12-26-13

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Free Selection from Arthur Ralph Sports

Our Free Plays are 1144-874 (57%) over the last 5 1/2 years College FB 65-38 this yr,NFL 46-38:

Free winner THURS Over the total 212 1/2 Clippers

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J. Clifton

Spurs - 3 buy hook
hawks - 3

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Today's NBA Picks

LA Clippers at Portland

The Clippers look to bounce back from Christmas night's 105-103 loss to Golden State as they stay on the road against a Portland team that is coming off a 110-107 win over New Orleans and is 0-4 ATS in its last 4 games after giving up more than 100 points in the previous game. LA is the pick (+4 1/2) according to Dunkel, which has the Blazers favored by just 1. Dunkel Pick: LA Clippers (+4 1/2). Here are all of today's picks.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26 Time Posted: 8:00 a.m. EST

Game 501-502: Atlanta at Cleveland (7:00 p.m. EST) Dunkel Ratings: Atlanta 121.845; Cleveland 115.179 Dunkel Line & Total: Atlanta by 6 1/2; 196 Vegas Line & Total: Atlanta by 2; 203 1/2 Dunkel Pick: Atlanta (-2); Under

Game 503-504: Memphis at Houston (8:00 p.m. EST) Dunkel Ratings: Memphis 114.883; Houston 120.223 Dunkel Line & Total: Houston by 5 1/2; 205 Vegas Line & Total: Houston by 8; 197 Dunkel Pick: Memphis (+8); Over

Game 505-506: San Antonio at Dallas (8:30 p.m. EST) Dunkel Ratings: San Antonio 124.314; Dallas 118.573 Dunkel Line & Total: San Antonio by 5 1/2; 202 Vegas Line & Total: San Antonio by 2 1/2; 208 Dunkel Pick: San Antonio (-2 1/2); Under

Game 507-508: LA Clippers at Portland (10:30 p.m. EST) Dunkel Ratings: LA Clippers 125.237; Portland 125.935 Dunkel Line & Total: Portland by 1; 218 Vegas Line & Total: Portland by 4 1/2; 212 Dunkel Pick: LA Clippers (+4 1/2); Over

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Cappers Access

(CFB) Pittsburgh +4.5
(CFB) N. Illinois Pk

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POINTWISE

NBA BASKETBALL

(7:05) CLEVELAND CAVALIERS 109 - Atlanta Hawks 101 _____ _____

(8:00) HOUSTON ROCKETS 98 - Memphis 95 (TNT) _____ _____

(8:35) DALLAS MAVS 106 - San Antonio Spurs 102 _____ _____

(10:35) PORTLAND BLAZERS 104 - LA Clippers 98 (TNT) _____ _____

BEST BETS
CLEVELAND
PORTLAND (3)

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WINNING POINTS

***BEST BET
*Cleveland over Atlanta by 10
The Cavaliers are a different animal at home where they have gone 7-4 while covering
five of their past six through this past Sunday. Jeff Teague has played well for
Atlanta, but he can't match Kyrie Irving. Irving should be especially pumped after the
Hawks held him scoreless for the first time in his career during a 108-89 Atlanta home
win three weeks ago.
CLEVELAND 106-96.

*Houston over Memphis by 6
Minus Marc Gasol, the Grizzlies are going to have problems trying to corral Dwight
Howard. The Rockets defeated Memphis on the road, 93-86, on Nov. 25 despite
missing James Harden. Now the Rockets are fighting through point guard injuries
with Patrick Beverley out with a broken hand and Jeremy Lin (check status) dealing
with a sore back.
HOUSTON 108-102.

*Dallas over San Antonio by 1
This is San Antonio's lone road matchup during an eight-game span. Aside from
defeating the Nuggets in early November, the Spurs have lost and failed to cover in all
of their road matchups against strong competition falling to the Trail Blazers, Thunder
and Clippers.
DALLAS 104-103.

*Portland over Los Angeles Clippers by 5
The Clippers have a winning spread record when playing in the second of back-ofback
games, but the well-rested Trail Blazers have been idle since Saturday. Portland
has scored at least 102 points in 15 straight games through this past Friday.
PORTLAND 110-105.

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THE GOLD SHEET

★★★ KEY RELEASES ★★★
PORTLAND by 14 over L.A. Clippers (Thursday, Dec. 26)

CLEVELAND 104 - Atlanta 98—Revenge spot for Cleveland after losing by
19 at Philips Arena back on Dec. 6. Hawks shot 52% from floor that night and
balanced the scoring with six players tallying double digits, but a repeat
performance might be tricky at The Q, especially since Cavs have caught a bit
of an updraft with five straight covers thru Dec. 19. 13-ATL -6' 108-89 (196); 12-
Cle +8' 113-111 (189), Atl -5 102-94 (189), CLE +4 99-83 (193), ATL -10' 102-94
(201)

HOUSTON 100 - Memphis 85—Houston has already won vs. Memphis in a
game at FedEx Forum by 93-86 count on November 25. Marc Gasol had gone
down with injury by that point, and Rockets controlled glass by 43-35 count and
kept Zach Randolph (only 13 points on 5 of 12 FG shooting) in relative check.
Now, Grizzlies’ season appears to be unraveling with five straight losses and
non-covers thru Dec. 19, and there is talk of Randolph being on the trading
block. It looks like GM John Hollinger’s “metrics”-based approach is starting to
backfire; is that Lionel Hollins we hear snickering in the background? 13-Hou
-1' 93-86 (195); 12-MEM -7 93-85 (195), HOU -1 121-96 (197), MEM -4' 103-94
(194), Mem +2' 82-78 (195)

DALLAS 104 - San Antonio 101—San Antonio won all four meetings last
season, although the scorelines got progressively closer after Dirk Nowitzki
returned to the Dallas lineup. Proceed with caution regarding Spurs in this one,
however, as in the night after Christmas showcase, Gregg Popovich could be
motivated to rest some of his vets, as he planned to do in the second of backto-
back situation last week at Golden State. Of course, Spurs have decent
depth, but this is a trickier call if Duncan, Ginobili, and Parker might be sitting
out. tonight12-SAN -11 129-91 (206), San -6 111-86 (207), San +1 113-107
(205), SAN -9' 92-91 (206)

★★★ PORTLAND 115 - LA Clippers 101—Here’s another chance for
Portland to make a statement to the West contenders that it wants to be counted
among them. And no reason why surging Blazers can’t do so, as we can’t
remember an unheralded offseason acquisition working as nicely as Robin
Lopez’ addition to the Blazer lineup. With another rugged presence on the
blocks, LaMarcus Aldridge has been able to concentrate a bit more on his
offense and is posting the best numbers (23.3 ppg/11.1 rpg) of his career.
Meanwhile, deep Portland backcourt, led by All Star-in-waiting Damian Lillard,
will relish the chance to go against Chris Paul and his Clipper mates. Despite
recent 3-game spread slide, Blazers still 16-9 vs. line thru Dec. 19. 12-La -1
103-90 (201), POR +1 101-100 (191), LA -8' 96-83 (192), LA -15' 93-77 (202)

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StatFox Super Situations™ - FoxSheets

NBA ATLANTA at CLEVELAND
Play Under - All teams where the total is greater than or equal to 200 after going over the total by 18 or more points total in their last three games, a marginal winning team (51% to 60%) playing a losing team
67-31 over the last 5 seasons. ( 68.4% 32.9 units )
2-3 this year. ( 40.0% -1.3 units )

NBA SAN ANTONIO at DALLAS
Play Against - Road teams vs. the money line (SAN ANTONIO) off a double digit loss as a favorite of 6 points or more, with a winning record on the season playing another winning team
66-26 since 1997. ( 71.7% 33.4 units )
1-0 this year. ( 100.0% 1.0 units )

NBA LA CLIPPERS at PORTLAND
Play Under - Road teams where the first half total is greater than 105 after 2 or more consecutive overs, poor defensive team (98-102 PPG) against a horrible defensive team (>=102 PPG)
54-23 since 1997. ( 70.1% 28.7 units )
2-1 this year. ( 66.7% 0.9 units )

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ALLEN EASTMAN

8-Unit Play. Take #214 Bowling Green (-4) over Pittsburgh (6 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 26)
Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl
This one is my Bowl Game of the Year and I think it is a winner.
I am going with the hot team from the MAC. This Bowling Green team was good enough to upset Top 20 Northern Illinois in the MAC Championship Game a few weeks ago. The Falcons won the week before that in Buffalo and the Bulls were also a bowl team. They have won five straight games and are 5-0 ATS in those games, winning all of them in blowout fashion by an average of 35.8 points per game. Bowling Green was the best team in this strong non-BCS conference. I think that they will be very excited to get a win here against an ACC team to cap a great season. This team is very experienced and they have a lot of seniors that want to close their season with a win. This team lost its bowl game to San Jose State last year and I think that they want to make up for it this time around. I don't think that Pittsburgh is going to be up for this game. I don't think that they care about playing against Bowling Green. This team won't be focused and I don't expect a strong effort from them. Pitt is just 2-5 ATS in its last seven bowl games. Bowling Green is 20-8 ATS in its last 28 games overall and they will get the job done for me today. Lay the points.

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Nemo

Utah St

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Intpicks

2* Pittsburgh +5

1* N Illinois / Utah St Under 58.5

1* Atlanta -2

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Football Crusher
nothing yet
(System Record: 48-4, won last 2 games)
Overall Record: 48-45-1

Hockey Crusher
no play
(System Record: 46-0, wlost last game)
Overall Record: 46-27-1

Basketball Crusher
Dallas Mavericks +3.5 over San Antonio Spurs
(System Record: 29-2, won last 7 games)
Overall Record: 29-29-1

Soccer Crusher
OH Leuven + Cercle Brugge OVER 2.5
This match is happening in England
(System Record: 499-18, lost last game)
Overall Record: 499-431-73

Here are the rest of his basketball plays for today...

Basketball
Houston -7.5 over Memphis
Atlanta -2 over Cavs
Portland -4 over LA Clippers

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Dave Cokin

also has Utah State today.

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Paul Leiner

100* Grizzlies / Rockets Over 197

50* Pittsburgh +5.5

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Joe Gavazzi

2% Bowling Green
2% Utah st