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Turning Sweet Sixteen on Thursday
The Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA Tournament starts Thursday night with the West Virginia Mountaineers and the Xavier Musketeers in a West Region Semi-Final (7:10 pm ET, CBS), followed by an East Region Semi-Final between the No. 1 North Carolina Tar Heels and the Washington State Cougars (7:25 pm ET, CBS). Later games have the upstart Western Kentucky Hilltoppers against the UCLA Bruins (9:40 pm ET, CBS) and the Louisville Cardinals at the Tennessee Volunteers (9:55 pm ET, CBS).
Win with MLB Wins
Until opening day on March 31, MLB Baseball betting fans can make over/under wagers on how many wins Major League Baseball teams will accumulate over the 2008 regular season. The defending World Series champion Boston Red Sox are tied with the Detroit Tigers for highest total with 94?. Boston is Over -115, Under -115, while Detroit is Over -110, Under -120. The New York Yankees are at 93?, with the Over -120 and Under -110.
Pick the NBA Champion
There’s still time to pick the 2007-08 NBA Champion. betED.com is offering Future odds on which team will win the NBA title, with the much-improved Boston Celtics the favorite at +200. The defending champion San Antonio Spurs are +600, while the Los Angeles Lakers are +250.
Getting a “Right” Wrong
There are many “rights of spring” - sporting shorts with hairy white legs, going to the driving range and hitting it pathetically, picking up a winter’s worth of accumulated dog poop that’s piled high in the back yard…
…but the top “right” has long been baseball’s Opening Day.
Which this year is all wrong.
Once upon a time it was the perfect excuse for kids to sneak out of school, and older kids to skip an afternoon’s work to tune in the traditional opener, the Cincinnati Reds at home in the afternoon against whomever, and long for green grass and games played in the summer heat.
Nothing shook off the winter blues better.
Except for this year. Those kids who wanted to take in the 2008 opener had to get up at 3:00 am in the morning on Tuesday to watch the Boston Red Sox defeat the Oakland Athletics 6-5 in ten innings, indoors, in Japan.
It was over by the time they had to go to school. With dreams of Sushi dancing in their heads presumably.
Why the change? Why this whimper instead of the usual bang?
Well, this is not the first time baseball has shipped out Opening Day. In 2000, the Cubs opened up against the Mets. In 2004, the Yankees took on the Devil Rays.
All three have one thing in common. Marketing.
betED Spices up Sweet 16
The 2008 NCAA Tournament’s Sweet Sixteen gets going Thursday and betED.com is offering odds on which teams will emerge from the Regional Brackets of March Madness and advance to the Final Four.
Basketball betting fans can also wager on which of the Sweet Sixteen teams will win the 2008 NCAA Men’s Championship.
With the four No. 1 seeds all making it through the first two rounds, it’s no surprise they are considered the favorites to win their brackets, and are the top four favorites to win it all on April 7 in San Antonio.
The North Carolina Tar Heels, the East No. 1 seed and No. 1 overall, take on No. 4 Washington State Cougars at 8 pm ET Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Tar Heels blew out their opponents in the first two rounds and are -150 moneyline favorites to win the East, and +275 to win the NCAA Championship.
