if i can get my pick tonight,sat and sun correct.........expect a long streak from the golfgod!     

Somebody want to explain why the Rutgers-Louisville is only set at 41.5? There last 5 meetings 53,48,77,79,61(Ty covers for that info)
Game temp should be 48-little wind and no rain.
It seems like the over is the no brainer

I'm going against one of my teams (Syracuse) because I'm not impressed on how we are doing despite being 4-2. Syracuse is in the early stages of rebuilding it's program (Year 2) but it's a 2nd year let down, taking a step backwards after going 7-5 in Year 1 and winning a bowl game. Last year Syracuse won 4 games by 20+ and this year their biggest margin of victory is just 7 including wins against Rhode Island (by 7) and Tulane (by 3). The Orange have allowed high passing yards to mediocre opponents and West Virginia has one of the best offenses in the country.
West Virginia -14 for Win #4 on survivor
and either West Virginia by 15+ or Geno Smith for 155+ 1st half passing yards for Win #10 on SFTC.

Rutgers-Louisville is tough to cap but I'm going to disagree with Reddoggie and say the Under is the way to go. Louisville is having problems scoring and Rutgers Defense is pretty solid. I say take the Under but don't put any significant streaks on it.

Quote Originally Posted by smoothd20:

Rutgers-Louisville is tough to cap but I'm going to disagree with Reddoggie and say the Under is the way to go. Louisville is having problems scoring and Rutgers Defense is pretty solid. I say take the Under but don't put any significant streaks on it.

Good points thanks---I feel Rut 24  Lou 17--have to wait and see--

to easy 7-0 lou

lucky i got a push..........but rutgers left so many points out there

Story Time- I'm gonna tell you guys a true story about me and Muhammad Ali. Of course you notice my Ali Avatar. Way back in 1982 when I was still in college my roomate had a friend. He was an eccentric sort of man. So one day my roommate Winston brought his crazy friend over to our apartment and he announced that we were going Muhammad Ali's house and did I want to go. I played along with this obvious rouse and said "sure when are we going?" he says right now but first we had to go to his place. We lived in the Wilshire District and "Harold" lived on the Westside. So we take a bus to Harold's house. It was a nice house on Sycamore in West LA. We go to his house and he has sheets hanging in the window for curtains. It was a nice house but it looked like he had just moved in. I asked rather casually. "Harold did you just move in you have a great place" "Oh no" he says "We have been living here for almost a year" needless to say I was shocked because the place wasn't organized in the least. At any rate after spending about 30 minutes at Harold's house. He asks "so are you ready to go to Muhammad's house?" I give Winston one of those WTF is up with this guy looks. I says sure Harold let's roll. So we get back on the bus headed East toward our place. Ali lived in Hancock Park which was West of my place but East of where Harold lived. While we're on the bus Harold is telling everybody we're headed to Ali's house. I'm embarrassed as hell so I have this sheepish look on my face like whatever he says. The bus drops us off. It's me Winston and crazy ass Harold. We get to the gate and Harold calmly says to the Security guard this is Harold whatever his last name was and I'm here to see Muhammad Ali. I felt like a fool. The guard calls the house and the maid picks up and says to let us in. I couldn't believe it. So now I'm looking for the hidden cameras so I'm thinking this is one of those candid camera shows. I'm looking at Winston like Is this real. Well lo and behold we walk up to his house after being cleared by Security. The maid answers the door she apparently knows Harold and lets us in. She was a British lady. She sits us at the dining room table ask us if we would like a drink. I ask for water. The house was modest, nothing outrageous. Harold asks where Ali was and the maid says he's out for the evening with his wife Veronica. 2 kids come into the dining room and the little boy asked me did I know his Daddy I told him I knew who his Daddy is but I've never met him. Then the little girl comes in and she is kind of shy. I didn't know until much later that little girl would become the great Laila Ali. The maid gave us a very brief tour of the living room. She wasn't too keen on having a couple of young guys who she didn't know in the house. After about 15 minutes she announces that Ali doesn't like people in the house too when he's not there. Harold says he understands and he was hoping Ali was home to introduce us. We thanked her for the water and left. It was one of the weirdest experiences of my life but I'm grateful to crazy Harold for sharing it with me. I never saw Harold again but Winston and I would talk about that for a few years after the experience. There is a rest of the story which I will share with you next.

The rest of the story as the great Paul Harvey used to say. So years later around 1987 or 88 I'm in the bank. It was a 1st Interstate bank right on Wilshire Blvd. I just finished making a deposit in the bank and as I'm about to leave I notice several men hell it was entourage coming into the bank. The men were walking extremely slow. So I stand to the side there must have been about 10-12 men in dark suits. As I'm standing to the side I notice that the man they are walking with is Muhammad Ali himself. So one of his body guards is standing next to me and he strikes up a conversation. He says we apologize for this hold up and I stand there with my jaw on the floor going "Is that Ali"? The body guard  confirms it is him. I couldn't believe how slow he was moving. From the time they walked in it took Ali a good 5-7 minutes to get to a Teller. That's how slow he was walking. The bodyguard tells me that he moves really slow because he has Parkinson's and its really bad. I told him I heard about that but seeing him this way put it in perspective. He asked me would I like to meet him. I said "of course" I mention that I had a chance to meet him a long time ago but it didn't work out. I never mentioned that I was at his house with crazy ass Harold. We talked for what seemed like an eternity waiting for Ali to finish his business. When Ali finished he walked towards us and it took him a good 5 minutes to get to us. The bodyguard says to Ali. Mr. Ali I would like you to meet Derrick he was kind of enough to wait on the side while we came into the bank. 

I live near what used to be his training camp in PA.  In the 70's it was common to see him in the city of Reading.  Smoking Joe Frazier had his gym in the city of Reading as well and back then you could approach those guys like they were just from the neighborhood.  If I only knew how times would change I could have autographs from not only Ali and Frazier but Vince McMahon and the wrestlers that later made him a billionaire once his dad past way and Vince got the business.  Vince's favorite thing from us kids that would bring tears of laughter would be me asking one of his superstars (i.e. Bruno Sanmartino) for an autograph and then as I would walk away I would turn and say "hey Bruno time to retire you suck and rip the autograph up.  Bruno's face would get all red and he would yell at us waving his fist saying "you little bastards!!!".  We had no ideal Vince was the future owner.  My favorite was while in the locker room Captain Lou Albano would cover my ears and say sorry kid some words you just shouldnt hear yet.  this would be a monthly event when McMhaon's dad owned the local wrestling and they would come to Hamburg Field House for the show.  The part I thought was cool was I could go and see it on a Wednesday nite and Saturday morning I could see myself on TV either getting autographs or just walking by the ring.   I never took care of those autographs at the time they were worthless and it was just part of the show.  If I would of taken care of them,(all Hall of Famers now), one of the was the now famous Hulk Hogan who at the time was only Terry Hogan the Golden Boy from California and his job was to be the asshole so he was not popular at the time.

Heres some picks for today to consider

so much for the under in kansas/kst

As I was looking for a game to watch I saw on ABC family channel they are showing one of my favorite movies.......The Goonies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NEKzLiXfuc

Heres a hockey angle I have been keeping an eye on

How about them Vikings!!
This morning Chris Cook got arrested at 4 am by Eden Prairie police for domestic assault and is being held with out bail.Court appearance isn't till Monday--Makes me want to take the 20 minute drive to the inflatable toilet tomorrow to watch my Packers DESTROY the vikings!!! My -9 is looking better by the minute

Now that peace has come back to the 25 Dime Club we can start focusing on some of these great streaks we have going on. How about Jcoby! Talk about a quiet streak. This guy is closing in on $100K and hardly a word about it. Maybe I'm out of the loop I don't know but Congrats to Jcoby and hopefully you take down that Big Prize!

Got $55 riding on Wisconsin and some other games...gl to all tonight! 

this means the vikings will be without 3 of their starting d backs. I have Rodgers as my fantasy QB and he should break all passing records..I also have AP   but if its 21-0 pack after the first--the vikings will pass all day long to play catch up.Adrian will be worthless. Last "Do the vikes suck that bad"
Its a toss up between them and the goofers!!!
Nebraska 34--Minn -0 and only half-time