08/28/2008 - Freehold, NJ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Art Official, Meadowlands Pace champ, is the 9-5 morning-line favorite for Monday's Cane Pace at Freehold Raceway. The $392,850 one-mile event is the first leg of the Pacing Triple Crown.
Coming off a convincing win in a Cane elimination race, Art Official will be driven by Ron Pierce from post seven. Pierce has three Cane Pace victories on his resume.
Trained by Joe Seekman for Sawgrass Farms, Art Official has won four straight and six of his last seven starts. The colt has won nine of 15 races this year and has earned $1 million.
Another Cane elimination winner, Badlands Nitro, is the 5-2 second choice and will be coupled with Rudy Rednose. Badlands Nitro will be driven by Brian Sears from the inside post and Rudy Rednose will start from post four with David Miller. Sears won the 2007 Cane with Always A Virgin.
"He came out of the (Battle of Brandywine) good," said trainer and co-owner George Teague, Jr. about Badlands Nitro. "He had nothing else on his schedule leading up to the Little Brown Jug, so we decided to enter. He's very versatile, real handy. He can spring off the wings when he needs to and he can follow cover. He's a real perfect-gaited horse."
Along with the Battle of Brandywine, Badlands Nitro captured the Art Rooney Pace at Yonkers and the Max Hempt Memorial at Pocono Downs. He was second to Somebeachsomewhere in the North America Cup.
The three-year-old has earned $1.1 million this year with nine wins in 12 starts. Rudy Rednose has won four of 11 starts this year for $188,986.
Here is the entire field for the Cane Pace final in post position order: Badlands Nitro, Brian Sears 5-2; McCedes, Daniel Dube 6-1; Moon Beam, Yannick Gingras 3-1; Rudy Rednose, David Miller 5-2; U Smooth Talker U, John Campbell 15-1; Lis Deo, Tim Tetrick 9-2; Art Official, Ron Pierce 9-5 and Major General, Andy Miller 10-1.
The second leg of the Triple Crown, the Little Brown Jug, is set for Thursday, September 18 at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Ohio and the Messenger Pace, will be Saturday, October 25 at Yonkers Raceway. No Pan Intended was the last horse to complete the Triple Crown sweep in 2003.
<< Ferrer, Murray, Blake reach third round in Flushing
Flushing Meadows, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Fourth-seeded Spaniard David
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Perthshire, Scotland (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Gregory Havret carded a five-under-par
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<< United to face Celtic, Villarreal in CL group play
Monaco, France (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Manchester United, which won the Champions
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Wigginton powers Astros by Reds >>
Houston, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Ty Wigginton homered twice as Houston clipped
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Park.
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bottom of the ninth, as the New York Yankees salvaged the finale of a three-
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Royals extend agreement with Omaha until 2010 >>
Omaha, NE (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Kansas City Royals announced Thursday
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through the 2010 season.
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Atletico signs Banega on loan from Valencia >>
Madrid, Spain (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Atletico Madrid signed Argentinian midfielder
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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 won’t 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 doesn’t focus only on your opponent’s 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. Where’s 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, don’t 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 won’t be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, I’m 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.
MySportsbook.com refunds all bets on Oakland, Green Bay and Tampa Bay from NFL week one.
(September 14) – Week one of NFL action saw three teams go scoreless for the first time since 1977. Another four were unable to get a touchdown and almost half of the underdogs covered the spread. Those three teams saved bettors at MySportsbook.com from losing out completely, thanks to the company’s unique NFL Shutout Rule -- which ensures that if the team you backed goes scoreless, your wager is refunded.
Sportsbook refunded tens of thousands of dollars to customers who bet on Oakland, Green Bay and Tampa Bay, the three teams that stunk up the field so badly that their fans and backers never had a chance to get up from their couches and cheer. In the spirit of the low scoring start to the season, odds makers at the world’s largest online sportsbook and casino have set odds on how many total shutouts there will be this season.
MySportsbook.com has posted updated sports betting lines for week two of the season. Ben Roethlisberger’s health status is still questionable, so Willie Parker will try to lead Pittsburgh again as they travel to Jacksonville as a one point favorite. After beating up on his little brother last week, Peyton Manning will look to lead the Colts to victory against Houston. Indianapolis is a whopping 13.5 favorite in the match-up.
Seattle, last year’s highest scoring team, showed the power of their defense with their gritty 9-6 win in Motown over the ravenous Lions. They take their act back home to the comforts of Qwest Field where they will face the resurgent Arizona Cardinals. The Seahawks are favored by a touchdown.
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