Sports Betting News: NFL Team History | NFL Football Betting | College Football Betting | Baseball Betting | Basketball Betting | College Basketball Betting | Hockey Betting | Golf Betting | Tennis Betting | Auto Racing Betting | Horse Racing Betting | Soccer Betting
02/05/2012 - Montreal, QC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Carey Price stopped 23 shots for his third shutout of the season as the Montreal Canadiens took a 3-0 decision over the Winnipeg Jets.
Tomas Plekanec had a goal and an assist while Max Pacioretty and Alexei Emelin both scored for the Canadiens, who snapped a three-game slide.
Ondrej Pavelec was tagged for all three goals on 23 shots for the Jets, who have dropped two straight.
With under two minutes to play in the first, the Canadiens took a 1-0 lead as a shot by Yannick Weber from the right point was stopped by Pavelec, but Pacioretty shoveled in the rebound for his 19th of the season.
At the 7:20 mark of the second, while shorthanded, Plekanec skated into the Winnipeg end down the right wing and shoveled it over to the slot where Emelin was all alone for the redirect.
On the power play, the Habs took a 3-0 lead when Plekanec got the puck in the high slot and skated closer to the net before snapping a wrister past Pavelec for his 11th of the season at the 11:28 mark of the second.
Price stopped 15 shots in the first two periods then turned aside eight in the third for his 15th career shutout.
Game Notes
Montreal hosts Pittsburgh on Tuesday...Winnipeg, which went 2-4-0 on its six- game road trip, returns home to face Toronto on Tuesday...It was the final game this season between these two teams. Montreal won three of four, including both home games.
<< De Rossi signs five-year extension with Roma
Milan, Italy (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Roma midfielder Daniele De Rossi has signed a
five-year contract extension, the Italian club announced Sunday.
De Rossi, 28, had a contract through the end of the current season, but signed
a new deal to keep
<< Notre Dame dominates DePaul
South Bend, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Natalie Novosel led the way with 21 points
for No. 2 Notre Dame as it dominated DePaul, 90-70, at Purcell Pavilion on
Sunday.
The Fighting Irish (23-1, 10-0 Big East) had five scorers in double figu
<< NFL Inactives (Sunday, February 5, 2012)
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The following is a list of inactive
players for Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis, IN.
NEW YORK GIANTS VS. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS, 6:30 P.M. (ET)
Giants - RB Da'Rel Scott, WR Ramses Barden, C Jim Cordle, T J
<< Italy sneaks past Ukraine to reach Fed Cup semis
Biella, Italy (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Italy got a big doubles win from Flavia
Pennetta and Roberta Vinci in Sunday's fifth and deciding rubber in their Fed
Cup quarterfinal against visiting Ukraine, as the Italians won the best-of-
five en
Lyon, Marseille share points in Olympic clash >>
Marseille, France (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Souleymane Diawara's own goal in the late
stages of the first half helped Lyon erase an early deficit and the seven-time
Ligue 1 champions tied Marseille, 2-2, on Sunday at the Stade Velodrome.
Benoit Che
Villarreal continues turnaround at Sevilla >>
Seville, Spain (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Javier Camunas scored in the 80th minute and
Villarreal continued its turnaround with a 2-1 La Liga win Sunday over Sevilla
at the Sanchez Pizjuan.
Villarreal won just three of its first 18 fixtures this sea
Serena leads U.S. past Belarus; Venus returns >>
Worcester, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Serena Williams recorded a singles
victory on Sunday to move the United States into the Fed Cup World Group
Playoffs.
The 2011 U.S. Open runner-up Williams improved to 2-0 this week by overc
Miami upsets No. 7 Duke in overtime >>
Durham, NC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Early in the season, all Reggie Johnson could do
was look on as his Miami-Florida Hurricanes got off to a disappointing 5-4
start.
Recovering from offseason knee surgery to repair a torn meniscu
MySportsbook.com is the best at processing US credit cards for deposits. Welcome to the most player friendly online sportsbook on the planet!
The principals behind MySportsbook are obviously a management group that understands the players needs as evidenced by their commitment to provide easy depositing with their high credit card acceptance rate and free weekly $10 bets they offer to clients with active betting accounts.
The perks don't end there! MySportsbook offers casino, poker and horses as well. Twice named Best Sportsbook by eGaming Review, this place is rock solid financially so you don't ever have to sweat the payout as you may with some other online bookies operating with less betting volume and client base.
Sign up today and grab your share of a 10% bonus that is added instantly to your betting account. Enjoy 52 risk free bets throughout the year as well!
Reasons to Play There: You have to see their no hitter, cycle hitter and slaughter rule promos for baseball. Worth a laugh and probably a few bucks throughout the MLB season. They offer supersized bonuses of 15% if you up your minimum deposit to $500 or more. Lay -105 on Friday NBA! Contests during the NFL football season!
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.
To visit this sports book go to MySportsbook.com for all your football betting needs.
Sports Betting News: NFL Team History | NFL Football Betting | College Football Betting | Baseball Betting | Basketball Betting | College Basketball Betting | Hockey Betting | Golf Betting | Tennis Betting | Auto Racing Betting | Horse Racing Betting | Soccer Betting