking that it should have been mine.

I recouped later and went on to win a couple Gs, so it ended up being a good session overall. But it still stings losing that hand.

End.

Phil Ivey mucks the winning hand on accident.

I am still in shock at Phil Ivey mucking the winning hand on a checked river. With only 30 players left in the WSOP Main Event, that has to be the biggest blunder in WSOP history. Shocking!!

Wow, 7-1 this weekend by Lock of the Day. I bought their picks for $35 this weekend because they boasted it was their College Football Lock of the Month. It was Georgia Tech -5 vs Virginia. I liked the game too so I put $2200 on Gtech (but I got -5.5). Didn't matter as the Yellow Jackets blew out the Cavaliers 34-9. Yeeeeeeeehaaaaaawww!!!!!!!

Props to Lockoftheday.com. They had a great weekend. So did I.

Tonight, I've got $550 on the Eagles vs Redskins.....


~Cat

No-Limit Hold'em. DO YOU MAKE THE CALL?

Poker Blog

You make the call.
Playing $2-$5, $400 max buy-in.
I have a $700 stack. Playing 6-handed at Pechanga card room.
In early position I raise to $20 with A-10. I had been raising a lot, and wanted to keep up my aggressive reputation. Two callers.
Then 50 yr-old tiny Vietnamese guy with black slicked back hair raises to $70. He was a gambler, and I had position on him, and I had an Ace, so I made a loose call. (Most of the time I would fold there)
One other guy called.
Flop comes A-9-5, two clubs.
Crazy Vietnamese guy immediately goes all-in for $380.
I am next to act. One other guy behind me, and he was a crazy jerk. I hit my ace, but I have a mediocre kicker.

DO YOU CALL? Or fold or raise? below.....



This is a tough call. That is a large amount he bet. I bought in for $400 and now he is betting almost my entire buy-in. Hard to put crazy guys on hands too.But his all-in is totally crazy. If he had KK or QQ like I thought he did, then this is suicide. If he has AK or AQ or A9, then I am in deep trouble. However, a $380 bet doesn't want action. If he has those three hands, he would want action. I must have him beat. So I called. Other guy folded.My opponent had A-8 both clubs, top pair with a flush draw. No club came and I took down the healthy pot.

POKER BLOG 9-28-09 > YOU MAKE THE CALL

Poker Blog - you make the call.

Played $5-$10 last at shady card room in San Diego.

Near the button I have K-10 offsuit, my stack is $1250. Most others have larger stacks. Five players limp in for $10, including myself.

Flop comes Q-10-10.

Great flop for me. Check, check, third guy bets $30, fold, I raise to $80.
Older wealthy white guy in first position, who checked, now calls the $80.
Tough to read that call. Everyone else folds.

Turn card is an 6, two hearts now on the Q-10-10-6 board.

Guy checks. I need to bet here. But how much? After a while, I decide on $180. Guy calls. What does he have?

River card is a 3 of hearts.

Guy goes all in for $1000. I have $880 left.
>>DO YOU CALL OR FOLD?
This one took a lot of thinking, so work it out, then let me know what you put him on. Then scroll down to my decision.....





Three hearts on the board but no way did I put him on a flush. Why? A flush would be afraid of a full house. I bet every time I could; I could easily have a full house. A flush would just check, or bet $300, not $1000.Does he have a full house? If he flopped it, he would have surely raised me on the turn, trying to build the pot. He cant have Q-10 because he never raised. 10-7? Again, when I bet $180, he would have raised. So now 10-7 full house.Is he bluffing? 9-J might bluff here, after he missed his straight. He saw me fold earlier, so maybe he thinks he can push me around? Pocket aces or kings? No way, he would have raised preflop from 1st position. I went over all these and still didnt know what to do. Nothing made fricken sense, so I called. He showed 10-3 for a full house on the river. I was so pissed. I got up and left. I hate poker.

JaMarcus Russell worst ever NFL QB?

JaMarcus Russell is the worst quarterback to play in the NFL in the past 20 years.

Seriously, it is remarkable how bad this guy is. Al Davis will not let Tom Cable bench Russell. Why? Al Davis is embarrassed, and desperately wants Russell to improve so Davis doesn't look like the jackass he obviously is. The game has passed Al Davis by. All other 31 NFL owners would fire their head coach if they continued to play a quarterback as bad as Russell. Al Davis is the opposite. He fired Lane Kiffin because Kiffin wanted to bench Russell.

Jamarcus Russell is so bad he cannot even hit a wide open WR sitting in the zone 12 yards down the field. And forget about mobility. Russell is afraid to run with the football.

The Raiders have a decent team without Russell. Throw Jeff Garcia in as the starter, or even 3rd stringer Charlie Frye, and the Raiders could be a playoff team.

Personally, I hope Al Davis forces his puppet head coach to play Jamarcus all year long. I've made big dollars betting against the Raiders. I'd love to be able to continue to do so.

Killer of 270 people set free!?!!

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi killed 270 people by blowing up a plane over Lockerbie. Today he is a free man. People who kill 1 person should never be set free. How does this murderer get to walk free?!

Even worse, Libyan president Moammar Gadhafi gave the guy a giant hug when he got off the plane in Libya. Our government, and Britain's government are getting soft. This is just appalling.

If this doesn't piss you off then you've got no backbone.

NFL SUNDAY TICKET FROM DIRECT TV NOW $300

Direct TV has raised their prices substantially, again. NFL Sunday Ticket now costs $300 for service from September 13th to January 3rd, plus your $62 monthly service fee.

It's really not worth paying the scumbags at Direct TV $300. Sept 13th to Jan 3rd isn't that long. Plus you get at least 2 or 3 games every Sunday, as well as Sunday Night Football on NBC. Plus you get every Monday Night Football game. Plus you get every Thursday Night game. Plus you get all the NFL Playoffs free. WHY PAY $300 FOR A FEW EXTRA GAMES?

Direct TV's a bunch of greedy scumbags!!!

I'm switching to cable.


~ Cat

BEST ONLINE FOOTBALL HANDICAPPER

There's a ton of dishonest, unreliable & flat out shady online handicappers out there. The only online handicapper I can really recommend is Lock Of The Day (http://www.lockoftheday.com/). These guys don't win all the time, but unlike any other handicapper, they do publish their losses. It's refreshing to see such openness and honesty. Most handicappers never mention losses, or act as if they win all the time, or even worse, they blatantly lie about losses.

The main reason I went with their package last year, they offered a money-back guarantee if they didn't have a winning season. Impressive! EVERY HANDICAPPER SHOULD BE SO BOLD! Put your money where your mouth is, right?

Lock Of The Day also gives away their pick of the day for free, most of the time, posted right on the front page. Some handicappers offer free picks, but you gotta search for it or give them your email.

Lock Of The Day claims to best in the business at Football. Not sure if that is true, but they did have a solid season last year. I purchased their Season Package last year they did pretty well I have to say. Trust me, it's rare I give props like this, but they deserve it.

Anyway, I hope Lock Of The Day appreciates the recommendation. Actually, I hope other handicappers take the challenge and offer a money-back guarantee or show their losses. That would be something.

Football season is right around the corner!


~ Cat

DETROIT LIONS FUTURE

Question: In football, what is the least important position on the field (offense & defense)? Answer: Tight End. It's absolutely mind-boggling that a team that went 0-16 last year, and needs help EVERYWHERE, would draft a Tight End in the first round of the NFL Draft. Furthermore, the Lions drafted another Tight End later in the draft!? They drafted two Tight Ends! This is unbelievable!

The Lions also drafted a WR in round 3, and a RB in round 6. Keep in mind the Lions had the 32 ranked defense, dead last in the NFL last year.

I'm not sure why the Detroit Lions draft and future seem to be flying under the radar, but somebody needs to call them out on it.
This team went 0-16 last year for crying out loud!

Drafting a TE in the first round is ludicrous!

How do you pass up LB Ray Muauluga twice? Or LB Clay Mathews? Or CB Vontae Davis, DT Peria Jerry, or LB James Laurinitas?

If I'm the Lions GM, here is my draft: OT Jason Smith, CB Vontae Davis, LB Ray Muauluga, and DE Jason Gilbert with the first 4 picks. Now that's a draft! Those three would definitely get the defense going in the right direction. Jason Smith would help protect next year's quarterback. Sam Bradford and Colt McCoy are MUCH BETTER than Mathew Stafford and Mark Sanchez and Josh Freeman.

Letting Culpepper play this year and building a tougher defense would have been the wise move. A strong defense makes you competitive. A fricken Tight End does not make you competitive! Defense wins championships. The Lions are absolutely clueless and all management should be fired. I could run this team, and make them competitive within two years.

~Cat

Southwest Airlines Credit Card $60/yr

Southwest Airlines SWA credit card costs $60/year. Why would anyone ever pay an annual fee for a credit card when there are so many credit cards with NO ANNUAL FEE?!

Southwest Airlines' card is a ripoff.

Furthermore, to earn a free flight using their credit card, you need to spend over $19,000. Yeah, that will get you one free flight. SWA is asleep at the wheel on this one. If they had no annual fee I would consider it.


~Cat

UFC 101 Predictions

If you checked my blog for UFC 100 Predictions, you saw that I correctly predicted all three fights. Nice. More importantly, the one that I bet heavily on, GSP over Alves, easily won.

For UFC 101 I am going with Kenny Florian, a sizeable underdog, to beat BJ Penn. It will be a tremendous fight, regardless of the outcome. I believe Florian is better conditioned, and he will take advantage of BJ in the later rounds. BJ is notorious for getting tired and giving up. Florian's elbows are wicked. One nasty elbow and cut and BJ will be on the defensive. Florian, a 2-1 underdog, is the bet.

In the other fight, take Silva. Griffin is out-classed in this matchup. Silva is a Lock.

I have $500 on Florian to win a grouper ($1000) and $1500 to win $500 on Silva.


~Cat

Phllies obtain pitcher Cliff Lee

The National League is now a two-horse race between the Phillies and Cardinals. Both teams made major moves before the trade deadline.

Bet the Phillies to win the National League. Philly is loaded.

Phillies Make Another Offer for Roy Halladay

Yesterday the Blue Jays turned down another offer for Roy Halladay from the World Champion Phillies. It would be wise for Toronto to keep Halladay - he is the best pitcher in baseball. If the Blue Jays trade him, they basically don't care about winnng for the next 5 years. Toronto would be in danger of becoming the next Oakland A's - a team so frugal they don't care about winning.

5Dimes Sportsbook is Clueless

What is 5Dimes.com thinking? Their sportsbook website looks like it was designed in 1996. They even do their best to HIDE the pointspreads of daily games! The navigation for the website is awful, even worse than Bookmaker.com. Whoever runs these two websites is just clueless. Idiots! It really makes you question whether or not you feel safe sending money to these low-budget online sportsbooks. How can your money be safe if their websites look like they were designed by a 3rd-grader?

I have to give Sportsbook.com and Wsex.com credit. Their websites are professional, very easy to navigate, and very easy to find pointspreads and odds.

I'm still trying to decide where to deposit funds for the upcoming NFL football season. I'll be in Vegas for Week 1. But still like to have some $$ in an offshore sportsbook to take advantage of different pointspreads.


~ Cat

BEST ONLINE SPORTBOOK

BEST ONLINE SPORTSBOOK - OR WORST ONLINE SPORTSBOOK

Beware of these online sportsbooks:

SPORTSBOOK.COM - Withdrawals are very difficult. They require one week to 'process' your withdrawal; processing should take one hour, not one week. After processing, you need to fax them a copy of your drivers license?! Then you must fax them a copy of your utility bill?! Then you must wait a few more weeks for your check to arrive. The whole process for your first withdrawal takes almost 2 months.

BODOG.COM - The true Low-Roller sportsbook. Bodog continues to put forth the lowest max bets in the industry. Betting a NFL football Season Win Total, say New York Giants Over 10 wins for the season? The most Bodog allows is $300. What a joke! Also, Bodog only allows $500 max deposits via credit card. All of their max bets are the lowest of all sportsbooks.

WORLD SPORTS EXCHANGE - Continued complaints pile up concerning their withdrawal policy. Most withdrawal checks are mysteriously 'lost'. Then the process really begins. WSX employees do their best to ignore your requests for Tracking #s or shipping information. The accounting department will refer you to the customer service department; the customer service department will refer you to the accounting department. It's all basically a scam to delay your withdrawal. Why? Two reasons. Most gamblers are impatient, and will end up making more bets with the money still in their account. That's what they want you to do. Reason Two, WSX collects interest on their money, so delaying all withdrawals by a month or two makes them money. Expect 6 weeks for WSX withdrawals.
Additional: WSX has the widest moneylines in the business. Not good for bettors.

BOOKMAKER.COM - This might be advanced for some, but this rule is so wrong it should be illegal: Two-team Teaser bet rule: one win and one tie = the best is cancelled; but one loss and one tie = you lose. This goes against all established betting rules. How can you have a bet where you can lose or push, but cannot win? Massive advantage for the house. They cannot lose! If one of your games pushes, they either win or push. Amazing. I've dealt with Bookmaker.com before and they are so ignorant, I actually believe they do not understand this rule is wrong.
The true problem with this sportsbook is their website. It looks as if the website was designed by 4th grader. Very difficult to navigate. And customer service is worthless; they don't speak or understand English.

BETUS.COM - If you win too much at this online sportsbook, they label you a professional and freeze your account! Sound unbelievable? By all accounts, it's happened dozens of times. And there is no recourse. BetUs.com's office is located in a strip mall in Costa Rica. There is nothing you can do.

ODDSMAKER.COM - This sham of a sportsbook boasts a 135% sign-up bonus. The sign-up bonus once you join is actually zero. 15% of that bonus is a refer-a-friend bonus. 20% is re-load bonus. (How can you re-load or refer a friend if you are Signing up for the first time?!) That leaves us with 100% left. The 100% bonus is given out after you bet your entire deposit 30 times. 30 times!!! Imagine you deposit $100 bucks. You then have to bet that $100 bucks thirty times to receive your $100 deposit bonus. Geez! You have a 50/50 chance of losing your $100 after just one bet; how about 30 bets? Their bonus is a complete sham.

Want to go somewhere else? Most online sportsbooks have opened up sister sites to conquer competition. For example:

Sportsbook.com owns & operates all of these online sportsbooks from their small office in Costa Rica: Superbook.com, PlayersOnly.com, Logans.com, Sportsbook.com, Racebook.com, Mysportsbook.com, BetUsa.com, Sports.com, Sportsbetting.com, & Allstar.com. Yep, all the same owner in the small jungle office located in San Jose, Costa Rica.

If you're sending your money to these third world sportsbooks you're a braver man than I am.


~ Cat

BET: NEW OLEANS SAINTS OVER 8.5 WINS

LARGE WAGER: SAINTS OVER 8.5 WINS

Season Win Total bets need to be looked at as investments, not as bets. These bets tie up your bankroll for a long time; don't use your bankroll, use your investment money.

I just dropped $5k on the Saints to win 9 or more games this season. Here is why.

a) Even though the Saints were 8-8 last year, they have a last place schedule. They play other last place teams.

b) The defense will be much improved. CB Tracy Porter will be back from injury. 1st round pick Jenkins is a ball-hawk stud. The Saints D-Line is very good; Sedrick Ellis will have a breakout year.

c) Reggie Bush is back from injury. He makes this team go.

d) Drew Brees is simply awesome.

e) The Saints play extremely well at home; they are unstoppable in the Superdome!

Where will New Orleans get 9 wins? Right here baby!!

- Lions and Buccs are the two worst teams in football = 3 WINS
- They'll split their games vs division rivals Panthers & Falcons = 2 WINS
- Easy home game vs Jets = 1 WIN
- Easy road game on turf vs Rams = 1 WIN
- Losses to Philly, NYG & Patriots - 0 WINS

That leaves 4 remaining games, Saints must win 2 of them vs:
- Buffalo, Miami, Washington, Dallas = 2 WINS minimum = 9 WINS!
Saints are better than all four of those teams!! No way they go 1-3 vs those teams! NO WAY! Saints might go 4-0 vs those teams. That's how good the Saints are!

9 WINS FOR SURE. Probably 10 or 11 Wins.


~Cat

Online Sportsbook Scams

Many Sportsbooks and Online Casino's offer bogus Sign-Up bonuses. Take online sportsbook Oddsmaker.com. You'd be a sucker to send these jokers money.

Oddsmaker.com boasts all over their website about a 135% Sign-Up bonus. 20% of the Sign-Up Bonus is a Re-load bonus. Huh?! Yeah, if you lose your deposit, you get a 20% bonus the next time. So, obviously, that 20% isn't included in the 135%. Funny math huh. Why? These sportsbooks are located in small strip-mall offices in 3rd-world countries where they barely understand English, let alone math.

Another part of the 135% bonus is a 15% bonus if you refer a friend. How can you refer a friend on your initial Sign-Up? You can't. So that 15% is bullshit. So now we are down to a 100% bonus.

Here is the real kicker. The 100% Bonus goes into something called your Free Money account, which means you can never withdraw it. Ever. To get the 100% bonus you have to wager your initial deposit 30 times. 30 times!!! Let's say you deposit $100 bucks. You have to bet that $100 bucks thirty times before you get the free $100 bonus. They know if you bet 30 times you'll more than likely lose. Shit, you've got a 50/50 chance of losing on your first $100 bet! Either way, the sportsbook makes out like a bandit.

That's why this shady online sportsbook is such a scam. The underlying meaning of a "Deposit Bonus" means you should get a bonus upon deposit. It's not a Bet-30-Times Bonus, it a Deposit Bonus! Pay attention to Sportsbook scams.

Feel free to email me Sportsbook scams, reviews, feedback, recommendations, complaints, etc: CONROYCAN@GMAIL.COM. I will continue to write about Sportsbook scams in the upcoming months...


~ Cat

Steve McNair & now Arturo Gotti killed by their chicks

This is getting scaring. Bitches are on the attack. First Steve McNair, and now legendary boxer Arturo Gotti have been killed by their bitches.

Arturo Gotti was a boxing legend. Gotti vs Mickey Ward is still the best fight I have ever seen. Hands down, best fight ever! Even better than any UFC fight I've ever watched. Gotti had tremendous heart and a cult-like following.

What's to learn from this? Stay away from psycho chicks. There is a an excellent chapter on this in Billy Conroy's book 101 Essential Wingman Tips http://www.amazon.com/Cougars-Poptarts-One-Night-Stands/dp/1419698265/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247511008&sr=8-1

That's a great book by the way, but I digress.

Details are coming out now, but it looks like Gotti's Brazilian wife strangled him in his sleep. He was drunk, and they had been in an argument while on vacation in Brazil.

Arturo Gotti will be sorely missed.


~ Cat

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UFC 100

Dan Henderson's knockout of Michael Bisping might have been the most ferocious knockouts of all time!! Nobody deserved it more than the smack-talking Brit Bisping.

I slammed all of my UFC bets and predictions (blog below).
Easy money!
If you've noticed, I don't post all of my sports bets, but the ones I do post are slamdunk winners!

Regarding the Lesnar/Mir fight, Brock Lesnar turned out to be a real punk. Flipping off the crowd was classless. I hope somebody beats his ass and teaches him a lesson. Problem is, all of the guys who can do it, Fedor, Arlovsky, Josh Barnett, etc., aren't in the UFC.


~ Cat

UFC 100 PREDICTIONS

LESNAR vs MIR: Brock Lesnar is a bum. The guy is completely overated. He has very little skills; any quality heavyweight could easily whoop his ass. Problem is, Frank Mir is a bum too. Mir is a shadow of his former self. Mir beat a tired old man in his last fight, Antonio Nogueira, and now he gets a title shot? Brock Lesnar comes from the WWF and goes 2-1 in the UFC and gets a title shot? WHAT A JOKE! Why is this? The reason is there are no good heavyweights in the UFC. Dana White's control-freak, asshole attitude has alienated all of the great heavyweights in this sport.

So we are left with a washed up former champion, Frank Mir, versus a WWF wrestler as the Main Event. Pretty sad, I know. The general public has been fooled into believing this is a Main Event fight. This fight should be the undercard of the undercard.

The two best heavyweights in the world will actually fight next month. Fedor Emelianenko vs. Josh 'BabyFace' Barnett will be an epic battle. Both fighters have rejected the UFC due to White's PayPerView earnings greed and ridiculous contract demands. Dana White has also alienated top fighters such as Andrei Arlovski, Tito Ortiz, Vito Belfort, Randy Couture, Babalu Sobral, and many others.

LESNAR/MIR Prediction: Lesnar will destroy Mir and it won't be pretty. Mir is out of shape and he can't absorb the punching power Lesnar will inflict. Lesnar wins.

ST PIERRE vs THIAGO ALVES: Alves is awarded the title shot due to a win over Matt Hughes. Hughes took the fight on very short notice, and it showed. Plus, Hughes is well past his prime. Alves is in way over his head against the dominant GSP. GSP will win this fight by submission.

HENDERSON vs BISPING: Sure Bisping has very a attractive record, 18-1, but who has he fought? Nobody! Dana White has continued to give Bisping cupcake fight after cupcake fight in order to build a follwing in England and the rest of Europe. It worked! Many believe Bisping is the next great champion. Fools. Bisping has never been hit hard in 19 fights. Let's find out if the Brit has a chin! Dan Henderson has a rock solid neanderthal chin, we know that. Henderson will knock Bisping out.

MARK COLEMAN vs STEPHEN BONNER: Why are both of these guys still fighting?! Coleman is 100 years old and looked it in his last fight. He fights like a slug now; it's not even fun to watch. Bonner was thrown out of UFC for 1 year for taking illegal drugs (steroids). He came back and promptly lost to some unknown guy named Jon Jones. This fight will be torture to watch. Prediction: who cares!

Dana White is good at one thing, marketing his product. This fight card is terribly overated, but I will watch it because I love the sport. The Henderson/Bisping fight will be a good one. Other than that, I'm really looking forward to Fedor vs Barnett on August 1st.


~Cat

DIRECT TV RAISES NFL SUNDAY TICKET PRICES YET AGAIN

HIGHER PRICES AT DIRECT TV.

For the 5th year in a row, Direct TV has chosen to raise their prices. NFL Sunday Ticket is now a whopping $280 per football season. You would think in a slumping economy companies would lower their prices, or keep them the same.

Nope! The greedy bastards at Direct TV continue to jam their consumers with higher fees.

Direct TV has a monopoly on the NFL Season Package, so unfortunately, there is no alternative; adhere to the higher costs or go without.

Going without the Sunday Ticket isn't all that bad. A normal viewer will get two games on Sunday, sometimes three, another game Sunday night on NBC, and of course Monday Night Football. There will also be occasional games broadcast Saturday and Thursday throughout the season. Thus, out of the normal 13 games a weekend, you'll get to see about five. Is it worth it to pay that much to see the other 8 games? That's your choice.

Keep in mind you can only watch one game on one TV. Flipping channels to see other games becomes tiresome quickly.

For $280 you get football from September to December, that's it. The season starts in mid-September (Sept 13th) this year. The Playoffs start in January.

Recently, Direct TV also raised their monthly rates on their basic TV programs, as well as raising pay-per-view movie rates from $3.99 to $5 bucks per movie. Five bucks to rent an old movie? I'd rather go see a new movie for $10 bucks!

I wouldn't be surprised to see a dropoff in Direct TV subscriptions. The public will only stand for escalating fees for so long...


~ Cat

Phil Steele's Football Magazine

GOOD, BUT....

The best college football magazine out there is Phil Steele's College Football Preview. The others don't even come close. Steele eats, sleeps, and dreams college football. The guy is very good at what he does.

I just received my copy in the mail (ordered from the Gamblers Book Store online, $11). It's fantastic. My only complaint is Phil Steele spends an inordinate amount of time telling us how he correctly predicted a team's rise in 2005 or 2007. Who cares! In fact, every team's description is 75% Steele's description of the team in 2004 or 2005, etc. It's completely a waste of time. Steele likes to boast about his correct predictions from years ago, and the reader soon gets tired of hearing about it.

That's my only gripe. Bottom line is this magazine is a must read for the college football enthusiast.


~Cat

Ben Gordon $55 million

Ben Gordon is the same exact type of a player as Allen Iverson. Why would the Pistons give Gordon $55 million bucks. That's a head-scratcher. The Pistons did not get better; that's for sure.

~Cat

NFL LINES WEEK 1 through WEEK 17

NFL POINTSPREADS 2009

Here they are. Pointspreads for every NFL game this season:

WEEK 1, Sunday, Sept 13th
favorite line underdog
STEELERS 4.5 Titans
FALCONS 4 Dolphins
RAVENS 9 Chiefs
PANTHERS 1.5 Eagles
BENGALS 2.5 Broncos
Vikings -3 BROWNS
TEXANS 4 NY Jets
COLTS 6.5 Jaguars
SAINTS 11.5 Lions
Cowboys 3 Buccs
CARDINALS 6.5 49ers
NYG 6 Redskins
SEATTLE 7 Rams
PACKERS 3 Bears
PATRIOTS 10 Bills
Chargers 6.5 RAIDERS

WEEK 2, Sunday, Sept. 20
favorite line underdog
TITANS 5½ texans
FALCONS 2½ panthers
Vikings 6 LIONS
JAGUARS 2 cardinals
CHIEFS 5 raiders
EAGLES 5½ saints
PACKERS 7 bengals
REDSKINS 7½ rams
Patriots 6 NY JETS
BILLS 4½ bucs
49ERS 3 seahawks
CHARGERS 4½ ravens
Steelers 1 BEARS
BRONCOS 4½ browns
COWBOYS 3 giants
Colts 1 DOLPHINS

WEEK 3, Sunday, Sept. 27
favorite line underdog
EAGLES 9½ chiefs
Redskins 4½ LIONS
Packers 2½ RAMS
VIKINGS 6 49ers
Titans 2 JETS
Steelers 6 BENGALS
PATRIOTS 8 falcons
TEXANS 4 jaguars
Giants 3 BUCS
RAVENS 8½ browns
SEAHAWKS 1 bears
BILLS 1 saints
CHARGERS 5½ dolphins
RAIDERS 1 broncos
CARDINALS 1 colts
COWBOYS 4 panthers

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WEEK 4, Sunday, Oct. 4
favorite line underdog
REDSKINS 4 bucs
PATRIOTS 8 ravens
Titans 1½ JAGUARS
TEXANS 8½ raiders
BROWNS 4 bengals
COLTS 9½ seahawks
Giants 4½ CHIEFS
BEARS 10 lions
DOLPHINS 3½ bills
SAINTS 5½ jets
49ERS 5½ rams
Cowboys 3 BRONCOS
STEELERS 3½ chargers
VIKINGS 4½ packers

WEEK 5, Sunday, Oct. 11
favorite line underdog
RAVENS 9½ bengals
EAGLES 7½ bucs
BILLS 6 browns
Steelers 8 LIONS
PANTHERS 6 redskins
Cowboys 3 CHIEFS
GIANTS 11 Raiders
Vikings 3½ RAMS
49ERS 1 falcons
CARDINALS 3½ texans
Patriots 7 BRONCOS
SEAHAWKS 1 jaguars
TITANS 2 colts
DOLPHINS 4 jets

WEEK 6, Sunday, Oct. 18
favorite line underdog
JAGUARS 7½ rams
REDSKINS 5½ chiefs
TEXANS 2½ bengals
VIKINGS 2½ ravens
PACKERS 9½ lions
STEELERS 9½ browns
Panthers 1½ BUCS
SAINTS 1 giants
Cardinals 1 SEAHAWKS
Eagles 6 RAIDERS
JETS 2½ bills
PATRIOTS 7½ titans
FALCONS 4 bears
CHARGERS 8½ broncos

WEEK 7, Sunday, Oct. 25
favorite line underdog
Colts 7 RAMS
STEELERS 5½ vikings
Patriots 8 BUCS
Bears 2 BENGALS
Chargers 1 CHIEFS
Packers PK BROWNS
TEXANS 6 49ers
PANTHERS 6 bills
Jets 1½ RAIDERS
COWBOYS 4½ falcons
DOLPHINS 1½ saints
GIANTS 6 cardinals
Eagles 1½ REDSKINS

WEEK 8, Sunday, Nov. 1
favorite line underdog
COWBOYS 7½ seahawks
BILLS 3 texans
PACKERS 2½ vikings
LIONS 1 rams
JETS 2 dolphins
COLTS 9½ 49ers
BEARS 6½ browns
RAVENS 7 broncos
TITANS 6½ jaguars
CHARGERS 11 raiders
EAGLES 3½ giants
CARDINALS 2 panthers
SAINTS 3½ falcons

WEEK 9, Sunday, Nov. 8
favorite line underdog
Ravens 5 BENGALS
PATRIOTS 9 dolphins
JAGUARS 5½ chiefs
BUCS 1½ packers
FALCONS 4 redskins
BEARS 4 cardinals
COLTS 6 texans
SAINTS 3 panthers
SEAHAWKS 7½ lions
Titans 2½ 49ERS
GIANTS 4 chargers
EAGLES 4 cowboys
Steelers 4 BRONCOS

WEEK 10, Thursday, Nov. 12
favorite line underdog
49ERS 1 bears
VIKINGS 10 lions
REDSKINS 5½ broncos
DOLPHINS 5½ bucs
TITANS 5½ bills
SAINTS 4½ rams
JETS 2½ jaguars
PANTHERS 4 falcons
STEELERS 10½ bengals
RAIDERS 1 chiefs
PACKERS 1½ cowboys
CHARGERS 2½ eagles
CARDINALS 5½ seahawks
Patriots 3 COLTS
Ravens 3 BROWNS

WEEK 11, Thursday, Nov. 19
PANTHERS 4½ dolphins
Steelers 4 CHIEFS
RAVENS 2 colts
PACKERS 5½ 49ers
JAGUARS 3 bills
GIANTS 5½ falcons
BUCS PK saints
Browns 1½ LIONS
COWBOYS 6 redskins
VIKINGS 6 seahawks
Cardinals 3 RAMS
PATRIOTS 10 jets
Chargers 3 BRONCOS
RAIDERS 2½ bengals
BEARS 1 eagles
TEXANS 2 titans

WEEK 12, Thursday, Nov. 26
favorite line underdog
Packers 5 LIONS
COWBOYS 9½ raiders
Giants 3½ BRONCOS
BILLS 3 dolphins
RAMS 1½ seahawks
EAGLES 6½ redskins
FALCONS 6 bucs
TITANS 5 cardinals
Colts 1 TEXANS
BENGALS 2 browns
VIKINGS 3½ bears
Panthers 1 NY JETS
CHARGERS 8½ chiefs
49ERS 1½ jaguars
RAVENS 1 steelers
Patriots 3½ SAINTS

WEEK 13, Thursday, Dec. 3
favorite line underdog
BILLS 4 jets
BEARS 7½ rams
PANTHERS 7 bucs
JAGUARS 2 texans
CHIEFS 2 broncos
COLTS 4 titans
FALCONS 1 eagles
REDSKINS 1 saints
STEELERS 11 raiders
BENGALS 5 lions
Chargers 3½ BROWNS
GIANTS 4 cowboys
SEAHAWKS 3½ 49ers
CARDINALS 2½ Vikings
Patriots 5 DOLPHINS
PACKERS 1½ ravens

WEEK 14, Thursday, Dec. 10
favorite line underdog
Steelers 4½ BROWNS
FALCONS 2½ saints
COLTS 8 broncos
TEXANS 6 seahawks
PATRIOTS 8 panthers
CHIEFS 1 bills
RAVENS 11½ lions
VIKINGS 8 bengals
BUCS 2½ jets
TITANS 10 rams
JAGUARS 2 dolphins
BEARS 3½ packers
Redskins 2½ RAIDERS
COWBOYS 3 chargers
GIANTS 3 eagles
49ERS PK cardinals

WEEK 15, Thursday, Dec. 17
favorite line underdog
JAGUARS PK Colts
SAINTS 2½ cowboys
CHIEFS 3½ browns
JETS PK falcons
TITANS 6 dolphins
EAGLES 8½ 49ers
Patriots 4 BILLS
Cardinals 5 LIONS
STEELERS 7 packers
RAVENS 5 bears
Texans 3 RAMS
BRONCOS 5 raiders
CHARGERS 10 bengals
SEAHAWKS 3 bucs
PANTHERS 3 vikings
Giants 2 REDSKINS

WEEK 16, Friday, Dec. 25
favorite line underdog
TITANS 3 chargers
SAINTS 7 bucs
FALCONS 5 bills
EAGLES 8½ broncos
DOLPHINS 3 texans
PACKERS 5½ seahawks
GIANTS 4 panthers
BROWNS 4 raiders
PATRIOTS 9½ jaguars
BENGALS 1½ chiefs
STEELERS 5 ravens
CARDINALS 8 rams
49ERS 7½ lions
COLTS 7½ jets
Cowboys 1 REDSKINS
BEARS 2½ Vikings

WEEK 17, Sunday, Jan. 3
favorite line underdog
RAMS PK 49ers
VIKINGS 1 giants
BROWNS 1 jaguars
Steelers 1½ dolphins
Patriots 4 TEXANS
BUCS PK falcons
PANTHERS 3 saints
JETS 5½ bengals
COWBOYS 2½ eagles
Colts 1 BILLS
Bears 4½ LIONS
CHARGERS 4 redskins
Ravens 4 RAIDERS
BRONCOS 3½ chiefs
CARDINALS 3 packers
Titans 2 SEAHAWKS

Questions about these lines or other blogs? Email me at Conroycan@gmail.com

~ Cat

Paypal Deception & Higher Fees

Paypal charges a high 2.9% rate for customers who qualify for much lower rates.

Very few are aware of Paypal's sneaky tactics. Paypal publishes a fees chart, a percentage that it charges people to process payments, which varies based on monthly volume and supposedly the fee decreases with higher sales. But unless you go to this hidden page and opt-in to the lower fee, they hit you with their maximum percentage fee no matter what.

Why hide the lower fee page? Paypal is greedy! Why not convert their best customers to the lower fees automatically? Paypal chooses to be as sneaky and deceptive as possible. > Who cares about our best customers who are bringing the most revenue for our company?! Let's screw them over! THAT IS PAYPAL'S PHILOSOPHY.

Paypal is owned by Ebay. We all know Ebay has been continuously raising their fees to extract more profit for their quarterly Wall Street earnings reports. Scumbag companies like this should not be tolerated. Do what you can to avoid PayPal and Ebay.

Congrats USA Soccer! Way to kick ass!

Huge win for USA Soccer today upsetting the #1 ranked team in the world, Spain. Rep-re-sent!

Fight Of The Year

Still buzzing about that UFC fight last weekend! Fight of the Year! Sporting events like don't come along too often. Damn that was seriously one hell of a fight!

Years ago John Madden was announcing a Superbowl. During the many hours of pregame they did an interview with Madden. The guy interviewing Madden set him up with a question he thought he knew the answer to. With all the Superbowl hype around him, the question went like this "John, is there anything like this? Is there any greater sporting event than the Superbowl?" Madden pondered and replied, "The Superbowl is fantastic, but I think a big fight is as good as it gets."

Madden was right. He didn't care that the Superbowl was about to be played. He had to be honest. A big fight is as good as it gets. Mano y mano! Clay Guida vs Diego Sanchez was that fight.

~Cat

BEST UFC FIGHT EVER

BEST UFC FIGHT EVER: Diego Sanchez vs Clay Guida

Happen to catch the Ultimate Fighter season finale matches last night on SpikeTV? Holeeeeeee Shitttttt!!! The Main Event was a knock-down drag-out WAR featuring Clay Guida vs Diego Sanchez. When it was all said and done, it was literally the best MMA fight I have ever witnessed.

Let's just hand out the awards this fight won right now.

BEST MMA FIGHT 1st ROUND EVER: Diego Sanchez vs Clay Guida, June 20th, 2009
BEST FIRST MINUTE OF A FIGHT EVER: Sanchez vs Guida, 2009
TOP 5 BLOODIEST FIGHTS OF ALL TIME: Sanchez vs Guida, 2009
BEST PRE-FIGHT WALK-THROUGHS APPROACHING THE RING: Sanchez vs Guida, 2009
BEST PRE-FIGHT STAREDOWN: Sanchez vs Guida, 2009
BEST FIGHT EVER: Sanchez vs Guida, 2009

You should seriously consider finding a replay of this fight and watching it for yourself. I have never seen two fighters more fired up for a fight during the pre-fight walk-throughs. Guida was extremely fired up for this fight. He was jumping through the crowd, screaming and yelling. He was ready to fight! Diego Sanchez looked like a maniac during the walk-throughs. His scowl was evil! He looked like he wanted to take Guida's head off. The staredown before the bell was legendary. It reminded me of some of the old Muhammad Ali staredowns. Both fighters were right up in each other's faces!! Both fighters wanted to GET IT ON!!!

At the sound of the bell both fighters went straight at each other. No dancing around, no feeling each other out. Both fighters went directly at each and threw nonstop blows for the first minute of the fight. Toe to toe! Nonstop! Punch after punch! It was insane!! Never have I seen a fight begin like that. It gave me goosebumps, and it gives me goosebumps now writing about it. The crowd was going absolutely berserk!

Diego inflicted most of the damage in Round 1. Guida took and amazing amount of punishment. Most fighters would have quit or been knocked out. Guida even took a violent leg kick to the face that knocked him on his ass. But Guida never quit. Clay Guida has some serious heart. He even managed to fight back and take down Sanchez a couple times. Yes, this all happened in the legendary first round.

The fight was a war the for the entire three rounds. It would eventually go to a split-decision. The third and final round was a bloody mess. Guida has long fluffy hair. Halfway through the bout his hair was saturated with blood. Guida's long hair was wet and drenched red with blood. It was a site to see. His face was mangled and covered in blood as well. That man didn't care. Guida fought the third round hard and gave everything he could. However, Diego was the better fighter. Diego was covered in blood, and I mean covered. He was weary from this war, but he fought until the final bell sounded. It was one hell of a fight.

Sanchez won by split-decision. It was definitely a battle for the ages. It was right up there with Forrest Griffin/Stephen Bonner, Hagler/Hearns, and Mickey Ward/Arturo Gatti as the best fights I have ever seen.


~ Cat

Major Problem with Blackberry Bold phone

Major Volume Problems With Blackberry Bold

I spend an inordinate on my phone. I wanted the best phone available, cost was not an issue. I didn't want an iPhone because I prefer a keyboard (I hate finger pressing on a touchscreen). I went with the Blackberry Bold. Cost: $549.

Turns out this piece of shit has problems. I won't go into detail about the minor problems. The major one is the volume. Every time a new song comes on the volume changes back to a very low default volume. WTF! I'm at the gym working tri's and every fricken new song I have reach down on my phone and turn the volume back up. I have Bang & Olufsen earphones ($175) and the music sounds so sweet on those babies. If I'm jamming to Kings Of Leon and the next song comes on with super low volume - it pisses me off! Whether I am playing poker or at the gym lifting weights listening to music on my phone, it is extremely annoying to have adjust the volume for every new song.

Memo to the Research In Motion CEO: fire the fricken idiot who came up with that design flaw. The entire music player on the Bold has been a major hassle to work with. It sucks! Blackberry is light years behind Apple in that regard. The Blackberry App store is a joke too.

Blackberry is still superior in my #1 concern: email, so I am keeping the phone for the time being. Apple needs to come up with a phone that has a keyboard! RIMM needs to come up with a phone that has a decent music player!

* Update to this article. I do actually like the Bold very much. There is no better phone out there. I just needed to vent over the volume problem in the music player.


~ Cat


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Incredible lineup of MMA fights coming up!

UFC: Clay Guida vs. Diego Sanchez, Las Vegas, June 20: Sanchez (22-2), the enigmatic winner of the first season of The Ultimate Fighter, then fighting as a middleweight, continues his run for a lightweight title shot against Guida (25-9). A former junior college national wrestling champion, Guida is easily the company’s most popular mid-level fighter. His constant aggression, unique charisma, great heart and chin (which he will need since Sanchez will have a significant edge in the stand-up game) endless stamina has led to Guida being in three of the greatest matches in recent years with Gilbert Melendez, Roger Huerta and Tyson Griffin. But he also lost all three.

UFC: Brock Lesnar vs. Frank Mir, Las Vegas, July 11: There was probably no fight in MMA history more hotly debated beforehand than the February 2, 2008, match between the two. Mir, a former UFC heavyweight champion on a comeback after a nearly career ending motorcycle wreck, beat former pro wrestling superstar Lesnar, making his UFC debut, in 90 seconds. But Lesnar dominated the entire fight until being caught in a leglock. Was it a rookie mistake of inexperience by Lesnar that the last 17 months of training has nixed, or a reality that Lesnar has an Achilles heel against submission fighters that he’ll never shake? Since that time, Lesnar (3-1) shut down his critics by beating Couture and becoming the UFC heavyweight champion. Mir’s win over Lesnar catapulted himself to a match with UFC interim heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, where in a huge upset, Mir (12-3) became the first fighter ever to finish the legendary Brazilian.

UFC: Georges St. Pierre vs. Thiago Alves, Las Vegas, July 11: Welterweight king St. Pierre (18-2), tied for the top spot in the Yahoo! Sports pound-for-pound rankings, has been unstoppable for two straight years in taking down and dominating three of the best wrestlers in the sport in Matt Hughes, Josh Koscheck and Jon Fitch. Alves (16-3), looks to be his most difficult challenge because neither Hughes nor Koscheck could take Alves down, and his stand-up game is more explosive than the champion.

UFC: Dan Henderson vs. Michael Bisping, Las Vegas, July 11: A drama between the coach of Team U.S. and Team U.K. on the current season of The Ultimate Fighter. Bisping (17-1) would likely get a middleweight title shot with a win, which would be the biggest MMA event ever in the Liverpool, England’s native country. But Henderson (24-7), the only man to hold world championships in two weight classes at the same time, is the heavy favorite. The big question is age, as Henderson will be six weeks shy of his 39th birthday at fight time and gives up a decade on Bisping.Affliction:

Fedor Emelianenko vs. Josh Barnett, Anaheim, Calif., August 1: THIS IS THE BIG ONE! At least on paper, Barnett (24-5) looks to be Emelianenko’s biggest challenge since his win over Mirko Cro Cop four years ago. Barnett is good enough at all facets of the game that he shouldn’t be the latest in the line of victims of in-ring drive-bys from the 30-1 (1 no-contest) native of Stary Oskol, Russia, who is the other half of the No. 1 pound-for-pound debate. This as the last of the old-school heavyweight match-ups of the heyday of Japanese MMA, with Fedor as the long-time champion of PRIDE, and Barnett as the heavyweight King of Pancrase, a rival organization. Both Fedor and Barnett are ten times better than the UFC's Lasnar or Mir.

UFC: Anderson Silva vs Forrest Griffin, Philadelphia, August 8: Silva (24-4), the UFC middleweight champion, moves up in weight to try extending his all-time UFC winning streak record to 10, against the former light heavyweight champion. Griffin (16-5) can’t match Silva for speed or skill, but he is physically bigger and likely stronger. But what Griffin is expected to do, given his incredible fighting heart, is break Silva’s streak of two terrible main events, that have made UFC officials wary of headlining a show with “The Spider” against the wrong opponent.

UFC: B.J. Penn vs. Kenny Florian, Philadelphia, August 8: With six straight wins, Florian (11-3) has proven that looks are deceiving. Looking more like a college biology student than a fighter, Florian combines quick Muay Thai skills with high level jiu-jitsu, and has improved greatly since his first shot at the lightweight title three years ago. Penn (13-5-1), the champion, has to both physically and mentally rebound from his high-profile shellacking at the hands of St. Pierre on Jan. 31, the most devastating loss of his career. Make no mistake, this fight will be a bloodbath!


~Cat

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Won my NBA Finals bet...

Yes I won my largest NBA bet of the season as LA beat Orlando in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. Yes I am the greatest sports bettor of all time. Yes I have a wod of cash that I am going to spend irresponsibly on strippers, booze and a new pair of sunglasses.

However, football season is fast approaching and it's time to start building a bankroll....


~Cat

Lakers will win Game 4 - NBA Finals

I feel very strongly about this one. Bet the Lakers +2.5 in tonight's game! Orlando set an NBA record in their previous game shooting an amazing 75% in the first half of Game 3. 75%!!! And they still barely won that game. No way they come close to matching that shooting performance.

I'm betting the Lakers big tonight.


~ Cat


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86 Free Throws in Cavs/Magic Playoff Game

TOO MANY FOULS!

Is anybody else getting sick & tired of the lack of basketball being played in the professional basketball playoffs?! 58 fouls were committed in the Game 3 of the Cavs/Magic series. That's way more than a foul/minute. 86 free throws were taken in a 48 minute game!! Most of what we are watching is just fouls and free throws. Lame!!!

The games have been very close, which is great, so nobody is complaining. Well, I am. There has got to be something done. Too many fouls and free throws are ruining the game. Almost every play there is a foul! I'd much rather see more inside play, more shots taken, more drives to the bucket, more Lebron James or Dwight Howard dunks, etc.

Let's say you are watching an NBA game. Every minute of the game you are watching contains at least one foul, the player recovering from the foul, a replay of the foul, the player strolling to the free throw line, free throws, the players slapping hands after the first free throw, etc. Very little BASKETBALL!!!!!!!!!!

What can be done? Crap, I don't know. Maybe limit players to 5 fouls per game? Maybe award 3 free throws instead of 2? Maybe make the court longer/wider allowing these enormous athletes more room to operate?

The NBA Playoffs = Foul & Free Throw marathon


~ Cat

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MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN & A WOMAN

This is my blog and I can write whatever the heck I want. Here is something I feel strongly about.

Are men allowed to marry two women? Three women? Can a man marry a goat? Can a man marry a tree? Can a man marry a ten year old girl? Can a man marry a man? Can a man marry his sister? No! No! No!

Marriage is specifically an act between ONE MAN and ONE WOMAN. If somebody wants to change that than they should move to a different country. If somebody wants to change that they should call it something other than "marriage". If you don't like our laws here in America, then get the fuck out.

And I love it that Carrie Prejean had the guts to speak her mind. I wish more people were that brave.

Marriage is between a man and a woman.


~Cat

Magic Over The Cavs series bet

My guys (bet with their picks often) at LockoftheDay.com love the Orlando Magic over the Cleveland Cavaliers in this series. I do too! Dwight Howard owns the paint. Orlando shoots the ball so well. This is a super underdog bet.

Magic Series Win

Correctly predicted and bet on the Magic beating the Celtics in that series....Nice!

Poker After Dark review - Fantastic!

One unfortunate trait of human behavior is that we tend to complain much more than we commend. I am guilty of this fault, but I do try to even things out...after all, I am a positive person. The glass is half full.
Get to the point Cat!

Has anybody been watching Poker After Dark the last couple weeks? Phenomenal television! The show is thoroughly enjoying. The past two weeks they've been playing a cash game with big stacks of real money. Cash games are much more entertaining than tournaments. The reason being: tournaments inevitably come down to AK vs 77 or something like that. These coin flips are tiresome. Similar scenarios have been played out to death, and frankly, they've become boring. Cash games on the other hand are rarely boring. Every move, every bet, every word is strategy. Cash games are where true poker skill comes out, and if you love poker, it's exhilarating to watch.

The last two weeks on Poker After Dark have been special. The 6-man lineup is awesome! First of all, you've got Phil Helmuth. Love him or hate him, he is fun to watch. Watching him get angry and blow a gasket is absolutely hilarious. And Helmuth is no slouch. He plays a different brand poker, old school poker, and his game is top notch. Helmuth, despite being ridiculed often, is truly one of the best in the game. His ability to read players is second to none.

Then there is Tom Dwan. Tom Dwan is a legend in the making. At only 22 years old, he has taken the poker world by storm. I would actually pay money to watch him play poker. He is incredibly innovative and creative and aggressive and brilliant. Nobody in the game has moves like this kid! He is insane! Gabe Kaplan gave him the best compliment a poker player can be given, "Tom Dwan could be the next Stu Unger."

I'm surprised I like Dwan so much; I usually have a strong dislike for most "internet players." Why? Many reasons. They all think they are better than they are. They view poker like its a video game. They all believe they can read players from just their betting patterns. They have a complete disregard for human 'tells'; they're terrible at reading real people. Almost all of them suck at poker, but don't realize it. I see them coming in a live game and I lick my chops. There are millions of internet players losing millions of dollars online, but because a handful of these kids have made it big from internet poker, millions of fools believe they can too. I've said it once, and I'll say it again: Online Poker Is For Suckers.

Back to Poker After Dark. Two other characters played in this cash game, Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Laak. They provide the banter. You know how I love to bet, and so do these guys! The bets they come up with are ingenious. I find myself laughing out loud at the shit they come up with. They invented the game Lauden Thinks. Fricken awesome game. Two guys bet on what a third guy at the table's opinion will be. Brilliant and hilarious. As far as poker players go, Esfandiari is one of the best. Laak is overrated. But having both of them at the table makes any game a lot of fun.

Two other dudes at the table as well. Kenny Tran is a professional cash game player. Nothing special about his game...he's a little too tight. He probably doesn't have the bankroll the other players do, so he has to play tight. Nothing wrong with that, I would too. Tran does have the uncanny ability to put certain players on specific hands. I can put players on a range of hands, and I am proud of my ability. But Kenny Tran can put a player on two specific cards, and that is impressive.

The last dude at the table makes the game. What is a good poker game without a fish? A wealthy fish. Bob Safai is a multimillionaire real estate mogul who plays recreational poker. re He's no dummy, his game isn't that bad, but against these players he is getting chewed up and spit out. It's fricken awesome to watch! Even 22 year-old Tom Dwan picks on Safai and takes his money and puts him on tilt. LOL! Damn good television. Strategy, comedy, and gambling. And learning new poker moves from the best in the world. Poker After Dark, you gotta love it.


~Cat

NBA Playoffs - No Basketball!

It has become torture watching most NBA Playoff games. No wonder college basketball is preferred by just about every sports fan. There were 38 fouls committed in the recent Cavaliers/Hawks game. 38 fouls in 48 minutes. Just about a foul a minute. That is just no fun man! There were also 36 free throws taken. 36 free-throws in 48 minutes. Boring!!!

The NBA has got to do something about this or they risk losing fans. I, for one, am losing interest fast, and I am a die-hard sports fan. Every time LeBron goes to the hole, he is automatically fouled. It's complete bullshit. I want to watch the best basketball player in the world play basketball, not shoot free throws. Let me watch LeBron James' skills!

Worst of all, most of the fouls are done intentionally. Do the refs ever call an intentional foul? Hell no. I watched Paul Pierce put both arms around Rashard Lewis the other day and practically tackle him so he would shoot a game-tying 3-pointer with eight seconds to go. Was there an intention foul called? Nope. I want to watch the drama of a game-tying three point attempt! Not a bear-hug and then free throws! I watched Rajon Rondo smack Brad Miller in the face last week. Anything repercussions? No. Just the fat lip Brad Miller endured.

NBA referees: Wake the fuck up! Call a damn intentional foul!! David Stern, do something about this! If a team commits an intentional foul, the other team shoots free throws and gets the ball back. Calling intentional fouls will stop teams from fouling so often. This will force teams to play basketball, play defense, better offense, etc. Do you know how rare inside shots and dunks have become? If a player gets inside nowadays, he is fouled almost all the time. The Lakers shot 36 free throws in their last game against the Rockets. 52 combined free throws in that game, in 48 minutes. The game was a forty point blowout! Why so many stupid fouls?! Watching 52 free throw attempts in a 48-minute game where one team is leading by forty points is absolutely no fun to watch. Furthermore, there were 43 fouls in that game. 43 fouls and 52 free throw attempts!!! That's what you get now in an NBA Playoff game.
Message to Commissioner David Stern: PLEASE PLEASE bring back some athletic, competitive basketball.


~Cat

Orlando Magic choke job

This is why betting on the NBA sucks ass. Orlando +3 was up by 10 with 5:43 to go in the game. That's an easy cover right? Easy payday. I knew the Magic were the better team in this series.

Wrong! The fricken Magic didn't score another point. Five and half minutes of scoreless basketball! To end an NBA Playoff game. To choke a ten point lead! Insane! What a meltdown! Cost me a bundle.

Anyway, I'm on tilt from that loss. Just wanted to vent...

~Cat

7 NFL TEAMS WHO GOT MUCH BETTER OVER THE OFFSEASON

THESE 7 NFL TEAMS DRASTICALLY IMPROVED OVER THE OFFSEASON.

I'd rather concentrate on the NFL instead of the NBA Playoffs or baseball right now. Football is the best sport to bet on, by far. As well as the most enjoyable to watch.

Keep an eye on these teams this year.

1. New England Patriots - The Patriots have it all figured out. The more players you can add on the first day of the draft, the better your football team will become. The draft is never a sure thing. At least half of the Day 1 draftees will be busts. (80% of the Day 2 draftees will be out of the league quickly) Belichick and the Patriots understand this. They added FOUR players on Day 1 of the draft, incuding the best cornerback in the draft, and possibly the best safety, Patrick Chung. They also added two more 2nd round picks for next year's draft. Genius!

Let's add it up compared to last year. The Patriots this season will add the best quarterback on earth, Tom Brady, a capable running back in Fred Taylor, the best cornerback in the draft, Darius Butler, and three other Day 1 players.


2. New York Giants - Fantastic draft for the Giants considering they picked late in the draft. WR Nicks could be a star. LB Clint Sintim and tackle William Beatty will be starters, and very good ones. Amazing this team could land three starters picking late in the draft. They took advantage of other team's mistakes and picked quality players.

3. Cincinatti Bengals - Don't be fooled by those who say the Bengals draft was risky. The Bengals will be a MUCH improved team compared to last year. First of all, they get QB Carson Palmer back. Look for Cedric Benson to have a solid year. Andre Smith will be a super improvement helping to protect Carson Palmer. Keith Rivers and Ray Maleuga at linebackers is awesome. Don't forget, the Bengals have #1 picks at both cornerback positions as well.

4. Minnesota Vikings - Sage Rosenfels. This kid is a decent quarterback! Much better than that bum Tavaris Jackson. Huge difference there! And the Vikes could still possibly sign Brett Favre. As for the draft, Percy Harvin is electrifying! Blazing speed and agilty. The kid is impossible to catch. The Vikes aleady have a top running game and defense. What more can you ask for. The Viking are a Superbowl contender now!

5. Philadelphia Eagles - Super draft for Andy Reid. Maclin is a star! Maclin and DeSean Jackson together will cause major problems for the opposing defense. Adding OT Jason Peters was a great move too. Donovan McNabb is now better protected and has more weapons. This team is scary.

6. Chicago Bears - Getting Jay Cutler was the best offseason move of the decade. Denver is just plain stupid. (Denver had a terible draft too) Here's why the Bears made this list though. They picked up Orlando Pace in the offseason, and their top pick from last year, OT Chris Williams, is back from injury. That's a MUCH improved o-line and quarterback! Look out!

7. Indianapolis Colts - Just love their first two picks of the draft, that's why they make this list. The running back they picked is an absolute steal. The kid will be a star. Adding the USC DT in the 2nd round was terrific too. A team this talented adding two super players is just not fair.

Can't wait for football season!


~Cat

NFL Mock Draft 2009

Every mock draft I have seen is the same! And every year they are all wrong. So why not go against the consensus.

The Real Mock Draft:

Jason Smith – Lions
Aaron Curry - Rams
Eugene Monroe – Chiefs
M. Stafford – Seahawks
BJ Raji – Browns
M. Crabtree - Bengals
Andre Smith - Raiders
Mark Sanchez - Jaguars
Tyson Jackson - Packers
Brian Orakpo – 49ers

After the first 10 picks, I expect a lot of trades, so no use in going further.

The Lions would be stupid to draft Stafford. They need to build that team from the inside out, starting with linemen and defense, not taking a shot at a QB. Stafford reminds me a lot of Heath Shuler, remember him?

The best player in the draft, my opinion? Brian Orakpo. I'm a huge Niners fan and I really hopes Orakpo drops to SF with the 10th pick. He's the only player in the draft who could really pressure the quarterback.

Wrong or right, I fricken love the NFL Draft.

~ Cat

CHICAGO BULLS WILL SEND THE CELTICS HOME

Currently, this series is 1-0 Bulls. The oddmakers still have the Celtics as 2-1 favorites to win this series! Are you crazy?! Chicago proved in Game One they can play with Boston. Kevin Garnett out for the Celtics is HUGE! Chicago can drive to the hoop any time they want. Witness Derrick Rose lighting up the Celts for 35+ points in Game One.

After tonight's game, the next two games are in Chicago. How in the world can the Bulls be 2-1 underdogs in this series?! I'm making a large wager right now on the Bulls +170 to win the series. (I also like the Bulls +8 in tonight's game).

The Bulls have a super chance to win this series! This is not the same Boston team that won it all last year. Times, they are a changin! Bet the Bulls!
NBA Picks, NBA Playoffs picks, Basketball picks.


~Cat

UNC over Michigan State

Pounded North Carolina last night over Michigan State. Easy money! I should have written a blog post about UNC before gametime; after the fact bets are about as good as remembering a chick's name after she's already left.

Anyway, big money winner last night.

Baseball started yesterday, sweet! Team to bet on: the Mets. The Mets Over/Under win total was just 88.5. Too low. I expect the Mets, with their much imporved bullpen, to win 100 games. Team to bet against: the Padres. They will lose 100 games! Jake Peavy won't finish the season a Padre (he'll either be traded or injured)

Thats all for now. Be back soon with some late season NBA tips.

~Cat

Best Blender: Breville Ikon

I bag on $hit most of the time, well, 75% of the time. Don't get me wrong though, I'm a positive person. The glass is always half full. Thus, I will offer some positive reviews here occassionally.

Here's one. I was in the market for a blender. Why? Two reasons. 1) I have been killing my sports bets & winning at poker, so I've got money to burn. 2) I love pussy. And being that I love pussy so much I want to stay in shape and continue to score with hot chicks. Once you throw in the towel and let your body go to shit, you'll definitely notice a decline in the amount of pussy you are getting, as well as the quality of pussy you are getting. Anyway, after I workout I like to make a healthy smoothie. Pack it with some Jay Robb protein powder, some nonfat frozen yogurt, frozen blueberries, a banana, and some random juice. So good!

My old blender was a budget Walmart version I bought back in college. It did the job, but like everything else, I wanted the best. After reading reviews everywhere, I went with the Breville 550XL Ikon blender. This baby rocks! The first thing I noticed was the noise. Super quiet compared to my old hooptie blender. The Breville is rock solid thick glass and looks and feels like a professional blender. Its wide and the blade looks bitchen. This is the Ferrari of blenders.

Another plus, the surface where the buttons are is smooth! Great for slobs like me; it's very is easy to clean. The blender also has a Smoothie button for making smoothies, but I have found the Blend button to work best.

The Breville blender kicks ass, nuff said.

~Cat

THE WORST SPORTS FORUM ONLINE

PREGAME.COM

Anybody visit this website Pregame.com? My advice, don't waste your time. Instead of a sports forum, the site is 99% pick-pushers trying to sell you their picks. Begging you to buy their amateur picks. Evidence I have received shows they lose predominantly more than they win.

The site is run by a couple guys who are in bed with the pick-pushers (terrible handicappers) so they do not allow compaints about the terrible picks. Forums posts or bloggers who question these terrible handicappers are banned, and their posts are deleted before the rest of the forum can read the truth.

I have been informed the entire site is just three guys, although they have over a dozen names and peddle picks under numerous aliases, Vegas-Runner, Kingmaker, Goodfella, etc. Thus the entire site is pick-pushers and a few suckers who follow them. The site forum has really fallen on hard times - very rarely are free picks posted. All the smart forum posters left long ago, frustrated with the constant harrassing posts plugging picks that rarely win.

Pregame has evolved into 99% pick-pushers and very few discussions on pointspreads or big games. Look elsewhere if you want to talk about sports without being bombarded by amateur handicappers.


Just my two cents.


~ Cat

NCAA Tourmament Picks

FIRST ROUND UPSET PREDICTIONS:

Siena +4 will beat Ohio State

Virginia Commonwealth +7 will beat UCLA

UPDATE: Siena did win; more importantly, both covered! Easy $!

NCAA Final Four picks

FINAL FOUR PICK:

As you can see, I bet on sports often, and I do well. Here is my NCAA Tournament Final Four pick to win it all:

Final Four winner: Pittsburgh

Not North Carolina, not Louisville, not UConn, definitively not Memphis. Pitt is the best team in the country.

Pittsburgh is a complete team. They have a dominating inside presence and an experienced, smart backcourt. I could go into more detail, but don't have time to right now. I will give you my bet. $1000 on Pitt to win it all at 4-1 odds.

Of course I'll be making plenty of wagers on the tournament games as well.

Best of luck.

~Cat

World Sports Exchange sportsbook withdrawal

WITHDRAWALS TAKE 44 DAYS FROM ONLINE SPORTSBOOK

From time to time I will update you on the unwritten hassles that arise in dealing with offshore sportsbooks and poker websites. Today in the mail I finally received my check from World Sports Exchange, one of the leading offshore sportsbooks. Guess how long it took? I requested the check 14 days ago. No, not 14 days. Thirty days? Nope. How about 44 days. Yes, it took fourty-four fricken days to receive my money! Amazing! Just terrrible terrible service.

Offshore casinos and sportsbooks despise withdrawals. They hold or delay your payment as long as possible and ship it as slow as possible. That way, you become very uncomfortable with the process of making a withdrawal. They want their customers thinking "Why bother withdrawing the money, by the time I get the money I will want to bet again." So it leads to fewer and fewer withdrawals. Which leads to more betting, which leads to further profit for the sportsbooks. Scumbags! Just about every illegal, offshore sportsbook and casino is run by 3rd world scumbags. Prepare yourself for this experience if you dare send money to these establishments.

After 30 days I became very worried about my $2500 withdrawal. Making matters worse is the fact that customer service at the small office in Antigua where the sportsbook is located is terrible. They had no tracking number, and after a couple emails, they stopped replying to my questions. I was left completely in the dark. Thankfully my check showed up, but 44 days later. What a joke!


~ Cat

Full Tilt Poker Bonus Bull$hit

Online Poker Bull$it Bonus

Full Tilt Poker offers a 100% Deposit Bonus. What does that mean? Well, it implies that if you make a deposit, you get a bonus. Wrong! Full Tilt Poker, which is an illegal online poker website, lies about their bonus in order sucker players in and get their money.

If you make a deposit, you DO NOT get any bonus! A deposit bonus should be a bonus for making a deposit, shouldn't it?! Instead, this shady, illegal, offshore poker site refuses to give you the bonus until you've gambled at their poker tables for an average of sixty hours. That is no deposit bonus my friend! That is a bonus for gambling an awful long time without losing all of your money.

Two things happen after sixty hours. First, most people lose their money within 60 hours of play. Actually, a majority of players lose their initial deposit within 8 hours. Yep, the odds are stacked against you. Secondly, if you happen to make it through sixty hours of gambling, you've paid so much in rake fees that it more than covers the bonus you eventually receive.

Want the full $600 in bonus that Full Tilt offers, you have to play 120 hours!!

These offshore poker websites have nobody to answer to, and no rules governing their procedures. We've already read the stories (or seen them on 60 Minutes) about online poker sites ripping customers off and outright cheating. People gambling online using these shady websites really must have a gambling addiction to ignore these documented stories.

Just a couple more tidbits of information. It has been written that 80% of online poker players are down money. 80% lose! That's worse than betting on horseracing!

My last complaint about Full Tilt Poker and online poker in general: It is complete insanity to play poker without being able to see your opponent. Fooling yourself into believing you can 'read' betting patterns is a pipe dream. Every sucker online thinks he can read betting patterns better than everyone else. You cannot! Poker is a game meant to be played live, with real people.

It's been proven that online poker websites lie and cheat. If you're brave enough to send them your hard earned money, you'll only have yourself to blame.

Just my opinion.

~Cat

BIG BET: Louisville -1.5 will beat Georgetown tomorrow!

BIG MONDAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL BET! This is my largest bet so far this month.

If you have seen the Hoyas play this year, you know this is not a quality team. Georgetown struggles to score the basketball. They turn the ball over way too much. They commit too many fouls. They cannot make those mistakes against a quality team like Louisville. Louisville’s Terrence Williams is a super player. Earl Clark is a top 10 NBA pick. Louisville’s only problem is free throw shooting. If they can make their free throws this game won’t be close. If they miss their free throws, Louisville wins this game by a few points. Either way, Louisville wins!

UPDATE: Easy winner baby! Plus +$1000. Let's party!

~ Cat

Superbowl Prop Bet paid off nicely!

My superbowl prop bet was a huge winner, +$3k for yours truly. Bottle service and hookers are on me this weekend! Owwww!!!!

Be back in a few days with a NCAA basketball post. Damn, the ACC and Big East look strong!


~Cat

SUPERBOWL PROP BET:

I purchased this pick from LockoftheDay.com and I really, really like it. I am betting heavily on this prop bet ($3500). Wish me luck!

Superbowl Prop Bet:
Edgerrin James Under 42.5 yds rushing

"Bet the Under on this proposition bet! THERE IS NO WAY EDGERRIN JAMES COVERS THIS NUMBER!!!!!! First of all, James will be facing the #1 defense in the NFL. Nobody runs on Pittsburgh! Second, James doesn't get the ball!! Tim Hightower has earned the starting job. James gets a few carries to start the game, then Arizona will go to Hightower! Hightower is younger and quicker. James has seriously lost a step. He never makes anybody miss. He is easy to tackle and not elusive like he was to start his career. Arizona has the worst rushing offense in the NFL! They are ranked last! Furthermore, what will happen in this game? The Steelers will have a big second half lead; Arizona will be forced to pass. They will not be running the ball. Even if they do, Hightower will get the carries. The Steelers held the Chargers to 15 yards rushing total!! James might not even play in the second half!
Prop bet Over is 42.5 yards -110 at Sportsbook.com
Prop bet Over is 40.5 yards -125 at Bookmaker.com
Prop bet Over is 38.5 yards -150 at World Sports Exchange
Prop bet Over is 41.5 yards -120 at most Vegas sportsbooks
This bet covers FOR SURE!!!!! Like all our Lock Of The Month wagers, this pick is worth 2 Lock wins or 2 Lock losses. It will be a big fat win!!! No doubt!!!"

That's what they sent me. I love this bet. Sometimes you just know you are on the right side of a wager. Unfortunately, it is not often I get that feeling. This is the one!


~ Cat

Eleven reasons why online sportsbook SPORTSBOOK.COM sucks!

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SPORTBOOK.COM INFORMATION:

Ever search for an online sportsbook? Who knows which one to choose. Who knows which one to trust. This season I have been using Sportsbook.com. They are one of the biggest offshore books, if not the biggest. I used them for this entire football season. Happy to say, I put the hurt on those bastards! Yeahhh!!

Well, now its time for a sportsbook review. I have discovered that the only online sportsbook reviews are done by websites who get kickbacks from online sportsbooks. So you can't trust em! Here is one you can trust from a guy who loves to gamble.

Why Sportsbook.com sucks:

1) Withdrawal fees - $20 each and every withdrawal. Even higher fees for FedEx. Withdrawals should be free.

2) Hidden deposit fees. From your credit card, your money is turned into Costa Rican currency, and your credit card company charges you 3% or more for the exchange.

3) Max bet of $500 for 2008 Superbowl, what a joke.

4) Withdrawal time of 35-50 days. Wow!

5) Sportsbook.com really frowns upon withdrawals; they do everything they can to prohibit or delay your withdrawal.

6) In order to be allowed to withdraw funds, they require you to fax a copy of your utility bill to their office in Costa Rica.

7) In order to be allowed to withdraw funds, they require you to fax a copy of your drivers license to their office in Costa Rica.

8) Customer Service takes 3-7 days to respond to withdrawal inquiries, but deposit inquiries are responded to within an hour.

9) Maximum deposit is $1990, so no big bets.

10) 10 point teasers Ties Lose. The only sportsbook ever where Ties Lose.

11) Sportsbook.com is attempting to corner the market of online bookies, so they continue to open new sportsbooks based out of the same small office in Costa Rica. These include:
Superbook.com
Mysportsbook.com
Racebook.com
PlayersOnly.com
Allstar.com
Betusa.com
Logans.com
Sports.com
sportsbetting.com


As you can see, it's very frustrating to be at the mercy of a third world sportbook. The sad part is, other online sportsbooks are even worse. There are a number of stories of players winning big and the sportsbook cancelling their account and ending all communication. So be careful.

Which online sportsbook do I recommend? I might be doing a blog about that in near future. If you really want a recommendation email me at conroycan@gmail.com


~ Cat

SAM BRADFORD IS THE NEXT JOE MONTANA

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Matthew Stafford of Georgia gets more attention as an NFL prospect, but Oklahoma's Sam Bradford is the better quarterback. Bradford is the best college QB to come along since Aaron Rodgers. Sam Bradford will be a star!

Yes, Stafford from Georgia has a stronger arm. So what. Haven't we learned by now that strong arms don't mean shit?! I.E. Heath Shuler, Jim Drunkenmiller, JaMarcus Russell, etc. Those cannon-armed QBs were all instant busts. (Yes, JaMarcus is a bust.)

Bradford has plenty of this > the number one quality you look for in a quarterback. What is that quality? What is the number one quality you want in a quarterback? Good question. It's not athleticism. It's not arm-strength. It's not elusiveness, or height, or even intelligence. It's not experience. It's not mobility. It's not coaching. Many would say it's decision-making. Nope. Even more important than that. It is....accuracy. Troy Aikmen-type accuracy. Joe Montana-type accuracy. Aaron Rodgers has that type of accuracy. So do the Manning brothers, Tom Brady, and a few others. Even if you make the wrong decision, and throw to a receiver well-covered instead of the wide open receiver, accuracy can overcome that mistake. Accuracy is the one attribute NFL defense's cannot stop. Sam Bradford has that accuracy. Have you seen this kid play?! He is a joy to watch.

Not only does Bradford possess excellent accuracy, he has other intangibles like being able to look off his first receiver, his second receiver, and then throw a bullet to his third option. And he can do it in a split second. This is extremely important in the NFL. Most NFL quarterbacks don't have that tool. Most QBs, Jay Cutler comes to mind, never look to their 2nd or third option. Cutler is accurate, and that is why he is good. But he also makes stupid mistakes, and relies solely on his accuracy, and tries to force the ball in there on every play. Accuracy, and the ability to find 2nd and 3rd receivers, are the attributes that make up a superstar quarterback. Accuary & decision making. Sam Bradford has is all.

Another Bradford attribute that will take him far in the NFL is his toughness. Bradford can run the ball and take a hit. Bradford can remain in the pocket and make a last second throw knowing he is going to take a big hit. Toughness cannot be taught, and Bradford has it.

He also has athleticism, height, and a few other intangible qualities to love. Throw in the fact that Bradford is part American Indian. Right on! This kid is the real deal and the NFL will love to have him.

Wise Cat Moan is the best blog with the best predictions so here ya go: Expect Bradford to go to the 49ers at #10 in this year's draft, although he could be picked earlier by the Lions or Seahawks.


~Cat