2010

When the New York Yankees have a $200 million payroll, they are accused of buying the World Series even though the Florida Marlins have won it all twice on a fraction of that money. When the Chicago Cubs or the New York Mets have a $140 million payroll and can't even make the playoffs, people...

After winning their first World Cup two years after winning the 2008 European Championship, it was no surprise to see that Spain usurped Brazil to take the #1 spot in the latest FIFA World Rankings which were released Wednesday. Brazil were the previous holders of the top spot and they fall to...

It was three months ago that Sepp Blatter, President of FIFA, shelved two years of research into the use of video replays in football for the foreseeable future. It was three days ago that Jerome Valcke, General Secretary of FIFA, confirmed this stance after commenting that the use of any...

Irrelevant of whether the fix is on in the Mexico/Uruguay match, the fact is that any draw between the two teams will see of them both progress to the next round. And in the big scheme of things a draw between two relatively equally matched teams in the World Cup Finals is nothing at all out of...

The Group A match last Thursday pitted the 1998 World Cup winners and 2006 runners up France against Mexico where France, after a first game draw against Uruguay, needed at least to avoid defeat to leave the passage to the next round purely in their own hands. However, Mexico proved formidable...

Now the Spring Training games are underway and the rosters, as well as the PECOTA predictions, are a lot firmer than a month ago, its time to look at the remainder of the Pinnacle MLB season long props; these being for team wins/losses. First is the team wins prop where the O/U is set at...

In part 3 of our look at Pinnacle's 2010 MLB props we get to the first section of the pitcher props; the wins and the losses. Looking back over the last 10 seasons, the current line for wins (O/U 20.5) has cashed 7 times and the line for losses (O/U 17.5) has cashed 8 times - however neither of...