2010 January at BetLM

Saints March to Super Bowl

It was an excit­ing back and forth bat­tle and the result was a sweet 31–28 over­time vic­tory for the Saints and the entire city of New Orleans. At Lines­Maker the spread favored the home-team Saints by 3.5 with heavy action on the Saints. The Vikings took nearly 75% of the bet­ting vol­ume on the money line.   This is the fur­thest the Saints have ever pro­gressed in the play­offs and 2009 has been their best sea­son by far. When they beat the New Eng­land Patri­ots on Novem­ber 30, the team went to an 11–0 record for the first time in fran­chise his­tory. They won their... 

NHL Names Weekly Stars

The NHL named 3 stars this week – Brian Elliot, Craig Ander­son and Sid­ney Crosby. Brian Elliot earned the high­est honor. The Ottawa Sen­a­tor net­min­der stepped in for Pas­cal Leclaire and won all four of his starts. Elliott’s week started allow­ing one goal on 23 shots in a 5–1 win against Boston. In the Senator’s next game, he allowed just one goal on 30 shots against the Chicago Black­hawks. In the game with St Louis he had 27 saves and stopped 32 if 33 shots for the Sen­a­tors in a 2 – 1 vic­tory against the Bru­ins. He cer­tainly deserved the NHL’s top acco­lade... 

Hot Betting and Specials for Conference Championships

The NFL Con­fer­ence Cham­pi­onship games take place Sun­day. In the NFC, we have the Saints favored by 3.5 points, but both the Vikings and Saints are com­ing off dom­i­nat­ing wins so Sunday’s game promises a lot of great action. In the AFC game, the Jets are the big sur­prise of the play­offs this year. They have won seven of their last eight games and have cov­ered the spread in 5 straight road games. Their defence has been highly oppor­tunis­tic in cap­i­tal­iz­ing on their oppo­nents mis­takes but there is one small prob­lem, Pey­ton Man­ning and the Colts offense... 

NFC Championship Preview

The NFC Cham­pi­onship game takes place Sun­day night between the Min­nesota Vikings and the New Orleans Saints. Lines­Maker has the Saints favored by 3.5 points, but both the Vikings and Saints are com­ing off dom­i­nat­ing wins so Sunday’s game promises a lot of great action. This is the Saints sec­ond time in the play­offs, their last was in 2006 when they lost to the Bears. Brett Farve will need to make another solid out­ing for the Vikings to match points with the Saints strong offense lead by Brees. The Vikings last NFC Cham­pi­onship appear­ance was in 2000 when they lost... 

AFC Championship Preview

The AFC Cham­pi­onship play­off game between the New York Jets and Indi­anapo­lis Colts this Sun­day promises to be great view­ing . The Jets are seeded #5, win­ning seven of their last eight games and have cov­ered the spread in 5 straight road games. They last played in the AFC Cham­pi­onship in 1988. The Colts look as though they will advance to Super Bowl. They are a per­fect 4–0 against the spread in their last 4 games when favored 3.5 to 10 points. The Colts have aver­aged 25.6 points per game and are favored to win the Cham­pi­onship by 7.5 points at Lines­Maker. The... 

Looking Bad for PAC-10

In just two months the NCAA March Mad­ness tour­na­ment will take place and the out­look for col­lege bas­ket­ball on the west coast seems to be dire. It is increas­ingly likely that just one team from the Pac-10 will reach the NCAA men’s tournament. Where to begin? Stanford, which has made 15 tour­na­ment appear­ances since 1989, is play­ing under .500 this year. Ari­zona, who has appeared in 25 straight NCAA tour­na­ments, lost at home to Brigham Young by 30. Ore­gon State lost a game to Seat­tle by 51, South­ern Cal­i­for­nia banned itself from post­sea­son play because... 

Peca Hangs Them Up

One of the NHL’s all-time best two-way for­wards, Mike Peca, retired yes­ter­day.  Now 35 years old, Peca has spent 13 sea­sons in NHL and was also a mem­ber of the Cana­dian Olympic squad that won an Olympic gold medal in Salt Lake City. Peca became an unre­stricted free agent after spend­ing the past two with the Colum­bus Blue Jack­ets. “I truly have enjoyed my entire career as an NHL player,” said Peca. “Play­ing the game at the high­est level, with and against the top hockey play­ers in the world, has been a pleasure. In 864 NHL games with Van­cou­ver, Toronto,... 

Underdog Jets Shock Chargers

The Charg­ers were solid 7.5 point favorites com­ing into Sunday’s game against the Jets. Bet­ting action was bal­anced against the spread by our mem­bers but the con­sen­sus was that the Charg­ers were pretty much a lock to win out­right on the money lines. It did not work out that way, how­ever, as the Jets did not fol­low the script and sur­prised most every­body with an upset victory. With Charg­ers down 17–7, San Diego kicker Nate Kaed­ing failed on a 40 yard field goal attempt with 4:38 remain­ing in the match. San Diego did score a touch­down with just over two min­utes... 

Colts Defense Grounds Ravens

The Colts hosted the Ravens and soundly beat them by 17 points to eas­ily cover the 6.5 point spread at Lines­Maker. In the process they broke their play­off los­ing streak. The Colts rushed to a 3–0 lead in the first quar­ter. The Ravens tied the game late in the quar­ter with a field goal. Until late in the sec­ond quar­ter it became a defen­sive bat­tle for the Ravens. Pey­ton Man­ning sent a touch­down strike to rookie Austin Col­lie fol­lowed by another touch­down pass to Pro Bowl wide receiver Reg­gie Wayne. This took the Colts to a 17–3 lead. The Ravens run­ning game... 

Saints Blowout Cardinals

At Lines­Maker the bet­ting vol­ume was almost even against the spread but did the Car­di­nals have a chance against the top seeded Saints? It didn’t take long to find out. The first six min­utes saw two touch­downs from Tim High­tower and the high-powered Saints offense lead by Brees. The scor­ing con­tin­ued through the first quar­ter: Jeremy Shockey caught a 17-yard touch­down pass fol­lowed by an incred­i­ble 46-yard run by Reg­gie Bush. His run took the Saints to a 21–7 lead. As if the red hot Saints offence was not enough, the Car­di­nals were not only miss­ing...