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Get sports betting information and updates to beat the sportsbooks including sports handicapping information and how to beat the Vegas line. While beating the NFL lines and the NCAA college football odds is the specialty of GodsTips, we also have information on sports service plays on the MasterLockLine and beating the over/under Vegas betting line is the domain of Stevie Vincent.

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March Madness 2009 Betting Prediction: Best Ever Year For Sharps, Worst For Squares

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The 2008-09 football season
produced the widest gap ever between the sharp player and square player in
sports betting history. All key indicators are that the Information Age will
likely produce the same disparity in 2009 March Madness betting. However, it’s
never been easier to choose to be on the elite side.

As previously discussed, the schism between those who win
in sports betting and those who lose has never
been wider. The quality of accurate information is widely available to the sportsbooks and gambler alike.

Most point spread players do not have the time or
resources to exploit such Intel. The always improving and innovating
OffshoreInsiders Network has streamlined and modernized everything a sharp
gambler needs.

ScoresOddsPicks.com
has the up-to-the minute scores and odds including game spread in college
basketball and the betting line to win the 2009 NCAA Men’s Basketball
Tournament.

Also the same databases that the pro bettors use in their
pregame picks are available directly off the home page.

Lines-Maker.com will
have the exclusive news and notes that the world’s top handicappers use
directly from their clipboards.

The best free picks for both the conference tournaments
and the NCAA Tournament, not to mention the NIT, continue to thrive at OffshoreInsiders.com

The sports betting blog JoeDuffy.net
has the betting advice articles from the world’s premier experts, many on NCAA
basketball Big Dance betting.

The newest entrant to the powerful nexus is BetOnSports360.com. This has the best “ezine” articles and many more will be added focusing on
March Madness and Big Dance against the spread betting strategy.

Stevie Vincent, GM of the OffshoreInsiders Network says,
“Gamblers can opt to be winners or they can opt to keep the sportsbooks open for those of us who
are. It’s simply a matter of making the right choice.”

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Tennis Betting

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Tennis
betting has become increasingly popular in the last few years and many
punters are taking tennis picks into consideration when trying to find the best
sports picks. Tennis matches are played almost every day and it is easier to
follow a lot of players at the same time. One advantage of betting on tennis
matches is that there are only two outcomes, which increases your chances of
winning.

Players’ form is very important as the matches are played
every day, once the tournament starts and this can often decide the winner.
Considering that the tournaments have very busy schedule, the bookies don’t
have enough time to take everything into consideration when deciding on the
odds, and they usually base these just on statistics. Thus, you can back the
player at really good odds if you can just take some time to study the matches.

The most important thing when choosing the best tennis pick sis to take
the playing surface into the consideration. We all know that almost all Spanish
players are great on clay, but really poor on faster surfaces, while you cannot
expect a serve and volley player to do well on the slower surface. You should
make sure that the player you are backing is good and only uses authentic tennis gear like wilson blade racquets and stuff.

As we have already said, the players are involved in a lot
of matches during the season and they tend to get tired and often pick up
injuries. Making sure to have all the information on a player is essential as
that can help you a great deal. For example, if a player has just finished a
difficult tournament, where he played a lot of long matches, he cannot be
expected to bring his best game as he will be very tired. You could use this to
bet against him and take possibly very high odds.

Previous meetings between players are also worth
considering as if one player has always beaten the other one,
the odds are that he will do it again, even though he is an underdog in the
match.

If you follow all these guidelines, tennis betting is
certainly worth considering and it is certainly an option when there are not
many football or basketball events to bet on.

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LeBron James vs the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals

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The sportsbooks
have the first batch of exotic prop bets and Sports
Betting Sportsbook is leading the way thus far.

The Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers are not
the only game being played on Super Bowl Sunday. The NBA schedule is
highlighted by the Detroit Pistons and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

In the world that is proposition bets, LeBron James is
going up against the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals.

Who will score more points, LeBron James or the Pittsburgh
Steelers? James is -1.5 at Sports
Betting Sportsbook to win that prop bet. One can also bet Kurt Warner TD
passes versus King James missed three-point shots or whether the margin of
Super Bowl victory will be higher than the total points scored by James’
teammate Anderson Varejo.

Pistons players are also included by the famed sportsbook. Will Willie Parker have
more rushing attempts than Allan Iverson scores points? How about Cardinals
first downs versus Rasheed Wallace points plus rebounds?

There are even proposition bets having Missouri
State and Creighton total points, Portland
State or Michigan
State total points spared against
Super Bowl statistical categories.

Golf fans, there are prop bets involving the fourth round
scores of Sergio Garcia, Ernie Els, Phil Michelson
and others.

Fantasy football
betting odds and wacky wagers are also posted at Bookmaker and Bodog
Life. While Bodog is well known for the craziest
proposition bets, JoeDuffy.net  and OffshoreInsiders.com
will keep an eye out on all the top Vegas and offshore oddsmakers.


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Vegas Odds: 2009 Oscar Awards Betting Lines Posted

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Though movie fans wait for most sportsbooks to post the Vegas odds for
the 2009 Academy Awards in their entertainment
and political betting odds section, we do have the betting lines for
the 2009 Oscars courtesy of Grandmaster sports handicapper Joe Duffy.

For the most prestigious of the awards, Best Picture, Slumdog Millionaire is the overwhelming favorite at 1-3.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is 7-2, followed by Milk at 9-1,
Frost/Nixon at 12-1, and the Reader at 18-1.

Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) is
likely to get the Oscar for Best Actor as the oddsmakers have him at 8-11. He’s
followed by Sean Penn (Milk) at 13-8, Frank Langella
(Frost/Nixon) at 7-1, Brad Pitt (Benjamin Button) 14-1, and Richard Jenkins
(The Visitor) at 20-1.

Other favorites in the major Academy Awards categories
include Kate Winslet at 8-11 and Anne Hathaway at
7-4. Best Director Vegas lines has Danny Boyle at 2-5 and David Fincher at 7-2
leading the way.

The late Heath Ledger brings new meaning to overwhelming
favorite. He is 1-14 to win Best Supporting Actor, odds not seen much since
Michael Phelps in the Olympics. The Best Actress has Penelope Cruz at a 4-5
favorite.

American Idol 2009 odds will likely come out soon and OffshoreInsiders.com and
the betting blog JoeDuffy.net
will report them when posted.


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Super Bowl XLIII Spread is Up

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The betting line is up for the 2009 Super Bowl. The
Arizona Cardinals will be in the familiar role as underdog. According to the
top NFL betting odds
guru of all-time Mike Godsey of GodsTips, anchor of OffshoreInsiders.com
should the Cardinals face the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh
will be a seven-point favorite. If it’s a Ravens-Cardinals Super Bowl 43, the
odds will have Baltimore -4.

The Arizona Cardinals are going to Super Bowl XLIII and NFL Tickets
are up as well as championship souvenirs in our Guy Store.


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Official Betting Vegas Line Preview of AFC Championship Steelers-Ravens

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The Baltimore Ravens travel to the Pittsburgh Steelers in
the AFC Championships. The latest betting odds have Pittsburgh
as a six-point favorite with a total of 34 at most sportsbooks. The money line has Pittsburgh
-250.

Baltimore is
13-5 straight up and a fantastic 14-4 to the number. This includes 7-3 outright
on the road and 8-2 to the Vegas odds. The Ravens have gone over 7-of-10 road
games. However, they’ve gone under 5-of-6 overall including two straight on the
highway.

The Steelers are 13-4 straight up. Pittsburgh
has covered 6-of-7 including four straight home games.

Baltimore has
average numbers on offense but on defense allow 3.6 yards per play to teams
normally getting 4.1 and 5.5 yards per pass teams normally getting 6.2.

The Steelers likewise have pretty much average numbers on
offense but on defense they allow 3.2 yards per rush to teams that normally
average 4.1 and a stunning 4.9 yards per pass to teams that get 6.3. Overall
they allow 4.2 yards per pass to teams that usually get 5.3.

Saturday night into Sunday morning OffshoreInsiders.com
will have all the spread picks on both the side and total on this game.

Some spread betting numbers show that the Ravens are 3-10
as road underdogs of 3.5-10. Pittsburgh
has done over 8-1 in home playoff contests. Baltimore
has covered 6-of-8 series meetings. Pittsburgh
has gone over 13-3 at home to an opponent with a winning road record.


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NFC and AFC Championship Odds up: Cardinals-Eagles, Steelers-Ravens

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The Vegas odds are locked and loaded for the
Eagles-Cardinals and Ravens-Steelers. Sportsbooks
have set the odds for the NFC Championship, the Philadelphia Eagles as a 3.5
point favorite (but even money) over Arizona.
Many of the linesmakers have Philadelphia
-3 (-130).  The total in this game is 48
to 48.5.

For the lay person, this means if one bet Philadelphia
at -3.5, they would risk $100 to win $100, though Arizona
backers would ante $120. Or to lay just three-points, Eagles bettors would
invest $130 for every $100 to win.

In the AFC Championships, the Pittsburgh Steelers are a
five-point favorite over the Baltimore Ravens with a total of 33.

BetUs
Sportsbook and all the major bookmakers will have fantasy football
betting odds and proposition bets by Thursday or Friday.

Cy McCormick says that even though the public generally
likes favorites, he believes many gamblers will be tempted to bet on the home
underdog Cardinals. McCormick is head of the famed online betting syndicate MasterLockLine.com

“It’s rare when a team is that big of a home underdog in a
conference championship game” says the professional bettor McCormick.

The top betting site OffshoreInsiders.com
will not only update the game odds but will
keep an eye or player prop bets at well and will be the first to report on the Vegas
odds for Super Bowl XLIII.


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Thursday Betting

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There are a pair of college
football games on the schedule for Thursday night, while the Phillies and Rays
play Game 2 of the World Series. Here’s your Daily Sports Roundup.

The Gridiron Spotlight

West Virginia
will host Auburn in one of two
college football games on Thursday night (college football odds), and
neither of those teams have performed well for their supporters this season.
The Mountaineers beat Syracuse 17-6
last time out, but that margin wasn’t big enough to keep them from dropping to
1-4 against-the-spread on the season (they’re 4-2 straight-up). The Tigers are
even worse at 1-6 ATS (4-3 SU), and they lost 25-22 to Arkansas
in their last game. West Virginia
is pegged as a 3-point home favorite, with a total of 38.

In the other game it’s New Mexico
at Air Force in a battle between second-tier Mountain West teams. The Lobos
absolutely crushed San Diego State
70-7 last time out to improve to 4-4 (5-3 ATS) on the season. The Falcons are
coming off a slim 29-28 win over UNLV which pushed them to 5-2 (4-2 ATS). Air
Force is listed as a 5-point favorite.

The college board to us, means
who the sportsbooks posts odds on.
We don’t know SAT scores, check out collegeboard.com for that. We know scores
and odds at OffshoreInsiders.com so
you can avoid having your house on Realtytrac.
 
Other Notable Events

Stevie Vincent wins World Series Game 1 as he has the
Phillies. That’s not bad for a handicapper who is 16-3 in college football
betting.

It’ll be Brett Myers versus James Shields in Game 2 of the
World Series on Thursday (Purchase
MLB playoff tickets) night. Myers picked up a victory against the Dodgers
in the NLCS in his last outing, but it was an ugly performance – five earned runs
on six hits and four walks over just five innings of work. The righthander gave up just two runs in his NLDS win over Milwaukee.

Shields was tagged with the loss
twice in the ALCS against the Red Sox, although he
wasn’t pounded in either outing. The righthander
allowed two earned runs on six hits over 7 1-3 innings in his first start
against Boston, and then
surrendered three earned runs on nine hits in 5 2-3 innings. Tampa
only scored two runs over those two games.

The Rest of the Schedule

The puck will drop on seven games in the National Hockey
League on Thursday night, with the top matchup in Minnesota
where the Wild will host the Sabres. Those two teams
are a combined 9-0-1 so far this season. Also on the NHL’s
schedule: Toronto at Boston, Dallas at the Islanders, Calgary at Nashville, Carolina at Pittsburgh, and Edmonton at Colorado. As well, the Caps will hit the ice in Phoenix
to close the night.

There’s also a full slate of NBA preseason games on
Thursday, with Atlanta at Detroit,
Milwaukee at Minnesota,
Miami at New
Orleans, Indiana at Dallas,
Portland at Utah,
Oklahoma City at Phoenix,
and Houston at Sacramento.
As well, Charlotte will be in Los
Angeles to play the Lakers; Kobe Bryant left Tuesday
night’s game with a knee injury.

News from the Wire

Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo
says he won’t play against Tampa Bay this weekend . . . the Chiefs added
quarterback Quinn Gray to their roster . . . Broncos linebacker Boss Bailey is
out for the season with a knee injury, while defensive back Champ Bailey will
miss at least a month with a groin injury . . . Browns tight end Kellen Winslow has been suspended by the team for one game,
and will sit out this week against the Jags.

A Peek at the Future

The World Series resumes Saturday in Philadelphia,
with the Rays’ Matt Garza battling the Phillies’ Jamie Moyer. Garza allowed
just two earned runs on eight hits over 13 innings in the ALCS
versus the Red Sox . . . the Chargers opened as 3-point favorites against the
Saints for their game at Wembley Stadium on Sunday,
with the total at 47 points . . . Carl Edwards is the 5/1 favorite to win this
week’s Sprint Cup race in Atlanta.


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NFL Betting Notes

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Here is the official sports info gameday.
The NFL injury report, perfect for fantasy football players as well (fantasy football
betting odds) will be up shortly, but here are key news and notes for football
betting on the early card. If you are making predictions against the Vegas NFL
odds, you must read the objective rundown of the
top betting picks from the top sports betting services.

Panthers-Buccaneers

Tampa is 2-0
at home this year straight up and 8-2 since last year. Yet, Carolina
has won five straight in Tampa Bay
by an average of 10 points per game. The injury report will update, but it
appears Jeff Garcia is about 55 percent to start at QB ahead of the injured
Brian Griese.

Rams-Redskins

Going back to last year, the Rams have lost eight straight
by a combined 288-110. The top football handicapper of all time, Mike Godsey of
GodsTips reminds those who bet on sports, “Midseason coaching changes generally
have positive short-term results” as the Rams play with interim head coach Jim
Haslett. He takes over for the fired Scott Linehan.

The Redskins have won eight of their last nine contests
going back to late last year. The Skins are tied with the Tennessee Titans in
leading the NFL in turnover ratio.

Bears-Falcons

The home team is 14-7 straight up in Atlanta’s
last 21 games. For those who bet quarter lines, note that Atlanta
is outscoring teams 48-14 in the first, but they are outscored 93-69 in the
other three.

Dolphins-Texans

The nation’s top NFL handicapping service, GodsTips has a free
winner on this game. Miami has
851 yards of total offense in their last two games, their best since 1995. Houston
is 3-0 straight up all-time in the series. Miami
has outscored teams 24-0 in the fourth quarter.

Houston will
likely start Matt Schaub at QB. He was 3-2 straight up at home last year and
this is his first home start in 2008.

Ravens-Colts

Baltimore has
allowed the fewest first quarter points, just three. The Colts have scored just
44 points this year in the first three quarters, but 38 in the final frame. The
Colts are last in rushing yards per game on offense and last on defense in
rushing yards per game allowed. They face a Ravens team that has gone 23
straight games without allowing a 100-yard rusher.

Lions-Vikings

Remember, Stevie Vincent, the founder of forensic sports
handicapping, has turned the betting world upside down. He’s a perfect 8-0
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Detroit is 0-4
straight up by an average of 20.3 points per game. Will this be a big moneyline
upset? Not likely as Minnesota is
11-1 straight up in the series, but remember that Minnesota
is coming off the short week after beating the New Orleans Saints on MNF,
another GodsTips Wise Guy winner.

Raiders-Saints

Oakland blew a
15 point lead to the Chargers two weeks ago, but had off last week. The Saints,
off a short week, have lost 7-of-8 to the AFC.

Bengals-Jets

Cincinnati will
likely not start Carson Palmer at QB, but the injury report is up coming. Brett
Favre, the New York QB (you may have heard) is 6-1 straight up his last seven
following a bye. The Jets average field position is tops in the NFL.