2011 May at BetLM

Kolles: Hispania Should Beat Virgin

Kolles: His­pania should beat Virgin His­pania team boss Colin Kolles believes his out­fit “should be able to beat our clos­est rivals” at this weekend’s Turk­ish GP. After a try­ing start to the Cham­pi­onship, Hispania’s sec­ond in For­mula One, the team made the grid for the sec­ond race, qual­i­fy­ing at the back of the pack in Malaysia. And although Tonio Liuzzi and Narain Karthikeyan were once again at the very back in China, Kolles is adamant that this week­end in Istan­bul they can edge ahead of the near­est rivals in qualifying. How­ever, that team, which... 

Georges St-Pierre Vs. Nick Diaz? Hurdles Exist, but UFC President Open to Idea

The UFC’s cur­rent crop of wel­ter­weights has lit­tle to offer, and with a super fight with mid­dleweight cham­pion Ander­son Silva appar­ently unlikely, what’s next for 170-pound title­holder Georges St-Pierre? It was the big ques­tion after St-Pierre’s deci­sive but heav­ily panned deci­sion vic­tory over Jake Shields in Saturday’s UFC 129 main event. But UFC pres­i­dent Dana White has a poten­tial solu­tion: a fight with Strike­force wel­ter­weight cham­pion Nick Diaz. White, who addressed the pos­si­bil­ity in a post-UFC 129 press con­fer­ence at Toronto’s... 

NBA Betting Favorite Memphis Downs Oklahoma City

The Mem­phis Griz­zlies posted a 114–101 win over the Okla­homa City Thun­der on Sun­day, cour­tesy of Zach Ran­dolph who scored 34 points to help Mem­phis take a 1–0 lead in semi­fi­nal series of East­ern Conference. Attract­ing nearly 60% of the NBA bet­ting action, Mem­phis, with NBA lines at +6.5, were the favorites against Okla­homa City among Lines­Maker bet­tors, if not the odd­mak­ers. The Griz­zlies man­aged to live up to the expec­ta­tions of the major­ity of bet­tors by beat­ing the points-favorite Thunder. Com­plet­ing 12-of-22 from the floor, Ran­dolph... 

Octagon Observations: Hominick Steals Show

TORONTO – An octagon’s worth of obser­va­tions from an evening at the Rogers Cen­tre that won’t be for­got­ten any time soon: 1. Heart of a lion: Many rea­sons are often cited as to why the Ulti­mate Fight­ing Cham­pi­onship rose from near-dead to sell­ing out sta­di­ums in the span of a decade: Solid mar­ket­ing, own­ers with mani­a­cal pas­sion for the busi­ness they run, and so on. But noth­ing exem­pli­fies why mixed mar­tial arts caught fire in North Amer­ica quite like Mark Hominick’s gutsy per­for­mance in the final rounds of his unsuc­cess­ful title... 

Reports: Henry Cooper Dies at Age 76

LONDON —Henry Cooper, the heavy­weight boxer who once knocked down Muham­mad Ali, died Sun­day, accord­ing to British media. He was 76. Britain’s Press Asso­ci­a­tion says Cooper, who was knighted in 2000, died at his son’s house in Sur­rey two days before his 77th birthday. Cooper had a 40–14-1 record in a pro­fes­sional career span­ning more than 16 years but is best known for floor­ing Ali, then named Cas­sius Clay, in a fight in 1963 at Wem­b­ley Stadium. Cooper threw a trade­mark left hook toward the end of the fourth round, catch­ing the much larger Ali flush on... 

Sports Betting – Money Management

The grow­ing pop­u­lar­ity of online sports bet­ting has resulted in tremen­dous com­pe­ti­tion among the bet­tors and sports­books, alike. This makes it all the more impor­tant for a bet­tor to metic­u­lously ana­lyze and under­stand all aspects of sports­book bet­ting, so that the chances of win­ning are increased. Money man­age­ment is with­out a doubt the most cru­cial aspect of sports bet­ting and sadly, it is also prob­a­bly the most neglected aspect as well. The most impor­tant thing to remem­ber for prop­erly man­ag­ing your funds is to ensure that you do... 

Bahrain Hopeful Over Rescheduling

Eccle­stone says Bahrain could still be added to the 2011 calendar Bahrain remains hope­ful of resched­ul­ing its post­poned 2011 grand prix despite ongo­ing civil unrest in the country. Race offi­cials released a state­ment on Sat­ur­day which kept their options open, although it did not com­mit to a date. Organ­is­ers had been given until 1 May to decide if a race can be staged and F1 supremo Bernie Eccle­stone has hinted the dead­line could be extended. But a spokesman for gov­ern­ing body the FIA stated: “As far as we’re con­cerned a deci­sion is still due on Sunday.” The... 

Hominick Shows Warrior’s Heart in Defeat

TORONTO – Mark Hominick looked like the loser. He had a baseball-sized hematoma on his fore­head. His cheeks were swollen. His eyes were cut and his nose and mouth were bleed­ing. He looked like guys do when they owe the mob some money and don’t pay. A bat­tered Mark Hominick (top) gave fans a fifth round to remem­ber Sat­ur­day night.() There was, how­ever, no big­ger win­ner at UFC 129 on Sat­ur­day than the gritty feath­er­weight who is due to become a father any day now. The record crowd of 55,724 which filled the Rogers Cen­tre watched in awe as a thor­oughly bat­tered... 

Trulli: DRS Pointless in Monaco

Trulli: DRS point­less in Monaco Jarno Trulli is not in favour of the F1 dri­vers run­ning their DRS wings in Monaco as he doesn’t think “there is any point.” There is some talk at present about the FIA scrap­ping the Drag Reduc­tion Sys­tem for the Monaco GP as some dri­vers have report­edly voiced safety concerns. Added to that, the cir­cuit, which runs through the streets of the Prin­ci­pal­ity, does not have a long straight, which would negate the effects of the adjustable rear wing. “At Monaco, to run with it is point­less,” the Team Lotus dri­ver told Autosport. “You... 

Georges St. Pierre Does It Again, Dominates Jake Shields at UFC 129

The crowd in Toronto on Sat­ur­day night was unprece­dented for the UFC, with 55,000 fans more than dou­bling the promotion’s atten­dance record. But while the fans them­selves were some­thing new, the man they came to see did the same old thing: UFC wel­ter­weight cham­pion Georges St. Pierre once again won a thor­oughly dom­i­nant unan­i­mous deci­sion vic­tory, defeat­ing Jake Shields in the main event at UFC 129. The judges scored it 50–45, 48–47 and 48–47 for St. Pierre, and although those score cards were closer than the usual for St. Pierre, they rep­re­sented...