by Mario Mergola | Jan 16, 2025
I always love the start of a new postseason. That doesn’t mean it will always love us. Unfortunately, we stumbled out of the gate. Unlike the teams, themselves, however, we aren’t done yet. We have the opportunity to recover and continue improving on a...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 9, 2025
The end of any given regular season always hits hard. I’m sure I’ve written about this in the past, but it’s because I spend so much time moving through games that, when the amount of matchups is cut in half — and then some — it’s...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 9, 2025
It’s always nice to have big weeks throughout the season, but it was a pleasant change-of-pace to avoid the big loss on a consistent basis. We slowly and steadily moved through the year and never really had a massive setback from which we needed to return. In...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 1, 2025
I write it every year. People will argue that the first week of the season is the most difficult to pick against-the-spread. Not true. I love Week 1. I do not love the last week of the regular season. Ever. It’s because I always write about how careful we need...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 24, 2024
As I wrote in last week’s column, we are about to have quite the wild schedule ahead of us. Because of that, I took the same approach to the early portion of my weekly analysis and simply couldn’t want for too much confirmation that would form later in the...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 18, 2024
We are closing in on the last few weeks of the regular season, and that means we will start to see a few unique changes to the schedule. This week, we have a few games on Saturday, and next week will start with a matchup on Wednesday. I am noting this here because it...
