By Ron Borges
Here we go again. After a Thursday of turkey eating in which my picks were 3-0 we take a wee look at the weekend’s fare. Unfortunately, none of my three picks – Dallas, Green Bay and the Colts – were recorded here but you could have gotten them on 1-900-LOCK-UP.
Having likely missed those […]

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 Ricky Williams 2005
By Ron Borges
The most mercurial running back since the days of Duane Thomas and the Dallas Cowboys is back in the NFL. Almost.
Ricky Williams won’t really be back until Monday and not even he probably knows how long he’ll be back for but one thing is clear – if he’s anywhere near what […]

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By Ron Borges
Last week’s effort led to a 3-3 split and a lockadini winner but unless you loaded up on that one, or on the upset special that also hit, you lost the vig and a few more dollars. So it goes.
Unless, of course, you follow the advice of some of my loyal readers, who […]

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By Ron Borges
NEW YORK – They have the ideal boxing match at Madison Square Garden Saturday night, which is why they had to open up the mezzanine level seats this week to accommodate what had become an overflow crowd.
The reason why is not the simple jingoism of loyal Puerto Rican fight fans […]

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By Ron Borges

Bill Parcells used to say there isn’t one NFL season there’s four, each month created new looks, new injuries and new problems for each team in the league to face. His point was that who you were after the first four weeks may not resemble who you become in the final four weeks.
Two […]

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By Ron Borges
In an effort to please those of you who have written asking that I begin picking NFL games so you can go the other way and thus have plenty of spending money before Christmas, here is the first of what will be a weekly Pick 6.
Since it is impossible to pick with any […]

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By Ron Borges

As your New England Patriots prepare this week to face the undefeated Dallas Cowboys next weekend in Dallas they may not yet quite be America’s team. That title still seems to belong to the surging Cowboys, who like New England will enter that game as one of only three undefeated teams left in […]

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By Ron Borges

You always want to believe them, which is the real problem isn’t it?
It’s that desire to believe, to hope for the best in our best, that leads to the crushing disappointment when all their wild-eyed protestations and indignant denials turn to sand and they have to admit, with heads often bowed, that it […]

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