2012 April at LinesMaker

Sens’ Game 7 Heartbreak

NEW YORK — The Sen­a­tors played their hearts out, only to have them bro­ken by the New York Rangers. In the end, the Sen­a­tors couldn’t write the sto­ry­book fin­ish to their sto­ry­book sea­son after they dropped a 2–1 deci­sion in Game 7 of their first-round series Thurs­day night at Madi­son Square Garden. In what may have been his final game with the Sen­a­tors, cap­tain Daniel Alfreds­son led the charge with one of his best games of his sea­son and the only shot that beat Rangers goalie Hen­rik Lundqvist. Goal­tender Craig Ander­son, still look­ing for his first... 

Two Kansas Players Dismissed for Violating Rules

LAWRENCE (CFB/Rivals) — Sopho­more line­backer Collin Gar­rett and fresh­man cor­ner­back Chris Robin­son have been dis­missed from the Kansas foot­ball team for vio­lat­ing team rules. New coach Char­lie Weis announced the dis­missals Mon­day. He did not elab­o­rate on what caused the play­ers to be kicked off the team. Gar­rett played in six games as a fresh­man last sea­son, mak­ing four tack­les against Okla­homa and one tackle each in games against Kansas State, Bay­lor and Missouri. Robin­son spent the sea­son as a redshirt. Our sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services. This arti­cle was dis­trib­uted... 

Tiger Stadium Needs Love Too

DETROIT (MLB/Calcaterra) — Every­one went all out for Fen­way Park’s 100th anniver­sary on Fri­day. But if there was any jus­tice in the world there would have been two grand old parks cel­e­brat­ing their cen­ten­ni­als. Because Tiger Sta­dium would have turned 100 that day too. Yes, I real­ize that I am nearly 15 years too late to cry about this, but I still cry. Tiger Sta­dium was where I dis­cov­ered base­ball, dammit, and where I fell in love with it. And I real­ize that my case is unique in that, because of a con­nected rel­a­tive, I always had decent seats and didn’t... 

Senators ‘Light and Relaxed’

NEW YORK — Paul MacLean was tight-lipped Thurs­day morn­ing. He’s not giv­ing away any plans for tonight’s lineup. The Sen­a­tors coach told reporters fol­low­ing the club’s optional skate at Madi­son Square Gar­den he’s keep­ing all his “options open” for his lineup for Game 7. Nei­ther Zenon Konopka nor Matt Carkner were on the ice, but MacLean insisted “both will be avail­able” to play. If they’re not, expect Bobby But­ler and Matt Gilroy to step as the Sen­a­tors try to advance to Round 2. It was the sec­ond straight day Carkner and Konopka weren’t on... 

Proposed Ban on Race Day Medications in Ky. Fails

LEXINGTON, Ky. (SCHREINER) — A pro­posal to ban an anti-bleeding drug on race days in Ken­tucky lost by a nose on Mon­day in a debate divid­ing a hob­bled thor­ough­bred indus­try strug­gling to pre­serve the Blue­grass state’s rep­u­ta­tion as the nation’s horse capital. The Ken­tucky Horse Rac­ing Com­mis­sion ended the tense dis­cus­sion on the use of furosemide with a 7–7 roll call vote on the pro­posed reg­u­la­tion that would have pro­hib­ited the drug from the Ken­tucky Derby in 2014, and in the whole state start­ing in 2015. The race-day ban would have... 

HRT to Miss Mugello Test

After some care­ful assess­ment, HRT have announced they will not be attend­ing next week’s For­mula One test in Mugello, Italy. With planned upgrades to the Span­ish team’s car not due for com­ple­tion until after the ses­sion, they will instead con­cen­trate on mov­ing to their new headquarters. “The start to the sea­son was a lit­tle bit rushed for us and, since the cars were set up for the first time, we have been work­ing on them at the Grands Prix,” explained team prin­ci­pal Luis Perez-Sala. “The team and the mate­r­ial have just got back from Bahrain after leav­ing... 

Nadal Cruises Into Barcelona Third Round

Updated Apr 25, 2012 3:08 PM ET BARCELONA, Spain Rafael Nadal over­came a sore knee to open his bid for a sev­enth Barcelona Open title with an easy 6–1, 6–2 win over Guillermo Gar­cia Lopez in the sec­ond round Wednesday. Nadal had a bye in the first round after defeat­ing Novak Djokovic in the Monte Carlo Mas­ters final on Sun­day and improved to 31–1 on the clay in Barcelona after break­ing his fel­low Spaniard six times. “My knee both­ered me a lit­tle, but that’s nor­mal. In 15 days, the dis­com­fort isn’t going to go away, but it doesn’t keep you from play­ing... 

Enter Free NBA Playoff Slam Contest

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Bucs Might Trade Up for Trent Richardson

Draft day is finally here. Before we head over to Radio City Music Hall, how­ever, we have a full day on tap of draft rumors. That’s just how this goes. The lat­est comes from the Cleve­land Plain-Dealer: Accord­ing to their sources, the Tampa Bay Buc­ca­neers are very inter­ested in Alabama run­ning back Trent Richard­son and might con­sider try­ing to trade up to No. 3 to get him. The Browns also appear to covet Richard­son at No. 4, although smarter minds than us believe they might wind up tak­ing wide receiver Justin Black­mon. This much is clear: Richard­son is very high... 

Yankees’ Pineda to Miss Rest of Season

Updated Apr 25, 2012 11:04 PM ET Yan­kees pitcher Michael Pineda needs surgery on his right shoul­der and will miss the rest of the sea­son, the team announced Wednesday. Doc­tors diag­nosed the 23-year-old right-hander with a torn labrum and he will undergo surgery Tues­day. He is expected to be out of action for at least a year. Gen­eral man­ager Brian Cash­man said Pineda felt a “sharp pain” in his shoul­der Sat­ur­day after 15 pitches in an extended spring train­ing game in Florida. The six-foot-seven Domini­can came to the Yan­kees in the win­ter in a trade, with the...