OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a free pick Tuesday is on the San Antonio Spurs (+7) LA Lakers.

Top expert pick on this game: Is it too simplistic to say that the Lakers are struggling mightily and the Spurs have the best record in the NBA therefore to get around half a dozen here with San Antonio seems silly? I am not dismissing the notion that it may just be as the visitors from San Antonio do not need this game in the slightest unlike the Lakers who are jockeying for that second seed in the west but the way the Lakers have completely lost it of late I’ll grab the points and take my chances.

I would say not to make this play until close to game time just in case Greg Popovich decides to pull a Doc Rivers and rest his main guys which quite possibly may not be known until 30-45 minutes before tip-off. If that is the case this number will certainly rise and get a lot closer to double digits.

There is no doubt that LA needs this game pretty badly for seeding purposes and for their own psyche. It is also obvious that no matter how lean the last few weeks have been Phil Jackson’s squad is still loaded with talent led by the superstar of superstars in Kobe and a trio of bigs down low. So every single thing does point in the way of the Lakers, I understand that, but I just cannot help but take my chances fading the team that is in the midst of one of their worst runs in a long long time.

LA has now dropped five in a row games and they are doing it in embarassing fashion. They lost outright at home as literally a two touchdown favorite to the Jazz last week and just the other day were completely outclassed by the Thunder at home. In between were ugly displays as well and with this still not being the quote unquote playoffs I’ll fade them and expect little improvement.

San Antonio had a great season and all in all is a borderline great and experienced team. I’m not fully sold on the Spurs though as they are getting a bit long in the tooth but if they put any effort in this thing combined with the Lakers struggles of late I will scoop up as many points as I can and expect a tight enough game.

Top expert pick on this game: San Antonio from Matt Rivers

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a free pick Monday is on the Los Angeles Dodgers (-103) to San Francisco.

Reasoning: Madison Bumgarner is certainly a good young kid but he is no Clayton Kershaw and to get Kershaw and not really have to lay much of anything in this spot is more than enough for me to give it a go. I am extremely high on the Los Angeles southpaw and think that when all is said and done this guy is going to be an All-Star and potentially in the Cy Young award discussion. Today he goes up against a San Francisco offense that frankly just does not scare me. Yes the Giants are the defending World Champions and Bruce Bochy is a tremendous manager who boasts a team that can pitch the daylights out of the baseball but I’m just not believing all that much in them and especially not in this spot.

I will admit that I don’t love how the Giants lost three of four in Chavez Ravine to start the season and are looking for a little payback today but they just do not have the horses in my opinion to do all that much against Kershaw. Of course in this one small 9 inning baseball game the home Giants can win this game but I don’t think they win it at the rate of around half the time and therefore this constitutes a deal and a must play in the end.

The Dodgers are a scary team that has a great upside. The ownership divorce is not good and the team as a whole has underachieved mightily in recent seasons. But with a high quality and well balanced staff that is led by Kershaw along with one of the better bullpens in the game with Broxton, Kuo and Guerrier and high quality hitters like Ethier, Kemp, Loney, Furcal and Uribe I will take my chances on the visitors and expect a fourth victory in the series.

Top expert pick on this game: Los Angeles Dodgers

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Sunday’s Masters leader board, tee times, and betting odds are up. But sports handicappers are especially profiting in MLB.

OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a free pickSunday is on the Atlanta Braves (-120) to the Philadelphia Phillies.

I will readily admit that the Phillies are the superior overall team when compared to the Braves that will go farther in the end and very possibly win the World Series. In fact I even played Philadelphia in the first game of this series but Cole Hamels is an extremely streaky pitcher and when the guy is off he can be really off. That about sums up his first start and consequentially the ERA above 20 and to get a red hot Derek Lowe at home at not much more than a pick is worth a shot today.

Lowe is similar to Hamels in that he can be feast or famine himself and the righty has been great thus far in his pair of starts. Of course if that sinker isn’t sinking there could be a ton of problems against Howard, Victorino, Ibanez, Rollins and the Phils but so far things have been phenomenal for Lowe and I therefore like him in this spot.

The Braves have made some quality moves including bringing in Dan Uggla and are a legitimate threat in the NL. They are a well balanced team that overall does not have the insane pitching of the Phillies but Lowe is more trustworthy than Hamels right now and Atlanta at the Ted is definitely good enough to win this game and take the series.

Top expert pick on this game: Atlanta

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a Friday pick and it is on the LA Clippers (+9) at Dallas.

Reasoning: I like what the Clippers are doing right now and I’m going to roll with them tonight against the suddenly scuffling Mavericks. When healthy this Los Angeles team is very competitive and that is exactly what they have been of late. Meanwhile the Mavericks are a beat up squad that is suddenly limping into the postseason. Both Jason Kidd and Tyson Chandler are banged up and things have not been all that great of late for Marc Cuban’s squad.

The Clippers have a lot of pieces to work with led by a beast in Blake Griffin. Throw in the now healthy Chris Kaman and Eric Gordon along with Randy Foye and Mo Williams and these guys have a great shot to win this game. The Clips beat Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and the Thunder in comeback fashion at home on Saturday, then again won outright at Memphis as the monster dog on Tuesday and followed that up with another solid outing and cover the next night at Oklahoma City. LA was a 10 ½ point dog in that last game and was tied in the waning seconds before losing by four points. The oddsmakers are just not believing or more importantly catching up with the times.

The Mavs at home in the regular season are always very good and they may be very good today. But things have not been hunky dory of late in this four game losing streak as the offense has been pretty bad and the defense has been even worse.

It’s as if these two teams are going in opposite directions with the Clippers the one that is on the way up and the Mavs the team that seems to be on the way down. Road or not I’m rolling with Blake and the boys.

Top expert pick on this game: LA Clippers

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers Thursday is on the Boston Red Sox (-1.5, -110) to the Cleveland Indians.

Reasoning: There is no debate that Terry Francona’s Sox have been terrible thus far in the 2011 season but settle down because Boston is still a great team and Jon Lester is still a great pitcher.

The boys from Beantown do not have a victory, which is very hard to believe, but they also haven’t played at Fenway Park yet and are going to be just fine. Their southpaw is a stud who beat Cancer and has shined when the lights are brightest and is the perfect guy to get things going up against a well inferior Cleveland team. I’ll give the Tribe credit for looking like the superior team so far in this series but that is not close to being the case and to get the road Sox with all 9 at bats and lay around 110 by giving up an extra run is fine with me in this spot. Boston is extremely due to bust out and not only win but do so going away something like 11-2.

Fausto Carmona and his sinker had one great season about four years ago but injuries and regression have killed him ever since and right now this guy is not even average. He is going to get smacked around here by Gonzalez, Crawford, Pedroia, Ellsbury, Ortiz and others and the Sox are no longer going to be winless.

I can see one of those vintage Lester complete game gems tonight after not looking great in his first start. Cleveland has potential with Choo, Santana and Hafner but in reality they are still only about a 75 win team at best and the more complete and sound team is going to get in the win column today.

Top expert pick on this game: Boston Red Sox on the runline.

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers  Pittsburgh Pirates (+164) to St. Louis.

I have been rolling with the Pirates so far early on this season for two reason. One is that I don’t think they’re terrible and two, the teams they are playing in the Cubs and Cardinals are just not very good. Pittsburgh is obviously behind the eight ball from the get go up against Chris Carpenter today but besides Albert Pujols Tony LaRussa’s team truly has very little. Losing Matt Holliday was big and the injury to Adam Wainwright was pretty much an original deathblow to any hopes the Redbirds had this season.

Kevin Correia isn’t anything more than a journeyman pitcher but he has been around the block for years now and has enough to hold his own against a struggling and not very good lineup. Even Pujols has looked very human thus far and until I see any signs of life from this team I am just fine taking back a pretty penny from them, Carpenter or no Carpenter.

When all is said and done this Pittsburgh team will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 70-75 wins which isn’t very good but they have started off well and with McCutchen, Walker and Jones leading the way we really may truly have the better overall team on the field today. Pitching is certainly a lot of an equation and they have that with a stud on the hill but at this price I’ll grab the quality price and take my chances.

Top expert pick on this game: Pittsburgh

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Odds for the 2011 Masters golf tournament are out. The favorite to win it all is Phil Mickelson but Tiger Woods is closely behind according to the sportsbooks

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has a free sports pick on the Golden State Warriors (+10.5) to Portland.

This is probably the fifth or sixth comp play over the past few weeks that I have released on Golden State and it’s not an accident. I don’t just cut and paste analysis to take the easy way out but my feelings have been consistent with this Warrior squad. The record isn’t good and the team isn’t the deepest or the best but these guys have four high quality players and all in all are a solid big dog.

The road has not been very kind to tonight’s visitors and I understand that. They have been blown out of some games away from home and I’m not saying that can’t happen here. But State did just upset Dirk and the Mavericks as the 5 ½ point pup and with Monta Ellis, Stephen Curry, Dorell Wright and David Lee are fairly competent. It’s a bunch of talent, and frankly too much, to be getting double digits from a good but certainly not great Portland team.

The Trailblazers have held up nicely throughout a lot of issues and injuries including Greg Oden and Brandon Roy and are always pretty good at the Rose Garden. I still though am not enamored by anybody not named LaMarcus Aldridge on this roster. Certainly the former Texas Longhorn has blown up this season into a great player but the rest of the team really doesn’t scare me all that much.

45-32 is very good and the Blazers definitely should be too good in terms of the outright but the Warriors have covered both meetings this season including a seven point win and I’m betting that this thing is closer than the oddsmakers seem to believe as well.

Top expert pick on this game: Golden State

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper and baseball betting expert Matt Rivers  has a pick on the Pittsburgh Pirates (+138) against St. Louis.

Hey, why not? Don’t mess with the scrappy little Bucos as they truly should have just swept the series at Wrigley from the Cubs as the visitors completely dominated that thing and aren’t as dreadful as some may think.

Don’t get me wrong, Pittsburgh is still a bad major league team that shouldn’t win many more than 70 games but they do have some potential with Jones, McCutchen and a few others and Charlie Morton is a former Brave who every now and then shows a quality upside. McCutchen did sit out yesterday’s game with neck spasms but I hope and do think he should be all right today.

In the last spring start Morton shut down the Phillies at Citizens Bank and despite his terrible numbers a season ago isn’t all that bad. Is he better than Kyle Lohse? To be honest with you he quite possibly is and the way things are going with the Cardinals I have no qualms at all about taking back a price like this against them.

Tony LaRussa’s team is in trouble, they really are. Losing Adam Wainwright was disastrous, then the way they fell in the opening game to the Padres thanks in part to that two out tying home run in the 9^th inning was horrendous and then the injury a few hours later to Matt Holliday was brutal and maybe more of a sign to come with this team. The Redbirds did finally win that game yesterday to get in the win column but there isn’t much besides Albert in the St. Louis lineup and I sure as heck do not trust Lohse and especially not when laying this price.

The St. Louis right-hander is interesting. When he is on he can be on for a few months and look like a borderline All-Star. But when the guy is off which we saw last season through the injuries he is extremely hittable and not good at all.

Pittsburgh without a doubt can win this game and to get such a pretty penny back from what may be a bad Cardinal team cannot be fully passed up.

Top expert pick on this game: Pittsburgh from Matt Rivers

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