Cashing In

Your "Bad Beat" for Friday is on:

Maple Leafs (plus 190) at New Jersey.

Brown backers have a case after imploding and somehow blowing the cover at Columbia last night. Also anybody who backed the Bulls and got outscored 27-11 in the 4th to not cover by 1 1/2 points as well as any person who layed the incredible lumber on the ml with the Magic blowing the 23 point home lead against the Wizards as the 13 point chalk is thinking about jumping off of the nearest building BUT the "Bad Beat" of the day comes on the ice from New Jersey.

The Toronto Maple Leafs scored three goals in the second period and built a 3-1 lead deep into the third. But New Jersey's Dean McCammond lit the lamp with a tad over three minutes left to get within a goal.

Then with only 44 seconds left Travis Zajac scored on the power play and 25 seconds later Jay Pandolfo won the game capping the amazing comeback 4-3 win for New Jersey in Ilya Kovalchuk's first game with New Jersey.



Your winners for Saturday are on:

5* South Carolina (plus 9 1/2) at Tennessee.

3* Cal (minus 4 1/2) at UCLA.

2* Michigan (pk) vs Wisconsin.

A small winning 1-1 Friday as the 3* Nets took care of business in Boston.



I am not at all impressed with Tennessee right now. Bruce Pearl's squad has had a lot of issues leading to high high's and low low's and I don't think this team is ready to beat up Devan Downey and the visiting Gamecocks as they are in one of those low low's right now.

The Vols definitely do have talent but things are just not very good right now. UT lost in terrible fashion at Georgia and then fell back home to Vandy. This team has dropped four in a row to the number and are just not very good right now.

Darin Horn is a solid coach and Downey is a stud. This kid is amazing and pretty much single handedly knocked off Kentucky the other night. Brandis Raley Ross is also pretty good and in the end UT may win but this thing is going to be a lot closer than the experts think.



UCLA flat out stinks! Cal has dropped their last pair on the road at Arizona and USC but the Golden Bears are still the best team in the very weak Pac-10 and Jerome Randle and the visitors will outclass Ben Howland's dismal Bruins.

UCLA has literally fallen off the map this season. It's almost embarassing what this team is doing. They did just knock off Stanford and are actually still in the conference race but that is not at all because they are good.

The Bears were up 30-19 at USC last game and literally gave up a 25-0 run. That is freakish! Yet they still only lost by 3 in the end.

Mike Montgomery's squad may be on the road here but they will get back in the win column in fairly resounding fashion.



Michigan overall is not as good as Wisconsin but the situation is perfect for the Wolverines. John Beilein's squad in Ann Arbor is much better than on the road. These guys just pretty much beat Michigan State at home before Kalin Lucas won the game at the end in a UM cover and the Wolverines did beat UCONN a few weeks back at home when the Huskies still were alright.

Manny Harris is a star and DeShawn Sims is also very good. With Jon Leuer still out and after coming off of that emotional high of a victory against the Spartans I can see Bo Ryan's offense be very lethargic once again and suffer a letdown and a loss.