Posted by | Alikat | in Sports Betting Tips & Strategies

What’s up sports betting freaks? It’s Alikat here with a little post about why you shouldn’t trust ESPN with your money when you’re looking to wager on the Sunday Games. ESPN has become The Roman Empire of our sporting world. The sun does not set anywhere on some ESPN reporter, digging up a story, that you’ll see at 4am when you have a bad case of insomnia. When the apocalypse happens ESPN will rise from the ashes with a story on some walk-on linebacker from Central Florida who saved a small village from extinction by gathering them into his private work out garage underneath the city. ESPN has wonderful reporters, sources worldwide, and the money to deliver it to the public instantly. What they don’t have is reliable sports betting picks when it comes to the NFL.

There are several reasons for this beginning with the fact that the analysts on ESPN make picks based on what Team will Win the game, not Cover the Spread. As all of you are watching the pre-game shows you’ll notice a comment, “The Colts are 7 point favorites at home today against the Texans”, however, when they pick the Colts to Win the Game they’re not saying ‘The Colts will Win the Game and Cover the Spread’. All of the picks made by the various analysts are just Straight Up winners or losers and their respective records as the season goes on are based upon this. So as you go through the season and watch all of the ESPN shows just keep in mind they are making these picks based on who will Win or Lose the game not Cover the Spread.

The games that ESPN will breakdown and cover extensively lean towards the marque match-ups. When the Colts, Patriots, Cowboys, Packers, Giants, and of course whatever teams are playing on that Monday Night square off they receive more analysis and hype than the Browns vs Chiefs at 1pm on a random Sunday do. ESPN does this obviously because more people tune into the marque games and pre-game shows that precede them. The sports betting fan gets Jacked Up and starts to develop a feeling for who is going to Win the game.

The fans then take this Jacked Up feeling to their online sportsbook and place a bet, usually on the Favorite and/or most hyped team. The game in question usually has more action on it than lesser known games and therefore the Line is inflated anywhere from 1/2 to 1 point. The NFL being the competitive game it is 1 point or 1 play makes the difference in deciding what team covers and whether sports betting fans put money into their pockets or the sportsbooks take home the cash! With the underdogs winning roughly 58% of the time last year you can see where this could be a losing proposition for the sports bettor who tends to bet on the favorites and relies solely on ESPN for their sports betting information.

In one of the Best Sports Movies of all time, Bull Durham, ‘Crash Davis’ played by Kevin Costner and ‘Nuke LaLoosh’, a terrific Tim Robbins, were at the mound for a talk when Nuke was having trouble throwing strikes. Crash asked what the problem was and Nuke proceeded to tell him his Father was in the stands, therefore increasing his anxiety, thus affecting his ability to throw strikes. Crash said to him, “He’s just your Old Man and he’s as Full of Shit as Anybody”! The ESPN analysts, despite many of them being former football players themselves and having exclusive access to all of the information most sports betting fans don’t are as Full of Shit as Anybody. Just this past Sunday you had Merrill Hoge and Sean Salisbury both going 5-9 SU along with Mike Golic going 4-10 SU. All three are former NFL players. All three are on ESPN every day as ‘Experts’ in the world of the NFL.

When it comes to your sports betting the rest of the season, here’s a tip: Take the information about the teams that ESPN does such a great job of delivering, and do your own research. Also, stopping by Hot Chicks Hot Picks for all your up-to-the-minute coverage wouldn’t be a bad idea either.

Bet Ya–

ALIKAT