IOWA STATE CYCLONES -1.5 over Illinois Illini--------------ISU has Robert Jones............usually a bettable name but these days............somewhat of a question mark as it failed on Kentucky early in the tournament.  But with supporting names like Curtis Jones,  Gilbert,  Milan and Hassan Ward,  I'm gonna play it.   Illinois still has to deal with Shannon Gooden's name being on their players.   (He did a bad,  cop-killing mass shooting not long ago).  Ok,  Illinois beat Wisconsin.   I'm not impressed.  Whats more impressive is how Iowa State beat Houston,  a very good team,  69-41 recently.   And now the cut-up mass stabbing in Rockford, Illinois yesterday............will that hurt or help the state today?   (Lose 72-69...........Hmmm;  I guess Houston sucked too.)

STL CARDINALS(Mikolas) +199 over La Dodgers(Glasnow)-----Mikolas has only walked 1 in spring training.   Goldschmidt and Arenado dropped off some last year,  but I believe Ohtani did bet on sports.  And his lies...........will wind up hurting the team this year.(Lose 7-1..........I thought,  Cardinals,  that maybe you didn't wanna SUCK this year like you SUCKED last year.)