Sports Betting Picks and Updates

Sports is everywhere and every minute, there's a huge sporting event taking place.

That's why we need something to let us look at sports from a bird's eye view. So here are just some of the things that happened within the week that may shape any sports bettor's betting tendencies.

The Big Ten Conference of NCAA College Football passed up an opportunity to give us a day we all could punch out of work early, sort of like those football players at Oklahoma.

League commissioner Jim Delany said that the league won't play on Thursday or Friday nights to make the new Big Ten Channel attractive to cable companies. The channel is expected to show about 35 league games per season after it debuts in August 2007.

Big Ten officials say it would be too much for some towns to host the huge number of people on weeknights. And messing with the traditional Saturday game wasn't appealing either.

Maybe it's a good thing, because it means we don't have to hear Michigan fans whine about Lloyd Carr through the entire weekend. And MSU fans would get to rid themselves of that bitter taste of disappointment before the weekend ends.

In NBA Basketball, former Detroit Pistons coach Larry Brown passed up a chance to return to coaching after the New York Knicks dumped him in June.

Brown turned down an offer from the NBADL's expansion Colorado 14ers, according to a report in the Denver Post.

''Under the circumstances, he decided he better spend some more time with his family before deciding about his future,'' said Gary Hunter, the team's president and CEO.

''He said money is no object.''

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