#Aunt Mabel

Thanks for continuing to follow me even through the rough weeks! Merry Christmas to you and yours, and we'll see you again for our last column in 2022 next Wednesday. Good luck! Any comments, questions, gratitude or hate mail is welcome at [email protected]. NOTES: All spreads, money lines and over/under totals (as of late Tuesday night) are…

Each day, one of our experts at bet.NOLA.com will offer up a best bet (or two or three) that mobile sportsbooks in Louisiana are offering. It might be a traditional spread bet, a player prop or one of the various odds boosts that books offer. A reminder for those who haven't signed up yet: Caesars is offering a deal through bet.NOLA.com in which…

All good things must come to an end. The bad news first, as for the first time all season we finished sub.500 for the week in our best bets. The good news is that even in a 2-3 week, we won money at+$16 with our two biggest picks coming through, as we hit our teaser for the fifth consecutive week. And as just about any successful handicapper will…

Already through five weeks of NFL play, we have seen things we rarely see through the course of a regular season. We have had the lighting up of Scorigami, the web site who updates us every time there is a score that has never happened before in league history. We have had a game in primetime played without a touchdown being scored (last Thursday…

Four games into the season, and we now have a fair sample size of what teams really are. If a team is ranked 30th in defense heading into the second week of October, they're probably not going to jump into the top half this season. Conversely, if a team has been a surprise on the offensive side of the ball and is ranked significantly higher than…

Each day, one of our experts at bet.NOLA.com will offer up a best bet (or two or three) that mobile sportsbooks in Louisiana are offering. It might be a traditional spread bet, a player prop or one of the various odds boosts that books offer. A reminder for those who haven't signed up yet: New users can get a risk-free bet at Caesars Sportsbook,…

Each day, one of our experts will offer up a best bet (or two or three) that mobile sportsbooks are offering. It might be a traditional spread bet, a player prop or one of the various odds boosts that books offer. Here are our best bets for Sunday, Sept. 25: (All times Central) TOP PLAY The play: NFL, Commanders+6.5 over Eagles The odds/bet: -110…

Remember when you were a kid and you would make a bet with little Billy down the street, and then some kind of weird (stuff) would happen in a game and you could talk him into letting you out of the bet? "You can't make me pay for that miracle! You got let me off the hook! Tell you what, I'll buy you a Snickers. OK? Cool, let's go." Yeah, Caesars…

Each day, one of our experts at bet.NOLA.com will offer up a best bet (or two or three) that mobile sportsbooks in Louisiana are offering. It might be a traditional spread bet, a player prop or one of the various odds boosts that books offer. A reminder for those who haven't signed up yet: New users can get a risk-free bet at Caesars Sportsbook,…

Have you missed Aunt Mabel, Drunk Joe and my antiquated Golden Rules? Well, you're in luck. The NFL picks column is back for a seventh season, and we hope to have as much fun as possible, all the while finishing the season with more money than we started with. With that, if you're one of my five or six regulars (OK, maybe there's a few more than…