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08/04/2010 -
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) -On the seventh day, Albert Haynesworth rested again.
This time, he had some company.
The fitness of the Washington Redskins defensive lineman remains unresolved one week into training camp. Haynesworth did not attempt the team's conditioning test Wednesday morning for the second straight day, and won't be allowed to practice until he passes the test.
He's been hampered in recent days by a sore left knee and isn't expected to try the test again until the problem subsides.
``The knee's still getting a lot of treatment,'' coach Mike Shanahan said. ``He's in here early, getting treatment three times a day, he's got a lot of work on that treadmill, so hopefully he passes it in the near future.''
Haynesworth's last attempt came Monday, when he pulled up after 150 yards of sprints because of irritation in the knee.
For a change, Haynesworth wasn't the only player standing around watching practice. Shanahan gave several older veterans - including Clinton Portis, Larry Johnson, London Fletcher, Joey Galloway, Santana Moss and Phillip Daniels - a day off from contact.
``We try to give them a little bit of a break,'' Shanahan said. ``I've done that throughout my career with older players, and it seems to protect them a little bit.''
After practice, Haynesworth did some individual work hitting the block shed.
Haynesworth is the only Redskins player required to take the conditioning test because he stayed away from the team's offseason conditioning program.Copyright © 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
<< Fever will keep Lookin At Lucky from Travers
Saratoga Springs, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Haskell Invitational winner Lookin At
Lucky will miss the $1 million Travers at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday,
August 28 after coming down with a fever on Tuesday.
Trainer Bob Baffert announced
<< Crawley given extension at BC
Chestnut Hill, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Boston College women's basketball coach
Sylvia Crawley has been rewarded with a two-year contract extension through
the 2014-15 season.
Crawley has a record of 40-27 in two seasons with the Eagles.
<< Patriots add OL Ghiaciuc
Foxboro, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The New England Patriots signed offensive
lineman Eric Ghiaciuc to an undisclosed contract on Wednesday.
Ghiaciuc, 29, did not play in the NFL in 2009, as he was waived by the Chiefs
prior to the regula
<< Portland State adds two assistants
Portland, OR (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Portland State has hired two new assistant
football coaches, Mark Kaanapu to coach the running backs and Richard Seigler
to assist on the defensive line.
Kaanapu has spent 15 seasons of coaching in California
Bulls ready to contend in improved East >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Conventional wisdom says the Chicago Bulls
failed this offseason.
After all, the Bulls were supposed to be in hot pursuit of the game's biggest
prize, LeBron James, and came up empty. In fact, when one ill
Izzo: Allen will not play for Spartans next season >>
East Lansing, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chris Allen will not be in a Michigan
State uniform for his senior season after failing to meet guidelines placed on
him by head coach Tom Izzo.
Allen started 27 of the 36 games he played in as a ju
Montreal's Calvillo tops CFL Players of the Month >>
Toronto, ON (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Montreal quarterback Anthony Calvillo and
defensive end John Bowman, Hamilton kick returner Marcus Thigpen and
Saskatchewan slotback Andy Fantuz have been selected as the CFL's top
perform
Strasburg could return next Tuesday >>
Phoenix, AZ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Washington Nationals rookie Stephen Strasburg
could return to the rotation next Tuesday.
Strasburg has been on the 15-day disabled list with inflammation in his right
shoulder. He was scratched from a July
Ten years ago, at just about this time, I called Alan Boston in Vegas and left him a voicemail that went something like this (abridged version): "Hey Alan, Chad Millman from ESPN The Magazine calling. I want to do a book about wise guys, you in?"
A couple weeks later I got a message back (abridged version): "I don't know, maybe," Boston said. "Call me and we'll talk about it. But not later today. I got $1,000 on Andre Agassi to win the French Open at 40-1, and he's in the finals."
Here's what happened next (abridged version): Agassi won his tourney. Boston won his $40,000. I wrote sportsbook.
In the ten years since, how much has been wagered on the big-time tennis events? Put it this way: The Nevada Gaming Commission doesn't even track the number year by year because it's so small.
"Tennis makes up about one-tenth of one percent of our take," says Lucky's bookmaking boss Jimmy Vaccaro. "The last big golf major we probably had $100,000 worth of bets. In tennis, we might have written two big tickets."
Tennis' lack of popularity amongst the American bettoratti is no surprise, really. For starters, the biggest sports betting holidays -- the Super Bowl, the NCAA tourney -- are must see TV. People, at least the degenerates I know, plan vacations around watching those events in Vegas sports books.
But Wimbledon? Doesn't exactly reel in the whales. "Seriously, it's the nuts as an event," says Boston. "But who even knows when it's on?"
Here's another reason that helps explain why golf gets traction, something I call "The Bubbe Theory." My Bubbe is pushing 95 and has cataracts so bad that, to her, even the most crystalline Chicago day is mostly cloudy. But she still listens to the Cubs games, and she still calls me in a fit if she disagrees with something Rick Telander writes in the Chicago Sun Times. She's a sports fan. If she doesn't know you, you're just filling a niche. And niche players, even historically good ones like Roger and Raf, don't drive betting volume. Only the highest profile names attract square money, which inflates wagering totals like a shot of saline to the lips. Bubbe, and the public, loved Agassi, tennis' last cross-the-rubicon, mainstream draw. She also has a crush on Tiger. She's given me standing orders to put a sawbuck on the big cat whenever I walk through a sports book (or mistakenly tap into one via my Internet machine.) That explains why the Masters is getting $100K in action at some books while the four tennis majors might not get that combined this year.
This isn't a case of tennis being a difficult sport to bet. In fact, in Europe, it's probably the second most popular sport for gambling after soccer. Granted, as the WSJ football betting last week and The Mag's Shaun Assael examined in even greater depth last year, that might be because gamblers across the pond see it as an easy game to fix. But it could also be because, over there it holds the kind of sway the big two do over here.
Street corners in Spain are peppered with public courts and kids doing their best Raffy impressions. In some war torn parts of Eastern Europe poverty-stricken kids view tennis as an escape route, like football or basketball here. A couple years ago The Mag's Lindsay Berra wrote a great piece about Belgrade's Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic and Novak Djokovic. They learned the game as kids while bombs were raining down on their homeland. They practiced in drained swimming pools. Not exactly Nick Bolletierri conditions.
In the United States, casual fans think tennis is played four times a year. But on the tightly packed European continent, national interest in homegrown talent runs deep every weekend. Of the ATP's current top 20 players, only two, tennis betting and James Blake, are American. Fourteen are from Europe, representing six different countries.
No wonder fans from Lisbon to Bhudapest get jacked up for the net game, whether it's Wimbledon or a low-level tourney like the Estoril Open in Portugal (congrats to Spain's Albert Montanes for winning that one, btw). Chances are good that someone representing their flag will not only be playing, but have a shot at winning.
And that's all any bettor can ask for.
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MySportsbook.com Favors Fighting Irish to win College Football betting odds
According to odds makers at MySportsbook.com, on January 8, the Fighting Irish faithful may be toasting their 14th national title in Arizona – Notre Dame’s first national championship in close to 20 years.
Although MySportsbook.com has listed Notre Dame as the 5-1 favorite to win thecollege football College Football betting, fans in Columbus do not need to cancel their tickets to Glendale just yet. The Ohio State Buckeyes, listed right behind the Irish at 7-1, are also heavy favorites to win college football’s most coveted prize, while West Virginia, USC and the 2007 National Champion Texas Longhorns - all listed at 8-1 – are strong contenders as well.
MySportsbook.com has also posted gambling odds on the conference championships for the ACC, Big 12 and SEC. In the ACC – it could be anyone’s title, particularly for the two schools from the Sunshine State. Florida State and Miami, both listed at 2-1, are favored to win the ACC Championship Game odds, with the ‘Noles hoping to finish in the nation’s top 10 for the first time in five years, and the ‘Canes looking to avenge their 10-7 loss against FSU in last year’s ACC Championship betting.
Moving west to the Big 12, MySportsbook.com has betting lines listing Texas as 7-5 favorites to repeat as conference champions, even though the Longhorns lost their national championship-winning quarterback Vince Young to the NFL. In the south, the Auburn Tigers – led by Heisman-hopeful senior running back Kenny Irons – have been given the best odds to win the SEC Championship odds at 5-2.
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