Monthly Articles: March 2010

The North Carolina Tar Heels are playing in a Final Four this week, just not the one you would expect. The Tar Heels are in the Final Four of the NIT and they face Rhode Island in the late game on Tuesday at Madison Square Garden (9:15 p.m. ET, ESPN2). Rhode Island is listed as…

Did Coach K and his Dukkies get a little help from the officials this past weekend? There are many who believe so. Matt Youmans from the Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote a column on Monday about how the Duke Blue Devils appeared to have the refs on their side in Duke’s win over the Baylor Bears…

Perhaps the biggest game of the regular season for the Denver Nuggets and Dallas Mavericks takes place on Monday night (8:35 p.m. ET, NBA TV). These two teams are locked in a battle for the second seed in the Western Conference and the winner of this game on Monday gets a huge leg up in…

  No. 1 Duke +200 +205 +205 +175 +245 No. 2 West Virginia +175 +255 +255 +150 +235 No. 3 Baylor +700 +650 +650 +1000 +775 No. 5 Michigan St. +1000 +700 +700 +1500 +1100 No. 6 Tennessee +700 +600 +600 +700 +700 No. 5 Butler +500 +305 +305 +450 +400

Las Vegas and the sports world overall lost a friend earlier this week when Lee Pete passed away at the age of 85 after battling various ailments, including Lou Gehrig’s disease. Pete was one of the pioneers of the now-burgeoning sports-talk radio genre, doing shows in Las Vegas for three decades beginning in the early…

UFC 111 on Saturday features Georges St-Pierre defending his welterweight title against Dan Hardy. St-Pierre has simply been dominant in the UFC, winning 12 of his last 13 fights. He has no real challengers in this division, and although Hardy talks a lot, this fight shouldn’t be any different. The UFC odds at SBG Global…

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  Welterweight Championship Georges "Rush" St-Pierre: 5’11" (19-2-0) -625 -650 -1111 -600 -800 Dan "The Outlaw" Hardy: 6’0" (23-6-0, 1NC) +425 +450 +500 +400 +550   Interim Heavyweight Championship Frank Mir: 6’3" (13-4-0) -155 -155 -164 -155 -150 Shane Carwin: 6’5" (11-0-0) +125 +125 +120 +125 +130   Lightweight Matchup          …

Duke may be a No. 1 seed and a heavy favorite to reach the Final Four but they are no lock to make it considering the Blue Devils have stumbled in this role in the past. They were a top seed in 2002 and in 2006 and lost in the Sweet 16. Although they have…