2010 June at LinesMaker

San Francisco Giants Crushed the Baltimore Orioles, 10–2

In an inter­est­ing play, the San Fran­cisco Giants over­pow­ered the Bal­ti­more Ori­oles 10–2 Mon­day night. Pat Bur­rel home­red twice in four days, while Freddy Sanchez pulled in four runs to help the Giants pass the Orioles. Jonathan Sanchez gave up two runs and eight hits while pitch­ing 7 2–3 innings for the Giants, and man­aged to sock out five and walked one in what could be said to be his third vic­tory in four out­ings after a 2–4 start. Pablo San­doval and Andres Tor­res also man­aged to score RBI doubles. As for the Ori­oles, who have lost 18 of 21, Matt Wieters... 

Group of Death Ready to Kick Off

Finally the most awaited Group in the World Cup begins the pro­ceed­ings tonight. Group G con­sists of teams like Brazil who have won the most prized pos­ses­sion 5 times, they are def­i­nitely the favorites to top this group. But if Ronaldo and Drogba have any say in the mat­ter, things could change very quickly. The dark horse in this group is with­out a doubt North Korea, who seems most likely to miss the knock­out stages. Tonight’s matches has the bat­tle between Por­tu­gal and Ivory Coast and North Korea faces off against the mer­cu­r­ial Brazil­ians. Both are aware that... 

Hosts Start With a Draw

The hosts South Africa were denied a fairy­tale begin­ning to the World Cup after Rafael Marquez’s goal with 11 min­utes left in the match earn­ing Mex­ico a deserved draw at Soc­cer City in the opener of the 2010 World Cup. Siphiwe Tsha­bal­ala scored the first goal of the World Cup, mak­ing an excel­lent run on the left side and fin­ish­ing the move with a bul­let of a shot from a very steep angle, leav­ing Oscar Perez with no chance at all. South Africa had numer­ous chances to build on their lead but failed to do so, and much to the dis­ap­point­ment of the 85000 strong... 

Blackhawks Flying High

High volt­age, big drama and a nail bit­ing fin­ish, these were the ingre­di­ents on show in the finals of the Stan­ley Cup, as the Chicago Black­hawks came up trumps over the Philadel­phia Fly­ers 4–3 in over­time. Their cap­tain Jonathan Toews 22, Patrick Kane, who scored the game and Cup win­ning goal, 21, and a team with incred­i­ble young play­ers became the NHL champs. The Black­hawks beat the Fly­ers in Game 6 to win the NHL’s top prize for the fourth time in their his­tory. Chicago was on the thresh­old of cel­e­brat­ing the cham­pi­onship as reg­u­la­tion... 

2010 FIFA World Cup Preview

Finally, the time has come for the highly antic­i­pated World Cup South Africa 2010. The biggest sport­ing event kicks off this Fri­day, June 11. This marks one of the most imper­a­tive events in South African his­tory, over and above the entire con­ti­nent of Africa, as they will be show­cas­ing the soc­cer World Cup for the first time. Let’s take a quick glance at the teams that stand a bet­ter chance of win­ning over oth­ers in indi­vid­ual groups. In Group A, it is extremely dif­fi­cult to pre­dict the advanc­ing team with the host nation in it, as South Africa will... 

MLB Monday Night Action: Los Angeles Angels beats Oakland 4–2

The Los Ange­les Angels pasted the Oak­land Ath­let­ics 4–2 Mon­day, cour­tesy of Bobby Abreu’s two-run homer and Scott Kazmir’s 6 1/3 strong innings. Kazmir(5–5) gave up just a sin­gle on five hits, aug­ment­ing his 9–3 life­time against the A’s. Kazmir blocked Oak­land to a sin­gle run in 19 1/3 innings. Erick Aybar and Howie Kendrick also con­tributed with RBI’s in Los Ange­les ninth win in 10 games. As for the bet­ting action, the Los Ange­les Angels have 30–1 odds of win­ning at Lines­Maker while the Oak­land Ath­let­ics are at 50–1 odds. Else­where... 

Sports Betting Picks

Sports Bet­ting Picks – More Pop­u­lar Than Ever As inter­net sports­books pro­lif­er­ate through­out the cyber­space com­mu­nity, and sports wager­ing on national and inter­na­tional events in casi­nos and other venues become com­mon­place, it’s obvi­ous that the Golden Age of sports bet­ting picks has arrived. The months of April and May are par­tic­u­larly attrac­tive for the sports bet­tor because the sheer num­bers of entries and the diver­sity of sports offered through casi­nos, cyber sports­book sites, such as Lines­Maker Sports­book and other less suit­able... 

Cool Lakers Yearning To Settle Scores with Celtics

Phil Jack­son, coach of the Los Ange­les Lak­ers, estab­lished Tues­day that his team intends to take vengeance for its 2008 NBA Finals loss to the Boston Celtics. Deemed to be the ultra-cool team, the Lak­ers sel­dom shed their unruf­fled apti­tude. Accord­ing to the Los Ange­les Times, Jack­son report­edly said that his team is cer­tainly going to be pro­voked in the replay this year by rem­i­nis­cences of last years fail­ure at TD Gar­den. The Lak­ers bore the brunt of a dis­ap­point­ing 131–92 loss in that decid­ing game and were abused by Boston fans. Jack­son... 

San Diego Establishes Petco Park Record with 18–6 Win over N.Y. Mets

The San Diego Padres set the Petco Park scor­ing record with an 18–6 win over the New York Mets on Mon­day night. The credit goes to Jerry Hair­ston Jr. who knocked a grand slam in the sec­ond inning, along with Chase Headley who pulled a homer down along with his four hits going 4-for-5, help­ing San Diego win its third straight and sev­enth of its last nine games. Fol­low­ing the homer, the Padres ral­lied against the Mets bullpen, get­ting eight hits and five walks includ­ing 10 runs off four reliev­ers in the next two innings.  This was Hairston’s third homer of the sea­son...