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I think this is a rigged up league and they don't want it to end in 5. If they go back to OKC, I'm not sure I like Miami. if Miami wins I go into my Wimbledon betting up 125. As you have to lay some big numbers on tennis bets, don't want minus 600 as my start point.

1. MJ ended several finals in 5 games. It ain't rigged. Professional sports are very very very difficult to rig.

College sports, on the other hand, are often rigged. Seriously. Lots and lots of small conference college basketball games have a point shaver or two on the court.

And it even happens occasionally in CFB. Hawaii vs. UNLV last year was UNQUESTIONABLY rigged. My friend and I knew this just because of the nonsensical outcome of the game. The result of the game made no sense. It was like four standard deviations away from how the game should have turned out. It was a wider variance than I'd ever seen. UNLV was literally the second or third worst team in CFB. They were losing all their games by 40 points. And then they beat Hawaii by 17? And the moneyline moved about 900 points in the hours preceding the game. DEFINITELY fixed. We weren't surprised to hear several months later that Hawaii's QB was suspected of taking money. I lost like $1,200 on that game. I'd love to kick the shite out of that ponytailed hawaii QB. What a scumbag.

2) This is my first year dabbling in tennis, but I'm doing pretty well. I'm up about five hundy since I started, which was in February or March. Underdogs are the better play in tennis. The odds for the favorites are way inflated. It's as if Vegas is double dog daring you to take the favorite.