2011 April at BetLM

‘McLaren Winter Woes Worst in 20 Years’

‘McLaren win­ter woes worst in 20 years’ McLaren tech­ni­cal direc­tor Paddy Lowe has described the team’s win­ter prob­lems as the “most chal­leng­ing” in 20 years. The Woking-based team endured a night­mare pre-season as their rad­i­cal MP4-26 was not only off the pace of the Red Bulls and Fer­raris, but Lewis Hamil­ton and Jen­son But­ton also headed into the first race of the year near to bot­tom of the mileage chart as the car strug­gled to com­plete a test day with­out break­ing down. “The win­ter tests in Feb­ru­ary and early March were prob­a­bly... 

Rankings: Youth Over Experience

Four of the top 10 fight­ers in the April Yahoo! Sports box­ing rank­ings are under 30 years old and have a com­bined record of 96–1 with 57 knockouts. Andre Ward (23–0), ranked sev­enth and Tim­o­thy Bradley (27–0), a spot behind him at eighth, are each 27. Non­ito Don­aire (26–1), who is fourth, is 28 and Yuri­orkis Gam­boa (20–0), who enters the rank­ings at 10th, replac­ing Juan Manuel Lopez, is 29. There are sev­eral other fight­ers of note who are under 30, such as Paul Williams (29), Gio­vani Segura (29), Lopez (27), Andre Berto (27), Abner Mares (25), Anselmo... 

Casting the Mark Hominick Movie

“I’m fight­ing for the belt, co-main event on the first UFC card in Ontario, so I have an oblig­a­tion to do as much as I can to help pro­mote not only my fight, but the sport in gen­eral up here.” – Mark Hominick If Hol­ly­wood made a movie about Team Tomp­kins, the Lon­don, Ontario fight team con­sist­ing of Mark Hominick, Sam Stout, and Chris Horodecki, pro­duc­ers would have some of the rich­est char­ac­ters in all of mixed mar­tial arts to cast in their film. The hand­some and brood­ing Stout, with his pierc­ing blue eyes and chis­eled fea­tures, would be played... 

Hoops, UFC and Nascar All in 1 Weekend

As the NBA and NHL games con­tinue, NASCAR and UFC step in to make this a remark­able week­end in sports! UFC 129 With one of the best fight cards in MMA his­tory, UFC 129 fea­tures George St. Pierre defend­ing his Wel­ter­weight title against Jake Shields, as well as what might pos­si­bly be Randy Couture’s last fight, when he faces off against Lyoto Machida.  You can find the best odds at our fight­ing bet­ting sec­tion. Big­ger Signup Bonus Down­load Lines­Maker Poker today and you now receive an ini­tial deposit of 150% bonus of up to $750!  Hun­dreds of tables and tour­na­ments... 

Darchinyan Beats Perez on Technical Decision

LOS ANGELES —Vic Darchinyan defeated Yonnhy Perez by a tech­ni­cal deci­sion after their sched­uled 12-round ban­tamweight fight Sat­ur­day was stopped at 1:07 of the fifth round because Perez had a cut near his eye. The fight at the Nokia The­atre went to the score­cards because the cut between Perez’s eyes was the result of an acci­den­tal head butt. An extremely aggres­sive Darchinyan (36–3-1, 27 knock­outs) dom­i­nated a list­less Perez (20–2-1, 14 KOs) from begin­ning to end to win by three iden­ti­cal scores of 50–44. Darchinyan, a south­paw who has held titles... 

Heikki Eyes Midfield in Barca

Heikki eyes mid­field in Barca Heikki Kovalainen is hope­ful that Lotus will be able to join the mid­field at the Span­ish Grand Prix. Although the team are yet to pick up their first points in F1, the Norfolk-based out­fit have been one of the suc­cess sto­ries of the 2011 sea­son so far. Jarno Trulli fin­ished 13th in Aus­tralia while Kovalainen was ahead of a Williams and Sauber in China. The 29-year-old Kovalainen feels there will be more to come from the team next month once the T128 has been fit­ted with “big­ger upgrades” in Barcelona. “The sea­son has started well... 

Rory MacDonald – “The Waterboy” Grows Up

“I’ll have one thing in mind the whole time, and that’s look­ing across the cage and fight­ing Nate Diaz, and noth­ing else.” – Rory MacDonald Seven sec­onds. Ahead on two of the three judges’ score­cards in his UFC 115 bout against Car­los Con­dit last June, that’s all Rory Mac­Don­ald needed to walk away with the biggest vic­tory of his career against a for­mer WEC champion. But as ref­eree Kevin Dor­nan pulled Con­dit off the soon to be 21 year old after a bar­rage of pun­ish­ing blows, a stun­ning vic­tory mor­phed into a crush­ing defeat. Seven sec­onds... 

NHL Betting Favorite Boston Tops Montreal

The Boston Bru­ins posted a 4–3 vic­tory over the Mon­treal Cana­di­ens on Wednes­day, thanks to Nathan Hor­ton who net­ted a goal 5:43 into overtime. Attract­ing nearly 65% of the NHL bet­ting action, the Boston Bru­ins were the clear favorites against Mon­treal among Lines­Maker bet­tors. With the NHL lines at –175, Boston delighted the major­ity of bet­tors by defeat­ing the Cana­di­ens (+161). P.K. Sub­ban net­ted a goal with 1:57 remain­ing in reg­u­la­tion to help Mon­treal tie the game 3–3. Hor­ton scored on his third goal of the play­offs to end the tie.... 

Richardson Prepping Mosley for Fight of His Life

The first les­son a boxer must learn when work­ing in a gym with Naazim Richard­son is to never stop pay­ing attention. Two of the young fight­ers work­ing with Richard­son at Shane Mosley’s Big Bear, Calif., train­ing com­pound are guilty of vio­lat­ing rule No. 1. Richard­son sees them laugh­ing, talk­ing and gen­er­ally goof­ing off and ambles in their direc­tion. He’s a big, burly bear of a man, but noth­ing hap­pens in a hurry with Richardson. As he nears the two unsus­pect­ing fight­ers, he grabs the end of a towel that is draped over his right shoul­der and flicks... 

Grant Tries to Solve Riddle in Pittsburgh

Another intrigu­ing matchup is on tap for the UFC on Ver­sus card on June 26th, as UFC Pres­i­dent Dana White announced that ver­bal agree­ments are in for a wel­ter­weight scrap between TJ Grant and Matthew Rid­dle.Oliveira vs. Lentz on June 26th updated April 27Dynamic light­weight prospect Charles Oliveira will look to rebound from the first loss of his career (against Jim Miller) when he takes on Nik Lentz (who has not lost in six UFC bouts) in a match that was ver­bally agreed to today. The two will duke it out on the UFC on Ver­sus card on June 26th. Grice vs. Lamas at FW June...