Long time baseball guru Stephen Nover moved his MLB hot streak to 18-9-1 cashing a rocking chair winner with the Reds, a 12-0 winner against the Mets on Monday. Keep riding Stephen's hot hand and expertise as he has found a Top Ticket on today's card.
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Today’s Free Picks
| Sport | Game Selection | Game Time |
|---|---|---|
| WNBA | (651) Toronto Tempo at (652) Indiana Fever | 7:00pm EDT - Jun 16/2026 |
The PLAY: Toronto Tempo +7.5 (-120)
The WNBA is noted for three things - bad officiating, bad commissioner and bad scheduling. It remains to be seen how the officiating will be in today's game between Toronto and Indiana, but this is another example of stupid scheduling.
This is the lone game on today's WNBA card. There will be six games on Wednesday's menu followed by one game on Thursday's schedule. Make sense? Not to me.
Rant over. Now it's time to handicap this matchup and I fall on the underdog Tempo.
Toronto is much better than your average expansion team. The Tempo are 7-7. They have covered eight of their last 13 games and are coached by Sandy Brondello, a two-time WNBA champion and former coach of the year.
The Tempo have one of the best starting backcourts in the league with Marina Mabrey and Brittney Sykes, who combine to average 38.6 points a game.
Both teams average 89 points. The Fever are mid-sized favorites because they are home and a level better than the Tempo. But they are not an elite team. Maybe down the road, but not now.
Indiana is riding a three-game winning streak. Those victories, however, have come against the Sun, Sky and Mystics. Those are three of the dregs of the league with a combined record of 11-29.
The Tempo should be up for this game after being blown out at home by the Dream, 102-77, this past Sunday. This game is being shown on national TV (USA Network). The Tempo are anxious for that rare media exposure. Mabry has a fierce rivalry against Caitlin Clark, too.
Indiana is used to being on national TV. This is not a big game for the Fever. They have a far more challenging matchup when they host the Dream on Thursday.
So I'll accept this many points with the Tempo.
Consultant Bio
Stephen Nover is unique among professional handicappers. A multiple award-winning sportswriter for numerous newspapers, including the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nover has one the best combinations of gambling and media sources in the world.
The author of two sports gambling books, "Las Vegas Sports Beat" and "Sports Gaming Beat", along with a book on fantasy football titled, "Winning Fantasy Football", Nover is a former professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas having taught a football handicapping class there. He also was the co-host of the Sunday night sports betting radio show "The Stardust Line" during the 1990's.
Parlaying nearly 50 years worth of professional gambling experience with tremendous knowledge of the players through elite deep-roster Rotisserie leagues and building on copious gaming and media sources - having worked for newspapers in the Midwest, South and West and also for legendary Hall of Fame oddsmaker Roxy Roxborough - Nover is a true Las Vegas wise guy. He helped learn his craft from such masters as Roxborough, Dave Malinsky, Lem Banker and Russ Culver.
Part of what makes Nover so special is the pride he takes in writing his deep-dive analysis, which always is unique, well-researched and sometimes entails out-of-the-box thinking.