Chris Hodge, FreePicksNewsletter.com Editor, 143-64-4 College Basketball: Texas Tech at Oklahoma There are times when certain college basketball teams, or teams in any sport or level for that matter, have to go through a cleansing of the record books. Times where all of the streaks must come to an end and new lows have to [...]
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17 Jan 2011Chris Hodge, FreePicksNewsletter.com Editor, 143-63-4 NBA: Thunder at Lakers In what may have been the Lakers toughest series in winning the NBA Championship for the second season in a row last year, the Thunder pushed the Lakers to the brink of a full 7 game series. When Pau Gasol hit a bucket in the final [...]
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16 Jan 2011Chris Hodge, FreePicksNewsletter.com Editor, 142-61-4 NFL Playoffs: Jets at Patriots When the talking is finally done and the Jets and Patriots finally take the field on Sunday afternoon this could be an epic game that lives up to the hype. Rex Ryan could take a step beyond his father and field a team that can [...]
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15 Jan 2011Chris Hodge, FreePicksNewsletter.com Editor, 142-61-4 NFL Playoffs: Baltimore at Pittsburgh The Pittsburgh Steelers are the aristocrats of the NFL, the noble champions of champions that seem to use the NFL regular season as their own preparatory season. While other teams are fighting, scratching and clawing just to get in to the pro football extra session, [...]
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14 Jan 2011Chris Hodge, FreePicksNewsletter.com Editor, 142-61-4 NBA: Clippers at Warriors The NBA is a fickle beast with teams that were once struggling popping up to beat the mighty and returning to the doldrums just days later. This could be the case with the Los Angeles Clippers as they are fresh off of a monumental upset of [...]
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13 Jan 2011Chris Hodge, FreePicksNewsletter.com Editor, 142-60-4 NBA: Heat at Nuggets The Denver Nuggets were once upon a time the team that put together a blockbuster deal to get two mega-superstars together for a championship run. Now, they are the team that is fading fast and getting ready to play the team that put together a blockbuster [...]
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12 Jan 2011Chris Hodge, FreePicksNewsletter.com Editor, 142-59-4 NBA: Heat at Clippers The Los Angeles Clippers have shown steady improvement throughout the season and have enough young talent to keep the fan base excited about the future. Blake Griffin, Eric Gordon, DeAndre Jordan, and company have started winning regularly after a horrid start, making the future look bright. [...]
Chris Hodge, FreePicksNewsletter.com Editor, 142-59-4 College Basketball: Oklahoma at Baylor In one of college basketball’s grandest role reversals of the last several decades the Oklahoma Sooners will travel to Waco as a 20 point underdog on Tuesday night. Just a year ago the Sooners owned a 30 game winning streak over the Bears, including a [...]
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9 Jan 2011Chris Hodge, FreePicksNewsletter.com Editor, 141-58-4 NFL Playoffs: Ravens at Chiefs The Kansas City Chiefs are without a doubt one of the best stories of the NFL this season, rising from the ashes and putting together a completely unexpected playoff run. They were undoubtedly aided by the weak nature of their division, but this doesn’t take [...]
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8 Jan 2011Chris Hodge, FreePicksNewsletter.com Editor, 141-57-4 NFL Playoffs: Jets at Colts Rex Ryan tries to make anything and everything interesting in the NFL and in this strange pursuit he has decided to ruffle the feathers of Peyton Manning in Round 1 of the playoffs. Ryan stated earlier in the week that it is now “personal” between [...]