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[Esperanza Trapani]

Salt Lake City is the geographic home of the University of Utah Utes and to even casual college sports fans this seems like an unlikely place for the number one overall NBA and NFL draft picks to come from in the same year, but that was not the case in 2005.

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Despite not having a reputation as a traditionally dominate football or basketball program the University of Utah made American sports history when it became the first college ever to have players from its teams be chosen with the number one draft picks in both the NBA and NFL Drafts in the same year. The NBA and NFL reign supreme in the world of professional American sports with Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Hockey League (NHL) coming in very distant third and fourth places in terms of team sport popularity. While baseball has had its heyday in the past and still sees record attendance numbers (thanks in part to a season with more than ten times as many games as the NFL and twice as many games in ballparks four times as big as what the NBA offers) the consensus is that the NFL and then the NBA are the most popular professional sports in the United States.

The hiring of eventual uber successful college football coach Urban Meyer ushered in a new era of twenty-first century football success for the public university with about 28,000 students. Prior to the arrival of Coach Meyer the school had previously barely made a blip on the national college football radar. The 2004-2005 college football campaign under the direction of Meyer went 11-0 in the regular season before besting the University of Pittsburgh in the January, 2005 Fiesta Bowl to win a landmark BCS bowl game for the college out of Salt Lake. The perfect 12-0 season was good enough to position the Utes in the number four spot in the polls at the end of the season and propelled on field signal caller Alex Smith to be taken by the San Francisco 49ers as the number one overall pick in the 2005 NFL draft.

The University of Utah has had less recent success on the hardwood than the gridiron. With the exception of a 1998 run to the Final Four the only other accomplishment of note on the basketball Utes resume is a 1944 NCAA title. Despite not having a standout year record wise during the 2004-2005 basketball season the University of Utah Utes did send Australian born sophomore Andrew Bogut to the Milwaukee Bucks who selected him with the first overall pick in the NBA Draft that summer. Coming off of a serviceable freshmen season where Bogut won Freshman of the Year honors in the subpar Mountain West Conference the seven foot Australian had a breakout season in his second year that resulted winning numerous college player of the year honors.

At this point in their relatively young careers both quarterback Alex Smith and forward Andrew Bogut are consensus disappointments. While both players will likely go on to have meaningful role player type careers in their respective sports the expectations for number one draft picks are so high that anything short of single handedly turning around a long failing franchise is commonly considered a colossal disappointment.

Yearly there is a new NBA season that everyone watches and even place bets on who will be the winning team for the day. But that's not all; there are those who engage in online betting which includes their skills in managing an NBA team of their own. This game is called the NBA basketball fantasy game. In this game you will be given the chance to pick your own player and create your own team. But it is not that easy because just like the real NBA roster you will have to undergo player drafting to have a fair distribution among the best NBA players.

How can you start betting?

It is really simple - the first thing you have to do is to register an account in different websites that offer NBA fantasy games. To be able to avoid scam, try ESPN.com and YAHOO.com wherein both websites offer free NBA fantasy games. There are 2 types of NBA fantasy games, there is the one that they call "Just for Fun" and the other one is called "The Competitive League". In the competitive league, this is where you can engage into online betting. The betting will depend on the administrators discretion on how much would be the first, second and third price.

Can you create your own league?

Yes you can. If you want your league to be a tournament or competition among your friends, you can create your own league. Creating your own league is for free and the only time you will pay something is when you will be placing a bet or an entrance fee in the league. Online betting is really difficult to engage into since there are a lot of scammers online. But when you are talking about NBA fantasy games, you can be the moderator of administrator of your own league. So what does this mean? There is no way that any NBA fantasy league to scam you because you have 100% control of each transaction and other trading stuff.

How can you win?

Most of the NBA fantasy leagues have 3 winners which would be the first place (overall champion), second place and third place. The amount of the prize money in online betting will depend on the entrance fee that the administrator allotted. The higher the entrance fee the higher the prize money will be. There will be also different settings on how to win each game. So be sure to read the information about the league before joining a league. Just like the real NBA games, you will enter a regular 코인카지노 season and when you reach the top 4 or top 8 spot you are eligible of entering the playoffs. The overall winner in the playoffs will be named as the winner and champion just like in the real NBA game.

This is one of the most exciting online betting games that you can play. It may take a whole season before the champion will be decided upon several teams but it is worth it. This type of online betting doesn't only deal with luck but also strategy. It is integrated with luck because you don't know when a player will be injured. It is integrated with strategy because you should know when to play or not to play a certain individual or player. You can even trade NBA players with other NBA fantasy players which is also a part of your strategy.