I guess the better question here would have to be, which team will you be putting all your money on?

Because Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Florida is ON this Sunday when the two remaining teams in the National Football League, that’s the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals, play for arguably the biggest prize in all of sports.

Dubbed as Super Bowl Sunday, plenty of sports pundits and gamblers have started making their picks for the big game and it’s understandable that many are picking the Pittsburgh Steelers to win it all.

The Steelers started this season’s Super Bowl betting activities listed as -6.5 favorites, God knows how much will this team be favored to beat the Arizona Cardinals come game time.

How come majority of the male population favor Pittsburgh? Easy. The Steelers have been in the playoffs six times this decade, and won Super Bowl XL four years ago with Ben Roethlisberger coming off from an impressive rookie year then. The Steelers ended this year’s regular season campaign with an impressive 12-4 record, while the Cardinals limped into…

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Because we all know ya’ll are just drooling to waste all your life savings on one big football game this Sunday.

The circus we know as Super Bowl week is slowly winding down. Tuesday was Media Day, always good for a few laughs, but things have been pretty quiet since the Steelers and the Cardinals arrived for Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Florida.

Even on the betting side, things have been relatively at peace. The line, which opened at most places at -6.5, quickly moved to -7 as early bets came in for the Pittsburgh Steelers and it has stayed there ever since. Looking around at both online books and Vegas everyone is holding steady at -7.

The Total opened at 47.5 and saw some ”Under” money push it down to 47 where it has settled in as well. So we have -7, 47 as the lines for the game. Two very key numbers that books will be highly reluctant to move away from (in fact, they won’t, you won’t see any movement on the point spread before kick-off or the Over/Under, although you might see the juice adjusted as we get closer to game time).

Moneyline bettors, and there are always a healthy number for Super Bowl, are looking at the Pittsburgh Steelers at -245 and the Arizona Cardinals at +205. Talking with SportsBetting.com, they are seeing very balanced action on the moneyline heading into the big game.

If you listen to ESPN radio, the Steelers are almost…

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Expect online sportsbooks to milk on this statistical face-off before this Sunday’s big game.

Yes, Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Florida is merely a few days away and online sportsbooks have begun milking on every possibly angle their customers are more than willing to bet on.

One of which is the wideout position. Both the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals have two amazing wide receivers who can dictate the tempo of the game. It is a known fact that wide receivers are the home run hitters of a football team and online sportsbooks like SportsBetting.com has posted odds on how good will these guys do this Sunday in Tampa.

So who are these receivers? We have Hines Ward and Santonio Holmes for the Pittsburgh Steelers while the Arizona Cardinals have the combination of Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin. How good will each guy be come Sunday? Read on.

First we have Hines Ward of Pittsburgh. He had one of his better seasons of his career, leading the team with 81 catches for 1,043 yards and seven TDs. The last time he had that much was at the end of the 2004 season, when he hauled in 1,000. Ward was the MVP of Super Bowl XL, when he had five catches for 123 yards and…

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This is just one of the stuff you can bet on prior to Super Bowl Sunday.

It’s finally here, Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Florida, and sports bettors all around the world are clamoring right now for some more clues on which team to put their money on before the Steelers and the Cardinals celebrate the 43rd anniversary of this American spectacle.

And while some of you wonder if your favorite player can take home the Super Bowl XLIII MVP trophy, some still are contemplating on stuff like coin tosses, how long will the national anthem be or how good will Kurt Warner be compared to Ben Roethlisberger.

Let’s start with probably the most basic betting prop, that one about what will the first score of the game be. The odds for the first score (touchdown or field goal) on this year’s Super Bowl are extremely off-base. One would expect the two sides to be relatively close but the touchdown is favored by a huge margin at -180. If one chooses a field goal, he would lay $100 to win $150.

Given the fact that a field goal has been the game’s first score in six of the last 10 contests, one would have expected the odds to be reversed. Additionally, since Arizona Cardinals kicker Neil Rackers and Jeff Reed of the Pittsburgh Steelers combined to hit 16-of-20 field goals this…

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Player behavior. Wow, now that’s new.

As you all know by now, (unless you could care less about sports…) Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Florida is coming and online sportsbook from every corner of the hemisphere is ready for it. Yes, that means they’re just salivating for your hard earned cash.

The Arizona Cardinals are entering American football’s biggest stage for the first time in the history of their franchise. The Cardinals were once dubbed as the second worst franchise in sports, next only to the Chicago Cubs. But since the Cardinals have already broken their curse, so to speak, the Cubs are now the only franchise to hold that distinction.

The Pittsburgh Steelers, on the other hand, are going for their second Super Bowl title in four years. The last time these guys got to the Super Bowl, it was Super Bowl XL when, with Bill Cowher in the sidelines, Pittsburgh beat the Seattle Seahawks to win the Super Bowl.

What’s interesting here is, other than Cowher, almost the entire coaching staff of the Steelers then now reside in Arizona, coaching the Cardinals this year all the way to Super Bowl XLIII. This year’s version of the Steelers will be seeing familiar faces from the Cardinals sidelines and it should be interesting to see how each performs.

And aside from these very interesting storylines…

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Who would bet on useless shit like this?!?

Apparently, guys from SportsBetting.com wants you to and since Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Florida this Sunday is basically the biggest event of the freaking year in the freaking universe, betting on useless shit like the fucking coin toss is only one of the weird shit you can bet on for Super Bowl Sunday.

And as far as coin tosses are concerned, believe it or not, the team representing the NFC conference, for some reason, has won the last 11 flips. In this case, betting on the Arizona Cardinals to win the coin flip this Sunday SHOULD BE a solid bet.

Additionally, in the history of the Super Bowl, the NFC has won the coin toss 28 times compared to the fourteen other times the AFC team has won it. Unfortunately for the NFC, the team winning the toss has lost the Super Bowl four of the last five years, and 9 of the last 12. And since the AFC champions, Pittsburgh Steelers, are already listed as -7 favorites to win this Sunday, history is on the same page with the bookies on this one.

As to the question on what face of the coin will more likely come up…

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Isn’t that nice.

The United Sates is currently suffering from a recent Salmonella outbreak that already sickened 388 people in 42 states, 18 percent of them were already sent to the hospital.

And in the middle of this problem, BetUS.com is aiming to give the public an idea on what vegetables and basically what kinds of food are most safe to consume and what are those that will likely haul their asses pinned on a hospital bed faster than a bullet pass delivered by Donovan McNabb down field.

How will BetUS.com accomplish that? Easy. Since they are an online sportsbook, BetUS.com believes that they are helping the public on what to avoid by posting odds on which kinds of food are most likely salmonella suspects.

BetUS.com spokesman Reed Richards even has a statement released just for the cause. Imagine that.

”When it comes to what we put in our bodies,” BetUS.com spokesman Reed Richards said. ”We shouldn’t have to wait for an outbreak of salmonella to tell us which foods are safe. That’s why we’re providing the public with answers regarding potentially harmful foods.”

And by ”answers” he means odds for you to bet on. Of course, these guys know too that you could care less about this outbreak as long as you win a lot of dough from all of this.

As of press time, BetUS.com has these odds regarding the…

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Just because we all know that it’ll just be all about Maria Sharapova once again.

Yep, the grand slam season of tennis starts with the 2008 Australian Open tennis tournament. And just because it’s only the biggest tournament to date this 2008, we can’t help but to anticipate Sharapova’s skirt to fly open on the tennis courts once it’s time to play ball.

And in case you were wondering, yes, the hot and sexy Maria Sharapova will be playing in the 2008 Australian Open at Melbourne starting January 14 – 27.

And if the sexy screaming Russian siren’s first practice session for the tournament at Melbourne Park was to tell us anything, it would have to be the fact that we might see more of Sharapova’s itsy bitsy skirts longer. (Don’t worry, ‘LONGER’ has nothing to do with the length of her lower apparel…)

Maria Sharapova seems determined to play all the way to the final match in Melbourne. In her first practice session for the Australian Open, Sharapova was keen on improving her trademark powerful serve and her return.

Sharapova was chatty as she prepared for next week’s…

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Heeere we go again… Another chapter in the life of that duck-eating phenomenon known as Manny Pacquiao.

For all ya’ll who didn’t now, or just blinded by the shit-load of stuff we get from the 2007-08 NFL football season every single week, Marco Antonio Barrera and Manny Pacquiao will resume their rivalry that started way back in 2003.

On October 6, round 2 of this Barrera – Pacquiao saga will be fought for the super featherweight championship of the world. (Forgive us, we’re STILL trying to hype you up for this one…)

It was in 2003 when Manny Pacquiao probably got lucky (I just know somebody will contest that already…) and won the featherweight title from Marco Antonio Barrera.

It was at that instant when everybody, that includes yours truly, started getting bombarded by all these silly stuff about how Manny Pacquiao is the ”best pound for pound fighter in the world” or why he is the most exciting fighter in boxing today.

Puh-lease… I know Manny Pacquiao won a few title fights already but…

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Oh wait… THAT was not the case when a Duke lacrosse team started their season.

When the Duke Blue Devils opened their 2006 lacrosse season against Butler, only 425 people came out to support the team. When they went up against Dartmouth, fans were lining up to enter Koskinen Stadium. Go figure.

Yep, a lot of people sure wanted to see the Duke lacrosse team that game alright. And mind you, that was still more than two hours before Duke and Dartmouth took the field. When the gates opened, the 425 people Duke got for the 2006 season opener easily became 6,485. Just a few hundred short of Duke’s home record.

What happened? Why the interest for this team all of a sudden? Oh yeah, these guys were banned for 10 months before making their debut this season. Figures. The buzz surrounding the game was closer to a North Carolina-Duke basketball rivalry game than a season opener for the sixth-ranked Blue Devils, who easily dismissed unranked Dartmouth, 17-11.

Duke lacrosse head coach John Danowski, in his first game on the Blue Devils sideline, was not the only one making a debut appearance during that game. For the first time at a Duke lacrosse game, the pep band was there to entertain the crowd.

The Duke bookstore was…

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