Guaranteed Sports Picks from Handicapping Expert Brian Hansen

Baseball Scheduling Dynamics
Professional basketball plays 82-regular season games. Pro football plays a 16 game season with almost a week to rest and recuperate between games. Sometimes two weeks with byes during the regular season and the first round of the postseason for the top 4 teams. Baseball is a far longer grind, 162 games, playing pretty much every day. That creates a different set of scheduling dynamics for handicappers to keep careful track of. 6-10 game road trips lasting a week or two are... (read more)

NBA: A Big Gamble On The Big Aristotle
Shaquille O'Neal boarded a flight to Phoenix on Wednesday morning to meet with team officials to complete his trade to the Suns for Shawn Marion. O'Neal was informed of the pending trade Tuesday night, and after some initial shock, he prepared to move on to complete his Hall of Fame career with the Suns, two of his associates said Wednesday morning. First reported by The Miami Herald on Tuesday afternoon, the deal to send O'Neal to the Suns for Marion and guard Marcus Banks was ... (read more)

AL MVP Candidates
In this article I intend to update some of the players that look like possible American League MVP contenders through the end of July. In no particular order, here are four players you should keep your eyes on. A-Rod is clearly the frontrunner for AL MVP this year with 35 homers, 102 runs batted in and a .307 batting average. As of writing this, Rodriguez is sitting on 499 career home runs. On his next home run, he will reach a milestone that should be an automatic inclusion into the ... (read more)