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By this time next week, we will have officially started the holiday shopping season. It will be the longest such season possible given that Thanksgiving (the U.S. version given that we now

It looks like this money train is full steam ahead! Since the start of Week 7 we are 14-6 which is 70% accuracy. We have had three 4-1 weeks with one 2-3 week

Keeping it simple this week ... give you my picks and brief analysis. Last week we went 4-1! That is 10-5 for the last three weeks. We are getting a good handle of the

Picking NFL winners can be a fickle business. Week 6 was great where we almost were a perfect 5-0. Last week we started 0-3 but salvaged things with the LA Rams and NY

The crazy thing about football is that one week it can really be devastating and the next week it will just lift you up. Last week was the more positive experience! After going

Last week was a brutal one. 0-5. Sorry if you took my advice. For the season we are 11-13-1. The one thing I have learned in the last 30 years of football prognostication

Had a lot of family events going on this weekend so we will keep this post short and sweet. Here is who we like for Week 5 (lines were established by Westgate this

OK! Last week was a profitable one by going 3-2! Pittsburgh almost blew it for us on Monday Night Football by nearly coughing up a 20 point half-time lead but all we needed

Not a good week last Sunday. 2-3. Not devastating but still not good. Overall we are 6-4 and rank 326th in the SuperContest (out of 3,117 entires) so we need 4-1 or

Most of those who know me well pretty much know which team I am going to predict to win this game. I am a homer but I try to rationalize my predictions with

Hopefully you read your post last week. We had a very good week! 4-1! Great way to start the season! The plan is to do no worse than 3-2 each week. If we

OK, the 7 month silence after an amazing Super Bowl LII contest is now over! We are back to making picks again and this time I have revised the model with all of

Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals is about 2 hours away and no need for hyperbole to emphasize how important this game is tonight. The Warriors have had a couple of Game

About to hear and see a panel with the 44th President of the United States Barack Obama! Curious to know what he will be discussing, especially at a conference specific for sports analytics.

It's been about 9 days since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that claimed the 17 lives shown in the photo for this post and if there is

Summing up an entire NFL season is awfully hard to do in one post. The best place to start is what makes headlines: conflict. As is typical in any football season, there are

The moment we have been waiting for ... the time to analyze the biggest game of the year! SUPER BOWL LII! Will the Philadelphia Eagles earn its first Super Bowl title or will the

As the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles embark on their journey to frigid Minnesota for Super Bowl LII, there will be several story lines dominating the sports headlines such as "Dynasty

The time has come ... time to determine which two of the four remaining NFL playoff teams will travel to Minnesota for Super Bowl LII. One thing we know for certain is that the

WOW ... that is the first word that comes to mind after watching the end of the Minnesota - New Orleans game, capping an exciting weekend of football. Except for the New England -

OK, time to talk about the 8 remaining teams vying for the Lombardi Trophy! We have lots of quality teams playing this weekend with some of the more popular teams in the prime

Wild card weekend for the NFL was precisely that for a couple of the games: WILD! The ending of the KC game was bizarre and the Saints - Panthers game provided the entertainment

Wild Card playoffs start in about an hour and we already have published our Wild Card round picks in an earlier post. What we haven't published yet is how the whole NFL playoffs

With another NFL regular season in the books, we now turn our attention to the other season that gets us football fans excited: PLAYOFFS! This year we have several newcomers who haven't been