2012 April at LinesMaker

Purdue’s Leading Rusher Arrested

PURDUE (CFB/Kercheval) — Side­lined for the Lit­tle Caesar’s Bowl with a torn ACL, Purdue’s lead­ing rusher from a year ago could be in dan­ger of miss­ing more time for a legal issue. New details regard­ing run­ning back Ralph Bolden’s arrest last week have been pub­lic, and it appears Bolden forcibly “kissed an older female… against her will. She was crying.” The inci­dent took place at a local bar. Accord­ing to police, Bolden left through a back exit that leads into an alley and walked away when police arrived — the RB had pre­vi­ously refused to leave — and... 

Young Arrested on Hate Assault Charge

Updated Apr 27, 2012 5:07 PM ET Detroit Tigers left fielder Del­mon Young was arrested Fri­day on a hate crime harass­ment charge after police said he got into a fight with a group of men and yelled anti-Semitic epithets. Young was stand­ing out­side of the Hilton New York at about 1:30 a.m., where he was stay­ing ahead of a series with the New York Yan­kees that starts Fri­day night. Nearby, a group of about four Chicago tourists stay­ing at the hotel were approached by a pan­han­dler wear­ing a yarmulke and a Star of David around his neck. After, as the group walked up to the hotel... 

Winds of Change Blow Through NHL Playoffs

The winds of change have howled through the open­ing round of the Stan­ley Cup play­offs, blow­ing away the old guard and leav­ing behind some unfa­mil­iar names and faces head­ing into the con­fer­ence semifinals. A stormy post-season that has been shock­ing for both its vio­lence and its upsets con­tin­ues on Fri­day with the start of round two and the promise of more sur­prises in store. For edge-of-your-seat excite­ment the open­ing round will be hard to top after fea­tur­ing a sin­gle series record of 16 over­time clashes with three of the best-of-seven encoun­ters... 

Di Resta: Bahrain Result the Boost Force India Needed

Red Bull may have bounced back to their win­ning ways in Bahrain but there was another suc­cess story from Sakhir, cour­tesy of Force India’s Paul di Resta. Despite high tyre wear at the cir­cuit, Di Resta excelled after bril­liantly exploit­ing his brave two-stop strat­egy to record the team’s high­est fin­ish so far this year with sixth place. The young Scot was the only dri­ver to resist the call of a third pit stop and, although he started to strug­gle on his final set of rub­ber with over 10 laps to go before the che­quered flag, helped by some shrewd KERS usage he man­aged... 

Kyle Busch Could Use Richmond Boost

Since 2009 Kyle Busch has been unbeat­able in the spring race at Rich­mond Inter­na­tional Race­way. He won this weekend’s event in 2009, 2010 and again in 2011 with all three wins com­ing in fairly dom­i­nant fashion. How­ever, Kyle has only lead two races this sea­son and remains win­less so far in 2012 with only one top five fin­ish to his credit so far. Kyle and his Joe Gibbs Rac­ing team could use a boost to get their sea­son on track and this Sat­ur­day night’s 2012 Cap­i­tal City 400 pre­sented by Vir­gina is for Lovers could be his chance to return to Vic­tory Lane. BetLM's sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services.... 

Devils Get Past Panthers

SUNRISE, FLA. — As a kid, Adam Hen­rique always imag­ined scor­ing a Game 7 over­time goal. What good Cana­dian boy hasn’t? The New Jer­sey Dev­ils rookie went one fur­ther early Fri­day morn­ing, scor­ing at 3:47 of double-overtime in a 3–2 Game 7 win to elim­i­nate a stub­born Florida Pan­thers team in their NHL East­ern Con­fer­ence quarterfinal. “I think I blacked out when I heard the thud at the back of the net,” Hen­rique said. “Game 7 win­ner, it’s like play­ing mini sticks at home. That’s the game you always play. Hall­way, in the liv­ing room.” The... 

RG3: Redskins Would Have Taken Me, Not Luck, No. 1 in NFL Draft

Robert Grif­fin III was all smiles Thurs­day night, befit­ting the sec­ond player taken in the NFL draft. But back­stage at Radio City Music Hall, the Heis­man Trophy-winning quar­ter­back said his night could have been even better. Grif­fin told ProFootballTalk.com the Red­skins informed him that if they, and not the Indi­anapo­lis Colts held the No. 1 pick, they still would have taken him. “They said if Indi­anapo­lis would have traded with them and kept Pey­ton Man­ning, that they would have drafted me with the No. 1 over­all pick,” Grif­fin said. “So it’s not a shot... 

Nadal, Murray Reach Barcelona Quarters

Updated Apr 26, 2012 7:06 PM ET BARCELONA, Spain Rafael Nadal and Andy Mur­ray cruised into the Barcelona Open quar­ter­fi­nals with straight-set vic­to­ries on Thursday. Nadal broke Robert Farah of Colom­bia in the first game on his way to a 6–2, 6–3 vic­tory for his 31st straight win at the tour­na­ment. Nadal set up a quar­ter­fi­nal match with fifth-seeded Janko Tip­sare­vic after the Ser­bian beat Fred­erico Gil 6–2, 6–2. “It may sound stu­pid but against play­ers like him you have to go for vic­tory, if you look for a fight you’ve already lost,” Tip­sare­vic... 

Crawford Has Sprained Elbow Ligament

Updated Apr 27, 2012 2:42 AM ET CHICAGO Carl Craw­ford has a sprained lig­a­ment in his throw­ing elbow and the Boston Red Sox left fielder will remain side­lined for a while. The team released a state­ment Thurs­day night say­ing Crawford’s diag­no­sis was made by the Red Sox med­ical staff and con­firmed by Dr. James Andrews. Craw­ford received a Platelet Rich Plasma injec­tion and will be shut down from base­ball activ­ity “dur­ing the ini­tial phase of his treatment.” The club did not announce a timetable for Crawford’s return, but he is expected to miss at least... 

Cleveland Browns Trade for Minnesota Vikings’ No. 3 Overall Pick

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