12/19/2006 - Charlotte, NC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Charlotte Bobcats forward Sean May is expected to be out a week to 10 days due to a sprained right ankle.
May, who suffered the injury in Saturday's home loss to Boston, is averaging 12.4 points and 6.5 rebounds per game, while shooting nearly 51 percent from the floor. He had a career-best 32 points in a victory over Orlando on Thursday.
<< Nutt gets contract extension at Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Arkansas has extended the contract of head
football coach Houston Nutt through the 2012 season.
Nutt has led the Razorbacks to a 10-3 record this season and into the Capital
One Bowl against Wisconsin o
<< Lemieux says deal with Balsillie to buy Penguins "is dead"
Pittsburgh, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Pittsburgh Penguins owner Mario Lemieux
said in a statement released Monday a deal to sell the team to Jim Balsillie,
chairman and co-CEO of Research in Motion, "is dead."
Lemieux said the Penguins a
<< Bucs name Rattay starter
Tampa, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Jon Gruden named
Tim Rattay the starting quarterback for Sunday's game at Cleveland.
The Bucs (3-11) suffered a 34-31 overtime loss at Chicago Sunday, but forced
the sudden-dea
<< Report: BC hires Jagodzinski
Boston, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Boston College will name Green Bay Packers
offensive coordinator Jeff Jagodzinski head football coach, the Boston Globe
reported.
The school will make the announcement official at a press conferenc
Wade's last-second shot lifts Heat over Hornets >>
Miami, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Dwyane Wade banked in the game-winning jump shot
with 1.3 seconds left, as the Miami Heat edged the New Orleans/Oklahoma City
Hornets, 101-99, at AmericanAirlines Arena.
With the Hornets going scoreless for o
Nets rally past Warriors >>
East Rutherford, NJ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Nenad Krstic scored 26 points and
pulled down 14 rebounds, and Jason Kidd posted the 81st triple-double of his
career, as the Nets rallied for a 105-97 win over the Golden State Warriors.
Kidd e
Fedorov burns old team as Columbus edges Detroit >>
Columbus, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sergei Fedorov scored twice and added an
assist against his former club, as the Columbus Blue Jackets snuffed out a
late Detroit rally to beat the Red Wings, 4-3, in the front end of a home-and-
home se
Vols clip Cowboys in final seconds >>
Nashville, TN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Dane Bradshaw tipped in the game-winning
shot with 1.9 seconds left, as the Tennessee Volunteers upset the 15th-ranked
Oklahoma State Cowboys, 79-77.
With the game deadlocked at 77, Bradshaw followed a
The San Francisco 49ers (5-11 SU, 5-10-1 ATS in 2007; 1-1 SU & ATS in pre-season) found some offensive life last week, and they will try to build some momentum on Thursday night as they travel to the Windy City to take on the Chicago Bears (7-9 SU & ATS in 2007; 0-2 SU, 0-1-1 ATS in pre-season) in an NFL matchup that is set to get underway at 8 PM ET at Soldier Field (natural turf) in Chicago.
Thursday, August 21
NFL betting odds: CHICAGO -3 (-120), Total 37
NOTABLE STAT: San Francisco was last in points, last in total offense in 2007
KEY NFL BETTING TREND: SF has lost its last seven SU on pre-season road
In the BetUS NFL pre-season football betting odds, the Bears are listed as a three-point favorite (laying -120), with the total posted at 37 points.
Here are some NFL football betting trends as they relate to this matchup (reflecting numbers going into the 2008 season):
* SF has lost 11 of its last 14 games SU
* SF has covered three of its last 11 games
* SF has lost six of its last seven road games SU
* SF has covered one of its last seven road games
* CHI has covered five of its last eight games
* CHI has played five of its last seven games OVER the total
* CHI has covered four of its last 13 home games
* SF has lost its last seven pre-season road games SU
* CHI has covered two of its last seven home pre-season games
Well, I guess we should congratulate the Bears on making their quarterback choice for the season's opening game, as they have designated Kyle Orton the starter against Indianapolis. The Bears obviously have lost patience with Rex Grossman, and what they do with him at this point is anybody's guess. But suffice it to say that there isn't a quarterback competition anymore, at least in training camp.
Meanwhile, the quarterback competition may also be settled in San Francisco, where the Niners bounced back from a lackluster 18-6 loss to the Raiders, in which they turned the ball over four times, to execute a 34-6 rout of the Packers last Saturday. However, coach Mike Nolan has stopped short of saying that, insisting that the job is still open. But J.T. O'Sullivan, the longshot of the trio of Niner signal-callers who opened camp, will start his third straight pre-season game here. Against Green Bay, O'Sullivan was only 8-for-17, and was intercepted, but he also threw for 9.1 yards an attempt, which included a 59-yard TD pass to Josh Morgan. The others struggled.
Some offensive cohesion is badly needed, in light of the Niners' dismal 2007 campaign, in which they were dead last in the NFL in scoring, with just 13.7 points a game. And O'Sullivan is the guy who is most familiar with offensive coordinator Mike Martz's exacting system, because he learned it last year in Detroit. O'Sullivan will go at least the entire first half and may even last longer. He'll be relieved by Alex Smith, with Shawn Hill doing the mop-up work. Three receivers who were out last week - Bryant Johnson, Ashley Lelie and Arnaz Battle - will miss this game too.
That may hurt a little here, especially since the Bears will be using a lot of their defensive starters. And it's the defense that has been keeping the Bears in games thus far. In fact, the defense and special teams were responsible for the first 19 points Chicago scored against Seattle last time out, as the offense really struggled with Grossman at the controls. But maybe the first-team offense has a chance to settle a little bit as it works more with Orton at the helm.
Certainly we have concerns about the Bears' offensive line, but we like the scenario for them here, especially if O'Sullivan doesn't make some bis plays. The Niners may have nowhere else to turn right now, and they have lost seven straight road games in the pre-season. Let's take Chicago, the three-point favorite in the NFL football betting odds.
CHICAGO -3 (-120) **
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Mayweather picked to beat De La Hoya
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya and his rival Floyd Mayweather Jr. arrived at the MGM Grand here Wednesday amid the pomp and pandemonium befitting two of the biggest stars in the sport who are about to duke it out for the WBC super welterweight crown this Saturday (Sunday in Manila).
As of Wednesday, MySportsbook.com closed its book with Mayweather a favorite to defeat De La Hoya at -170 (a $100 bet wins $70), while De La Hoya is a +140 underdog (a $100 bet wins $140).
Mayweather arrived at about 11:30 a.m. on a big truck with his face and a big "World's Best Pound-for-Pound" sign scribbled across the vehicle. He was accompanied by his entourage made up of rappers and his training team.
A crowd of close to 3,000 eager fans packed the MGM Grand lobby, with their cameras in tow, all trying to vie for position to get a good angle at Mayweather, who is acknowledged as the world's best fighter pound-for-pound.
Eric Gomez, Golden Boy Promotions vice-president, described the fan turnout as "amazing" and swore he had never seen anything quite like this event.
"The crowd was fantastic. Everybody was just too eager to see the two fighters," said ALA manager Michael Aldeguer, who was among those who waited at the lobby together with his ward Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista and AJ Banal.
De La Hoya made his own grand entrance at the hotel lobby at around 12:30 p.m. accompanied by GBP chief executive officer Richard Schaefer and trainer Freddie Roach.
The same group of fans who trooped to see Mayweather also lingered around to get a close look at De La Hoya, who has been secretly working out at a Las Vegas gym for days after arriving from his main training camp in Puerto Rico.
The golden boy then took part in a closed-door afternoon workout with Bautista and Banal. The two, along with Aldeguer and wife Christine, as well as an HBO crew were the only ones allowed inside the gym.
De La Hoya and Mayweather take part in today's final press conference before the official weigh-in this Friday.
Ring Magazine, the acknowledged bible of boxing, reported in its June 2007 issue that 12 out of 20 boxing experts it interviewed have favored Mayweather to defeat De la Hoya, with only 8 favoring the latter.
But Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao said in a recent interview with The Freeman's Emmanuel Villaruel that De La Hoya will win by unanimous decision over Mayweather.
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