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Date added: 01.21.12
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Turning Sows Ears into Silk Purses
First of all, let me make clear that at Nite Owl Sports, we do not view sports betting as some recreational, gentlemanly form of “wagering.” Rather, we see it not only as a “business” but as a daily “street fight” with the sports books and their line makers, where we as sports handicappers and players should play ... read more
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Date added: 12.03.11
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Home Stretch for BCS Contenders
This is Part 6 of the weekly college FB BCS update that we have provided at the end of every week (in Top Ten’s Friday or Saturday newsletter) since the first official BCS rankings were released in mid-October. And after all these weeks of hype, speculation, arguments about who should be # 1, and of course some shocking upsets, we have finally ... read more
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Date added: 11.23.11
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Battle of Top BCS Contenders, Part 5
This is Part 5 of the weekly college FB BCS update that we have provided at the end of every week (in Top Ten’s Friday or Saturday newsletter) since the first official BCS rankings were released in mid-October. And since there are so many games being played on Friday during this TG weekend, and nothing in the BCS picture is going to change between ... read more
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Date added: 11.19.11
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Battle of Top BCS Contenders Part 4
This is Part 4 of the weekly update that we will provide at the end of every week (in Top Ten’s Friday or Saturday newsletter) from now until all 10 spots for the four BCS Bowl Games and the BCS Title Game have been filled, after the final conference championship games have been played and decided during the first weekend of December. And we ... read more
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Date added: 11.11.11
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Battle Among Top BCS Contenders Part 3
This is Part 3 of a weekly update that we will provide every Friday from now until all 10 spots for the four BCS Bowl Games and the BCS Title Game have been filled, after the final conference championship games have been played and decided on the second Saturday of December.And while I recognize that it is a changing landscape each week, with an untimely ... read more
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Date added: 11.04.11
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Battle of Top BCS Contenders, Part 2
This is Part 2 of a weekly update that we will provide every Friday from now until all 10 spots for the four BCS Bowl Games and the BCS Title Game have been filled, after the final conference championship games have been played and decided on the second Saturday of December. And while I recognize that it is a changing landscape each week, with an untimely ... read more
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Date added: 10.27.11
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The Lowdown on Top BCS Contenders
Now that the first official BCS rankings were released this week, it’s time to start speculating, fantasizing, arguing, whatever, about which two teams are most likely to end up in the Big Easy for the BCS title game, and why. And while I recognize that at least half of what is stated below could go up in smoke as early as this Saturday with ... read more
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Date added: 09.18.11
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Week Two NFL Fast Starter System
This article is about the correlation between an NFL team’s performance in their regular season opener and how well (or poorly) that team can be expected to perform in week two, which is now upon us. Based on five years of week one and two results (2006 – 2010) for those teams which were victorious in their regular season opener, and ... read more
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Date added: 08.27.11
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Exposing Bogus NFL Pre Season Systems
Anyone who has bet sports for any significant amount of time been exposed to numerous systems through the years, all claiming to be the key that unlocks the “mystery” of being able to beat the point spread and “the man” consistently. With football being by far the most popular sport to bet, most of those systems involve either ... read more
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Date added: 05.29.11
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Strength vs. Strength in NBA Finals
The NBA finals TY is, like last year’s finals between the Lakers and Celtics, a dream match-up for both the viewers and the networks, who expect block buster ratings and mega bucks of advertising revenue. But like LY and as is often the case in this final round, it’s difficult from a betting/handicapping perspective to go against either ... read more
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Date added: 05.18.11
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Using Partial Game Bets in NBA Playoffs
This article is all about how for each of the past three years at Top Ten, we at Nite Owl Sports have been able to get the best line value and top results in the NBA playoffs for our subscribers, especially in the later rounds – not an easy task, as with there being fewer games and those games all being very high profile with lots of viewer and ... read more
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Date added: 03.23.11
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Using 1H Bets for Profit in March Madness
In our recent detailed article which appeared last week in the Top Ten newsletter on ways to beat your bookie in March madness, we mentioned a few techniques we use to squeeze as much value as possible out of the sides that we like. One of those bet splitting techniques is to split our ATS bets on underdogs between a full game bet and a first half ... read more
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Date added: 03.18.11
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Beating Your Bookie During March Madness
Every March all of the Casinos and Hotels on The Vegas Strip and in "Glitter Gulch" in downtown Las Vegas go all out for March Madness, both in terms of decorations and special promotions. Everyone is excited - of course, the local merchants, the hotel managers, and the fans (both local fans and those “in town” for a weekend of ... read more
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Date added: 01.14.11
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Successful NFL Playoff Wagering Strategies
As we now start the final two rounds of TY’s NFL playoffs for each conference, leading up to the Super Bowl, it gets harder to find value on either team and just as difficult to find value betting the over or the under, as with so few games compared to the regular season, the line makers can concentrate heavily on each game, and they typically ... read more
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Date added: 01.02.11
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Two CFB Rules which Must be Changed
While we acknowledge that college football is a great spectator sport, as well as a good betting sport, there are a few things that simply must be changed during the off-season. And we're not even talking about fixing the BCS mess, which could take years and maybe some day (in our dreams) will end up getting resolved by an anti trust suit filed against ... read more
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Date added: 12.17.10
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This Year’s Heisman Heist
The Heisman trophy was awarded last Saturday to Auburn’s Cam Newton, in a very well prepared, tasteful and entertaining presentation on national TV, graced with the presence of numerous past successful Heisman trophy candidates, and Auburn’s Bo Jackson not only being among them for the first time since he received the award 25 years ago ... read more
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Date added: 12.03.10
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Making Some Sense of the BCS Mess
Ever since I can remember, talk starts to heat up in mid-November about which team is #1 in college football, and reaches new heights during the bowl selection process in early December. But unfortunately, while the major bowls could have been used to determine a national champion, they were instead used for many years as showcases for the top teams ... read more
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Date added: 10.29.10
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Staying in First Gear in Early Season NBA
No doubt most of you have heard the saying in sports handicapping that it’s a marathon, not a “race” or sprint, meaning that patience is typically rewarded, while being impetuous and trying to bet more than one or two percent of your bankroll on any one play, and then “chasing” your losses with equally big plays, is not ... read more
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Date added: 10.15.10
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Betting CFB Road Dogs on First Half Line
Earlier this week one of my colleagues at Top Ten Cappers, Bryan Leonard, wrote a very well reasoned article extolling the benefits of backing teams with a strong ground game, even if they are heavily favored, as such teams not only pick up first downs, control the ball and the clock, and force opponents to play the run (which opens up lots of “play ... read more
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Date added: 10.09.10
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Three Stooges Meet Keystone Cops in LSU vs Tenn
After reading one article after another in the Top Ten newsletter, many of which are full of useful betting information and betting tips, and some of which have been contributed by Nite Owl Sports, we at Nite Owl thought it was about time for a sports related article that did not contain any particularly useful betting information but would be entertaining ... read more
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Date added: 09.17.10
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Week Two NFL Fast Starter System
Last week we wrote an article about the correlation between a team’s performance in their week 3 game of the pre-season and how they did in their regular season opener two weeks later, in week one looking at results of those teams which were victorious in week 3 of NFL-X, and those teams which lost, hoping for a minimum 60% correlation by going ... read more
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Date added: 09.08.10
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Fast Starter NFL Systems, Part 1
After impatiently waiting for the “dog days” of summer to end and the boredom of baseball and pre-season NFL to give way to the pigskin and the “real” season, most FB fans are chomping at the bit to get started with the new FB season and betting the games by the time the first week of the NFL rolls around. And the bookmakers ... read more
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Date added: 08.28.10
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NFLX Week 3 Systems
Anyone who has bet sports for any significant amount of time been exposed to numerous systems through the years, all claiming to be the key that unlocks the “mystery “ of being able to get to the “pay window” consistently against the point spread and “the man.” With football being by far the most popular sport ... read more
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Date added: 06.08.10
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Biggest Rip off in Sports Betting, NHL Puck Line
As this hard fought final round of TY’s Stanley Cup playoffs approaches the finale, which could be tonite, we notice that four of the five games so far have been very competitive, with three one goal games and one of them going to OT. So for those who are looking for some action in tonite’s game 6, it’s only natural to consider the ... read more
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Date added: 06.06.10
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Using Teasers and 2nd Half Bets in NBA Finals
As we have now started the final round of the NBA playoffs, it has become moré difficult to find value on either team and go against their opponent, and for the most part, betting the over or the under is a “crap shoot.” And in the finals, there are lots of games priced in that hard to handicap point spread range which many cappers ... read more
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Date added: 05.30.10
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If it Looks too Good to be True... It Probably Is
After waiting a long five days for the NHL Stanley Cup Finals to finally start, which they did Saturday night in Chicago, the majority of hockey fans and bettors were shocked by game one - not that Chicago was victorious, which was no big surprise, with Blackhawks being prohibitive faves, both in game one at -200 and in the series at -260, but with ... read more
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Date added: 03.31.10
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College Hoops Post Season Totals Strategies
With the totals lines for Saturday’s two Final Four games among the lowest for Final Four games played in this decade, at a low 131 for West Va vs Duke and an even lower 126 for Michigan State vs Butler, and none of those four teams known for piling up the points and the Overs with lots of up tempo offense, the Unders appear somewhat intriguing ... read more
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Date added: 03.18.10
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Beating your Bookie during March Madness
Every March all of the Casinos and Hotels on The Vegas Strip and in "Glitter Gulch" in downtown Las Vegas go all out for March Madness, both in terms of decorations and special promotions. Everyone is excited - of course, the local merchants, the hotel managers, and the fans (both local fans and those visiting town for a weekend of watching ... read more
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Date added: 03.10.10
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Preserving Your March Madness Bankroll
Every year without fail the "March Madness" hoopla starts in earnest as soon as our annual "short month" of February ends, and college hoops fans and all of the "talking heads" on radio and TV sports stations become obsessed with "bracketology" (speculating which teams will end up in which regions and brackets, ... read more
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Date added: 01.24.10
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Alternate Ways to Bet Today's NFL Playoff Games
Anyone who has made many totals bets in the past few weeks has probably had his share of frustration. With all due apologies to those who may have been "bitten in the ass" by one or more of these games, let me mention a couple. In last weekend's four divisional round NFL playoff games, over bettors were frustrated in 3 of the 4 games, ... read more
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