THE BEST DAMN WEATHER & INJURY REPORTS ON THE INTERNET! PERIOD!

James A. Bell, Sr., Champion Sports Handicapper

CEO, ' The Bell Sports Network '

After they have crunched numbers, every ‘professional’ sports handicapper (Even when I’m on a damn losing streak, I consider myself to be a ‘pro-fessional’!-even if my viewers are calling me ‘Da Undertaker’ because my losing selections are killing them financially! J ) looks at two additional factors before making a decision regarding which team is going to win (or lose) a game.

If the sports handicapper is looking at ANY sport that involves ANY sort of physical contact, injuries will play a factor in the decision making process.

In some sports (professional hockey, in particular!), part of one team’s ‘game plan’ is to INTENTIONALLY injury a ‘key’ player on the opposing team. The team that loses a ‘key player’ is then LESS LIKEY to win the game. Right?

I have looked at injury reports online for years, and truly believe that the injury reports that are posted by Don Best Sports (www.donbest.com ) are BY FAR superior to any other reports that I have seen.

I don’t know Don Best, and I’m not getting a damn dime for endorsing his injury reports!

Don Best just has a 100% ‘professional’ team looking at all of the injury data, and high lighting ‘key’ player personnel in BOLD RED LETTERS !

That makes it real easy for old farts like me who have bad eyes and are too damn vain to get glasses!

The BOLD RED LETTERS make it easier for me to quickly identify ‘key’ players, and then make up my own mind as to what the impact of a ‘key’ player injury will be.

I have listed the web site addresses by sport for Don Best Sports below.

I have also included injury report sources for WNBA, Cricket, Soccer and Rugby that I have gotten from other sources below also.

‘The Bell Sports Network’ is currently compiling a sports data base for these sports, and I hope that we will be able to offer quality handicapping selections in the future.

Fortunately, one of ‘The Bell Sports Network’ Associates has played for semi-professional Cricket, Soccer and Rugby teams in England.

He is now faced with the daunting task of teaching this old fart ( myself ) some of the basic strategies in Cricket, Soccer and Rugby so that I can construct a mathematical algorithm that will give ‘The Bell Sports Network’ a ‘handicapping edge’.

Just yesterday, another ‘The Bell Sports Network’ Associate mentioned that his father also used to play Cricket.

Very good!

As soon as I can organize the logistics, now two young people will be faced with the daunting ( and thankless ) task of teaching this old fart the ABC’s of Cricket.

We’ll call ourselves ‘Two Kids and an Old Fart’! J

MLB

http://donbest.com/EN/main/mlb/mlb_injuries.html

NFL

http://donbest.com/EN/main/nfl/nfl_injuries.html

NCAA FOOTBALL

http://donbest.com/EN/main/ncaaf/ncaafb_injuries.html

NBA

http://donbest.com/EN/main/nba/nba_injuries.html

NHL

http://donbest.com/EN/main/nhl/nhl_injuries.html

NCAA BASKETBALL

http://donbest.com/EN/main/ncaab/ncaabk_injuries.html

WNBA BASKETBALL

http://www.hoopsedge.com/wnba-injury-report.php

SOCCER

http://soccerblogs.net/tags/injury_news

CRICKET

http://www.injuryupdate.com.au/cricket.php

RUGBY

http://www.injuryupdate.com.au/rugby.php

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The other important factor that a professional sports handicapper has to consider is ‘Mother Nature’ ( in other words, weather reports for you members of ‘the great unwashed’ who don’t know who ‘Mother Nature’ is!).

Weather reports are terribly important.

In some sports, weather reports are more important than injury reports!

Here are some examples:

A-Extremely cold weather will affect the ability of a football quarterback to throw the football.

B-Extremely cold weather will affect the ability of a receiver to catch the football.

C-Extremely cold weather affects increases the chance for football injuries because the ground is harder, and it hurts worse when a player falls.

D-Extremely cold weather increases the chance of a football fumble.

E-A high wind chill factor makes everything from A-D above even worse.

Now that’s just the effect of extreme cold weather on football players.

Baseball players are also negatively affected in cold weather situations. Some players don’t even get a chance to run around that much.

They just have to stand there and wait for someone to hit the damn baseball.

The poor catcher has to squat for extended periods with his butt exposed and his nuts freezing.

The catcher is the only player who gets to warm his hands in his crotch without anyone really staring at him too hard.

Conversely, extremely hot weather affects all players; but football players in particular.

Extreme heat saps the body, and makes a football player more susceptible to heat related injuries.

Unfortunately, there have even been some tragic heat related football deaths.

Baseball players can also be negatively affected by the heat because they have to stand out in the sun under the merciless sun for long periods of time in some cases during the summer months with no time outs for a water break; especially during the ‘Dog Days of August’.

I’ve looked at literally hundreds of sports weather reports over the years, and ( in my humble opinion ) there is only ONE sports website that posts consistently ACCURATE weather reports!

Since ‘Mother Nature’ ( like most females that I know! ) changes Her mind several times a day, I finally lucked into a sports website that post ACCURATE reports ( with Wind Chill Factors and Heat Index Reports ) that are regularly updated as ‘Mother Nature’ changes Her mind.

These reports are posted by ‘The Vegas Insider’ ( the term 'Vegas' is short for Las Vegas, NV, for you members of ‘the great unwashed’ who are geographically challenged and don’t know that the city of Las Vegas is the ‘Sports Betting Capital’ of the United States, if not the word!) at:

www.vegasinsider.com

Once again, I’ve listed the weather report links below:

MLB WEATHER

http://www.vegasinsider.com/mlb/weather/

NFL WEATHER

http://www.vegasinsider.com/nfl/weather/

NCAA FOOTBALL WEATHER

http://www.vegasinsider.com/college-football/weather/

Finally, for really slow members of ‘the great unwashed’ who cut a lot of classes in elementary school, junior high school and high school, NBA and NCAA Basketball games are played indoors.

So there is no need for a weather report(s).

Got it?

You sure?

O.K.?

Hey, when dealing with the general public one has to cover all of his/her bases in order to be completely sure that everyone understands what's being said.

Even then somone tries to go downstairs on the 'up' escalator!

As was the case with Don Best Sports, I am not getting a damn dime from ‘The Vegas Insider’ for endorsing their weather reports.

I just personally like them better than others.

I just want to level the playing field for my viewers.

O.K. boys and girls.

That's it.

Hopefully the above information will help you make more intelligent sports betting decisions.

However, the reality is that many viewers will remain as dumb as a box of rocks!

In spite of having important handicapping information handed to them on a damn 'silver platter'.

Thus, some irresponsible reprobates will continue to make regular financial donations to online sports books in spite of all of my attempts to lift them out of poverty.

Oh, well!

Some folks 'get it', and some folks don't.

I realized a long time ago that some folks actually bask in the warm embrace of mediocracy!