2010 March at BetLM

Blackhawk Down, Ovechkin Suspended

Sun­day saw a crazy day for the Chicago Black­hawks, they lost to the Wash­ing­ton Cap­i­tals, Brian Camp­bell broke his col­lar bone and Alex Ovechkin was suspended. It was Ovechkin who caused the Black­hawks’ defenseman’s injury. He pushed him from behind while he was already los­ing his bal­ance caus­ing him to crash into the end boards. Ovechkin received a five-minute board­ing penalty and game misconduct. The Cap­i­tals had fallen behind 3 – 0 after Ovechkin was sent for an early shower but they ral­lied to a 4 –3 vic­tory. Nick­las Back­strom scored two goals,... 

The Heat Is On Despite Missing Talent

Miami Heat has turned up the offense after a four game slump win­ning five out of six games after defeat­ing host Philadel­phia on Sunday. The Heat was play­ing with a few men down:  lead­ing scorer Michael Beasley was side­lined for their last two games with a bruised thigh. Dorell Wright is on his first of a two-game sus­pen­sion after being charged with a DUI and dri­ving with a sus­pended license and point guard Rafer Alston was sus­pended for the sea­son after he left the team with­out telling any mem­ber of the orga­ni­za­tion why. Dur­ing the game they lost Jer­maine... 

Ferrari 1–2 Victory at Formula One Season Opener

Fer­rari cel­e­brated a 1 — 2 fin­ish at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sun­day in Sakhir. The win­ner was two-time F1 cham­pion Fer­nando Alonso who fin­ished ahead of his Fer­rari team­mate Felipe Massa. Fer­rari gave up on For­mula One last sea­son and it seems like their break has paid off, but it’s a long sea­son so it will be inter­est­ing to see how Fer­rari pro­gresses. The vic­tory was a great start to the sea­son for both dri­vers. Fer­nando Alonso of Spain was signed to Fer­rari after he had two tough and frus­trat­ing years with Renault and team­mate Felipe... 

American Idol Final 12 Betting Odds

Last night, Amer­i­can Idol (Sea­son 9) revealed their twelve final­ists after a round of four elim­i­na­tions. Of the final twelve, Lines­Maker Sports­book is pleased to release our odds on the next Amer­i­can Idol win­ner. The cur­rent odds are: Aaron Kelly  40/1     Andrew Gar­cia  12/1     Casey James  4/1     Crys­tal Bow­er­sox  3/2     Didi Benami  12/1     Katie Stevens  25/1     Lacey Brown  50/1     Lee Dewyze  5/1     Michael Lynche  10/1     Paige Miles  50/1     Siob­han Mag­nus  7/4     Tim Urban  50/1   Lines­Maker... 

Hot Hoops and Gearhead Action

  NCAA Con­fer­ence Cham­pi­onships, NBA Action, and Revving Up for the Bahrain Grand Prix! It’s NCAA con­fer­ence show­down time start­ing with the ACC, Big 10, SEC and cul­mi­nat­ing with the Big East Cham­pi­onship at Madi­son Square Gar­den on Sun­day. Will top seeded Syra­cuse remain at the top?  Not get­ting enough hoops?  There’s plenty of NBA action this week­end. Kobe helped he Lak­ers break their three game slide, they will meet Phoenix on Friday. Another NBA Cham­pi­onship favorites, Cleve­land have a busy week­end with two games on tap For all you gear­heads... 

Luck of the Irish in Big East

Notre Dame shut down Seton Hall’s pow­er­ful offense in the sec­ond round of the Big East Tour­ney on Wednesday. Luke Harangody bounced back into action for the Fight­ing Irish. He entered as the nation’s second-leading scorer at 23.3 points per game but missed 5 games after being injured in a 90–87 loss at Seton Hall on Feb. 11. He cer­tainly wasn’t going to let Seton Hall beat them this time. He had 20 points and 10 rebounds off the bench in the 68– 56 vic­tory for the Fight­ing Irish (22–10). Tony Jack­son helped by adding 13 points and six assists. Notre Dame is the No... 

Dallas Stars Not Shining

The Dal­las Stars were shin­ing when they beat Wash­ing­ton on Mon­day.  Unfor­tu­nately, they could not repeat their great shoot-out per­for­mance when they met the Buf­falo Sabres on Wednesday. Buffalo’s rookie Tyler Myers scored 55 sec­onds into the game and had three assists, but it was Thomas Vanek’s goal in the sec­ond period that sealed the Sabres a 5–3 vic­tory over the Stars (29–25-12).  The teams were tied at three after the first 20 min­utes but Buf­falo dom­i­nated the final two peri­ods as the Stars could only man­age to get six shots on Buf­falo goalie... 

Kobe Ends Lakers Three Game Slide

It was Kobe Bryant’s late jumper that put an end to the Lak­ers three game slide on Tues­day night. With just 1.9 sec­onds left Bryant hit a 17-foot jumper tak­ing the Los Ange­les Lak­ers to a 109–107 vic­tory over the Toronto Rap­tors. This ended what was the Lak­ers longest los­ing streak this season. The Rap­tors totally out­played the defend­ing cham­pi­ons through most of the three-quarters up until Bryant’s heroic shot in the fourth. Chris Bosh hit a 3-pointer with 9.5 sec­onds left to bring the game to a tie. Then Bryant eluded Antoine Wright’s defense get­ting... 

More Spills than Thrills in Atlanta

Kurt Busch won the Kobalt Tools 500 for the sec­ond time in a row at Atlanta Motor Speed­way. The race was more like an endurance race with restarts and crashes caused by tire problems. There were two dra­matic and fright­en­ing crashes that pro­longed the race by 16 extra laps. Carl Edwards caused the first by clip­ping Brad Keselowski’s car and send­ing it upside down into the grand­stand. Spec­u­la­tion is that this was retal­i­a­tion for a race last year at Tal­ladega, in which Keslowski won after col­lid­ing with Edwards. Luck­ily Keselowski was ok and Edwards was ordered... 

Bruins Lose Savard and Game to Penguins

After Sunday’s game the Bru­ins want to see Pen­guins left-winger Matt Cooke sus­pended and it won’t be for the first time. Cooke lev­eled the Bru­ins’ Marc Savard with a blind side check, knock­ing him out and giv­ing him con­cus­sion late in the third period. Savard was car­ried off on a stretcher. Cooke has already been sus­pended twice this sea­son for “unac­cept­able hits” and the Bru­ins who lost 2 –1 were angry, they had lost one of their best play­ers to a cheap shot. It’s “obvi­ous that was def­i­nitely a dirty hit,” said Bru­ins coach Claude Julien,...