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The Los Angeles Lakers (14-11) will take on the Boston Celtics (14-10) Thursday night inside the TD Garden and will look to snap a two-game losing streak.Oddsmakers have established the Lakers as three-point road underdogs and the total has settled in at 177.5.Lakers star Kobe Bryant scored a game-high 28 points in the team's latest defeat, dropping a 95-90 contest to the Philadelphia 76ers as 4.5-point road underdogs.Bryant managed to pass former teammate Shaquille O'Neal for fifth on the NBA's all-time scoring list with the effort, as he continues to lead the league in averaging with 29.3 points per game.Los ...

The Dallas Mavericks (14-11) and Denver Nuggets (15-10) will meet up for the second time during the 2011-12 NBA season Wednesday night inside the Pepsi Center.Las Vegas oddsmakers established the Nuggets as 1.5-point home favorites, but that number has dropped as far as a pick' em due to forward Danilo Gallinari being out indefinitely due to an ankle injury.Denver has lost five of six games that includes a 99-90 home defeat to the Houston Rockets as 6.5-point favorites, losing Gallinari in the third quarter.Surprisingly enough, the Nuggets are just 7-5 at home this season, which includes a disappointing 3-5 mark ...

The Duke Blue Devils (19-4) and North Carolina Tar Heels (20-3) will meet up for the first time on Wednesday night in their Atlantic Coast Conference series inside the Dean Smith Center.Oddsmakers opened up the Tar Heels as seven-point home favorites, but early action has landed squarely on the underdog Blue Devils, causing the betting odds to drop by a full point in most spots.Let's take a closer look at one of college basketball's biggest rivalries from a betting perspective.Begin Slideshow

Ever since Tebowing took the world by storm a couple months ago, people have been trying to match its amazing success by creating new fads based on other athletes' mannerisms. The newest one, Bradying, is another major failure. Bradying emerged based on a picture of Tom Brady sitting on the field with his hands interlocked during the Super Bowl. Of course, once the first photo went up everybody wanted to play copycat and it went viral in a matter of hours.Sadly, it comes nowhere close to Tebowing in terms of staying power. That phenomenon truly took on a life of ...

The FA Cup truly is a wonderful competition, purely for the fact that it allows teams to compete—no matter how excellent, average or downright terrible their regular season tournaments may be going.And for both Sunderland and Middlesbrough, the FA Cup might just be the perfect opportunity to turn an otherwise frustrating season in to success.So, with everything on the line, and both sides definitely confident at taking them home with them, this one could prove to be an interesting matchup. Whether you're a diehard supporter or just a casual observer, here are five hot-to-trot money-making tips ...

Pro Wrestling (in particular WWE) and social stigmas are both extremely controversial social entities. Thus whenever these two have collided, the collusion has always ruffled a few feathers. The portrayal of social stigmas in WWE and other wrestling promotions has been a big bone of contention for decades. As we all are aware of, social stigmas are extremely sensitive issues. Social stigma is defined in different ways by the thesaurus. Social stigma refers either to denounce a certain individual trait, or to label people with distinct identities based on their particular psychological, physical or behavioral peculiarities.  Social stigma is also ...

Seriously, there's a limit to how far we all should go just to talk about awesome fights, so let's cut the "war" talk out already.We easily have the ability to tell others to not be surprised if one of two men involved in a fight cuts the other open, just as we all have the ability to say a fight will be a back-and-forth affair or that a fight might be a barn-burner, or even that a fight will be something from out of a video game and a bout that ranks among the the most legendary bouts in the ...

Arsenal continue to live in the shadow of Manchester United.A recent survey of sport clubs' Facebook pages has Manchester United way ahead of Arsenal in terms of users.In my "Messi" article, I wrote the following:  In the last year, United broke the £100 million ceiling in commercial revenue at £103.4 million. In the same period, Arsenal commercial revenue was £46.3 million. This illustrates immediately why Arsenal can't compete with Manchester United in the transfer market. A quick survey shows that the other top clubs in Europe, Madrid and Barcelona all outstrip Arsenal in commercial revenue. I then noted in that article that the next challenge ...

Denver television station KDVR-FOX31 is reporting that former UGA star and current Denver Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno has been arrested for driving drunk.According to Denver Police, Moreno was pulled over on Feb. 1 in a Bentley convertible on I-25 doing 70 miles per hour through a designated construction area.  With an initial speeding stop, going 25 miles per hour over the temporary speed limit, the tailback was eventually arrested after failing a field sobriety test.The arresting officer stated that he smelled alcohol on the suspect's breath, which initiated the DUI investigation that led to the arrest.  The officers stated that Moreno was “very ...

The Green Bay Packers missed out on the opportunity of winning back-to-back Super Bowls, getting knocked out by the eventual champion New York Giants in the Divisional Round of the NFC playoffs.Bovada sports book is still a believer in 2011 NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers, establishing the Packers as preseason favorites to lift the Lombardi Trophy in New Orleans on Feb. 3, 2013.There's never a day off in the sports betting world, as the 2011-2012 NFL season ended less than 24 hours ago with the Giants handing the New England Patriots a 21-17 defeat in Indianapolis.Let's take a closer look at ...