10/20/2008 - Linz, Austria (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Eighth-seeded Alize Cornet of France highlighted Monday's opening-round winners at the $600,000 Generali Ladies Linz tennis event.
Cornet whipped Chinese Jie Zheng 6-3, 6-2 on the indoor hardcourt at Intersport Arena.
In other Day-1 play, Estonian Kaia Kanepi drilled Austrian wild card Melanie Klaffner 6-4, 6-0 and Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik handled Thai veteran Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-1, 7-5.
Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova, who is not defending her title here this week, defeated Swiss Patty Schnyder in last year's Linz finale. Schnyder is this week's fourth seed.
The top seeds here are French Open champion and Australian Open runner-up Ana Ivanovic of Serbia and Russian Vera Zvonareva. The top-four seeds, including No. 3 Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, all received first-round byes.
The 2008 Linz champion will pocket $95,500.
<< Around FCS: We could have been contenders
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - As a kid, I remember Muhammad Ali being
unjustly stripped of his heavyweight crown, and boxing officials coming up
with a rather curious way to determine a new champion.
They staged a series of elimination
<< Romo's status "to be determined"
Irving, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Dallas Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips said
Monday that quarterback Tony Romo's status for this week's game against Tampa
Bay is "to be determined."
"I think he's going to be similar to where he was last
<< Report: BC LB Toal done for season
Chestnut Hill, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Boston College fifth-year senior
linebacker Brian Toal broke his right leg in the Eagles' 28-23 victory over
then-No. 17 Virginia Tach on Saturday and, according to a report in the Boston
Herald,
<< Tursunov tumbles on home soil
St. Petersburg, Russia (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sixth-seeded Russian Dmitry Tursunov
was among Monday's first-round losers at the $1.49 million St. Petersburg
Open.
Slovakian veteran Dominik Hrbaty surprised the Moscow native Tursunov 6-1, 6-
Browns HOF Hickerson dies >>
Canton, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Cleveland Browns Hall of Fame guard Gene
Hickerson died Monday morning at the age of 73.
Hickerson was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2007.
"We are saddened to learn about Gene's passin
James Madison retains No.1 ranking in TSN poll >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - James Madison had a bye week to prepare
for Saturday's showdown at No. 7 Villanova, but that didn't get in the way of
the Dukes holding on to the No. 1 ranking in the Sportsbook Betting Lines FCS Top-25
poll re
Chakvetadze, Hantuchova advance in Luxembourg >>
Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Two of this week's top-three seeds
-- No. 2 Anna Chakvetadze and No. 3 Daniela Hantuchova -- were among Monday's
opening-round winners at the Luxembourg Championships.
The Russian Chakvetadze go
A's, Ellis agree on two-year extension >>
Oakland, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Oakland Athletics agreed to terms with
second baseman Mark Ellis on a two-year contract extension Monday.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the new pact includes a
club option for
Two playoff teams from 2007 take center stage on the NFL Network Sunday night in a Week 2 NFL betting match-up when the (0-1) New England Patriots betting head south to Florida for a contest with the (1-0) Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
New England HC Bill Belichick couldn’t care less about the way his team plays in the preseason. With a chance to tie last week’s game with the Baltimore Ravens betting, He elected to go for the two-point conversion and outright victory. The conversion failed, and the Pats ended up falling to the Ravens by a 16-15 final count.
New England rolled off twelve unanswered points to give it a chance at securing the victory, but it never threatened to cover the 3.5-point spread. NFL bettors saw this one coming, as they bet the Ravens down from +6 to +3.5 as the week progressed. QB Tom Brady didn’t take part in the Patriots first preseason clash, but could see action this weekend.
His three replacements all put up embarrassing numbers. They went a combined 17 for 33, and threw three interceptions and no touchdowns. The New England defense was encouraging, as they held the Ravens to 2/12 third down conversions and surrendered just ten first downs. That ‘D’ should be bolstered with the addition of former Bucs and Denver Broncos betting safety John Lynch, who could make his Patriots debut on Sunday against his former mates.
HC Jon Gruden had to be impressed with the way his Bucs played on both sides of the ball in their dominating 17-6 victory over the Miami Dolphins in Week 1’s NFL pre-season betting action. Bucs bettors were quite happy with the effort, as they made a mockery of the fact that they were underdogs in the game.
The logjam at the quarterback position didn’t get any easier to separate for Gruden, as all four of his QBs had positive experiences in the first exhibition of 2008. The four combined to complete 28 of their 40 passes for 204 yards and a touchdown, and that was without starting QB Jeff Garcia in the lineup.
RB Michael Bennett had 19 carries and four receptions, totaling 90 yards and a touchdown. Expect to see more of Bennett, Kenneth Darby, and Earnest Graham, as they all compete for playing time with Warrick Dunn in the backfield this season. Defensively, the Bucs recorded four sacks and held the Fins offense in check all day.
First round draft pick Aqib Talib was impressive in the secondary, recording a tackle and two pass defenses in his debut. Don’t be surprised to see Talib in the starting lineup opposite Ronde Barber for the Bucs in ’08.
The betting trends suggest that NFL bettors should be backing the Bucs in this intra-conference exhibition.
These two teams hooked up last year in Tampa Bay, with the Bucs winning that game 13-10. The Buccaneers have only lost one preseason game at home dating back to the beginning of the ’05 preseason. The Patriots have had a mixed bag of results in their recent exhibitions. They have gone 2-2 ATS and SU each of the last three years.
New England currently sits as modest 1-point favorites in this preseason showdown with the ‘total’ now sitting at 34.5.
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