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By Robert Ferringo
Home field advantage is huge in any sport. And right now South Africa has to be hoping that their No. 83 ranked national soccer team will get the same boost from hosting the 2010 World Cup on its home soil that past presenters have benefited from.
Below is a look at the production from [...]

By Robert Ferringo
Our friends at Bodog and Sports Interaction will be providing us with 2010 World Cup odds this summer. But one of the things I like to do is take the earliest lines available at any random book and compare them to the general open lines everywhere else. This gives us an idea of [...]

By Robert Ferringo
If anyone was interested, here is an interview that I did Saturday night outside of a bar with The Jack Of All Sports, Ryan Sebring, on his Maryland radio show. Besides me constantly saying, “the bottom line” you can barely tell how drunk I was. (I mean, what do you expect when you [...]

By Robert Ferringo
Well, the coaches got what they asked for.
NCAA mens’ basketball coaches pushed for an early deadline for early entrants into the NBA Draft to decide whether or not they were going to come back to school or stay in the draft. They got their wish, as the NCAA mandated a May 8 deadline [...]

By Robert Ferringo
What is one of the most anticipated NBA offseasons in recent memory actually begins tonight with the NBA Draft lottery held at halftime of the Boston-Orlando game. Most people are considering this the John Wall Sweepstakes and at present the Nets (who have an abundance of guards), the Timberwolves (who drafted not one, [...]

By Robert Ferringo
For the first time since 2006 and just the third time since 1970 the Belmont Stakes will be without either the Kentucky Derby or the Preakness winners. While that’s certainly going to hurt the bottom line of an already cash-strapped race that doesn’t change the fact that one horse will add a Triple [...]

By Robert Ferringo
The second leg of the 2010 Triple Crown takes place this Saturday in Pimlico as a field of a dozen horses makes a run for the Black Eyed Susans at the Preakness. The Preakness odds were released on Wednesday. I like to wait through the first 24 hours and see where the early [...]

By Robert Ferringo
I wrote a story on The Mothership about what a surprise that the Nationals had been so far this year and in it I had mentioned that they were the most profitable wager in the sport through the first 20 percent of the MLB season. The Nationals have already bagged over $1,200 for [...]

By Robert Ferringo
I know its still early in the MLB season but I like how my main MLB futures investment is looking at the moment.
For my 5.5-Unit Play this year I went with Seattle ‘under’ 85.5. There were a variety of statistical reasons why this was easily my top futures investment of the year. But [...]

By Robert Ferringo
Below there are some current World Cup futures odds. Over the next few weeks we’re going to have full group predictions and odds for each team, as well as some early previews and looks at the initial opening round games. It’s a little tricky to lock things down before each team has set [...]