08/28/2008 - Flushing Meadows, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Two-time champion Venus Williams and Olympic silver medalist Dinara Safina were easy second-round winners Thursday at the U.S. Open.
The seventh-seeded Williams waltzed past 32-year-old Rossana De Los Rios of Paraguay 6-0, 6-3 on Day 4 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. De Los Rios, the mother of an 11-year-old daughter, never enjoyed even one break-point chance en route to the predictable defeat.
Williams moved on in one hour after converting on a fifth match point and will face 27th-seeded Ukrainian Alona Bondarenko in a third-rounder this weekend. Bondarenko blitzed German Sabine Lisicki 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 to advance.
The 28-year-old Williams is a seven-time major champion, including back-to- back U.S. Open titles in 2000 and 2001. She also had runner-up finishes here in 1997 and 2002.
Williams captured a second straight, and fifth overall, Wimbledon title last month.
A sixth-seeded Safina blew past Italian Roberta Vinci 6-4, 6-3. The Russian is the hottest player in women's tennis, having reached the final in six of her last seven tournaments and winning three titles. She was the French Open runner-up to Serbian Ana Ivanovic back in June and the runner-up to fellow Russian Elena Dementieva at the Beijing Games earlier this month.
Up next for the surging Safina will be Swiss Timea Bacsinszky, who moved on by dousing Taipei's Yung-Jan Chan 6-3, 6-2.
Another top-10 victor was Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska, as the No. 9 seed got past Colombian Mariana Duque Marino 6-0, 7-6 (7-3).
Seventeenth-seeded Frenchwoman Alize Cornet topped American Bethanie Mattek 7-6 (7-5), 6-1, while 18th-seeded Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova drubbed Romanian Ioana Raluca Olaru 6-2, 6-2 and 19th-seeded Russian Nadia Petrova pasted Taipei's Su-Wei Hsieh 6-4, 6-2.
An upset came when France's Severine Bremond bounced 20th-seeded Czech Nicole Vaidisova 7-5, 6-3.
<< Report: Goodell reinstates Adam Jones
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The Dallas Morning News reported Thursday that Goodell had granted the former
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Goodell reinstates Adam Jones >>
Dallas, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has reinstated
cornerback Adam Jones.
Goodell granted the former Titans cornerback his reinstatement on Thursday,
clearing the way for Jones to return to the field, this t
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MySportsbook.com Posts Heisman Trophy Odds
With 3,919 passing yards, 32 touchdowns and a mere seven interceptions last season, combined with a powerful South Bend Heisman legacy, odds makers at MySportsbook.com have given Notre Dame senior quarterback Brady Quinn the best Heisman Trophy odds at 5-2.
Quinn isn’t the only big man on campus this season. Oklahoma junior running back and 2004 Heisman runner-up Adrian Peterson, listed at 7-2, rushed for a combined 3,033 yards in his first two years as a college player and will give Quinn a run for his money.
This online sportsbook has also listed Troy Smith, Ohio State senior quarterback, as another strong favorite to win the 72nd Heisman Trophy. A 7-1 bet, Smith threw for 2,282 yards last season and also led the Buckeyes to a convincing 34-20 victory over Quinn and the Fighting Irish in last season’s Fiesta Bowl.
Current betting odds Heisman trophy are:
| Brady Quinn (QB, Notre Dame) Adrian Peterson (RB, Oklahoma) Troy Smith (QB, Ohio State) Michael Bush (RB, Louisville) Steve Slaton (RB, West Virginia) Brian Brohm (QB, Louisville) Chris Leak (QB, Florida) Mike Hart (RB, Michigan) Ted Ginn (WR, Ohio State) Darius Walker (RB, Notre Dame) Drew Tate (QB, Iowa) Marshawn Lynch (RB, Cal) Kenny Irons (RB, Auburn) Chad Henne (QB, Michigan) Kyle Wright (QB, Miami) Drew Stanton (QB, Michigan State) Kenneth Darby (RB, Alabama) JaMarcus Russell (QB, LSU) Drew Weatherford (QB, Florida State) Blake Mitchell (QB, South Carolina) Reggie Ball (QB, Georgia Tech) |
5-2 7-2 7-1 10-1 10-1 12-1 12-1 18-1 18-1 20-1 30-1 35-1 35-1 40-1 50-1 50-1 60-1 60-1 60-1 60-1 60-1 |
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