10/24/2008 - Hampton, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Inclement weather at the Atlanta Motor Speedway on Friday forced NASCAR officials to cancel qualifying for the E-Z Go 200 Craftsman Truck Series race.
Qualifying was originally scheduled for Saturday morning, but a revised schedule for the track calls for Truck Series practice early in the morning followed by Sprint Cup Series final practice.
Truck teams never had the opportunity to practice Friday because of poor weather conditions. Sprint Cup teams only had a few minutes of practice before the session was halted. Qualifying for that series was also cancelled.
By rule, points leader Johnny Benson will start on the pole position. Benson reclaimed the lead in the series last week after picking up the win at Martinsville.
Ron Hornaday, Jr., the defending series champion, will start on the outside pole.
Kyle Busch and Matt Crafton will make up row two, while Todd Bodine and Mike Skinner will start in row three.
Erik Darnell, Rick Crawford, Dennis Setzer and Ryan Newman will roll off six through 10th, respectively. Newman, the 2008 Daytona 500 champion, is making his first-ever truck start.
Benson currently holds a 65-point advantage over Hornaday with four races to go in the season.
Hornaday won the inaugural truck event at Atlanta in 2004 and has finished second in the last two races there.
Benson's track record at Atlanta is not as impressive as Hornaday's, as Benson has finished 28th or worse in three of the last four races there, although he finished third in last year's race.
The green flag for Saturday's race is scheduled to drop around 1:30 p.m. (et).
<< South Carolina extends baseball coach Tanner
Columbia, SC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - University of South Carolina baseball coach
Ray Tanner had a one-year contract extension approved Friday by the school's
board of trustees.
The extension keeps Tanner under contract through the 2013 seaso
<< NFL fines Burress
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The NFL fined New York Giants wide receiver
Plaxico Burress $45,000 for verbally abusing an official and tossing a ball
into the stands during last weekends game against San Francisco.
Burress was fine
<< Panthers D Allen to have surgery
Sunrise, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Florida Panthers defenseman Bryan Allen
will undergo knee surgery Monday in Colorado and will be out indefinitely.
Allen had arthroscopic surgery in the offseason to clean out the knee and
missed
<< Barnes, Leishman on top at Miccosukee Championship
Miami, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Ricky Barnes fired a seven-under 64 Friday to
move into a share of the lead at the halfway point of the Miccosukee
Championship.
Barnes was joined at six-under-par 136 by Marc Leishman, who carde
Flyers get first victory with rare win in New Jersey >>
Newark, NJ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mike Richards had four assists while Scott
Hartnell scored twice as the Philadelphia Flyers got their first win of the
season at an unlikely place, in a 6-3 defeat of the New Jersey Devils at
Prudent
Ducks survive Senators' spirited comeback >>
Ottawa, ON (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Ryan Getzlaf's second-period goal proved to be
the game-winner, as the Anaheim Ducks survived a late surge from the Ottawa
Senators to win 4-3 at Scotiabank Place.
Brian Sutherby, Todd Marchant and Samuel
Oberholser moves in front in Scottsdale >>
Scottsdale, AZ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Arron Oberholser fired a six-under-par 64 on
Friday to move atop the leaderboard after two rounds of the Frys.com Open.
Oberholser finished 36 holes at 11-under 129 and is one clear at Grayhawk Golf
Club.
Hossa shines as Red Wings top Thrashers >>
Detroit, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Marian Hossa had two goals and an assist
against his former team as the Detroit Red Wings downed the Atlanta Thrashers,
5-3, at Joe Louis Arena.
Hossa had spent two-plus seasons in Atlanta, but was
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 Favors Fighting Irish to win College Football betting odds
According to odds makers at MySportsbook.com, on January 8, the Fighting Irish faithful may be toasting their 14th national title in Arizona – Notre Dame’s first national championship in close to 20 years.
Although MySportsbook.com has listed Notre Dame as the 5-1 favorite to win thecollege football College Football betting, fans in Columbus do not need to cancel their tickets to Glendale just yet. The Ohio State Buckeyes, listed right behind the Irish at 7-1, are also heavy favorites to win college football’s most coveted prize, while West Virginia, USC and the 2007 National Champion Texas Longhorns - all listed at 8-1 – are strong contenders as well.
MySportsbook.com has also posted gambling odds on the conference championships for the ACC, Big 12 and SEC. In the ACC – it could be anyone’s title, particularly for the two schools from the Sunshine State. Florida State and Miami, both listed at 2-1, are favored to win the ACC Championship Game odds, with the ‘Noles hoping to finish in the nation’s top 10 for the first time in five years, and the ‘Canes looking to avenge their 10-7 loss against FSU in last year’s ACC Championship betting.
Moving west to the Big 12, MySportsbook.com has betting lines listing Texas as 7-5 favorites to repeat as conference champions, even though the Longhorns lost their national championship-winning quarterback Vince Young to the NFL. In the south, the Auburn Tigers – led by Heisman-hopeful senior running back Kenny Irons – have been given the best odds to win the SEC Championship odds at 5-2.
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