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MLB Baseball

1000* Play San Francisco +100 over Philadelphia (MLB TOP PLAY)

Philadelphia has lost 74 of the last 128 day games and they have lost 32 of the last 51 home games.Philadelphia has lost 62 of the last 98 games coming off a loss by two runs or less and they have lost 38 of the last 64 games when playing in the month of July.

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50* Play New York Yankees -175 over Texas (MLB BONUS PLAY)
50* Play Milwaukee -155 over New York Mets (MLB BONUS PLAY)

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PGA Tour Picks: Canadian Open Odds and Betting Predictions
by Alan Matthews

As usual, I will take a look back before looking ahead to this week’s PGA Tour event, the RBC Canadian Open, and by far my favorite statistic from last week’s 143rd British Open was that Rory McIlroy’s father made about $150,000 more than Tiger Woods did.

If you have never checked out the British books, they offer some crazy exotics. In 2004, McIlroy’s father put down $341 (200 pounds) at 50/1 at Ladbrokes that his highly-touted young son would win the Open Championship within 10 years. That cashed out at $171,000 when Rory took home the Claret Jug on Sunday. Two friends of McIlroy’s father placed similar bets and made a combined $136,700.

Don’t weep for Rory as he made $1.66 million and clearly stamped himself as the new face of golf with his wire-to-wire win. McIlroy grabbed hold of the tournament with opening 66s, and really there was never much drama. He finished at 17 under, despite playing very conservatively on Sunday (just 1 under), two shots ahead of Sergio Garcia and Rickie Fowler.

It was stunning, and it wasn’t. When McIlroy is on, he is clearly the best player going right now. When he’s off, he can be pretty bad. McIlroy is now 75 percent of the way to the career Grand Slam at age 25 — he really should have it by now if not for that back-nine meltdown at the Masters a few years ago. McIlroy, Tiger and Jack Nicklaus are the only three players with at least three majors by the age of 25. McIlroy is going to get the Tiger treatment for a while in that he’s the clear betting favorite in any major he plays.

After an opening-round 3-under 69, Woods went 9-over in his remaining three rounds to claim 69th place, his worst finish in a major as a professional and 18 spots behind Ryder Cup captain and 64-year-old Tom Watson. Phil Mickelson finished T23 but was never a factor; he climbed on Sunday thanks to a final-round 68. His opening 74 just about finished him immediately.

McIlroy went off as the co-14/1 favorite with Justin Rose at Bovada. I didn’t pick McIlroy to win but did say it might be worth throwing a few bucks on him leading after the first round, and that paid off at 20/1. He’s been a first-round monster all year. I also hit on Rory at +135 for a Top-10 finish. My pick to win was Adam Scott, and he was T5. He paid off for me at +150 for a Top 10. Garcia paid off at +225 on that prop for me. The only major disappointment was Lee Westwood, whom I thought would contend but missed the cut. His window to win a major might be closed. Head-to-head, I hit on Watson at -140 over John Daly, Sergio at even over Martin Kaymer, Sergio at -115 over Tiger, Mickelson at -170 over Tiger and McIlroy at -115 over Rose. Even though I chose Scott to win, I hedged on a European winner at +110, so that paid out as well. So all in all, a great Open Championship.

This week the Tour stays international and moves to the Royal Montreal Golf Course (the Blue course) for the Canadian Open. This course is notable as North America’s first official golf club, opening as a nine-hole track in 1873. The first Canadian Open was held there in 1904 but it moves around. Last time Royal Montreal hosted was 2001 when Scott Verplank won it.

It’s a decent field considering it’s the week after the Open Championship. A total of 24 players who competed at Royal Liverpool are supposed to play, including five of the Top 20 in the world. This tournament, of course, means more to Canadian players than any others, and there are 14 countrymen in the tournament. No Canadian has won this in exactly 60 years.

You may remember last year’s event. I picked Hunter Mahan to win. And he was leading through two rounds but withdrew early on Saturday when his wife went into labor. Brandt Snedeker would capture the event at 16 under, three shots ahead of William McGirt, Dustin Johnson, Jason Bohn and Matt Kuchar.

PGA Tour Golf Odds: Canadian Open Betting Favorites

Furyk is the 10/1 Bovada favorite. He’s having a nice year with six Top 10s, including a T4 last week. Furyk has two runner-ups as well. He won this tournament in 2006-07 and was T9 last year. Remember, though, those finishes weren’t at Royal Montreal.

Johnson and Matt Kuchar are 12/1. Johnson probably wins last year if he doesn’t shoot a first-round 75. DJ has seven Top 10s on Tour this season and was nearly in contention for a bit last week before finishing T12. You know how I feel about Kuchar: He’s Mr. Top 10. Kuchar leads the Tour with nine of them this season, but none since May. In addition to that second last year in the Canadian Open, he was T4 in 2010.

Graeme McDowell (16/1) and Charl Schwartzel (18/1) round out the favorites. McDowell is playing really well right now with three straight Top-10 finishes overseas, including a win in France. Schwartzel was T7 last week and has a best finish of T9 in this tournament, coming in 2011.

PGA Tour Picks: Canadian Open Betting Predictions

One would think anyone who played across the pond the week before the Canadian Open would struggle here with jetlag, etc. However, since this event was moved a week after the British Open, three guys have won after playing overseas: Furyk in 2007, Sean O’Hair in 2011 and Snedeker (22/1 to repeat) last year.

On the Top-10 props, I like Johnson (+120), Kuchar (+130), McDowell (+150) and Canadian Graham DeLaet (+200). It’s not a great European field here, so go with McDowell at 2/1 as the top European, Schwartzel at 5/4 as the top South African and DeLaet at 15/8 as the top Canadian. Head-to-head, go Schwartzel at -125 over Snedeker (-105), DeLaet (-110) over a struggling Luke Donald (-120) and Mahan (-130) over Charley Hoffman (Even).

I want to recommend DeLaet (25/1) to win so he can end that Canadian drought on the 60th anniversary of the last one. He simply hasn’t played that well in this event. I also want to recommend Mahan (28/1) as karma payback for last year, but he’s not playing great this year. I’m going with Johnson. He has the ultimate karma north of the border as he’s engaged to Wayne Gretzky’s (really hot) daughter.

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PGA Tour visits Canada this weekend
By Freddy Wander

RBC Canadian Open

Tees Off: Thursday, July 24
The Royal Montreal Golf Club – LLe Bizard, Canada

Odds to Win Tournament

Golfer Odds
Dustin Johnson 23-to-2
Jim Furyk 23-to-2
Matt Kuchar 12-to-1
Graeme McDowell 15-to-1
Charl Schwartzel 17-to-1
Brandt Snedeker 20-to-1
Graham DeLaet 20-to-1
Luke Donald 23-to-1
Hunter Mahan 25-to-1
Charley Hoffman 30-to-1
David Hearn 40-to-1
Bo Van Pelt 50-to-1
Tim Clark 50-to-1
Aaron Baddeley 50-to-1
K.J. Choi 55-to-1
Jerry Kelly 60-to-1
Nick Watney 60-to-1
Kevin Chappell 60-to-1
Russell Knox 60-to-1
William McGirt 60-to-1
Carl Pettersson 60-to-1
Seung-Yul Noh 65-to-1
Robert Garrigus 65-to-1
Erik Compton 70-to-1
Ben Crane 75-to-1
Camilo Villegas 75-to-1
Scott Brown 80-to-1
Jason Bohn 90-to-1
6 Golfers 95-to-1
2 Golfers 100-to-1
6 Golfers 110-to-1
5 Golfers 120-to-1
6 Golfers 130-to-1
Robert Streb 140-to-1
6 Golfers 160-to-1
4 Golfers 170-to-1
8 Golfers 180-to-1
Jonathan Byrd 190-to-1
3 Golfers 200-to-1
7 Golfers 210-to-1
3 Golfers 220-to-1
3 Golfers 240-to-1
26 Golfers 250-to-1

The PGA Tour heads north of the border this week for the RBC Canadian Open. This tournament was once widely regarded as one of the most prestigious events of the year but has lost favor in recent years and is now sandwiched between three big events (British Open, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, PGA Championship). As a result, just two top-10 players (Matt Kuchar and JimFuryk) and four others from the top-25 (Dustin Johnson, Graeme McDowell, Charl Schwartzel, Luke Donald) in the World Golf rankings will be amongst the field this weekend. Surprisingly, that places just three Americans out of the 13 from the top-25 in this tourney. Brandt Snedeker will attempt to defend his title this week as last season he had an easy three-stroke victory where 10 of the top 11 players were from the United States. Since 1995, American-born players have won 16-of-19 times at this event, so let’s take a look at some golfers who could keep the U.S. dominance going, and a few who will try to earn a victory from other parts of the world.

Golfers to Watch

Jim Furyk (23/2): Furyk is an obvious choice here with all his success he has had in this tournament in the past. He won back-to-back times back in 2006 and 2007, and had a ninth-place finish at the event last year. Furyk has not slowed down in 2014 either, and as a 44-year-old has made the cut in every tournament on the season while finishing as the runner-up in two tournaments (Wells Fargo Championship and The PLAYERS Championship); putting him in 14th place on the FedEx Cup leaderboard. His accurate driver (70.3%, 9th on tour) combined with amazing scrambling (68.7%, best on tour) has earned him 21 straight made cuts, and he should be eyeing his 17th PGA Tour victory this week.

Graeme McDowell (15/1): McDowell has played in just 14 tournaments this year (12 on PGA Tour, 2 on European Tour) and has done very well, winning once on the European Tour and putting together nine top-10 finishes between the two. He placed 9th this past week at The British Open and has been playing great golf lately due to his tremendous putting (1.006 strokes gained, best on tour). McDowell’s momentum this year should put him in the running to take home the trophy this weekend.

Dustin Johnson (23/2): Johnson has been having a great year, as he ranks third in the FedEx Cup standings with top-12 finishes at the last two majors — fourth at the U.S. Open and 12th at the British Open Championship. These were big performances, as he did not do well in the middle part of the season. Johnson has a huge drive (311.3 yards per, 2nd on tour) and uses those big shots to hit plenty of greens in regulation (68.5%, 18th on tour), which should both help him improve on his runner-up performance here in 2013.

William McGirt (60/1): McGirt, just like Johnson, tied for second-place here last year with a score of 13-under and also was the runner-up in 2012, as he lost by just one stroke. He has one of the better putting strokes (.380 strokes gained putting, 21st on tour) and has been able to parlay that into five top-25 finishes this year. This tournament has eluded him now for a few years and would be the fitting venue for him to earn his first career PGA Tour event.

David Hearn (40/1): The Canadian-born player has made eight cuts in his past nine events and has posted three top-30 performances in that time; including placing sixth at The PLAYERS Championship back in May. He ranks in the top-30 in both driving accuracy (66.3%) and strokes gained putting (.350), and should certainly be pumped to play in front of his native Canadians.

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"Mr Chalk" had Np on Wednesday

For Thursday in MLB in the National League "Mr Chalk" likes the Braves -$145/Marlins and in the American League a lean on the Yankees -$190/Rangers.

Ben lee is 1-1 -$35 for week thirty nine 178-210-5 -$2705.

"Mr Chalk" is 54-37 -$127 for the 2014 MLB season.

All E&B selections will be for $50 unless noted

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Dave Essler

Double Dime Kansas City

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Scott Spreitzer

3* AL Grand Slam Game of the Week
Seattle Mariners

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Yanks under

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Inside Vegas Info Plays
1pm est start Lets Go Back Inside Vegas for 1 MLB Sharp Plays
Take Philly -115 ML
Cory Kluge

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THURSDAY

TOP CANADIAN FOOTBALL PLAYS---BIG PLAY

• Play Calgary -1 over Edmonton---RISK 20% OF YOUR BANKROLL

Edmonton has lost 16 of the last 22 games vs. division opponents and they have lost 17 of the last 24 games when playing with six or less days of rest.Edmonton has lost 21 of the last 28 games when playing after the 1^st month of the season and they have lost 4 consecutive games vs. Calgary at home.

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THURSDAY CANADIAN FOOTBALL

5000* Play Calgary -1 over Edmonton (TOP CFL PLAY)

Calgary has covered the spread in 14 of the last 20 road games and they have covered the spread in 11 of the last 14 games coming off a loss against the spread in their last game.Calgary has covered the spread in 17 of the last 25 games when playing with six or less days of rest and they are only allowing an average of 10 points a game on defense this season.

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Kevin's Pick(s):
Tough one to watch yesterday as I couldn't go back to back with 5 Star winners. Swarzak pitched great for the Twins, and their relief pitching came in and did the job to hold onto a 3-1 win. Kyle picked up a 2 unit winner, but he's taking today off. I've got one pick going in an early game...
2 UNIT = San Francisco Giants @ Philadelphia Phillies - GIANTS TO WIN (+106) *EARLY GAME*
Listed Pitchers: Hudson vs Hamels
(Note: I'm risking 2.00 units to win 2.12 units)
The Giants have won the first three meetings of this series, and I'm betting on them to pull off the sweep this afternoon. The first three games have been 7-4, 9-6 and 3-1 victories as the Giants have now won 6 of their last 7 games overall scoring 5+ runs in five of those games. They are 57-44 on the season and 29-19 on the road. The Phillies have lost four straight and 7 of their last 8 overall to fall to 43-58 on the year and an awful 19-32 at home. Today's starter for San Fran will be Tim Hudson who is 8-6 with a 2.78 ERA, .252 OBA and 1.10 WHIP. He has pitched better on the road this year with a 2.35 ERA, .255 OBA and 1.08 WHIP. The Phillies will counter with Cole Hamels who is 4-5 with a 2.83 ERA, .231 OBA and 1.17 WHIP. Although Hamels has a 1.93 ERA on the road, his home ERA is 3.86 as he has given up 7 homeruns at home compared to just 1 on the road this year. Take note that the Giants are 5-1 in their last 6 road gams, 7-1 in their last 8 road games vs a team with a losing record, and 6-1 in their last 7 vs NL East opponents, They are also 5-2 in Hudson's last 7 starts with 4 days rest, and 4-1 in his last 5 road starts. The Phillies are just 7-21 in their last 28 home games vs a team with a winning record, 0-5 in their last 5 home games, and 1-4 in Hamels' last 5 starts as a small favorite between -110 and -150. Also take note that the Giants are 5-0 in their last 5 meetings in Philadelphia, and the Phillies are just 1-5 in their last 6 games vs San Fran with Hamels on the mound. I'll take the Giants this afternoon as short underdogs.

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THURSDAY

MLB BASEBALL


10* Play San Diego -110 over Chicago Cubs (MLB TOP PLAY)

Chicago is 52-74 in home games the last two seasons
Chicago is 52-91 after having lost three of the last four games
Chicago is 90-143 when playing as an underdog of +100 to +150


10* Play Los Angeles Angels -120 over Detroit (MLB TOP PLAY)

Los Angeles is 15-5 when playing in the 2^nd half of the season this year
Los Angeles is 16-8 vs. NL Central Division Opponents
Los Angeles is 47-31 when the total posted is between 7 and 8.5 runs

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5* Play San Francisco +110 over Philadelphia (MLB BONUS PLAY)
5* Play Seattle -120 over Baltimore (MLB BONUS PLAY)

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Totals 4 You MLB Service Selections for Thursday, July 24th July's American League Bases Primetime Total of the Month!!!!!
Chicago/Minnesota over 8 1/2

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Miami/Atlanta under 7 1/2
Texas/New York over 9
Houston/Oakland over 7 1/2
Cleveland/Kansas City under 7 1/2

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MLB

Boston Red Sox +105

Minnesota Twins -150

Under 7 +105 San Francisco Giants/Philadelphia Phillies

Under 7.5 -115 New York Mets/Milwaukee Brewers

Under 7.5 -115 Cleveland Indians/Kansas City Royals

Over 7 +115 Baltimore Orioles/Seattle Mariners

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DIY Sports Betting Systems


New York Mets +150