2009 November at LinesMaker

Injured Love Wants Back in Action

The Min­nesota Tim­ber­wolves were soundly defeated by the Port­land Blaz­ers on Sun­day night. The bet­ting odds for the NBA Cham­pi­onship cur­rently have the Blaz­ers at +1500 and the Tim­ber­wolves at +10000 to win the NBA Championship. After suf­fer­ing a bro­ken bone in his left hand and under­go­ing surgery, Minnesota’s Kevin Love, is now suf­fer­ing on the bench as he watched his team be defeated by his for­mer team, the Blaz­ers. Last sea­son wasn’t the best for Love, as a rookie he strug­gled in just 2 games. This sea­son was his chance to redeem him­self... 

Ovechkin Injured. Capitals Hurting.

The big ques­tions in hockey this morn­ing are: How will the Wash­ing­ton Cap­i­tals cope with­out Ovechkin? and; how will this affect their bet­ting odds to win the Stan­ley Cup this season? The Cap­i­tals key player, Alexan­der Ovechkin’s has reported to the Yahoo! that his injured shoul­der may keep him off the ice and out of the Wash­ing­ton Cap­i­tals lineup for 4 – 5 weeks. Ovechkin was injured on Nov 1st when the Cap­i­tals met the Colum­bus Blue Jack­ets. Colum­bus won the game 5 – 4. “I am bet­ter. But I will miss four-to-five weeks,” Ovechkin reported... 

Weekly College Football Betting Review

Col­lege foot­ball bet­tors were focused on the Cincin­nati Bearcats in last Saturday’s col­lege foot­ball action. Cincin­nati remains unbeaten as they defeated the Con­necti­cut Huskies 47 — 45. Zach Col­laros, is prov­ing he can­not go back to the bench, made the sec­ond best pass­ing per­for­mance in school his­tory and helped the Bearcats achieve their best start in since 1951. Col­laros threw for 480 yards and a touch­down, ran for two more scores and led the final touch­down drive to vic­tory. The Bearcats are an inter­est­ing bet­ting choice with odds of +2500... 

NFL Week 9 Betting Review

With NFL week 9 com­pleted, the team in the spot­light last Sun­day was the Tampa Bay Buc­ca­neers. The Bucs, the only win­less team this sea­son, the finally achieved their first win over the Green Bay Pack­ers. The Packer’s hopes have been plum­met­ing in the last two weeks after their losses to the Patri­ots two weeks ago and last week to the Min­nesota Vikings. Mean­while, MFL bet­ting has the Vikings at +400 odds to win the 2010 Super Bowl. The Bucs took the 28–17 lead from the Pack­ers in the fourth quar­ter, and the went on to score 21 straight points to close the game... 

Most Popular NFL Bets this Sunday

Head­ing into the week­end, the NFL bet­ting action is heat­ing up. Which NFL teams are get­ting the most bet­ting action this Sunday? Below are the top ten NFL bets based on the cumu­la­tive bet­ting vol­ume of our sports­book members: #1 Green Bay Pack­ers — Point Spread #2 Atlanta Fal­cons — Point Spread #3 Bal­ti­more Ravens — Point Spread #4 Philadel­phia Eagles — Point Spread #5 San Fran­cisco 49ers — Point Spread #6 Hous­ton Tex­ans — Point Spread #7 Tampa Bay Buc­ca­neers — Point Spread #8 Hous­ton Tex­ans — Money Line #9 New Eng­land Patri­ots... 

Early 2010 Wold Series Odds Released

As the 2009 World Series closes with this year’s base­ball title going to the New York Yan­kees, online sports­book Linesmaker.com has already announced bet­ting odds for the 2010 World Series. The Yan­kees, who defeated last year’s World Series title hold­ers the Philadel­phia Phillies, are odds on favorites to win the 2010 Worlds Series at +300 odds fol­lowed at +700 by their Amer­i­can League East rivals the Boston Red Sox. The 2008 World Series champs, Philadel­phia, are show­ing at +1000 odds to win their sec­ond Worlds Series in three years. The Los Ange­les Angels, St.... 

Matsui Leads Yankees to World Series Victory

The New York Yan­kees closed out their first sea­son in the shiny new Yan­kee Sta­dium in spec­tac­u­lar fash­ion last night with a 7–3 vic­tory over the Philadel­phia Phillies. Remark­ably, Hideki Mat­sui had 6 RBIs in the World Series clinch­ing game. The Yan­kees became 2009 World Series Cham­pi­ons in large part due to the spec­tac­u­lar num­bers put up by Yan­kees des­ig­nated hit­ter Hideki Mat­sui. Matsui’s was rewarded for per­for­mance as the MVP. Dubbed in the media as “Stat­sui”, Mat­sui is the first Japan­ese born ball player to win the MVP tro­phy... 

College Basketball Betting Preview: Part 2

Early bet­ting action has the Texas Long­horns at +700 to win the NCAA Cham­pi­onship and is a reminder that Kansas is not the only elite team in the Big 12. They have upgraded their back court this sea­son and recruited to two elite fresh­men — Avery Bradley and Jor­dan Hamil­ton to add to they already strong team. Col­lege bas­ket­ball bet­tors also like Ken­tucky at +800. Ken­tucky has some of the best tal­ent in col­lege bas­ket­ball even though most of these are new recruits. An enter­tain­ing addi­tion for Ken­tucky fans in top recruit John Wall, who trans­ferred... 

College Basketball Betting Preview: Part 1

Lines­maker is look­ing ahead to the 2009/10 Col­lege Bas­ket­ball sea­son and here’s a brief insight on we think next year’s action will look. Most pre­dic­tions for this sea­son have no sur­prises with the usual sus­pects in the top 25 list­ings. In the con­fer­ences it looks as though the top three spots in the RIP con­fer­ence will be held by the Big 12, ACC and the Big East and Kansas are already the bet­ting favorites to win the 2009/10 NCAA Cham­pi­onship at +400. Bet­tors also like Michi­gan State (+1000) and Duke (+2000) who both return as pow­er­ful as ever... 

Colts Undefeated but not Perfect: NFL Betting Preview

With odds at + 450 to win Super Bowl, the Indi­anapo­lis Colts per­for­mance has been pre­dictably good to but not out­stand­ing. Their win­ning in streak has been filled with imper­fec­tions and Sunday’s game against the 49ers (+7500 to win Super Bowl) showed a slug­gish offense strug­gling to score. At times, Pey­ton Man­ning appeared to be out of sync with his team. This play isn’t typ­i­cal of the Colts and to live up to the pre­dic­tions they are going to have to step it up in the sec­ond half of the sea­son. Not­ing that there are “def­i­nitely some areas we...