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Episode 326: College Football, NFL Week 5, MLB Bets

October 2nd, 2024

You LIVE sports. You LOVE sports. You BET sports. The key to winning your sports bets is information. You need an edge. Our professional betting specialists Alex White, Kenny White, Jeff Parles, Matt Neverett, Vinny Magliulo and Chris Andrews give you their favorite picks every show. Entertaining and enlightening, you're sure to collect on your sports bets more often after watching "Sports By The Book". Streamed LIVE from South Point Studio in the beautiful South Point Hotel & Casino.

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HUGE day of sports today. Host Alex White and pro sports bettor & former oddsmaker Kenny White (KennyWhiteSports.com) give you all of the sorts information you need to make good decisions. We start the show with a tribute to prolific sports bettor Pete Rose. He was also a pretty good baseball player. Which brings us to the Major League Baseball Playoffs. The underdogs were 3-1 yesterday, with the Padres being the only favorite to win. In the Wildcard round of the playoffs in MLB, the team that wins the 1st game wins the series 88% of the time. They take a dee dive into todays games - Tigers vs Astros, Royals vs Orioles, Mets vs Brewers, and Braves vs Padres.

Alex & Kenny take a look back at College Football and the NFL. Full stats of run heavy & pass heavy teams as well as pace of play. Thursday night has a couple of NCAA games of interest - Texas State vs Troy and Sam Houston State vs UTEP. Some other interesting College games this weekend they discuss include Missouri vs Texas A&M, Indiana vs Northwestern, and Duke vs Georgia Tech.

UFC 307 is Saturday Night in Utah, and combat sports betting expert Lou Finnochiaro @Gamblou on X) drops by to give us some insight. The conversation starts with NFL betting, with Lou giving a play on the Bills vs Texans game. They get into the Monday Night Football game as well as its Saints vs Chiefs. There are some good fights on this card, and lots of value plays. Lou gives his favorite picks and betting tips for UFC 307, including his thoughts on the main event, a Light Heavyweight Title fight - Khalil Roundtree vs Alex Pereira, and if the altitude of Salt Lake City lays into the handicaing of the card.

We take a look at the Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime as it's Buccaneers vs Falcons. Big NFC South matchup on TNF this week. Alex & Kenny take a look at all the angles, stats and trends.