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06/05/2007 - Atlanta, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Buddy Carlyle tossed seven brilliant innings, and Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Chris Woodward connected on back-to-back homers in the seventh inning to lead Atlanta to a 3-1 win over Florida in the front end of a day-night doubleheader at Turner Field.
Carlyle (1-1), who was making just his second career start, allowed just one run on one hit, a solo home run from Aaron Boone. The right-hander walked three and punched out five en route to winning his first major league game since 1999.
Rafael Soriano and Bob Wickman closed things out with an inning of scoreless relief apiece. Wickman earned his 10th save on the year.
Saltalamacchia finished 2-for-3 with a two-run homer for the Braves, who snapped a two-game skid and won for the fourth time in six games.
Sergio Mitre hurled five shutout innings for the Marlins, who had won two of three coming in. The starter allowed just four hits and did not walk a batter, while fanning three but was let down by his bullpen. Renyel Pinto (0-3) lost it after give up the consecutive homers.
Boone's homer was the only offense for the Marlins. Alfredo Amezaga had the only other hit in the game for Florida, a single in the ninth
Down 1-0, the Braves finally broke through off Florida's bullpen in the seventh. Jeff Francoeur led off the frame with a single off Justin Miller and the Marlins made the mistake of summoning Pinto into the game. Pinto did manage to get Scott Thorman to foul out to third but Saltalamacchia followed by lining a two-run homer over the wall in left. Woodward, a pinch-hitter, then touched Pinto for another long ball to make it a 3-1 game.
The Marlins drew first blood in the third when Boone connected on a one-out solo homer, his fourth of the year.
Game Notes
The game was delayed by 26 minutes in the eighth thanks to rain...The twin bill was scheduled due to an April 14 rainout...Woodward's homer was his first of the year and was his second career pinch-hit homer...Andruw Jones was 0- for-4 and had a 10-game hitting streak snapped...Carlyle's last and only other big league win was on September 9, 1999 with San Diego.
<< Cardinals release three players
Tempe, AZ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Arizona Cardinals released guard Milford
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Brown started in 12 of 13 games last year for Arizona while Clancy started all
11 games h
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Detroit, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Detroit Tigers activated relief pitcher
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Rodney had been sidelined since May 21 because of biceps tendinitis.
The right-hander has appeared in
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The Seattle Times is reporting that Presti, the assistant general manager for
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<< Yippee, it's MLB Draft time
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - My least favorite thing to cover during the Major League
Baseball season takes place this Thursday, when the annual First-Year Player
Draft gets going at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida.
Apparentl
TFC hopes to continue surge vs. New York >>
Toronto, Ontario (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Toronto FC continued to turn its season
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of its
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irritated right triceps.
John Rheinecker, who was activated off the 60-day disa
Young stars ready to emerge for U.S. men >>
Carson, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Coach Bob Bradley used five starters and a
number of subs with almost no national team experience when the United States
played it final tune-up for the CONCACAF Gold Cup, which starts this week.
If their
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Orlando, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Orlando Magic are set to release Billy
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Michael Vick is back, Brett Favre isn't and the NFC East remains the best division in the NFC, maybe in all of football.
As players start to gather for the start of another season, some things change and some stay the same in the world of the NFL.
The NFC East has been the dominant division in the National Conference for a while, despite limited playoff success, save for the New York Giants surprise Super Bowl win two seasons ago.
Hell, there's a generation of kids in Texas who have never seen the Cowboys win a playoff game (last win was in 1996).
But collectively, the Giants, Eagles, Cowboys and Redskins (well, maybe not so much the Redskins) are as good as a division gets in an NFC conference that has struggled to stay competitive with the AFC side.
Sports bettors have both acknowledged the NFC East's dominance, as one glance at the NFL future odds menu will show.
Looking over the NFL betting odds at online sports book MySportsbook.com we see the top three teams listed to win the NFC Championship are all from the NFC East:
Dallas Cowboys - 7 - 1
Philadelphia Eagles - 13 - 2
New York Giants - 9 - 2
Slotting in behind these three are two teams from the NFC North: the Minnesota Vikings (15-2) and the Chicago Bears (10-1).
Again, despite the lack of recent playoff success, the Dallas Cowboys are popular with the sports betting community, as they hold 14% of all the money wagered on who will win the NFC Championship.
So far, the New York Giants are the bettors' favorite to represent their conference in the Super Bowl, as they have 24% of the overall NFC Championship betting volume.
And what about the Philadelphia Eagles? For the most part, the Eagles had a very productive offseason, the kind that could bring them back to the top.
They had a good draft adding the likes of WR Jeremy Maclin and RB LeSean McCoy.
Unfortunately, the team received a blow when long-time defensive coordinator Jim Johnson passed away on Tuesday.
But this team will make a real run at the division title this year. Going into the regular season, Philly is listed at +240 to win the division.
Last season the Eagles were 9-6-1 SU and 10-6 ATS.
Teams from the NFC East will play teams from the AFC West in the regular season and the Eagles haven't really been a good bet in the last 20 games against the likes of San Diego, Oakland, K.C. and Denver, only going 8-12 ATS.
Two seasons removed from that Super Bowl title, the New York Giants see themselves listed as the odds-on favorite in NFC East championship futures at +162.
Plaxico Burress is gone and with him all the bad publicity surrounding the gun in the sweatpants incident, but can they replace him in the offense?
Last season the Giants were a very reliable bet going 12-4 ATS.
In the Giants' last 20 games against fellow teams from the NFC East; they are 13-7 ATS.
Dallas is listed at +240 to win the division.
Dallas went 9-7 SU and 7-9 ATS last season and with the amount of talent the Cowboys have, a similar performance won't do.
The Cowboys have been atrocious against divisional rivals, going 6-14 ATS in their last 20.
The Washington Redskins are longshots to win the division at +550.
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Elite 8 NCAA Tournament Betting at online sportsbook MySportsbook.com
In what should be an outstanding Saturday of March Madness betting action, the top four teams in the South and West Regions square off in what should be extremely close match-ups. Three of the four teams are coming off extremely close games on Thursday evening, only UCLA won semi comfortably over Pitt 64-55.
Ohio State is coming off their second game in a row where in all reality they should have lost. Of course that doesn’t matter now since the name of the game is “survive and advance” but as the tournament continues, they can’t afford to keep getting down to their opponents early. Kansas also avoided a scare by holding off a scrappy Southern Illinois squad. In the third thrilling game of the evening Memphis pulled off the minor upset (+3.5) despite being the higher seed to Texas A&M.
Although the spreads are fairly small for Saturday’s games, MySportsbook.com continue to bet against the underdogs. Despite OSU’s two scares, 86% of the “betting public” feels the Buckeyes (-1.5) have what it takes to make the Final Four. In fact, so much of the early money is on OSU that the line has already moved from -1 to -1.5. In the second game of the doubleheader, Kansas and their high-powered offense are 2 point favorites as they take on UCLA and their effective defense. About 63% of the early money thus far is once again backing the favorites. If those percentages stay that high, don’t be surprised if this line moves as well. If you like Kansas (-2) you might want to jump on it early.
Memphis vs. Ohio State
Both squads were involved in thrillers on Thursday evening and should come out fired up. OSU can ill afford to get behind early like they did versus their previous two opponents (Xavier, Tennessee). Greg Oden needs to stay out of foul trouble; the Buckeyes are a completely different team when he is on the court. Memphis definitely has the athleticism and length to match-up with OSU. Of Memphis’ five leading minute earners, the shortest of the bunch is 6’5”. Each team has a very effective defense; Memphis surrenders 62.3 PPG whereas the Buckeyes give up only 61 PPG. With those type of numbers, it isn’t surprising that Memphis covered the UNDER almost 69% of the time this season. As a favorite, OSU has covered the UNDER almost 66% of the time over the last three seasons. The major concern for Memphis which is magnifies this time of the year is their brutal foul shooting (62%). This season, OSU is 17-11 ATS versus teams with a winning record and 7-2 ATS in all tournament games. Memphis has been an extremely reliable cover in tournament play in recent years with a 23-8 ATS record over the last three seasons.
UCLA vs. Kansas
In the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader, UCLA will play in a role which they are very unfamiliar with that of the underdog. Only twice this season have they been getting points from the handicappers and both times they covered. Over the last three seasons UCLA is a reliable 23-7 ATS in this unfamiliar role. UCLA has not fared well against Big 12 opponents recently going 1-7 ATS since 1997. Giving up only 59.6 PPG, UCLA will definitely look to do what they do best: keep this game as low scoring as possible. Their defense has been especially tough during the tournament. UCLA opponents have been able to muster up only 48.7 PPG while shooting a combined 34.5% from the field. UCLA definitely has a challenge at hand with a Kansas team that is capable of putting points on the board in bunches. As a team, they average 79 PPG and shoot an impressive 49.6% from the field and 39.4% from beyond the arc. During the tournament Kansas has been “lights out” from the field having shot 56.2%.
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