golden tulsa

Las Vegas - Nothing like a little rest to prepare for the old triple option. Tulsa hosts Navy and the Golden Hurricane KNOW how to keep the Midshipmen from getting off the dock. They did it last year in a 19-6 win at Annapolis. Looked at the box score from that game and the Navy had 53 rushes for 126 yards. The calculator tells me that is 2.37 yards per run. Yea, TWO POINT THREE SEVEN. That AIN'T gonna get it. If you're looking for a solid ground game, the Hurricane have two kids who can rumble. Shamari Brooks (145) and Deneric Prince (110) combined for 255 yards in the last game, and should have no problem shredding the Middies defense. And when you take a peek at Tulsa's 3-4 record, you're probably thinking, what the ECK! Well, there is no shame is losing to Ohio State, Oklahoma State and Houston.
Before I let you go, lemme throw this on the table. The Golden Hurricane have covered 10 of the last 13 coming off a bye week, and 77% is a number that my bank account loves!

On to the World Series, and it looks like Atlanta's Ian Anderson will fight Houston's Luis Garcia in game three. Anderson has been pretty sharp in the postseason the last two years with three wins and ZERO losses. There were four games where Ian did not figure in the decision, with the Braves winning three of those. So, since you know that I'm a math wiz, that's six wins for Atlanta in Anderson's last seven playoff outings (86%). Garcia has been a strange dude in the playoffs. He looked like me back in high school in his first two outings, getting rocked for 7 hits and TEN earned runs in just 3.2 innings of work. Then he bounced back in his last start against the Red Sox, and looked kinda like Bob Gibson, allowing only 1 hit and throwing only bagels on the board thru 5.2 innings. The obvious question is, which Luis do we see? Not sure, but he WILL have to pick up a bat. National League park, National League rules, so, NO DH! That's a bigger problem for Houston because they'll have to keep one of the big sticks out of the lineup. The Astros were brilliant at home this season with a 51-30 record, 5-2 postseason, but just a bit above average on the road at 44-37, and just okay in the playoffs at 3-3. Atlanta was not that strong at home during the season with a 42-38 mark, but it's a TOTALLY different story in the playoffs. And the title of that story is PERFECTION! Yup, a FIVE & OH run so far in the ATL with two wins against the Brewers and three against the Dodgers. Gotta have Atlanta for the money and a 2-1 series lead!

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