Warpath Confidential

• Our Super Bowl pick – Colts 30 . . .

  By Benny Sand Dollar The sentimental pick is the New Orleans Saints. Everyone wants that town to have a feel-good moment after the past five years of recovering from Hurricane Katrina. Sorry, it doesn’t work that way. Indianapolis is the better team. While we respect momentum and the Saints offense, the Colts are a better [...]

• Jets, Saints to meet in Super Bowl

  By Benny Sand Dollar I like to write down my scores before even looking at the spreads or over/under totals. Both times this week, I straddled the over/under number. The New York Jets’ defense lets them pull out the upset. They stuffed the San Diego Chargers last week, they’ll do it again this time to [...]

• Time to get over on linesmakers

  By Benny Sand Dollar Las Vegas linesmakers get sharper come playoff time. Fewer games to concentrate on means the spreads are usually very close. There are few obvious plays. But, the over/under usually has a little more wiggle room. Once a side bet for the die-hards, the “totals” pay just as much as beating the [...]

• Benny and the Jets; picking playoff games

  By Benny Sand Dollar Three dogs and a slight favorite – Benny likes the odds this weekend. After a season of picking just Redskins games for Warpath Confidential readers, Benny has a little extra cash after finishing 17-14-1 against the spread. Benny likes only one favorite, and barely one at that. Green Bay (-1) over [...]

• Over/Under on Zorn — 8 a.m. Monday

  By Benny Sand Dollar It has been a long, long season for the Redskins. At least one of us emerged with a winning record. We’ve been battling with the Las Vegas linesmakers, choosing winners against the spread and the over/under each week. And while it hasn’t been a pretty ending, we’re three wins up with [...]

• End of an era

  Washington Times reporter David Elfin (left) spent his final day covering the Redskins after 17 full-time seasons plus a handful of others around the team. The Times is ending its sports coverage. Washington Examiner reporter John Keim (right) and columnist Rick Snider (center) have worked with Elfin on two Redskins books while all three contribute [...]

• Who’s all hat and no cattle?

  By Benny Sand Dollar It used to be so easy, so fun. The record was a gaudy 14-7-1 at one point. Benny was taunting the Las Vegas linesmakers. And wham – a 1-5 streak over three weeks, including 0-2 on Monday. Now you know why they build these palaces in the desert. With two weeks [...]

• Do the Redskins have a snowball’s chance in . . .

  By Benny Sand Dollar One of the great things about living in Las Vegas is no snow. The downside is we forget how to factor such conditions in picking the game. The New York Giants are three-point favorites over Washington on Monday. That means pick who you like straight up because few games end in [...]

• It’s simply Redskins over Raiders

  By Benny Sand Dollar Just when Benny thought he had figured out the linesmakers trap plays, he fell into them himself with the first 0-2 weekend in the Redskins 33-30 loss to New Orleans. Oh well, that’s why they call it gambling. Washington is a surprising 1-point favorite over Oakland, which has one more victory [...]

• They call it a trap, I can’t walk out

  By Benny Sand Dollar Sing it Elvis, sing it baby. Nobody did Las Vegas better than the King. Nobody expects Washington to win this game. Staying close would be a victory given this is a matchup of the best offense versus one of the worst offenses. You can smell a big route. And there’s the [...]

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