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Jackson, Bobcats send Minnesota to 14th straight lossBasketball Betting Lines03/24/2010 - Charlotte, NC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Stephen Jackson snapped out of a recent shooting slump to score 37 points with five rebounds, while Gerald Wallace chipped in 23 points, as Charlotte continued to protect its home court and moved closer to its first franchise playoff berth with a 108-95 victory over hapless Minnesota. Raymond Felton added 16 points and eight assists for the Bobcats, who won for the second straight night and improved to 26-8 at Time Warner Cable Arena. The Bobcats won their 37th game, adding on to a franchise-record victory total achieved on Tuesday night, and moved 1 1/2 games in front of eight-place Toronto in the Eastern Conference playoff race. The jockeying for position also includes idle Miami, which sits tied with the Bobcats for the sixth spot. "We have some athleticism we can utilize in the open floor (and we did that)," said Bobcats head coach Larry Brown. Al Jefferson led the Timberwolves with 21 points, Ramon Sessions added 14 off the bench and Ryan Gomes chipped in 12. The Timberwolves are coming into historic futility, losing their 14th straight for the first time since a 16- game skid spanning two seasons from April - November, 1994. The Timberwolves have lost 20 of 21 overall, last winning in Miami on February 23. Minnesota kept up the pace in a high-scoring opening stanza, taking a 28-24 lead on a Kevin Love three-point play with just over 2 1/2 minutes to go and holding a three-point edge at 33-30 on Jefferson's mid-range bucket. The edge grew to seven early in the period, but the Timberwolves' play eventually reverted back to their season-long offensive struggles. Minnesota scored just 12 points in the second period, and after holding a 43-34 edge on Wayne Ellington's trey, quickly went into a scoring drought. The Bobcats had no such trouble, running off a remarkable 20 straight points over a six-minute span. Wallace capped the flurry with a three-point play and a pair of driving layups for a 54-43 lead. Minnesota went nearly seven minutes without a point before Sessions' hook shot with 37.2 ticks to go. The Bobcats held a 55-45 lead at the half. The visitors drew within five at 71-66 on Jonny Flynn's free throws nearing the three-minute mark, but again a scoring slump and shoddy defense led to an 10-2 Bobcats onslaught, triggered and capped by Jackson and Wallace. Jackson drilled one of his four three-pointers and Wallace converted a driving layup off a nice pass from Jackson for an 81-68 game. The edge stood at 85-76 after 36 minutes of action. The margin grew back to 15 at 99-84 on a Jackson trey at the midway point of the fourth and the Timberwolves got no closer than 11 from that point on. Game Notes Charlotte shot 53.6 percent from the floor and made 7-of-15 treys, while Minnesota connected on 45.1 percent of its shots, but just 4-of-13 from beyond the arc...Ellington was back in a familiar area after a stellar collegiate career at North Carolina. He scored six points in nearly 16 1/2 minutes...Charlotte ran out to 24 fastbreak points and held a 66-46 edge in points in the paint...Charlotte has won six of the last seven matchups between the two clubs.
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New York, NY – October 3, 2007 – The dress rehearsal is over! The NHL preseason has ended and now that fans have had a glimpse of what is to come it is time to hit the book! Stanley Cup odds are live at MySportsbook.com, the world’s largest online sportsbook and casino. The Ottawa Senators and Detroit Red Wings remain on top of the odds charts after an impressive start in the preseason. Betting lines opened for both teams at 6-1 in June. Since then the Sens have fallen to 7-1 and the Red Wings are now caught in a pack including the defending champion Carolina Hurricanes, the San Jose Sharks and the Anaheim Ducks, all at 10-1. MySportsbook.com has also posted props on each team’s point total for the regular season. The Senators lead the charge at 108.5 followed by the Ducks at 106.5. Detroit will attempt a repeat for the prize as the Red Wings are deadlocked with the Predators at 104.5 a piece. The temporary loss of highly touted rookie Evgeni Malkin puts a lot of pressure on the stick of assistant captain Sidney Crosby - his lowly Pittsburgh Penguins are listed at 71.5. Even if bettors are not brave enough to put their money on the underdog, an early bet on the favorites at sportsbook.com tends to produce bigger payouts than a mid-season wager. Placing a $1,000 bet last summer on the Detroit Red Wings or Ottawa Senators would have paid out to $8,000 and $10,000 respectively, opposed to a $2,500 or $3,000 payout at the beginning of the playoffs. Stanley Cup Odds
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FOOTBALL BETTING : Crabtree's base deal: six years, $32 millionIn the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree. And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so. Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal. So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent. And we've gotten our mitts into them. Per a league source, Crabtree has signed a six-year, $32 million contract. (The total includes guaranteed money, base salaries, and the one-time incentive based on achieving minimum playing time.) The deal also includes $17 million in guaranteed money. As reported elsewhere, the deal can void to five years based on performance triggers, wiping out a final year base salary of $4 million. But they won't be easily reached. The source tells us that, in his first four seasons (including 2009), Crabtree must either qualify for two Pro Bowls, or he must qualify for one Pro Bowl in one year and he must participate in 80 percent of the offensive snaps in a separate year in which the team makes the playoffs. In other words, if in 2010 he qualifies for the Pro Bowl and the team makes the playoffs and he participates in 80 percent of the snaps, he'll still need to make it to the Pro Bowl or achieve the 80-percent/playoffs in another season. Since the chances of Crabtree making the Pro Bowl or participating in 80 percent of the offensive snaps this year is roughly zero percent, he'll have three years to get it done. And it won't be easy. Frankly, he'll be hard pressed to make it to one Pro Bowl in three years with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith, the other Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks, DeSean Jackson, Johnny Knox, Percy Harvin, Greg Jennings, Roddy White, T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the same conference for sportsbook betting. So, by all appearances, it's a six-year deal. And at $17 million in guaranteed money, the per-year guarantee is a tepid $2.83 million per year. There's another problem with the deal -- it has no mid-tier incentive package. Instead, the additional $8 million that Crabtree can earn (pushing the max value to six years, $40 million) requires the kind of unrealistic, mega-star performances that no rookie is likely to ever achieve. So while the contract paid to Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji covers five years and pays $22.5 million, he has the ability (if he's a solid player) to make up the difference between his base deal and Crabtree's five-year, $28 million haul via the mid-tier incentive package in Raji's deal. And unless Crabtree meets the performance thresholds necessary to void the sixth year, he'll be stuck under contract for another year at a base salary of only $4 million. There's one other area of concern with the deal. Crabtree, per the source, received no option bonus. Instead, he has significant money tied to a fairly new device known as a "discretionary salary advance," which unlike an opition bonus is subject to forfeiture if Crabtree decides in a year or two that he wants to hold out for a better deal. (We're also told that the 49ers have included language that would make certain escalators subject to forfeiture, too.) Meanwhile, the deal falls well short of the mark for which Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were aiming -- the five-year, $38.25 million contract paid by the Raiders to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the draft. Even if Crabtree successfully voids the final year, he'll make more than $2 million per year less on average than Heyward-Bey. Thus, as we explained earlier in the day, this is a deal that Crabtree could have done in July, which would have given him a much better chance of making a contribution to the 49ers during his rookie year. So while the final outcome can be described as win-win, the broader view suggests that it's really a lose-lose situation. To visit this sportsbook go to MySportsbook.com for all your college football betting needs. |
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