The picks (2 units unless otherwise indicated): Stanford -5 over UCLA, Oklahoma State -7 (3 units) over TCU, USC +3 (3 units) over Notre Dame, Iowa +18 over Ohio State, Florida State -3 over Clemson, Oregon State -11 over California, South Carolina -7 (4 units) over Tennessee, Auburn +14 over Texas A&M, Boise State -22 over Nevada, Georgia -7 (4 units) over Vanderbilt, Cincinnati -15 over Connecticut, Michigan -10 over Indiana, Army +3 over Temple, Oregon -39 over Washington State, Oklahoma -23 (3 units) over Kansas, LSU -10 (3 units) over Mississippi.

Season record ATS - 66-55-2, +18 units.

Go Gators!

Open thread.

Can Kershaw keep the Dodgers alive?

I'm really busy, but not too busy to pick college games for our Saturday College Football Open Thread!

Here's an Open Thread for today.

Me, I'm rooting against the Red Sox. How about you?

Open Thread.

So the big loser today was Joe Biden, who was cut out of the deal by Harry Reid - my Politico parody.

Open Thread.

In case you haven't heard, the United States of America is shutting down in the next few days, as a bunch of lunatic morons, enabled by "serious people," refuse to allow the paying of bills by the government.

It was a nice country for a while anyway.

Open Thread.

This is moving week for me. I haven't seen the news in a week, so I won't even try to blog. I will put up open threads. Thanks to those of you sending emails pointing out new spammers, I deleted the last 40. My life and blogging should be back to normal next week. (My actual move out/move in date is Thursday.)

Here's an open thread, all topics welcome.

This week's Amato (John Amato of Crooks and Liars) and Armando Show (our You Tube Channel is here:

Our NFL picks (J is John, A is Armando (disagreements in BOLD): San Francisco 49ers -11 over Arizona Cardinals, St. Louis Rams +9 (A), Houston Texans (-9) (J), Minnesota Vikings -3 (J), Carolina Panthers (+3) (A), Washington Redskins +6 over Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles -1½ over Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tennessee Titans +14 (A), Seattle Seahawks (-14) (J), Buffalo Bills +7 (A), Cincinnati Bengals (-7) (J), Pittsburgh Steelers +1 ((J), New York Jets (-1) (A), Green Bay Packers -3 over Baltimore Ravens, Detroit Lions (-3) over Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos (-27) over Jacksonville Jaguars, New Orleans Saints (+2) over New England Patriots, San Diego Chargers (-3) (A), Indy Colts (+3) (J).

Open Thread.

The picks (all 2 units unless otherwise indicated): Colorado +25 over Arizona State, Boise State -7 (3 units) over Utah State, Middle Tenn State +7 over North Texas, Washington State -1 over Oregon State, UNLV -10 over over Hawaii, California +25 (3 units) over UCLA, Tulsa -10 over Texas-El Paso, Bowling Green +10½ over Mississippi State, Texas A&M -6 (3 units) over Mississippi, Nebraska -14 (3 units) over Purdue, Maryland -7 (4 units) over Virginia, Northwestern +10 over Wisconsin, TCU -25 (3 units) over Kansas, Missouri +8 over Georgia, Clemson -24½ over Boston College, Florida Atlantic +13 over Marshall, Michigan -3 over Penn State, Kentucky +27½ over Alabama, South Carolina -6 over Arkansas, Utah +9 over Stanford, Georgia Tech +7 over BYU, Navy +3 over Duke, Virginia Tech -9 (3 units) over Pittsburgh, Texas Tech -14½ (3 units) over Iowa State, Michigan State -10 over Indiana, Oklahoma -14 (3 units) over Texas, Oregon (-13) (4 units) over Washington.

For the season 54-40-2 (.574) ATS, +30 units.

Go Gators!

Open Thread.

Here's an open thread, all topics welcome.

Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick gets sentenced today. He's expecting to get hammered with a double digit sentence.

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was kidnapped at gunpoint from the posh five star Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli just before dawn. As the photo shows, he's not wearing his glasses and appears to be in his jammies.

The Group claiming responsibility for the kidnapping is The Operations Cell of Libyan Revolutionaries, which along with other former rebel groups, have been providing security to the military.The rebel groups which kidnapped Zeiden have been providing security to the military. One claimed credit on Facebook.

According to the AP, the kidnapping is in retaliation for the U.S. kidnapping of suspected al-Qaida suspect al-Libi,last week. [More...]

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