2010 March at LinesMaker

Prince Clinches Pistons Victory

The Detroit Pis­tons secured a 110 – 107overtime vic­tory over 1.5 point favorites Hous­ton yes­ter­day. Tayshaun Prince clinched the game for the Pistons. Prince who had missed 32 games with back and knee injuries scored a season-high 29 points and brought down 10 rebounds. Richard Hamil­ton added 22 points and Jason Max­iell had a career high16 rebounds. Will Bynum was fill­ing in for Rod­ney Stuckey on Sun­day night and proved his effec­tive­ness in defense. Stuckey was hos­pi­tal­ized when he col­lapsed dur­ing the Pis­tons loss against the Cav­a­liers at Cleve­land on... 

March Madness Conference Round Up

As the col­lege bas­ket­ball pace picks up this week in the con­fer­ence tour­na­ment, here’s a round up of how the top ranked teams are performing. No. 1 Syra­cuse was knocked from the top spot when they lost to the Car­di­nals at Louisville on Sat­ur­day. They had spent five days at the top of the poll and it was the first time Syra­cuse (28–3) had been ranked No. 1 in the regular-season for 20 years. This is their was the Orange’s sec­ond loss to Louisville in two weeks but they have already won the Big East regular-season title. Syra­cuse could be a great choice for bet­tors... 

Payback in Spring Training Opener

There’s noth­ing like wak­ing up from your win­ter hiber­na­tion to take pitch in the mid­dle of your back.  That’s what hap­pened to the Mil­wau­kee Brew­ers’ first base­man Prince Fielder when they met the San Fran­cisco Giants on Thursday. Fielder appeared to be the tar­get of retal­i­a­tion from an inci­dent last year. He was hit in the back by the first pitch from San Francisco’s Barry Zito in first inning of the Gaints 5–3 vic­tory over the Brew­ers. Why the retal­i­a­tion? On Sep­tem­ber 6th Fielder had acted like a bowl­ing ball and his team­mates had... 

Hoops and Nascar Heat Up. NHL is Back.

After an excit­ing week of very cool Olympic bet­ting action at Lines­Maker, we’re gear­ing up for the great­est month for bas­ket­ball. The con­fer­ence tour­na­ments will com­mence March 9th with the Big East. NHL is back on the ice after its two week break for­some incred­i­ble Olympic hockey action.  Now the Olympic stars get back to their reg­u­lar sea­son teams in the run for Lord Stanley’s mug. The NASCAR Kobalt Tools 500 takes place this Sun­day. Will the Atlanta Motor Speed­way see Jim­mie John­son retain his lead for the Hen­drick team? What­ever the result... 

Phillies Halladay Has Impressive Debut

The Grape­fruit League opener saw an impres­sive debut from Philadelphia’s new pitcher Roy Hal­la­day when they beat the New York Yan­kees 3–2 on Thursday. Hal­la­day, who spent his first 12 sea­sons with the Toronto Blue Jays, had been putting him­self through a rig­or­ous train­ing sched­ule that paid off. He threw 24 pitches, 21 of which were strikes, and a pair of hit­less innings while strik­ing out three and he only allowed one base run­ner but only because of an error. Hal­la­day struck out bat­ter, Jorge Posada and then got Robin­son Cano out on a fly ball to end... 

Odds to Win Dancing With the Stars

On March 1st, ABC announced the new con­tes­tants for Danc­ing with the Stars which will begin air­ing live in three weeks. It has only taken a few days for the early favorites to appear, how­ever. Bet­ting action at Lines­Maker indi­cates Evan Lysacek, Nicole Scherzinger and Erin Andrews are among the early favorites. Cincin­nati Ben­gals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco is also get­ting some decent action from bettors. Lines­Maker Sports­book is pleased to release our com­plete bet­ting odds on the next Danc­ing with the Stars cham­pion. The cur­rent odds are: Aiden Turner  10/1      Buzz... 

Terrapins Reign Over Duke

After a vic­tory over the 4th ranked Duke Blue Dev­ils on Wednes­day night, the Mary­land Ter­rap­ins con­tin­ued their win­ning streak and take a share of the lead in the ACC standings. Vasquez scored 20 points for the Mary­land under­dogs, includ­ing a clutch bas­ket with 37 sec­onds left, lead­ing No 22 ranked Mary­land (22–7, 12–3 ACC) to a 79–77 vic­tory. Devil’s guards Nolan Smith and Jon Scheyer scored 20 and 19 points respec­tively for Duke (25–2, 12–3 ACC) mak­ing it a close game. The Terrapin’s for­ward Lan­don Mil­bourne went on to score the go-ahead... 

Big Upsets at Monterrey Open

There was a supris­ing upset in Tuesday’s first round of the Mon­ter­rey Open in Mex­ico, which saw top-seeded Jelena Jankovic lose 5–7, 6–4, 6–4 to Latvia’s Anas­tasija Sev­as­tova. Top seeds Anabel Med­ina Gar­rigues and Lucie Safarova also dropped their first round matches. The world’s for­mer No. 1 Jankovic was stunned as she was ousted by Sev­as­tova who is 19 years old and ranked 72nd in the world. This was Jankovic’s third upset in two days at Mon­ter­rey and her rat­ing will now drop sig­nif­i­cantly with this last defeat. Other seeded play­ers faired bet­ter.... 

Syracuse Wins Big East Title

It was their final home game and one to remem­ber as Syra­cuse won the Big East Con­fer­ence tour­na­ment for the sec­ond time. They were 13.5 favorites to win at Lines­Maker and beat the Red Storm 85– 66 on Tues­day night. It was fifth year seniors Arinze Onu­aku and Andy Rautins who com­bined a total 35 points to clinch the vic­tory. Onu­aku scored a season-high of 21 points help­ing Syra­cuse to move up to 15–2 in the Big East and 28–2 over­all. Ruatins added another 14 points. Syracuse’s sea­son has been amaz­ing. They have won nine of their last 11conference home... 

Devils Beat Sharks

 A power-play goal scored by Ilya Kovalchuk against Olympic team­mate Evgeni Nabokov pushed New Jer­sey on to beat the San Jose Sharks 4–3 on Tues­day night. New Jersey’s goalie Mar­tin Brodeur was not play­ing well. His post-Olympic per­for­mance was poor, after being benched in the pre­lim­i­nary round fol­low­ing Canada’s 5–3 loss to the US. He let in three goals in the third period and the Sharks nearly man­aged to rally from a 4–0 deficit. Thir­teen Olympians played in the game, eight of who were on the teams in Sunday’s gold medal game. The five medal­ists play­ing...