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JEFF ALLEN: Random Notes and Thoughts about the Weekend The Masters: In our Masters preview this week, we started with the sentence that longshots “never” win the Masters and then went on to look at what figured to be the “Big Eight”. Ricky Fowler, Lefty and Zach Johnson didn’t make the cut. Adam Scott was… Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: GRIZZ at DALLAS With less than a week left in the NBA regular season, 12 of the 16 playoff spots have already been claimed with three of the remaining four virtual locks. Even the battle between Utah and Houston for the final spot in the West is pretty much a formality… Read More

JEFF ALLEN: MASTERS PREVIEW The first major of the 2016 golf season is upon us and is as wide open as any major in recent memory. With Tiger Woods out of the picture for quite a while now, the next crop of “young guns’ has taken over and in the case of this particular tournament,… Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: VILLANOVA vs. NORTH CAROLINA The college basketball National Championship will be decided in Houston tonight as the Villanova Wildcats (34-5) out of the Big East take on the preseason No.1 North Carolina Tar Heels (33-6) out the ACC. While the teams have no recent history, the teams have met six prior… Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: SYRACUSE vs. NORTH CAROLINA The Syracuse Orangemen (23-13) and the North Carolina Tar Heels (32-6) will throw it up for a third time in 2016 when they meet in the other half of the NCAAB Championship Tournament Semifinals Saturday in Houston. North Carolina (-7.5, 153) won 84-73 at the Carrier Dome… Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: VILLANOVA vs. OKLAHOMA We’re down to the Final Four and the first game of the National Semifinals features a rematch between the tournament’s two remaining No.2 seeds. Villanova (33-5) played it’s worst game of the year in a 78-55 drubbing at the hands of Oklahoma (29-7)  in one of the Dec…. Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: HAWKS at RAPTORS With 8-10 games left in the NBA regular season, pretty much all eight spots in the Eastern Conference playoffs have been determined with Chicago still having a slight chance to run down Indiana or Detroit for the 7-8 hole. That said, there are still important seeding considerations at… Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: TOWSON STATE vs. OAKLAND This is the first year of the Vegas Eight. This is an idea that is supposed to stay but we’ll see. Remember that the teams in this tournament have not played in 15-24 days but based on the assumption that these teams have continued to practice and… Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: SYRACUSE vs. GONZAGA Two teams that were life and death to even get into the Big Dance square off tonight with one advancing on to the weekend’s Elite Eight. The (21-13) Syracuse Orangmen struggled in non-conference play while legendary coach Jim Boeheim served a suspension and then 1-5 down the stretch… Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: VERMONT at NEVADA The CBI has reached it’s semifinals and tonight World Champion Handicapper Jeff Allen examines the late offering as the Vermont Catamounts (23-13) out of the America East Conference visit the Nevada Wolf Pack (21-13) from the Mountain West in Reno. As there is no official seeding in the… Read More