Thursday Night Special?

Hardly. Nebraska and Mizzou are two of the collegiate programs that might as well consider their first 4 games "preseason" facing such formidable opponents as Furman, Bowling Green, Florida Atlantic, and LA-Lafayette. If this game is at Nebraska, it's a no brainer. I'm much higher on Virginia Tech than most. Anyone that can take Virginia Tech down to the last seconds, in Blackburg, has to be taken seriously. Pelini has the Huskers swarming on defense and they are currently ranked 15th in FBS on offense. Team Donk takes that ranking with a grain of salt since three of the Huskers games have been Florida Atlantic (49-3), Arkansas State (38-9), and LA-Lafayette (55-0). Throw in the revenge factor from the beatdown Mizzou gave Nebraska last year (17-54) with the Daniel-Maclin duo and you've got a team foaming at the mouth. -165 is a little high for our liking for the moneyline, so we'll lay 3.5 points. 75% of all ML bets are on the Tigers, which makes me very happy.


Oct 08 09:00 PM EST - Football NCAA - 303 Nebraska Cornhuskers -3½ -110 for Game
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I'm also all over the Rocks this afternoon. Cole Hamels is 0-6 with an E.R.A. of 5.44 this year when starting during day games. He gave us his best spoiled kid impression yesterday complaining that the World Champion Phils aren't getting network respect with the day game starts. Sorry Cole, but Red Sox fans would watch a regular season game if it was on at 3am. Add to that they bring in the west coast audience for a 6:30pm (PST) game, and you get a nice little rating on a Thursday night. You're not one of 4% of MLB players with a college degree are you Cole? The icing on the cake for me you ask? Hamels' wife is 3 days late to give birth to their son. Can you imagine if Hamels has to leave after the 3rd inning because his wife went into labor? I'll take the Rocks, but will pussy out and play the run line.

Baseball - 957 Colorado Rockies +1½ -135 for Game Pitchers: Aaron Cook - R (must start), Cole Hamels - L (must start)
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I'm hoping the Angels win tonight so that the odds are even better to bet against Beckett tomorrow night. I've been looking forward to the Beckett start in Anaheim for probably a month now. El Donk will testify to my giddiness.

- Captain Donk