Cashing In

Your "Bad Beat" for Monday is on:

Grizzles (pick, first quarter) vs. Los Angeles.

Now this is good, really really good!.

These days with all of the internet sportsbooks most people can find lines for the first quarter. Well the number from Memphis was a pick as the game was basically a pick.

The Grizzlies led 24-21 with 10 seconds to go in the first quarter and Kobe Bryant lost the ball to Rudy Gay so in a normal world the Grizzlies would run the clock down and make or miss a final shot and finish the quarter with the lead and the cover. But for some inexplicable reason Gay chucked up a 60 foot shot with eight seconds to go?!?!!? I can only assume he thought the clock read 0 and not 8.

The Lakers' Shannon Brown grabbed the rebound and hurled it immediately down court to Bryant who nailed a three at the buzzer and this thing was all tied up at 24 after a period. Insane!!!!



Your winner for Tuesday is on:

3* Miami (plus 7) at Wake Forest.

A losing 1-1 Monday as the big 4* on the Wizards crapped in their pants in the fourth quarter blowing the lead and getting outscored 25-10 in the period. The 2* on Texas took care of business.



I really do not like this slate today and have one play that seems like a value to me. Wake Forest is at home in Winston Salem which will help and Miami is not great by any means as that recent four game losing streak can attest to but the Demon Deacons have no business at all right now laying this number.

I like Dino Gaudio and his team is not bad but they are also not very consistent and not very dominant. The Deacs are 14-5 and have quality players like Aminu, Smith, McFarland and Harris but they play a lot of close games with average defense at best and the Hurricanes are good enough to stay in this thing for sure.

Frank Haith's boys just had anice victory over a hot Virginia Tech team to stop the losing skid. They are 16-5 and just nipped this same Wake squad 67-66 a few weeks back. They also have beaten Minnesota and South Carolina and to be getting around a touchdown is just a bit too much.

Wake may get their revenge today in terms of the win but a cover is asking too much!