What has made the 2017 season one of the best in terms of picks against the point spread is not necessarily the adherence to trends that were so blatantly ignored last year, but the storylines that appear on a weekly basis. For each set of games, we can find an accurate, common theme. In Week […]
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The season is on the back 9 and you need help. Well the Men Up North have all the answers for all your questions. The guys also sneak in a little world series updates here and there! Photo Credit: By Kelly Bailey [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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In this week’s episode of the XN Sports Podcast, we bring in special guest, Donny Rodriguez. Donny used to be the Chicago Bulls beat writer for various local sports websites and is currently part of the Chicago Second City comedy group as he brings in a unique perspective on the game of basketball. This week,
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We have one of the largest NFL DFS slates of the past few weeks ahead of us, as there are only two teams on a bye week and the London game is late enough to be included in the main tournaments. Therefore, 14 games give us more-than-enough options to find top plays for our lineups
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As mentioned in our weekly nfl picks against the point spread column, there is a handful of games with extremely large spreads. Whenever this happens, we can usually pinpoint an expected gameflow, as the underdog will likely be trailing for most of the game and need to throw in order to compete, while the favorite
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On this week’s episode of The Men Up North Podcast, the guys talk about possible replacements at quarterback, as Aaron Rodgers, Andrew Luck, and Jameis Winston are plagued with injuries and Deshaun Watson and Matthew Stafford are on bye weeks. We also discuss the list of names that might still be available at running back, wide
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If there is one singular trend that I follow when making NFL picks against the point spread on a weekly basis, it is the collective overreaction to games that went in our favor, but against the general expectations from a previous week. It makes sense. There was a certain level of faith placed in a
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In this episode of The Men Up North Sports Podcast, the guys talk about possible waiver wire help at running back, wide receiver, and tight end as injuries, inconsistent play, and bye weeks have fantasy football owners scrambling for help, especially owners who own Ezekiel Elliott or had owned any New York football teams’ running
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As we have come to learn over recent weeks in our NFL picks against the point spread, there is still a fair amount of ‘reactionary spreads,’ in which the number is chasing a team that it consistently has missed. Of course, as the season progresses, the spreads will balance out. We aim to identify these
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Now one-quarter into the season, we have reached our first scheduled set of bye weeks – of course, Tampa Bay and Miami were forced into a makeshift bye week on Opening Day due to Hurricane Irma – and, as a result, we only have 13 games to assess. Thankfully, there are some fantastic matchups – as
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