2010 February at LinesMaker

Las Vegas Sports Betting

Las Vegas Sports Bet­ting, The Red Car­pet For Gam­blers Las Vegas is the most pop­u­lar tourist town in the United States. When noto­ri­ous mob­ster Moe Greene imag­ined his dream town of Las Vegas, nei­ther he nor any of his cronies could have con­ceived that Las Vegas, a city built in the mid­dle of a desert, would be a world class tourist attrac­tion. Las Vegas offers some­thing for every­one and draws throngs of tourists from every con­ti­nent each year. Peo­ple con­tinue to return to Las Vegas year after year as the glitz, glam­our and bright lights are a tough com­bi­na­tion... 

Best Online Gambling Sports the Options are Yours

The Inter­net has many options when it comes to sites to play. The best online gam­bling sports venues offer supe­rior selec­tion and cus­tomer ser­vice. The sports bet­ting investor should spend the time nec­es­sary to review a num­ber of sites before arriv­ing at a site of choice. There are hun­dreds of Inter­net gam­bling sites avail­able for play. How­ever, there are a few that have sep­a­rated them­selves from the pack. Every bet­tor has his/her own pref­er­ences that he or she seeks while review­ing the best online gam­bling sports sites avail­able in cyber­space.... 

Team Canada Goes for Hockey Gold

The NHL may be tak­ing a break but per­haps the great­est hockey tour­na­ment is about to begin at the Van­cou­ver Olympics. Team Canada is the favorite to win the gold medal but the high pow­ered Rus­sians not to men­tion the Amer­i­cans and the Swedes are sure to make it a tough bat­tle. Cana­di­ans will be bank­ing on their team to prove to the rest of the world that they can score a gold at their national sport. Some might sug­gest the team owes it to the nation after an embarass­ing per­for­mance in Torino four years ago. There’s a lot of pres­sure on the Cana­dian... 

Buzzer Beater Gives Miami Victory Over Georgia Tech

Miami sur­prised every­one, includ­ing them­selves, by beat­ing Geor­gia Tech 64 – 62 at the buzzer with a win­ning shot from James Dews on Wednesday. The Yel­low Jack­ets man­aged to rally from a 60–52 dis­ad­van­tage in the final five min­utes but then Dews made his win­ning 15ft footer. It was a sur­prise to every­one as Dews had been miss­ing shots through­out the game, even a free throw in the final minute. Luck­ily he redeemed him­self in the end – lit­er­ally – with his first game win­ner since high school. The odds on the Hur­ri­canes (17–7, 3–7 ACC)... 

NBA All Star Weekend, Olympics and Much More

It’s a big week­end for hoops at Lines­Maker with the NBA All Star week­end and a ton of col­lege hoops action as well. On top of all the bas­ket­ball action, there is a full slate of other action with the Day­tona 500, AT&T Peb­ble Beach, box­ing and NHL until the Olympic break at least. Speak­ing of the Olympics, the games open this week­end and we will have a full assort­ment of bet­ting options avail­able. We are aready tak­ing some pretty heavy action on who will take home the gold medal in hockey as well as which nation will win the most gold medals. Hot Spe­cials this Week: Get... 

Top Ranked Kansas Takes Down Texas

Top ranked Kansas out played Texas in every con­ceiv­able way. Mar­cus Mor­ris scored 18 points lead­ing them to an 80–68 vic­tory on Mon­day night. Kansas were 1.5 point favorites and took 60% of the bet­ting vol­ume at Lines­Maker. They held the top-scoring team in the Big 12 to 37% shoot­ing and scored 27 points off 17 turnovers. The Long­horns had earned the first No. 1 rank­ing in the school’s his­tory ear­lier this sea­son and were the Jay­hawks biggest threat in the Big 12 but now they have lost five out of last seven games.  After a great start to the sea­son, going... 

Blazers Lose Roy for Three More Games

Shoot­ing guard Bran­don Roy of the Port­land Trail Blaz­ers will be sit­ting out for their next three games and he will not be play­ing in the 2010 All-Star Game. Roy has been suf­fer­ing from a ham­string injury since their game against Mil­wau­kee on Jan. 13. He hasn’t played in 12 of the last 13 games, includ­ing Sat­ur­day night’s game against the Los Ange­les Lak­ers. Head Coach Nate McMil­lian, who wants to ensure the Blaz­ers best player makes a full recov­ery, made the decision.  This is Roy’s fourth sea­son with the Blaz­ers who have gone to 4 – 6 in Roy’s... 

Party Time in New Orleans

The New Orleans Saints won their ever first Super Bowl last night at the Sun Life Sta­dium in Miami. The Saints stunned sports bet­tors, the view­ers and the favored Indi­anapo­lis Colts when their 31 — 17 vic­tory was sealed with a 74-yard inter­cep­tion return for a touch­down with just 3.12 min­utes remain­ing in the game. MVP Drew Brees may be the most revered Super Bowl MVP ever, bat­tling through a crip­pling shoul­der injury and win­ning the cham­pi­onship for the belea­guered city of New Orleans. Brees fin­ished with 288 yards on 32 of 39 pass­ing. He threw two touch­downs... 

Magic Comeback to Upset Celtics

The Orlando Magic could make it to the play­offs this sea­son. On Sun­day they beat East­ern Con­fer­ence rivals and 3-point favorite, the Boston Celtics in a 96 – 89 come­back victory. Boston was lead­ing 51–40 at half time but they were com­pletely dom­i­nated by the Magic in the third quar­ter, los­ing their first game in four starts. It was an out­stand­ing defen­sive and offen­sive per­for­mance in the deci­sive quar­ter that clinched the victory. Vince Carter scored a team-high 20 points and Dwight Howard had 16 and 13 rebounds for the Magic, they had a 19–0 run... 

Volunteers Bring Back Bad Boy Williams

After being sus­pended since Jan­u­ary Ten­nessee junior cen­ter Brian Williams was rein­stated to the team on Sat­ur­day. Williams was sus­pended fol­low­ing an arrest for drugs and weapons charges along with three other Ten­nessee players. Tyler Smith was also dis­missed from the team for his role, while guards Cameron Tatum and Melvin Goins were rein­stated Jan. 17th. Through the Uni­ver­sity of Tennessee’s Sports Infor­ma­tion Depart­ment, Vol­un­teers head coach Bruce Pearl released a state­ment in which he said: “I have said all along that each indi­vid­ual involved...