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Once again, our ‘long shots’ did enough, but not quite enough, for us to profit on their success. Pablo Martin shot eleven under par at the Madrid Masters to belie the 100/1 odds but not do quite enough for us to profit. We also tipped London Irish to win in Leinster but by a greater margin that the Guinness Premiership side managed to muster.

Portugal finally discovered some World Cup form and we picked the wrong group to be voted off X-Factor. Close but no cigar, you might say… (more…)

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NFL Betting Odds

The showpiece game this weekend is undoubtedly the meeting of 2 unbeaten sides, the Giants and the Saints in New Orleans. Eli Manning has been superb this season behind an even better defence plus the Giant are an excellent road team. However, Saints QB Drew Brees simply throws lots and lots of touchdowns. I’m not sure people realize how good Brees is. I think he will make a statement this weekend. I’m backing the Saints to win and beat the spread. Saints (-3pts) at 5/4. (more…)

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NFL Betting Odds

Week 3 of the NFL and I have only 4 words for you. Michael Vick Ruff Ruff.

Vick is eligible to play his first game for his new team the Philadelphia Eagles this weekend following his stay in the human dog pound. Eagles number one QB Donovan McNabb is still nursing a cracked rib so Kevin Colb is likely to start at QB as he did last week. However, expect to see plenty of Vick who will appear mostly in the NFL’s hottest new thing the “Wildcat” formation. Vick broke all sorts of rushing records for quarterbacks while at Atlanta so expect him to thrive in the role. The Eagles face the hapless Kansas City Chiefs in Philly and Paddy Power is yet to put up the odds (waiting to see if McNabb is fit enough to start is my guess). However, back the Eagles to beat the spread. They will probably be -6pts in the handicap betting. They will win by at least 10 so get on it! (more…)

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No doubt about it, I was red hot with my NFL tips last week. First up were the Steelers versus the Titans of Tennessee. I tipped the total points scored to be under the over/under total of 35. It was never in doubt as the two best defences of last season coughed up a mere 23 points between them. And our NFL season was up and running. Boom!

We also got our treble up with the Vikings, Falcons and Eagles all winning. The only blemish on a near perfect weekend of NFL predictions was the single on the Bears to beat the Packers. It was in the balance right until the end but Aaron Rogers pulled out a win for the Pack. Cutler’s performance (he threw for 4 interceptions) and the season ending injury for Bear’s talisman Brian Urlacher puts paid to any Superbowl aspirations Chicago had in this column’s opinion. (more…)

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The NFL season begins Thursday and the race to this year’s Superbowl looks like it will be the most keenly contested ever. Tom Brady is back which means the Patriots are the bookies favourites, but competition will be fierce. (more…)

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