Network College Best Bets Sweep 3-0 Saturday!
East Carolina (+9) over West Virginia 24-3
Mississippi (+7.5) vs. Wake Forest 28-30
Temple (+6.5) vs. Connecticut 9-12

OUR NFL WEEK 1 PREVIEWS CHECKS IN WITH THE "HEAVY HITTERS" AS PATRIOTS, COWBOYS, CHARGERS AND COLTS ALL SHARE THE SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT

PLUS WE OFFER UP SOME QUICK HITTERS ON THREE OTHER NFL KEY TILTS

By Jim Hurley:

As they like to say in some other sport, the leader is already in the clubhouse.
    
In an NFL '08 season where - give or take - there are about five or six teams generally mentioned as the "favorites" to get to and win Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, the defending champs sport a 1-and-oh mark even before we get to this first Sunday in the season.
    
Now, let's see if the other proverbial heavy hitters can keep pace:
    
The New England Patriots, Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers and Indianapolis Colts are the most-often mentioned teams to win this year's Vince Lombardi Trophy and so we'll go in-depth with their Jim Sez NFL Week 1 Previews here plus we'll also offer up quickie comments on some other Week 1 affairs.
    
We'll do all that in just a moment but first this important reminder:
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HANDICAPPING NOTEBOOK

EAST CAROLINA PULLS OFF SECOND STUNNER IN A ROW

It's a bit too early to say if it's because East Carolina is better than everyone thought, or that Virginia Tech and West Virginia are just a lot worse than everyone thought. But for now...Skip Holtz and company are on top of the world in college football.

We've talked often in the past about what a fast starter East Carolina is. They've been money in the bank in early season action all through the Holtz era. This year, they caught a couple of big name teams who probably didn't deserve their reputations.

*Virginia Tech is running an offense out of the 1950's and doesn't have a quarterback they can trust. Teams are ...

Jim Hurley Racing Network
Under The Shedrow
(Volume X - Number 48)
Wednesday, September 3, 2008

BELMONT PARK OPENED FRIDAY...FIRST OF 38 DAYS OF RACING...PLUS FINAL HORSES TO WATCH FROM SARATOGA AND DEL MAR AND MONEY MANAGEMENT HINTS FOR A WINNING MEET.

Another Saratoga meet has finished and today Del Mar will run the final day of their 2008 meet. For all the successes, failures and perplexities that are a part of the summary every year there is one observation that remains universal. What's done is done...and it is time to move on to the next phase. In New York that next phase begins on Friday (9/5) with the first of 38 days of racing at Belmont Park. Southern California race fans will have to shift their calculations to Fairplex Park for the immediate future. That meet runs from 9/5 until 9/22 with 16 days of racing (Tuesday is the dark day.) But on ...