That will surely be an epic fight but to tell you honestly, way back before, I'm really eyeing and considering Terence Crawford has the upper hand against Errol Spence Jr. knowing how deadly he is in his prime.

But as time goes by, the way Terence Crawford struggles with his previous fight against Shawn Porter, there are signs that he's not already on his usual form different from the time when Crawford vs Spence becomes a hype. Shawn Porter was tagged as the most challenging boxer that Crawford has faced up to this point.

Pointing to Spence Jr., we see how he truly dominated Yordenis Ugas in his previous fight. If Crawford will perform the same he did against Shawn Porter, Spence's recent comment about "38-1 is still a good record of Crawford" might come true. Spence Jr. really got my attention to the point that, I'm now considering him as the King of 147 lbs. - don't take it literally guys but I'm open to any arguments.

We should really see this fight being happened.

Batch 15

My picks:

1. Miami Heat
2. Dallas Mavericks +5.5

1. Medyo alangan ako dito dahil worth it din iyong spread for Philadelphia Sixers ah. Kahit pa sabihing wala si Joel Embiid, mayroon tayong tinatawag na adjustment at kung matalo man ang Sixers dito, baka close game. Pero since pinili ko ang Miami Heat, sana ma-cover nila iyong handicap na -7.5.

2. As usual at lagi ko na sinasabi, regardless of the odds at status ng team na ito at ng opponent, naka bet talaga ako sa Mavericks hanggang sa huli.

Grabe iyong scoran natin. Nasa ika-15 rounds na pero low scoring pa rin. Hirap mag-maintain lalo na't ang daming unexpected results.

Like I always say since the beginning, regardless of the odds and team status, I will always side with the Dallas Mavericks.

No analysis was involved as I just follow my own preferences.

If others want to bet on this series without relying on their own preference, you should skip betting on this. The way these 2 teams are playing, reading others' analysis and speculations shouldn't just be your reliable sources.

For me, cruelty on the horses are being subjective. Maybe in some cases but we can't generalize it as " it always happened". How these horses will be fit for horse racing if they will treat badly? There are even owners who treat their horses as part of their family and will do anything just to make them fully healthy and condition on a racing day.

We should not open up a topic here and then tell everyone that they need to stop horse racing. That should be done in an official petition. Don't just look at the negative sides as there are advantages that horse racing brings to people too.

Simple as it is, if you are against it, then don't support it. That's already a big contribution on your part.

For let's say the Milwaukee Bucks will reach the Finals, I honestly think too that no one from the Warriors can stop him. However, the task for the Bucks is how to well defend those Warriors' gunners, especially their lethal 3-pointers. Since the Warriors are unable to defend Giannis, they will focus instead on their offense.

About Khris Middleton, he's ruled out on this 2nd round of the playoffs until the conference finals. That also depends on how long the series will end.

If the Milwaukee Bucks will end up on Game 6 or 7 at both 2nd round and Conference Finals, that would extend Middleton's recovery to be able to play at the Finals. Well, that's only "what if".

Impressive win by the Milwaukee Bucks. I'm with this team to win the series against the Boston Celtics but I thought this Game 1 will be an adjustment game playing without Khris Middleton and the Boston Celtics might take the Game 1 win then eventually Bucks will move forward for more wins.

Another intense match is the Game 1 between Golden State Warriors and Memphis Grizzlies. Didn't able to watch the game because it was too early here but I will definitely watch the replay later of what on the world happened that the score is very close. Clearly a competitive game.

When I read the subject, I thought right away it was now official that there will be Crawford vs Spence fight.

It's no doubt that it was a much-awaited fight for most boxing fans. For now, the status is just pure speculation.

I will just refer to what Spence Jr. said prior to his fight against Yordenis Ugas that he will settle with 2 fights before moving up. The first was done and won it vs. Ugas and the second one should be vs. Crawford as I don't think it's anyone else aside from him.

Yes. There might be other boxers too that undergo that trick but just play safe and never noticed.

Actually, it's not just they were caught in the sauna but it's really alarming that they noticed Casimero's 10 lbs weight loss in just a matter of a few days. Maybe that triggers the investigation and since his camp has a video of it, it made it easy for the BBBofC to suspend him right away as there's proof.

With another delay, Casimero is now hitting the veteran age period and might become inactive for 1 year if no fight involving him will happen until August this year.  The worst is, with no negotiated fights, no reason at all to retain his WBO title.

Canelo Alvarez highly confident for Dmitry Bivol fight

As usual, Canelo is just Canelo, always ready and confident against anyone even as mentioned in the article, he should be worried about the size, power & technical ability of Dmitry Bivol. In the first place, thinking about those things that will destruct a boxer won't really help that's why being worried shouldn't have any room.

Also mentioned in the article, if Canelo will lose the fight, don't even think he can get a piece of GGG in a trilogy match even if he pushes for that.


I'm really looking forward to that scene wherein Bivol will try to connect lots of punches trying to crash Canelo's defense or make a call for Canelo to just bring it on without doing defense. Fans will like that scene and might be considered the best fight of the year.

Bivol surely study how Canelo fight and what's left is, how to execute his strategy once they fight now in the ring.

Wait, I thought first on my quick read that you managed to turn your 3$ bet to $98. Is that how it goes?

But reading carefully the statement, does it mean you started with a $3 bet then went up to $98 per bet? That's a crazy and insane bet for an average gambler. Nothing wrong though if you are testing your luck but on that kind of bet, you need guts to face the risks.

Well then, it already happened and the only thing you need to do is to move on. Once you are now in your relaxed mind, try to figure out how to earn money to pay your debt - but this time not through gambling of course. Just do gambling again once you solve your debt issue.

The improvement shown by Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown is really noticeable. Still working on believing how they managed to sweep the Brooklyn Nets with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving on board. I'm not saying the Celtics will not win the series against the Nets but what I'm surprised is that they totally didn't allow the Nets to win even once.

Heading against the Milwaukee Bucks, this team needs all the help they can get from their roster. The absence of Middleton in this series will put Bucks on the adjustment on Game 1 then from there, they will just go with the flow and try to keep up with the Celtics.

I'm with Milwaukee Bucks here to win the series but to challenge the much improved Boston Celtics, I consider the absence of Middleton as a handicap for them compare against their previous series against Chicago Bulls.

Batch 14

Kahit sa Monday pa ito, maglapag na ako ng picks at baka makalimutan pa. Weekend madness at baka mababad na naman sa inuman.

1. Boston Celtics
2. Golden State Warriors

1. Tingin ko magiging adjustment phase to para sa Milwaukee Bucks. Momentum ang Boston Celtics ngayon at mainit ang laro nila lalo pa sa harap ng kanilang crowd. Kahit 60% Milwaukee Bucks ako sa serye na to kahit wala pa si Middleton, tingin ko makakaunang panalo ang Boston Celtics dito sa Game 1 bago matantiya ng Bucks ang galawan ng mga ito.

2. Although mataas ang win rate ng Memphis Grizzlies sa homecourt nila, maganda naman ang road records ng Warriors. Kung iyong large crowd ng Denver Nuggets ay nawithdstand nila, kayang-kaya rin nila dalhin yan sa Memphis. Nakatulong din sa decision ko iyong maliit na handicap para sa Warriors.

Batch 13

My pick: Memphis Grizzlies

Wala ng masyadong technical analysis dito. Tingin ko tatapusin na nila ang serye at susunod na sa mga winning teams kahapon na nag-advance na sa 2nd round. Wala ng Game 7 na mangyayari dito sa 1st round of the playoffs. Better luck next time Timberwolves lol.

The reality is, Kai Sotto is not even on the early list of 283 candidates that the NBA released who filed for the NBA draft. We understand that it's really not easy to be included on the list as you really need a hyped name plus maybe, a good agent, to become one of the prospects. But for sure, on that 283 candidates, it's impossible that all of these are all ahead of Kai Sotto.

I'm sure there will be NBA teams that will give him a chance, maybe not in the NBA but in D-league which is a good place to enhance his skills first before entering a much bigger competition. But for that to happen first, he should be listed and that's the hard part. He really needs luck here as just imagine, there are even good players that didn't have a chance to be drafted into the NBA.

I admire his effort to build a name when he left the Philippines to push for his NBA goal. I hope he will be rewarded someday.

I've just shared in the NBA thread that Khris Middleton is now officially ruled out to play on their series match up against the Boston Celtics. And it might extend up to the Conference Finals just in case the Bucks will win the series. Might be a good reference to those who are planning to place their bet before Game 1.

With that news, there was no change or any slight movement for their respective odds and still stays at @1.5 and @2.5 for Celtics and Bucks respectively.

Having no Khris Middleton is a major loss but to cheer up those Bucks fans, they are still a threat as long as Giannis will play hard.

Khris Middleton to miss the Boston Celtics series with Grade 2 MCL sprain

It's now official that Khris Middleton won't make it to their series match against the Boston Celtics because of Grade 2 MCL Sprain.

And to add up for that, he even won't make it to the Conference Finals if ever Milwaukee Bucks will beat the Boston Celtics. This is really unfortunate and I don't want to see these injury-related issues as it changes the playing level of a certain team. It's good to watch these teams competing with each other at 100% healthy status and not with a handicap.

Middleton is one of the main pieces on why the Bucks are dominant. But on the positive side, I'm sure that shouldn't be a big disadvantage for them but they should just try to cover the absence of Middleton in every game.

Not known that time? Canelo won't be considered as a matchup for Mayweather if he's not popular at that time.

Canelo has a clean record of 42-0 with 30 KOs before he faced Mayweather. He also holds the WBC Light Middleweight title at that time and his name was a hyped because of his achievement. Not popular?


That was too much, I guess.

I'm with Canelo to win the fight but in fairness to Bivol, I don't see him as a pure underdog where literally, he won't stand any chance to win. We can't also conclude that Bivol doesn't have the skills to match with Canelo since boxers are adjusting to whoever their opponent is.

Again, I'm with Canelo to win the match but I'm expecting Bivol to at least show what he got as an undefeated boxer and also a Champion.

Batch 12 Picks:

1. Toronto Raptors +1.5
2. Phoenix Suns
3. Dallas Mavericks

1. Nagsalita na si Joel Embiid na need niya pa ng mas aggressive na James Harden next game. Di ko alam kung dahil dyan mabubuhayan na ulit si Harden. Nakikita kong mananalo sila sa series pero momentum ang Raptors. Extend yan sa Game 7.

2. Maganda nilalaro ng Pelicans pero tingin ko tutuldukan na ng Phoenix Suns ang serye nila.

3. Nakataya ako sa kanila kaya go lang ako sa Mavericks regardless of the spread.

After the last night's game where the Golden State Warriors and Milwaukee Bucks now advanced to their respective Conference Semi-Finals here are the updated odds on some Favorites: (odds may changed from time to time)

Golden State Warriors @ 3.90
Phoenix Suns @ 4.85
Boston Celtics @ 5
Miami Heat @6
Milwaukee Bucks @ 7.55

Boston Celtics now become @5 to win the NBA Finals coming from @10. The Warriors from @8 to @3.90. Better act right away to bet on your Favorites as continuous winning of these teams will have an effect of lowering their odds from time to time.

I remember a topic before here that some casino owners are setting up gambling businesses in an area where the majority is not that rich, but not that poor. I can't find the related topic unfortunately but I think the OP here was the same? Not sure though.

On the positive side, the casino established in those areas gives a positive effect on the people since it creates job opportunities. Most customers also came from other areas and did not totally come from the place where the casino was established. It also opens small business opportunities to those people there.

And if I remember correctly, the reason why casinos choose to set up in those areas is to avoid high taxes.