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Detroit Tigers @ New York Yankees ALDS Game 1 9/30/2011 5:07 pm EST Line: Yankees -130 Total: 7     The Detroit Tigers travel into New York to face the Yankees in Game 1 of the ALDS today. Both teams are sending out their aces with Detroit going with Justin Verlander and his 24-5 record and 2.40 ERA on the season and a lock for the AL Cy Young Award and probably the AL MVP. Even better, Verlander is 2-0 with a 2.05 ERA in his last 3 starts of the season and is absolutely shutting people down. The Yanks send out CC Sabathia is no slouch with his 19-8 record and 3.00 ERA on the season. I got to think that Verlander has the pitching edge over Sabathia and the Yankees tonight especially since the Tigers hit better against left handed pitching, like CC. The Tigers average 4.9 runs per game but even more against lefties, they average 5.3 runs per game! If the Yankees want to protect home field advantage and win game 1 today in the Bronx, then CC is going to have to shut down the Tigers lineup that has been hitting lefty pitching well all year and also somehow solve the puzzle that  is Justin Verlander for the first time all year. If the Tigers want to win this game they are going to have to beat a Yankees team that is 52-29 at home on the season. The Tigers were pretty good on the road with a 46-36 record and they will have to continue that as well as hitting the left handed pitching in CC Sabathia like they did all season long. The fact that Justin Verlander is plus money... 

South Florida @ Pittsburgh 9/29/2011 8:00pm EST Line: USF -2.5 Total: 52         The 4-0 South Florida Bulls are traveling to the 2-2 Pittsburgh Panthers tonight in a Big East battle. The Bulls’ most impressive win was opening night in South Bend when they beat Notre Dame 23-20 and turned the Irish over 5 times. Pitt also just played the Irish, last week and they turned ND over 2 times but in a losing effort, 15-12. I know it goes a lot more than that but I think this shows that against a similar opponent that these teams are pretty equal and both defenses should be able to succeed tonight. USF quarterback, BJ Daniels, is off to a hell of a start for the Bulls with a 4-0 record and averaging close to 300 yards through the air. Just as impressive is the Bulls running game which is averaging almost 200 yards a game. That is all good on paper, but other than Notre Dame, USF hasn’t played competition and against the Irish they only had 126 yards rushing and 128 passing. I compare Pitt’s defense a lot more to ND than any other defense that South Florida has played, so I think you can expect more numbers like that tonight. Some analysts argue that the best part of the USF team is in fact their defense. I think that they will get after Pitt’s QB Sunseri tonight and make Pitt play a 1 dimensional game. If Pitt can run the football successfully then it might be a long night for the Bulls at Heinz Field. Graham is a very good running back for... 

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Tampa Bay Rays @ New York Yankees 9/20/2011 7:10pm EST Line: Yankees -163 Total: 9       The Tampa Bay Rays are trying to do the unthinkable and finish one of the best comebacks in MLB history and beat out either the Red Sox or Yankees for an AL playoff spot. The Rays are only 2 games behind the Boston Red Sox for the AL Wild Card spot after an awful month of baseball by the Sox and a great month by the Rays, including Tampa taking 3 out of 4 in Boston just last weekend. However, if the Rays want to finish this comeback they are going to have to go into New York and win this series as well which I don’t think will be as easy. Ivan Nova goes for the Yankees with his very impressive 15-4 record on the season and 7-2 home record. The good news for the Rays is that Nova tends to allow more runs at Yankees Stadium with an ERA of 4.42 at home, compared to his 3.76 ERA on the season. The Rays also score more runs on the road oddly enough, averaging 4.9 runs per game on the road. I like the Rays to get some runs off Nova and the Yankees tonight on the road but if they want to win this game it will have to come down to pitching and defense. Wade Davis goes for the Rays against a Yankees lineup that averages 5.8 runs per game at home on the year! Davis has been shaky on the road on the season going 5-5 with a 5.40 ERA away from Tampa so far but is pitching much better in his last 3 overall starts with a 2-1 record and 3.68 ERA including a complete game win against the...