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12/27/2011 - Columbus, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - See You At Peelers, the 2010 champion two- year-old filly pacer, has again been recognized by the U.S. Harness Writers Association (USHWA) as champion three-year-old filly pacer for 2011.
The USHWA announced on Tuesday the Dan Patch Award division winners. Winners of Pacer, Trotter and Horse of the Year will be announced February 12 at USHWA's annual Dan Patch Awards dinner, which will be held in Orlando.
Trained by Jimmy Takter, See You at Peelers won nine of 12 starts in 2011, going undefeated in the first nine races. The filly earned $916,611 for owners Christina Takter, John Fielding and Jim Fielding. In 25 career starts the filly has 22 victories for nearly $1.5 million. Marcus Johansson and Brian Sears served as See You At Peelers' drivers in 2011.
As expected San Pail is the champion older male trotter after finishing atop the final Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll. The seven-year-old, trained by co-owner Rod Hughes, captured 14 of 16 starts with two seconds for $1,289,000. The gelding was driven by Randy Waples.
Hambletonian winner Broad Bahn is the Dan Patch recipient as champion three- year-old male trotter. Owned by Fam Alber Horse Racing, the colt was trained by Noel Daley and driven by champion reinsman George Brennan. Broad Bahn earned $1.32 million for the year with five wins in 19 starts.
Leading money winner Roll With Joe is the champion three-year-old male pacer. The Meadowlands Pace champ is owned by Winbak Farm and trained by Ed Hart. With Ron Pierce driving the colt won six of 14 starts for more than $1.6 million.
The 2011 Dan Patch Award winners are:
Horse of the Year: TBA
Pacer of the Year: TBA
Trotter of the Year: TBA
Two-year-old pacing colt: Sweet Lou
Two-year-old pacing filly: Economy Terror
Two-year-old trotting colt: Possess The Will
Two-year-old trotting filly: Check Me Out
Three-year-old pacing colt: Roll With Joe
Three-year-old pacing filly: See You At Peelers
Three-year-old trotting colt: Broad Bahn
Three-year-old trotting filly: Cedar Dove
Older male pacer: Foiled Again
Older female pacer: Anndrovette
Older male trotter: San Pail
Older female trotter: Action-Broadway
<< Step back likely to cost Rams' Spagnuolo
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - St. Louis is known as the Gateway to the
West, but for Rams head coach Steve Spagnuolo it appears as if the city will
simply be a passage to the unemployment line.
Saturday's 27-0 loss in Pittsburgh handed
<< United's Evans out two weeks with calf injury
Manchester, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Manchester United defender Jonny Evans
will be sidelined two weeks with a calf injury, leaving the English Premier
League side without another option in central defense.
Evans, 23, was removed at h
<< Jets visit red-hot Avalanche
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Jets haven't played too many games away from the
friendly confines of Winnipeg, but their second road game of the month figures
to be a tough one.
The Jets travel to Denver, where they will face a Colorado Avalanche cl
<< Blues, Red Wings clash in Motown
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The last time the Blues visited Joe Louis Arena, they
notched their best offensive performance in 17 years.
With St. Louis rolling under new head coach Ken Hitchcock, the potential for
another offensive showcase is there.
4-time Stanley Cup winner Johnny Wilson passes away >>
Detroit, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former Detroit Red Wing forward Johnny Wilson
has died. He was 82.
Wilson was a four-time Stanley Cup champion with Detroit in the 1950's. He had
161 goals and 171 assists in 688 NHL games with the Red Wi
Rangers' McCulloch available for Old Firm >>
Glasgow, Scotland (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Rangers midfielder Lee McCulloch will be
eligible to play in Wednesday's Old Firm derby against Celtic, as his club has
appealed his red card received Saturday against St Mirren.
McCulloch and teammate
A look back at the year in MLB >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - With Prince Fielder no closer to finding a
home and no other news in sight, Major League Baseball appears to be
officially closed for business until 2012. So, of course, there is no better
time than now to re
Botafogo signs midfielder Andrezinho >>
Sao Paulo, Brazil (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Botafogo signed midfielder Andrezinho to
three-year contract Tuesday.
Andrezinho, 28, passed a medical Monday and completed the deal Tuesday, as he
was signed to help replace departed defender Bruno C
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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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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