07/23/2008 - West Hartford, CT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Medalist Lisa McCloskey easily dispatched Christine Song on Wednesday to move into Thursday's second round of match play at the U.S. Girls' Junior Championship.
There were three weather delays on Wednesday and the first round of match play was not completed. The last match between Rachel Rohanna and Julie Yang is all-square with one hole to play.
That match will resume at 7:30 a.m. (et) Thursday at The Hartford Golf Club.
McCloskey was fortunate enough to finish off her match before the third weather delay.
"It's definitely an advantage," acknowledged McCloskey after her match. "I do not have to stick around to see if we will play. Maybe I'll go to the hotel for an hour or two."
McCloskey will meet Dorothy Schwartz, a 1-up winner over Erica Popson on Wednesday, in Thursday's first second-round match.
Kimberly Kim, the 2006 U.S. Women's Amateur Champion, handled Stacy Kim , 5 & 4 to advance to the second round.
Defending champion Kristen Park needed one extra hole to eliminate Veronica Valerio, 1-up. Park will face Emilie Burger on Thursday after Burger defeated Austin Ernst, 2 & 1.
Madison Pressel, the younger sister of LPGA Tour star Morgan Pressel, pulled out a 1-up victory over Anna Jang on Wednesday. Pressel gets Sarah Beth Davis on Thursday.
Sarah Brown got a 1-up win over Christine Shimel and will wait for the winner between Rohanna and Yang.
<< Jazz acquire G Knight from Clippers
Salt Lake City, UT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Utah Jazz acquired veteran point
guard Brevin Knight from the Los Angeles Clippers in exchange for guard Jason
Hart, the club announced Wednesday.
Knight appeared in 74 games for the Clippers
<< Chargers release WR Parker
San Diego, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The San Diego Chargers released veteran
wideout Eric Parker on Wednesday.
Parker spent each of his six NFL seasons with San Diego, racking up 187
catches for 2,586 yards and 11 touchdowns in 62
<< Mathis drives in six; Angels hold off Tribe in wild slugfest
Anaheim, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jeff Mathis smacked a grand slam and drove
in six runs to highlight a rare offensive explosion for the LA Angels of
Anaheim in a 14-11 victory over the Cleveland Indians in their three-game
series
<< Rams DT Wroten suspended for one year
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - St. Louis Rams defensive tackle Claude Wroten
has been suspended by the NFL without pay for the entire 2008 season due
to another violation of its Substance Abuse Policy.
Wroten, out of Louisiana Sta
Saints extend WR Colston through 2011 >>
New Orleans, LA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The New Orleans Saints and wide receiver
Marques Colston agreed to a three-year contract extension through the 2011
season Wednesday.
The seventh round pick in the 2006 draft has grossly outperfor
Lowell to the rescue as Sox edge M's in extras >>
Seattle, WA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mike Lowell drove in the go-ahead runs in the
top of the 12th inning and the Boston Red Sox held off a late charge from the
Seattle Mariners to win, 6-3, and complete a three-game sweep at Safeco Field.
Bost
Rays send down Zobrist in anticipation of Bartlett's return >>
St. Petersburg, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Tampa Bay Rays optioned shortstop
Ben Zobrist to Triple-A Durham Wednesday.
Zobrist, who went 2-for-3 with a home run and two RBI in a 4-3 win over the
Oakland Athletics Wednesday, was option
Medalist Valdes advances at U.S. Junior >>
Shoal Creek, AL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Medalist Jorge Fernandez Valdes needed one
extra hole on Wednesday to dispatch Cory McElyea, 1-up, and advance at the
U.S. Junior Amateur Championship.
The first round of match play was suspended due t
Brandon Roy Favorite to Win 2007 NBA Rookie of the Year
Portland TrailBlazer’s guard, Brandon Roy, is MySportsbook.com’s overwhelming favorite to win the NBA Rookie of the Year odds.
Despite missing 20 games due to an injury earlier this season, Roy has definitely put up the best numbers of his 1st year peers. In 32 games, Roy is averaging 15.3 PPG, 4.2 boards and 3.5 assists in over 33 minutes of play per game. While most rookies breakdown as the season progresses (see Morrison), Roy is only getting stronger as his playing time and scoring average has increased each month.
With 30 or so games left in the regular season, Roy isn’t a lock for the award by any means. Other rookies are putting together some pretty impressive campaigns and a few could give Roy a run for the award with increased playing time. Heading the list is first pick, Andrea Bargnani of the Toronto Raptors. Even though he has started only two games all season, Bargnani is averaging 10.3 PPPG while shooting 35% from deep.
Randy Foye of the Minnesota Timberwolves could be set to give Roy the best competition NBA Rookie of the Year betting lines. With the benching of Mike James, Foye looks like he could be the starter in the T-Wolves backcourt for the rest of the season. So far, Foye has averaged 9 PPG and 2.4 assists in just under 21 minutes per game. With his new role of starter, Foye’s numbers will definitely increase. In his first game as the new starting guard this past Sunday, Foye had 10 points; five rebounds and 8 assists. More importantly, he logged 34 minutes of playing time; his third highest run of the season.
Adam Morrison, of the Charlotte Bobcats, was the favorite early on in the season after averaging 15+ PPG through the first month of the season. Ever since his torrid start, Morrison’s point production has declined each month. This really isn’t surprising, considering at 6’8” he only weighs 205 lbs. Obviously he will need to hit the weights big time during the off-season in order to keep from breaking down in the future.
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Las Vegas Sports Consultants (LVSC) is the world’s premier oddsmaking company and the most respected authority on making the lines. Mike Seba is a Senior Oddsmaker at LVSC and has been making lines for the last six years. In our extended interview, Seba explained that there are 4-5 oddsmakers assigned to make lines for each of the major sports (pro & college football and basketball; MLB, NHL, boxing, golf). Each of these oddsmakers bring unique opinions, strengths and weaknesses to the process. Oddsmakers at LVSC are professional sports junkies who love what they do and would probably do it for nothing if you asked them, but they do get paid for it. By necessity their approach is very research-oriented and concise, since with millions of dollars at risk there is little margin for error.
“You either have a passion for it or you don’t,” Seba said.
“The #1 thing for us is to make a line for each game that creates good two-way action. We do this by drawing from past experiences and applying them to current situations. People think it’s much more complicated, but it’s not. “Divided action means the sportsbook is guaranteed a profit on the game because of the fee charged to the bettor (called juice or vig – typically $11 bet to win $10).
Power ratings are the oddsmaker’s value of each team and are used as a guide to calculate a "preliminary" pointspread on an upcoming game. The power ratings are adjusted after each game a team plays. Examples of non-game factors that would require an adjustment to a team's power rating are key player injuries and player trades.
Once a game’s power rating based pointspread is determined, the oddsmaker will make adjustments to that line after considering each team's most recent games played and previous games played against that opponent. Also, adjustments are made after reading each team’s local newspapers to get a sense of what the coaches & players are thinking going into the game.Since the oddsmaker’s ultimate goal is equally dividing the sports betting action, public perception and sportsbook betting patterns must be taken into account. For example, the public might have heavy betting interest week after week on a popular college football betting team such as USC. If an oddsmaker comes up with a preliminary line of USC -7, then an adjustment up to -7.5 or -8 would be made in response to the public’s expected USC bias.
The last step in the line-making process for each oddsmaker is taking one final look to determine whether or not the line "feels right." This is where common sense and past experience with how games are bet enters into the picture.A round-table discussion among the 4-5 oddsmakers involved in making the line for each sport is then conducted and a consensus line is decided upon by the Odds Director before it is released to the sportsbooks. Of the 4-5 oddsmakers, generally the 2 most respected opinions are weighed more heavily by the Odds Director before he decides on the final line.
Experts working for the individual books having a strong opinion on the game
Individual books having players who consistently bet with certain tendencies (such as an extreme bias toward favorites or toward a certain popular team like USC)The purpose of these adjustments, like all line adjustments, is to more equally divide the betting action.
Once betting begins, sportsbooks can adjust the line at any time. In doing so they attempt to make more attractive the team that is getting less action. By moving the line, sportsbooks can influence how the public bets on a particular game.For example, if the pointspread on a game is 7 and most of the money is coming in on the underdog (taking the +7), sportsbooks will then move the number down to 6 ½ to try and attract money on the favorite.
Moving the line is the oddsmaker's effort to balance betting action, and often times such moves can have a major impact on a bettor’s decision. Oddsmakers can also change the line depending on various event-related factors such as player injuries or weather. Obviously, if the line comes out a week ahead of the event (which is the case in football), there is much that could happen during the week leading up to the event that could affect the line. Oddsmakers have to determine if any changes are necessary and send out an "adjusted line."“The main objective is that our clients get equal action on both sides,” Seba said. “We’re not trying to pick the team that covers the spread, we’re trying to make it a coin flip, a tough decision (for the bettor). If we’ve done that, we’ve done our job.”
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