2010 August at LinesMaker

Kansas City Chiefs Betting Preview

Gen­eral man­ager Scott Pioli still has lots of work to fin­ish with the devel­op­ment of the Kansas City Chiefs, his newest toy. After aggra­vat­ing sev­eral Chiefs fans last sea­son in a woe­ful year, this is per­haps going to be the last sea­son for quar­ter­back Matt Cas­sel to prove that he is a right­ful start­ing quar­ter­back in the league. Pioli cer­tainly has made some sig­nif­i­cant devel­op­ments in the 2010 NFL Draft, pool­ing in a lot of fresh, awe­some play­ers who still have the skills to win games. Being the ideal first round selec­tion for the Chiefs,... 

Nadal, Murray and Djokovic Advance to Third Round in Toronto

Sur­viv­ing through a long first-set tiebreaker, top-ranked Rafael Nadal claimed his posi­tion in the third round of the Rogers Cup. Reign­ing cham­pion Andy Mur­ray and world No.2 Novak Djokovic also advanced at the $2.43 mil­lion ATP Mas­ters Tour­na­ment Wednesday. The reign­ing Wim­ble­don and French Open cham­pion Nadal defeated Stanis­las Wawrinka, 7–6 (14–12), 6–3. At Lines­Maker, Nadal had 1/12 odds to beat Wawrinka (6/1) in the sec­ond round. Nadal has won this Cana­dian Mas­ters event twice, in 2005 and 2008. In the third round, Nadal will bat­tle Kevin Ander­son,... 

Denver Broncos Betting Preview

The Den­ver Bron­cos failed to reach the play­offs after crash­ing from a 6–0 start last sea­son. To aggra­vate things, head coach McDaniels and wide receiver Bran­don Mar­shall got into a dis­pute. Con­se­quently, Mar­shall, who was per­haps the best player of the team last sea­son, was traded to Miami dur­ing the off­sea­son. Estrang­ing his play­ers even more, McDaniels traded in the first round to take quar­ter­back Tim Tebow. With this, the posi­tion of cur­rent quar­ter­back Kyle Orton is hard to presume. In spite of all this and the col­lapse of last sea­son,... 

Jacksonville Jaguars Betting Preview

Not only are the Jaguars prob­a­bly in their dying years in Jack­sonville, but the era of Head Coach Jack Del Rio is per­haps com­ing to an end as well. Fol­low­ing their two woe­ful sea­sons, Del Rio des­per­ately needs to bring back the Jaguars to the play­offs. More­over, quar­ter­back David Gar­rard will also be required to estab­lish that he has the capa­bil­ity to lead a fran­chise to the sec­ond sea­son, some­thing that he has strug­gled to do since he replaced quar­ter­back Byron Left­wich as the man in charge of Jacksonville. With run­ning back Mau­rice Jones-Drew... 

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Langhorne Leads Mystics to Overpower Sun

Crys­tal Lang­horne reg­is­tered a double-double with 23 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, while the Wash­ing­ton Mys­tics defeated the Con­necti­cut Sun, 84–74 Tues­day at Ver­i­zon Center. Monique Cur­rie pulled in 17 points and four boards for the Mys­tics. Katie Smith also chipped in 12 points, while using a big run to begin the sec­ond half to fin­ish a short two-game slide. Renee Mont­gomery scored a team-high 17 points for the Sun, while Tina Charles con­tributed with a double-double with 15 points and 15 rebounds. Los­ing five of their last six games, Con­necti­cut... 

Tennessee Titans Betting Preview

Dur­ing the first half of the sea­son, the Ten­nessee Titans were a dis­grace under quar­ter­back Kerry Collins. But, to everyone’s sur­prise, the Titans went 8–2 in the sec­ond half of the sea­son with quar­ter­back Vince Young call­ing the shots, show­ing bright prospects for 2010. Although Young is not amongst the quar­ter­backs with flashy numbers, he def­i­nitely has the abil­ity to fig­ure out how to win games, and that’s what every­one expects from an NFL quarterback. Another big ques­tion remains whether run­ning back Chris John­son will be attend­ing train­ing... 

Bullpen Aids Lester as Boston Beats Yankees, 2–1

Jon Lester along with reliev­ers Daniel Bard and Jonathan Papel­bon lim­ited the Yan­kees to six hits, help­ing the Boston Red Sox split a four-game series with the Yan­kees 2–1 Monday. Lester (12–7) gave up four hits while walk­ing three, but pulled a score­less 6 1/3 innings. Tak­ing over for Lester, Brad allowed two hits with one homer in 1 1/3 innings, while knock­ing out Derek Jeter and Nick Swisher on six pitches. Papel­bon reg­is­tered the game’s last four outs on strike­outs along with his 28th save. Yan­kees starter Phil Hughes (13–5) also gave up six hits, five... 

Houston Texans Betting Preview

The Hous­ton Tex­ans is a team to watch out for in 2010. Com­pris­ing of a pass­ing offense led by quar­ter­back Matt Schaub, Hous­ton has the cal­iber to become one of the best teams in foot­ball. Interestingly, the Tex­ans had the most effi­cient aer­ial attack in 2010. The red zone offense was alto­gether a dif­fer­ent story. Last year the Tex­ans faced defeat in three games inside the contender’s 20-yard line, which left every­one won­der­ing if Head Coach Gary Kubiak would sur­vive to tell about it. It will be extremely vital for Hous­ton to get over that road­block... 

Indianapolis Colts Betting Preview

The Indi­anapo­lis Colts have more or less the exact same team that ral­lied them to the Super Bowl last sea­son. The key dif­fer­ence is that the team no longer has the offen­sive coor­di­na­tor Tom Moore, fol­low­ing his retire­ment. He was the only coor­di­na­tor who worked with quar­ter­back Pey­ton Man­ning dur­ing his entire suc­cess­ful tenure with the Colts. With­out a doubt, Man­ning can be in charge him­self with­out the assis­tance of an offen­sive coor­di­na­tor, but the reac­tion of Clyde Chris­tensen to this posi­tion will be a concern. The already...