2012 April at Linesmaker

Quiet Oasis Wins Wilshire Handicap

INGLEWOOD (HORSES/Newsfeed) — Quiet Oasis won the $ 100,000 Wilshire Hand­i­cap by a half-length Sun­day at Bet­fair Hol­ly­wood Park. Rid­den by Mario Gutier­rez, Quiet Oasis ran a mile on the turf in 1:34.63 in her first start in more than five months. She paid $ 33.20, $ 12.60 and $ 6.40. Pace­set­ter Briecat and Antares World fin­ished in a dead heart for sec­ond. Briecat returned $ 4 and $ 4.60, while Antares World paid $ 19 and $ 12. Nereid, the 6–5 favorite, was fourth. Quiet Oasis has three wins in eight career starts and earn­ings of $ 122,379. Our sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services.... 

Nadal Beats Ferrer for 7th Barcelona Open Win

BARCELONA (ATP/Newsfeed) — Rafael Nadal became the first player in the Open Era to win two tour­na­ments seven times after beat­ing David Fer­rer 7–6 (1), 7–5 in Sunday’s Barcelona Open final. The second-ranked Nadal’s 21st straight vic­tory on clay fol­lowed up his eighth straight win in Monte Carlo, as Nadal won the 10th all-Spanish ATP final for a 48th career win. The sixth-ranked Fer­rer lost his fourth Barcelona Open final to Nadal, who saved 12 of 15 break points for a 34th straight vic­tory at Barcelona. Nadal skipped toward the net in cel­e­bra­tion after hit­ting... 

Edwards and Stewart Leave Richmond Unhappy

RICHMOND, Va. (NASCAR /Newsfeed) — Not even a meet­ing with NASCAR offi­cials helped Carl Edwards under­stand why he was given a penalty at Rich­mond Inter­na­tional Raceway. “We had to just agree to dis­agree and that’s the way it is,” Edwards said. In con­trast, Tony Stew­art knew exactly why he lost Sat­ur­day night’s race. “We did every­thing we could to throw it away, it got taken away,” the defend­ing Sprint Cup cham­pion said. “I’m pretty ticked off about it.” Both dri­vers were less than pleased when they left Rich­mond, where late drama spiced up what... 

Jets Curse Out Seahawks After They Draft Bruce Irvin

NEW YORK (NFL/Newsfeed) — The Mel Kipers of the world thought the Sea­hawks reached when they took pass rusher Bruce Irvin in the first round. The Rex Ryans of the world thought it was a great pick. We’ll trust the Ryans on this one. After Seat­tle took Irvin, the Sea­hawks got a call from Jets head­quar­ters. New York “good-naturedly” cursed at the Sea­hawks for tak­ing the guy they planned to draft one pick later, accord­ing Len Pasquarelli of the Sport­sX­change. Irvin was also believed to be on the short list of can­di­dates in Chicago, Green Bay, and San Fran­cisco. One... 

WAC Reportedly on Life Support

(CFB/Kercheval) — Just days after CBSS­ports reported that Con­fer­ence USA was close to adding UT-San Anto­nio, a for­mer 1-AA pro­gram that is sup­posed to be headed for the WAC, more reports are sur­fac­ing that the Moun­tain West is also on the verge of pluck­ing more teams from its belea­guered west­ern ath­letic counterpart. The San Jose Mer­cury News and the Salt Lake Tri­bune report that San Jose State and Utah State are indeed close to join­ing the Moun­tain West, with the for­mer arti­cle indi­cat­ing an invite could come for the Spar­tans this week for the 2013–14... 

Price Gets Texas-Sized Monkey Off His Back

ARLINGTON (MLB/Newsfeed) — David Price effec­tively removed the mon­key from his back on Sun­day night when he claimed his first career vic­tory against the Rangers in a 5–2 Rays win at Rangers Ball­park with 43,475 watching. The vic­tory gave the Rays their fourth con­sec­u­tive series win. They have won nine of their last 11 games to remain in a tie with the Ori­oles for first place in the Amer­i­can League East. “Per­son­ally, for myself, I’ve never beat those guys,” Price said. “So first and fore­most, that feels great. I’m pumped that we won, as well. I can turn... 

Flyers Survive Slow Start

PHILADELPHIA (NHL/Kimelman) — Fly­ers coach Peter Lavi­o­lette had spent seven days being asked pretty much the same ques­tion — how his team would han­dle a long lay­off — and had pretty much the same answer each time. “That ques­tion got asked a lot this week, what’s going to hap­pen, how are you going to be after the lay­off,” he said. “I answered, ‘I don’t know,’ because the truth of the mat­ter is you don’t really know. You don’t know if your team is going to come out and be jump­ing or whether it’s going to take a bit.” “A bit,” turned into the... 

Knicks’ Shumpert Tears ACL, Out for Postseason

MIAMI (NBA/Newsfeed) — Knicks rookie guard Iman Shumpert will miss the rest of the post­sea­son after tear­ing a left knee lig­a­ment in the third quar­ter of New York’s Game 1 loss to the Miami Heat on Saturday. The Knicks announced Shumpert also tore his lat­eral menis­cus. Surgery will be sched­uled in New York and Shumpert is expected to miss approx­i­mately six to eight months. Shumpert, who started the final 17 games of the reg­u­lar sea­son after Jeremy Lin had knee surgery, was bring­ing the ball up the right side­line and tried to drib­ble behind his back when he pulled... 

Bottas in Action for Williams on Opening Day at Mugello

Williams’ reserve dri­ver Valt­teri Bot­tas will test for the British team on the open­ing day of next week’s Mugello ses­sion. Bot­tas will take to the Ital­ian track on Tues­day, whilst Bruno Senna and Pas­tor Mal­don­ado will be in action on Wednes­day and Thurs­day respectively. Since com­menc­ing his cur­rent Williams role late last year, the Finn has enjoyed plenty of time behind the wheel of the FW34. As well as a pre-season test out­ing, the 2011 GP3 cham­pion par­tic­i­pated in Fri­day prac­tice ses­sions at the Malaysian, Chi­nese and Bahrain Grands Prix. Bot­tas... 

Denver Broncos’ Peyton Manning Takes in Rockies Game

DENVER (NFL/Newsfeed) — Pey­ton Man­ning felt right at home at Coors Field tak­ing in a Col­orado Rock­ies game Sun­day, where his col­lege pal Todd Hel­ton had a pinch-hit grand slam in the bot­tom of the eighth inning with two outs. Man­ning and Hel­ton were quar­ter­backs at the Uni­ver­sity of Ten­nessee in the mid-1990s. Man­ning recently signed with the Den­ver Bron­cos to become their new QB. When Man­ning was going through his reha­bil­i­ta­tion from neck surgery dur­ing the NFL lock­out, Hel­ton helped arrange for him to use the Rock­ies’ facil­i­ties...