The NFL rarely takes a break from the national spotlight and with the recent release of the schedule, it’s natural to start thinking about win totals.

Even with the small sample size, there are some trends starting to showcase in the early Major League Baseball season. 

What a great time of year for gambling. 

The first few weeks of the regular season are tough on deciding who can be a quality two-start pitcher. It's not just the pitchers who are unknown. It's also the opposing offenses. 

This year's NCAA tournament wasn't living up to its billing heading into the Elite Eight. Then, the tournament took a dramatic turn in the right direction. 

The baseball season is back, so that means it's time to ditch those pitchers you drafted and start combing the waiver wire. 

Now that your bracket is likely littered with red marks, there's still plenty to enjoy about March Madness.

I shouldn't like Villanova as much as I do, but I just can't help it. The Wildcats have been a perennial top team in college basketball over the last few years and this may be Jay Wright's best coaching job. 

The West region offers plenty of intrigue, possibly beyond the first round in terms of picking a bracket. 

The Midwest region feels like a wide-open bracket. With all the parity happening in college basketball this season, there's not a team in this bracket that seems like an overwhelming favorite. 

It's officially time to stop paying attention to work for a few weeks and start penciling in the best bracket busters and favorites to win the 2019 NCAA tournament.

March Madness always provides plenty of opportunities for finding Cinderellas. While the first two rounds will offer plenty of upsets, the key to lasting success in handicapping the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament is finding the right sleeper to win the title.

Like it or not, Antonio Brown and JuJu Smith-Schuster will be heavily debated heading into the 2019 fantasy football season. 

If you're looking for saviors in fantasy football from this year's draft class, you may be severely disappointed. 

After a year where we saw multiple rookie quarterbacks earn meaningful playing time, we're entering an NFL draft that will come closer to the 2013 NFL draft class for quarterbacks, as opposed to what occurred last season. 

Rookie running backs can cause some issues in fantasy football. 

The NFL draft is approaching, so that will once again lead to the overvaluing of certain prospects by oddsmakers. 

If you're looking for wide receivers, the fifth round of the 2019 fantasy football draft will offer plenty of options. 

Is it Duke or bust in college basketball?

The difficulties associated with the 2018 fantasy football draft will rear its ugly head once again in 2019. 

It's a mistake to believe Super Bowl 54 will feature the same two teams we saw in Super Bowl 53. 

The playoffs have been a welcomed sight for my NFL handicapping record.

There's still plenty of time before the 2019 fantasy football season commences, but I'm already seeing some holes in the third round of the fantasy football draft. 

A lot of things can happen in the next few months to change these early 2019 fantasy football rankings. Even with the regular season barely over, it's still worth it to start investigating who will offer some serious value heading into the 2019 fantasy football season. 

If you bet against quarterbacks for Super Bowl MVP, then you're going to have to get lucky.

We're not even to the Super Bowl yet, but there's an opportunity to get a head start on the 2019 fantasy football season.

In what would have been against the norm, oddsmakers posted the Los Angeles Rams as the opening line favorite for Super Bowl 53. That quickly changed.

The great thing about this part of the year is that oddsmakers will make lines on pretty much anything.

It didn't take many games this season to realize that the NFC title would go through one of two teams - the New Orleans Saints or Los Angeles Rams.

Unlike the Wild Card round, the favorites owned the day in the divisional round. Three of the four games were covered by the favorites. This weekend should offer some more intrigue, with all these teams being evenly matched.

Can underdogs rule the day again in the AFC? It didn't take much imagination to believe in underdogs in the Wild Card round in the AFC. Los Angeles and Indianapolis had just as good regular seasons or even better than their opponents last week.

The underdogs kept cashing in the NFL playoffs, with at least a 3-0-1 ATS mark, depending on when you locked in the Seattle game.

I hope you pay attention in 2019 regarding quarterback value.

A drama-less college football season is coming to a close.

The NFL season has its share of ups and downs, and 2018 once again proved that. I finished with a near .500 record, going just one game over .500 for the regular season.

The AFC is wide open.

This bowl season has been...sort of a major letdown.

Maybe I should trust my underdogs a little more.

I'm limping into the final week of the season, trying to finish with an above .500 record in the Las Vegas Westgate SuperContest.

The final week in the NFL is finally upon us, so that means many Survivor Pool participants are finished for the season.

My underdogs bounced back in a big way in week 15 in NFL handicapping.

I got back on the right track in week 15, generating an above .500 overall and the SuperContest.

With just two games remaining, the season is all about which teams have given up, and which are still going to play out the season.

Finding reliable wide receivers has been a difficult chore in fantasy football this season. With championship week here, it doesn't get any easier on who to trust at the wide receiver position.

The end of the season is always tough to navigate in fantasy football. And that's definitely true this year with running backs.

It's championship week in fantasy football.

Remember when the Philadelphia Eagles were a hot-ticket item for Super Bowl 53? That's long gone by now.

My favorites have done well over the last few weeks with a speed bump in week 14. After an abysmal start to my NFL favorites, they've been good enough to get me over .500 for the year. Let's just hope last week's woes won't continue.

Week 14 was one to forget.

The hot streak continued in the Survivor Pool, with another victory in week 14. It wasn't easy, like it had been in recent weeks, but New Orleans battled back from an 11-point halftime deficit to keep the Survivor Pool streak alive.