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11/07/2007 - Providence, RI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Big East Conference announced on Wednesday that all 16 member schools in both men's and women's basketball will participate in its postseason tournaments beginning in 2009.
The decision was made Tuesday at the annual presidents' meeting in Philadelphia.
"Our presidents performed a very thorough review of the tournament format," Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese said in a release. "After extensive deliberation, it was decided that inviting all teams to participate would provide a special opportunity to every men's and women's basketball student- athlete."
The current system for both men and women features the top 12 teams from the final regular-season standings advancing to the conference tournament. The men's championship is traditionally held at Madison Square Garden while the women's championship takes places at the Hartford Civic Center.
The new format will see teams seeded nine through 16 meet on the first day of the tournament, paired up as No. 9 vs. No. 16, No. 10 vs. No. 15, No. 11 vs. No. 14 and No. 12 vs. No. 13. Winners of those four games face seeds five through eight on the second day.
Four teams that advance from the second day of competition move on to play the top four seeded teams in the quarterfinal round. The top four seeds have byes into the round of eight.
Last season, Georgetown emerged as men's tournament champion while Rutgers won the women's title.
<< Eagles S Considine placed on IR
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Philadelphia Eagles placed safety Sean
Considine on injured reserve Wednesday.
Considine suffered a shoulder injury during the Eagles' 38-17 loss Sunday to
the Dallas Cowboys.
The fourth-round 2
<< FBS College Football - Week 11 Predictions
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines)
Below is a compilation of The Sportsbook Betting Lines's predictions for the top games
in Week 11 of the college football season. (Detailed previews for each game
can be found by following the "Top 25 scoreboard" link
<< Around FCS: The Perfect Storm
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - New England fishermen working off the
coasts of the north Atlantic have long known the perils of a storm called the
Nor'easter.
And if you follow football long enough in that part of the country, you know
<< Pacers' Diogu out with torn calf
Indianapolis, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Indiana Pacers forward Ike Diogu will be
out four-to-six weeks with a torn left calf muscle, the team announced on
Wednesday.
Diogu, who was acquired in an eight-player deal with the Golden State Wa
Simon headlines CFL Player of the Week honors >>
Toronto, ON (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - B.C. Lions slotback Geroy Simon was among
those who were honored in the CFL's players of the week, which were announced
on Wednesday.
Simon had five catches for 211 yards and two TDs in the Lions'
Dodgers tab Mannion as chief operating officer >>
Los Angeles, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Los Angeles Dodgers announced on
Wednesday that Dennis Mannion has been named the club's chief operating
officer.
Mannion arrives from his prior position, as senior vice president of busi
White Sox and Uribe agree to terms >>
Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Chicago White Sox agreed to terms on a
one-year contract with shortstop Juan Uribe on Wednesday.
The 28-year-old batted .234 with 20 home runs and 68 RBI in 150 games last
season, his fourth with t
Preki wins Coach of the Year for Chivas USA >>
Carson, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chivas USA coach Preki, in his first year in
the position and led the Goats to a 15-7-8 record and first place in Major
League Soccer's Western Conference, was named Coach of the Year for 2007. The
award,
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 wont 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 doesnt focus only on your opponents 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. Wheres 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, dont 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 wont be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, Im 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.
The most popular sports to bet on are NFL and college football along with NBA and NCAA basketball. There are multiple betting opportunities within those sports, beginning with the basic wager on a game’s outcome (also called betting the side). College Football Point spreads are used in both football and basketball in an attempt to even the attractiveness of each team in a match-up. ( See our article detailing how and why point spreads are made)
But you could also simply bet on the money line, or straight-up winner of the game. Oddsmakers use the money line so that more money must be risked on the favorite or expected winner and less money on the underdog to balance the action on both sides. While money line gambling is an attractive option for football and basketball bettors who only care about picking a winner, it is the primary option for those bettors who enjoy wagering on MLB baseball and individual sports like boxing, tennis, golf and racing events such as NASCAR. ( More details on playing the Money Line)
Another bet across all major team sports including football, basketball, baseball, and hockey involves wagering on the amount of scoring in a game, called an Over/Under total. For example, the Over/Under total on Super Bowl XXXIX was 48, which means a bettor could wager whether there would be more or less than 48 points scored by both teams combined in the game.
The final score of Super Bowl XXXIX was 24-21; the scoring of both teams added up to 45, which means the game went Under . So Under bettors won, and Over bettors lost.
Sports gambling doesn’t end there. Betting sides and totals are the most common wagers available everywhere, but many sportsbooks also offer future bets on big upcoming events like who will win next year’s Super Bowl and what movie will win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
The main advantage of futures is that you can get appealing odds by betting far in advance. For example, with NFL futures you often can get much higher odds on a team by betting before the season even starts. A NFL future bet on a team to win the Super Bowl odds might be 20/1 in the preseason; but by midseason, their odds might decrease to 10/1 if they turn out to be legitimate championship contenders.
Involves one individual wager, whether it be on your team to cover the point spread, to win the game straight-up on the money line, or to go over/under the total.
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