2010 January at LinesMaker

Record Scoring Total as Underdog Cardinals Beat Packers

The Ari­zona Car­di­nals and Green Bay Pack­ers matchup yes­ter­day is being hailed as one of the most enter­tain­ing play­off games in NFL his­tory. Ari­zona proved to have an amaz­ing start and then Green Bay made an incred­i­ble come­back. Fans were kept on the edge of their seats as the Car­di­nals went on to win the bat­tle at 51 – 45 mak­ing it the highest-scoring play­off game in National Foot­ball League history. Car­di­nals quar­ter­back Kurt Warner faced one of the NFL’s tough­est defense, and with­out the help of receiver Anquan Boldin, Warner went on... 

Cowboys Dominate Eagles

The Dal­las Cow­boys sim­ply dom­i­nated the Philadel­phia Eagles from begin­ning to end in their NFL wild card matchup last week­end. The Cow­boys took the vic­tory on their home turf, with a final score of 34 – 14 and eas­ily cov­ered the 4 point spread. Dal­las seems to be on a roll play­ing their best foot­ball of the sea­son. Their defense shut down the Eagles, putting a stop to their run­ning game and elim­i­nated any down­field options. The vic­tory is the Cow­boys first since 1996 and advances them to next weekend’s matchup against the Min­nesota Vikings. Lines­Maker... 

Underdog Ravens Shutdown Patriots

The New Eng­land Patri­ots were 3.5 point favorites against the Bal­ti­more Ravens at Lines­Maker and mem­bers were putting over 60% of the bet­ting action on the Patri­ots to cover. Despite the strong cons­esus towards the Patri­ots it was those who bet on the Ravens who were cash­ing their bet­ting tick­ets as the Ravens han­dled the Patri­ots 33–14. Ray Lewis and a strong per­for­mance by the entire Ravens defense was a key fac­tor shut­ting down the New Eng­land Patri­ots and Tom Brady. The game saw an 83-yard touch­down run by Ray Rice that was the second-longest post-season... 

The Tide Rolls Over Texas

Favored Alabama beat Texas 37–21 last night, eas­ily cov­er­ing the four point spread. The bet­ting action at Lines­Maker had just over 60% of bet­ting vol­ume rid­ing on Alabama. The Crim­son Tide takes col­lege football’s national cham­pi­onship title for the first time since 1992 when Gene Stallings coached them to the pinnacle. The Tide have met the Long­horns nine times and this was their first win. Alabama joins the 2002 Ohio State Buck­eyes and this year’s Boise State team as the only teams to fin­ish a sea­son with a 14–0 record at col­lege football’s high­est level. Alabama’s... 

Weekend Betting Action and Specials

Get your bets in for this weekend’s NFL Wild­card Matchups and take advan­tage of some great promotions. Sat­ur­day Jan­u­ary 9 New York Jets @ Cincin­nati 4:30PM EST The Jets pum­melled the Ben­gals 37–0 last Sun­day. Although the game meant noth­ing to Cincin­nati, this embar­rass­ing loss must have left some men­tal wounds. Philadel­phia @ Dal­las 8:00PM EST Dal­las dom­i­nated the Eagles on Sun­day, win­ning 24–0. McN­abb has strug­gled this sea­son against the Cow­boys. Romo, on the other hand, has sur­passed 300 yards in both games. Sun­day Jan­u­ary 10 Bal­ti­more... 

Texas and Alabama Battle for BCS Title

The NCAA national foot­ball cham­pi­onship will be staged at the Rose Bowl tonight, fea­tur­ing Alabama and Texas. A new BCS Cham­pion will be crowned. Alabama and Texas both have per­fect records head­ing into tonight’s matchup. Book­mak­ers, how­ever, are count­ing on Alabama’s strong run defense cou­pled with Texas’ weaker run­ning game to give the Crim­son Tide the edge. Lines­Maker has Alabama as 4 point favorites. The Crim­son Tide defense is giv­ing up just 79 yards per game on the ground. With the Long­horns being one-dimensional on offense, Alabama’s ninth-ranked... 

LinesMaker Announces Content Sharing Agreement with MySportNews.com

Online sports bet­ting site LinesMaker.com is pleased to announce that it is now pro­vid­ing it’s cus­tomers with cur­rent sports news updates. Lines­Maker has entered a con­tent shar­ing agree­ment with sports news provider MySportNews.com. Vis­i­tors to Lines­Maker will be given up to date news on all major North Amer­i­can sports, pro­fes­sional and col­lege. This infor­ma­tion is a valu­able resource to cus­tomers help­ing them to make an informed bet­ting choice. As part of this agree­ment LinesMaker.com is pro­vid­ing MySportNews.com with live bet­ting... 

Johnson Tops 2000 Yards in Titan Victory

NFL bet­ting favored Ten­nessee on Sun­day with 76% of Lines­Maker mem­bers bet­ting on the Titans to cover. The Titans won 17 –13 over the Seat­tle Sea­hawks but did not cover 4.5 point spread. The big story, how­ever, was Chris John­son who became the sixth player in NFL his­tory to rush for 2,000 yards in a sea­son. He then scored the go-ahead touch­down on a 1-yard run with 4:33 remain­ing. John­son joins Eric Dick­er­son, Jamal Lewis, Barry Sanders, Ter­rell Davis, and O.J. Simp­son in the 2,000-yard club.  

Texas Tech Over Spartans in Alamo Bowl

The Alamo Bowl turned out to be an enter­tain­ing affair as Texas Tech fans were still hurt­ing over coach Mike Leach’s dis­missal. The crowd showed their dis­plea­sure vocally and visu­ally with T-shirts and signs. The unrest seemed to spur Tech on to a 41 – 31 vic­tory over Michi­gan State, just cov­er­ing the 9.5 point spread. It was no real sur­prise to Lines­Maker mem­bers who put 62% of their bet­ting action on Texas Tech. The Red Raiders took the lead from the Spar­tans on backup quar­ter­back Steven Sheffield’s 11-yard touch­down pass to Detron Lewis with 5:03... 

Steelers Playoff Hopes Faint

Roeth­lis­berger hit for three touch­downs and Reed was good on three field goals, as the Steel­ers kept their play­off hopes alive with a 30–24 vic­tory over the Miami Dol­phins. Both teams entered the con­test with a slim chance of reach­ing the play­offs, each need­ing a win and some help. The Steel­ers still have a faint play­off pulse head­ing into later action on Sun­day, but now need losses by Bal­ti­more, Den­ver and the New York Jets to reach the post­sea­son and defend their Super Bowl title. The Dol­phins lost a pair of quar­ter­backs dur­ing the game. Starter...