These are not Sportspicks "Recommended Picks"
Crick's Picks: 4/14/23
Chicago Bulls +5 vs Miami Heat 7:00 PM EST
Heat/Bulls OVER 208.5 **7:00 PM EST
Minnesota Timberwolves -5 vs OKC Thunder 9:30 PM EST
Timberwolves/Thunder OVER 228.5 9:30 PM EST
Individual Player Props
Note: There are two "J. Williams" that play for Oklahoma City... One is spelled "Jaylin Williams" and the other is "Jalen Williams"..... Make sure when placing your "Individual Prop" bets, that you're picking the player you intended.
Full "Unit Bet" Recommended For These Picks
Jimmy Butler (Heat) UNDER 27.5 Points -125 7:00 PM EST
Bam Adebayo (Heat) UNDER 9.5 Rebounds -110 7:00 PM EST
Demar DeRozan (Bulls) OVER 23.5 Points +100 7:00 PM EST
Zach Lavine (Bulls) 3+ 3-Pointers Made -115 7:00 PM EST
Anthony Edwards (T-Wolves) OVER 27.5 Points +100 9:30 PM EST
Josh Giddey (Thunder) OVER 20.5 Points -110 9:30 PM EST
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Thunder) 2+ Steals -130 9:30 PM EST
Karl-Anthony Towns (T-Wolves) OVER 9.5 Rebounds -115 9:30 PM EST
Jalen Williams (Thunder) 2+ 3-Pointers Made +170 9:30 PM EST
Only 50% (or less) of "Unit Bet" Recommended For These Picks
DeMar DeRozan (Bulls) 35+ "Points + Assists" +320 7:00 PM EST
Jaylin Williams (Thunder) 2+ Steals +290 9:30 PM EST
Anthony Edwards (T-Wolves) 40+ "Points + Assists" +360 9:30 PM EST
Only 25% (or less) Of "Unit Bet" Recommended For These Picks
Nikola Vucevic (Bulls) 1st Points Scorer +475 7:00 PM EST
Josh Giddey (Thunder) 1st Points Scorer +700 9:30 PM EST
I'll have the Full "NBA Playoff Preview" out in the next few hours!!
Good Luck Tonight!!!!
-Crickett
UFC OKC Sherdog prelim picks
https://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/1/Preview-UFC-Oklahoma-City-prelims-201915
World Cup Semi Finals England vs Argentina - My Picks
0.5% Over 2.5 goals at 39c (good to 44c)
0.5% Both teams to score at 52c (good to 56c)
(Optional) 0.5% Game to go to penalties at 19c (good to 22c)
The second semi final will begin shortly between England and Argentina. This will be a fiery semi final as the two countries have a historical football rivalry going back to the 1980s when Diego Maradona scored his infamous "Hand of God" goal before going an mazy run to score one of the all time World Cup goals. It was a tense matchup even back then due to the military conflict between England and Argentina. This conflict may go back to before many fans were born but there is certainly no love lost between these teams when it comes to football.
England made it to the semi final with an athletic, transition based system under Thomas Tuchel. This has been effective against opponents who play more openly, such as Croatia and Mexico while struggling more against opponents who are able to ...
First, four factors dictate whether there is major turnover in the Senate in a midterm election independent of the favorability of the Senate map (due to only one-third of seats being up in any given midterm). Often, as was the case in both 2018 and 2022, is that incumbents are not destined to lose seats, outside of realigning elections in unfavorable maps. This cycle's map favors the GOP, which is why the prediction markets and most forecasters expect a GOP majority in the 2027 Senate. The four factors that prove dangerous to the incumbent party are: first, a recession or cost of living crisis; second, a war; third, a major scandal; and fourth, a sense of betrayal in the voter group that backed the incumbent amongst some portion of their prior electoral coalition. Five midterms feature some combingation of those factors in some significant degree: 1930, 1946, 1958, 1974 and 2006.
Without those factors present in multiple forms, the incumbent party can expect to hold on to seats in states it previously won outside the national margin. When those factors are present, the landscape shifts dramatically. Examining those White House incumbent seats that showed a state-wide election decided by single digits in the prior decade produces the following probabilities: the incumbent White House party lost at least 67% of its incumbent held seats, as much as 85% of its incumbent held seats, and an average of 75% of its incumbent hold seats, rarely upsetting the opposition party in any seat and often losing a surprise or two in seats considered completely safe.