Our 15 UNIT Mac Game Of The Year Goes Saturday 9/27. The Mid-Amercian Conference is a conference we specialize in for both Football and Basketball. We know the inside dirt on these 2 schools and this contest will not be close. It will be up and ready for purchase by Friday so our players can get in before the line changes. This one will cash folks, plain and simple. If you have been on the fence about a long term package purchase, NOW IS THE TIME. This game pays for your year and then some!!

Make sure when visiting our site you click on our trends/stats menu and you will be taken to our paid statfox.com feed. It’s chock full of information for the bettor to use in the extreme cases you don’t want our expert advice (ha ha). We still use the site to fact check our own handicapping and compare it with our other time tested trend system we put in place years ago. It is a great compliment to our site, (and not free for us) so please use it. We want you to have every advantage possible to beat your book!

I often wonder how much the practice of buying a handicappers package to fade really goes on. I mean, there are no hard numbers to verify that is goes on, but I know it does occur. And by fade, I mean to bet the opposite of what the service says to play. Now, lets set the record straight when it comes to this form of gambling. A handicappers job is not just to throw a dart at a dartboard and where it lands, that is the play. Far from it for most of us. The work that goes into it may be more for some than others, but from my standpoint it is a 14 hour a day job, that runs 7 days a week. ATS LOCKS is not a corporate mega-giant with huge ad budgets and unlimited resources to drive customer signups. We need to make sure we are right more often than not and deliver a good product (advice) to our existing clients as well as being able to find new customers. So we take this job seriously and when we see, hear or read that this service or that service is a “fade” we take it to heart and want to work even harder. I don’t think the average person has any idea how difficult it can be to pick 4-6 games a Saturday and Sunday during football season. And real soon there will be 6 days a week of football and basketball is right around the corner. Which means a 14 hour day just became 18. So fading a service may seem like the way to go when they are cold, but what about when they win? Do you jump off and bet with them? I don’t know how the average person can keep track of who to fade and bet and still have a normal life, job, wife, kids etc. Most of the forums or message boards I visit beg and clamor for every handicapper under the sun and don’t stop the begging until they get their picks. It is very strange for me to read posts by grown men begging for a million star pick and wondering if they are playing it or fading it. I guess, because I am the ever optimist I have to believe they are playing it. But you sure do have to wonder….

This is the play our players wait for!! We only released 7 of these plays all of last year in both Football and Basketball and won 6 of them. Don’t be left out as this one will cash. Join ATS today and start building your bankroll today!!

When we are not handicapping every NFL/CFB game, we do have to eat. This is one of the best recipes we have found for shrimp. Try it for your buddies during your favorite teams game this weekend. And remember to check ats locks for free picks, sports handicapping trends and NFL GAME PICKS at the first chance you get.

Easy-made skillet-fried shrimp
From the Kitchen of the 225 Club

Shrimp is one of our all-time favorite foods. It’s incredibly easy to whip together and tastes great no matter how you cook it – whether steamed, boiled or fried; or whether mixed in with tacos, omelets, jambalaya, gumbo, soups, rice or risottos.

This is a very easy and satisfying shrimp recipe that even you – yes, you, there at the computer – can make without f*cking up. Your friends will be quite impressed with your budding culinary skills. Serves two.
½ pound of EZ-peel extra large or jumbo shrimp (plumped if possible), shells are personal choice. We like to remove them first
1 lemon, quartered
4 to 5 cloves of garlic, crushed or minced finely
A hunk of butter, about 2 Tablespoons (or butter mixed half and half with olive oil)
½ teaspoon kosher salt
½ teaspoon fresh-ground black pepper
Optional: ½ to 1 teaspoon Old Bay or generic seafood spice blend (Emeril’s, Paul Prudhomme’s, etc.)
Melt butter in cast-iron skillet over medium heat (if it’s too high, the butter will burn). Add garlic, sauté for about 2 or 3 minutes. Add the shrimp, salt, pepper and optional spices. Squirt with a quarter of a lemon. Stir regularly until shrimp is cooked through, about 4 minutes. Remove skillet from heat, squirt shrimp with some more lemon and eat right from the skillet.

This dish takes literally 15 minutes to whip together, from start to finish, making it a great tailgate treat. However, once cooked, the shrimp will last for a few days in the refrigerator and they taste just fine cold. So don’t be afraid to make these ahead of time and serve chilled on gameday.

Sorry folks, we got so busy with handicapping Monday’s contest (we won 10 units with philly +6.5) that we forgot to post our weekend results. As you can see we did have a great SAT/SUN/MON as we picked up 40 units for our clients. FREE PICKS also were 2-0 so overall it was a great weekend. We are back to it and will have our 1st 20 UNIT PLAY OF THE YEAR on Saturday, 9/20. We are ready to cash this winner. As our past clients know we released only (7) 20 units plays last year and went 6-1 with them. It’s a great time to pad your bankroll this weekend and to those of you on the fence, come on over to the winning side.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL!

We are sitting here, like we were last night, trying to figure out the move Browns coach Romeo Crennel made last night. His team was down 10-3 with 3:21 left in the 4th and had 4th and 7 at the Steelers 21. Pittsburgh’s defense was tired and had given the Browns big 3rd down plays the entire drive. It was in our opinion the best drive the Browns had the whole game. So what does the genius coach do? He kicks a 38 yard field goal to go down 4, STILL needing a td to win. Did we mention he also had 3 timeouts left? Has to make the booing browns contigent cringe knowing this guy got an extension last season after the 10-6 year he had. The Browns are now 0-2 with only 6 more home games left and are slowly watching the season get away from them. To bad for everyone’s chic pick to win the AFC NORTH this year.

College Football Betting Preview
North Carolina at Rutgers
Thursday, 7:30 pm Eastern – ESPN

Opening Line: Rutgers - 4.5, Total 44.5

Two teams looking for the national spotlight hook up on Thursday night as Rutgers hosts North Carolina. The Tar Heels are looking for a rebirth under head coach Butch Davis while Rutgers wants to stay on the national stage with head coach Greg Schiano. Davis and Schiano are good friends as Schiano was the defensive coordinator under Davis at Miami. The game is being played on September 11th in New York so there will be a moment of silence before the game.
Early NCAA Football betting has the public taking Rutgers at Home.

The Scarlet Knights come into the game off a loss so this could be considered a must-win game although head coach Schiano does not believe that is the case. “It’s not a must win for Rutgers, I don’t know if it is for North Carolina or not. To me, there is no such thing as a ‘must-win.’ We just go out and play the best we can, and if it’s good enough to beat the team we’re playing, then it is, and if it isn’t, then we have to go back to work. The world does not come to an end if we lose it and it doesn’t get better if we win.” North Carolina believes the game is huge for their program though. “Thursday night games are for established programs and programs on the rise,” said senior safety Trimane Goddard.

Here are the NCAA Football betting stats for Thursday’s game. The Tar Heels are 2-5 ATS vs. a team with a losing record. The Tar Heels are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games in September. The Tar Heels are 0-5 ATS in their last 5 vs. the Big East.

The Scarlet Knights are 10-2-1 ATS in their last 13 non-conference games. The Scarlet Knights are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 Thursday games. The Scarlet Knights are 8-3 ATS vs. a team with a winning record. The Scarlet Knights are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games overall. The Scarlet Knights are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 home games. The Scarlet Knights are 0-5 ATS in their last 5 games on grass. Rutgers leads the all-time series 3-0 against North Carolina with the last meeting being in 2006 when they won by a score of 21-16.

The Over is 5-2 in the Tar Heels last 7 vs. the Big East. The Over is 15-7-1 in the Tar Heels last 23 road games. The Over is 5-1 in the Scarlet Knights last 6 Thursday games.

A day does not go by that we don’t read the site www.profootballtalk.com. We have been avid readers, fans and even donators since Florio and the guys went live. The rumor mill is a must read and it’s the first web page we open every morning. They always out-do themselves with their tongue is cheek humor, along with the (mostly) accurate information. If you are in the dark about what we are talking about, visit them at www.profootballtalk. com and see for yourself. We have tried, to no avail to buy ad space on the site but their ties to Sprint (who we all have here) along with the NFL contacts they have nurtured make it tough because of the nature of our business. When we have contacted them, they have always been gracious in the responses when turning us down. We appreciate that. Lets hope the guys at PFT continue for many more years to come.

Sports gambling is a funny business. One day you sit at the top of the mountain, the king of your castle, lord of the manor, (homage to Seinfeld fans and Pro Football Talk) the next day you can be lower than a snails belly. It can be a humbling endeavor, you feel unbeatable after a 12-2 hot streak, friends are abundant and life is good. How it can turn so quick. One cold streak occurs and the people that were burning your phone up are no longer taking YOUR calls. The “friends” you made when you were hot are now complete strangers. This hasn’t happened yet this season, (we are only 10 days in) but all of us who have chosen this profession know exactly what I’m talking about.

One of the more interesting aspects of this career is explaining to the layman what it is exactly that I do. I personally, get more quizzical looks when I start my spiel about my chosen profession. People look at me with that look I gave my old teachers who tried to explain simple math to me when I was a kid. Then, the next line out of their mouth is always, “oh you gamble for a living”. At first I was taken aback by that comment and tried to come back with, no not exactly, but I have since given up. Not everyone will understand why I choose to scour every bit of info, statistic, trend or rumor to give us an edge on vegas and deliver winners to our clients. But when we pick winners, and we do, all is well again. The email inbox is full, voicemail is jammed and we all sleep well. At least until the next cold streak happens.