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03/10/2010 - Atlanta, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Atlanta Thrashers recalled veteran defenseman Chris Chelios on Wednesday, marking the 26th consecutive NHL season in which the 48-year-old will participate.
Chelios has spent the entire season with the AHL's Chicago Wolves, playing 46 games and recording a plus-34 rating, which is third in the league, while posting five goals and 17 assists.
He last appeared in the NHL in 2008-09, when he played 28 games for the Detroit Red Wings. A three-time Norris Trophy winner as the NHL's top defenseman, Chelios has skated in a league-record 266 playoff games in a career that started in 1983-84 with Montreal.
He has collected three Stanley Cup titles -- one with the Habs in 1986 and two with the Red Wings in 2002 and 2008. Internationally, he has played for USA Hockey four times in the Olympics (1984, 1998, 2002, 2006), earning a silver medal in 2002.
In addition to his tenure with the Canadiens and Red Wings, Chelios, a Chicago native, spent parts of nine seasons with the Blackhawks. In all, the 11-time All Star played for the Habs from 1983-90, the Blackhawks from 1990-99 and the Red Wings from 1999-2009.
In 1,644 career regular season games, which ranks fourth in NHL history, Chelios has amassed 185 goals and 763 assists with 2,891 penalty minutes.
<< Seven set for Tampa Bay Derby
Oldsmar, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Schoolyard Dreams, second in the Sam F. Davis
Stakes, heads a field of seven three-year-olds for Saturday's $300,000 Tampa
Bay Derby at Tampa Bay Downs.
In recent years the event has become an important
<< Roughriders sign Cates
Regina, SK (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed running back
Wes Cates on Wednesday.
Last season with Saskatchewan, he started 16 games and had 195 carries for 932
yards and five scores to go with 33 catches for 336 yards a
<< Eagles ink Marlin Jackson to two-year deal
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Philadelphia Eagles announced
Wednesday the signing of cornerback Marlin Jackson to a two-year contract.
Financial terms of the deal remain undisclosed.
Jackson, a five-year veteran who
<< Redskins sign T Kemoeatu
Ashburn, VA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Washington Redskins have signed nose
tackle Maake Kemoeatu, the team announced Wednesday.
Kemoeatu, 31, spent the entire 2009 season on the Carolina Panthers' injured
reserve after suffering a torn
Southland Conference Tournament Recaps >>
Katy, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Eddie Williams scored 22 points and grabbed eight
rebounds, and the second-seeded Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks crushed the
seventh-seeded Texas-Arlington Mavericks, 77-54, in quarterfinal action of the
Southla
Auxerre closes gap on Bordeaux >>
Bordeaux, France (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Two second-half goals from Ireneusz Jelen
gave Auxerre a 2-1 comeback win at Bordeaux on Wednesday, allowing the
visitors to move to within one point of Bordeaux at the top of the Ligue 1
table.
Zenyatta to face eight in Santa Margarita >>
Arcadia, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Two-time champion mare Zenyatta makes her 2010
debut Saturday in the $250,000 Santa Margarita Invitational at Santa Anita
Park. The six-year-old will take on eight other older females in the 1 1/8-
mile ra
Savannah State joins MEAC >>
Winston-Salem, NC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Savannah State University has been
granted a provisional membership into the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference,
beginning July 1, 2010.
The announcement was made Wednesday by the conference.
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“You play to win the game!”
Those are the words of notoriously intense head coach Herman Edwards. Unfortunately, from a bettors’ perspective, most coaches don’t feel that way about the NFL preseason. August is a time to evaluate young players, finalize the depth chart and pray your star players stay healthy.
The trick to making money during the exhibition schedule is identifying coaches – like Edwards – who can’t stand losing even when there's nothing on the line.
The New York Jets betting won 15 of 21 preseason games and went 14-7 against the spread (ATS) during Edwards’s five-year tenure with the club. In his first season as the Kansas City Chiefs field boss, the team improved from 0-4 to 2-2.
Identifying win-a-holics like Edwards is a good start if you plan betting the preseason – even though most say you shouldn’t ... but what the hell do they know anyway?
Here’s a brief rundown of two teams that have a habit of winning during the second-stringers’ season, and another club that has a good chance of exceeding this year.
Playing in the media hub of North America can be stressful but the press can’t write anything negative about the way Tom Coughlin’s boys play in the preseason. The Giants won and covered all four games last summer, improving their record to 7-1 both straight up (SU) and against the spread over the last two years.
Coughlin has shown he’s not afraid to give his starters more time in the second preseason game than most of his colleagues, no doubt one of the reasons his team has been so dominant.
Bettors can count on America’s team early on. The Cowboys are 14-6 both SU and ATS since 2002 in warm-up contests. Former coach Bill Parcells, the coach of the team the last four years, has an intimidating, in-your-face presence – surely a reason Dallas has had so much early success.
The Big Tuna won’t be strolling the sidelines with looks of disgust, but new coach Wade Phillips will be anxious to make a good first impression for owner Jerry Jones.
Dallas plays the Indianapolis Colts and the Denver Broncos before things get serious. They then face the Houston Texans in their third contest (the game starters see most game time) and finish off with the Minnesota Vikings.
Expect a Dallas team able to walk away with another 3-1 preseason record.
This team scored a league-worst 12 offensive touchdowns last season, so the rookies and veterans each have something to prove. There’s a bounty of first-unit jobs up for grabs and plenty of bodies competing for those slots.
First-time head coach Lane Kiffin will be eager to impress an owner who employs the philosophy, “Just win, baby!”
The 32-year-old Kiffin has to command respect from a locker room full of players older than him. All of these factors should lead to purpose in preseason.
Don’t forget: before playing like a team that belonged in NFL Europe, Oakland went 4-1 (both SU and ATS) in exhibition games.
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Trash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing).
Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion.
Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).
Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.
Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit. And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. The plug-necked yahoos on your team, you can say, will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.
The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.
What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Wheres your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, I'll try to type slower for you next time. Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.
Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, dont just conclude by saying your opponent is a twerp who drafts like my grandmother. Say that your opponent is a sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars. By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.
But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You wont be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, Im sure, to reply.
In addition to the trash talking, the Sports Alarm has a huge gallery of high resolution pictures of beautiful women and models in bikinis. The most popular models are: Lindsay Lohan, Carrie Underwood, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Paris Hilton.
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