2011 April at BetLM

Chicago Downs NHL Betting Favorite Vancouver

The Chicago Black­hawks posted a 5–0 win over the Van­cou­ver Canucks on Thurs­day, even as Mar­ian Hossa and Dun­can Keith net­ted two goals each and Corey Craw­ford had his first shutout of post-season. Attract­ing nearly 70% of the NHL bet­ting action, the Van­cou­ver Canucks were the clear favorites against Chicago among Lines­Maker bet­tor. With the NHL lines at –197, Van­cou­ver turned out to be the cause of huge dis­ap­point­ment for the major­ity of bet­tors as they lost to the under­dogs Black­hawks (+181). Hossa ini­ti­ated the scor­ing with a power play... 

MLB Betting Favorite Cincinnati Tops Arizona

Mike Leake gave up four hits over seven innings to rally the Cincin­nati Reds over the Ari­zona Dia­mond­backs to a 7–4 tri­umph on Thurs­day. Attract­ing nearly 70% of the MLB bet­ting action, the Cincin­nati Reds were the clear favorites against Ari­zona among Lines­Maker bet­tors. With the MLB lines at –126, Cincin­nati delighted the major­ity of bet­tors by defeat­ing the Dia­mond­backs (+119). Leake (3–0) per­mit­ted sin­gle in the first, sec­ond and fifth innings. He struck out six while walk­ing two. Kelly John­son got the third home run of the sea­son in... 

Understanding Money Line Odds

With money odds, when­ever there is a minus (-) that team is the favorite and you lay that amount to win a dol­lar.  Where there is a plus (+) that team is the under­dog and you get that amount for every dol­lar wagered. Exam­ple: Dodgers: + 150Phillies:    — 160 Player would lay $160 to win $100 on the Phillies.Player wagers $100 to win $150 on the Dodgers.  

Martinez Is Pelini’s Starter ‘If We Had a Game Today’

For those curi­ous as to the state of Nebraska’s quar­ter­back posi­tion, last year’s starter Tay­lor Mar­tinez (no rela­tion) still sits atop the depth chart.  For now. The Corn­huskers entered spring prac­tice under first-year offen­sive coor­di­na­tor Tim Beck by declar­ing the quar­ter­back com­pe­ti­tion wide open despite the fact that Mar­tinez had started 12 games in 2010.  After the 15 spring ses­sions, Mar­tinez has been given a (very) tepid endorse­ment by head coach Bo Pelini over the likes of junior Cody Green and red­shirt fresh­man Brion Carnes. And... 

Transfer Adds to Michigan’s DB Attrition

A source of sig­nif­i­cant attri­tion over the past cou­ple of years, Michi­gan is once again fac­ing the loss of depth in their secondary. By way of the Detroit News, defen­sive back Cullen Chris­t­ian con­firmed to SuperPreps.com that he has decided to trans­fer from the Wolver­ines foot­ball pro­gram.  Despite the fact that he made it through Brady Hoke‘s first spring prac­tice as a head coach, Chris­t­ian told the web­site that the coach­ing change ear­lier this year was the impe­tus for his decision. “Coach (Brady) Hoke is a great guy and I have no issues with him... 

Navy’s Niumatalolo Gets ‘Long-term’ Extension

The United States Naval Acad­emy has expe­ri­enced very con­sis­tent suc­cess under head coach Ken Niu­mat­alolo,  aver­ag­ing 9 wins over the past three seasons. As a result, the now fourth-year head coach is get­ting an exten­sion from the acad­emy that hopes to ensure he’ll be there for as long as humanly possible. “A for­mula for the con­tin­ued suc­cess of our foot­ball pro­gram has been our com­mit­ment to qual­ity con­ti­nu­ity,” said Navy ath­letic direc­tor Chet Glad­chuk. “Keep­ing our excel­lent staff in place has always been a goal and that begins... 

San Antonio Dominates NBA Betting Favorite Memphis

The San Anto­nio Spurs over­pow­ered the Mem­phis Griz­zlies 93–87 Wednes­day, cour­tesy of Richard Jef­fer­son who scored on a 3-pointer in a late surge. Attract­ing nearly 70% of the NBA bet­ting action, the Mem­phis Griz­zlies, with NBA lines at +8, were the favorites against San Anto­nio among Lines­Maker bet­tors, if not the odd­mak­ers. How­ever, Mem­phis failed to live up to the expec­ta­tions of the major­ity of bet­tors as they lost to the points-favorite Spurs. Jefferson’s shot in the last 3:43 min­utes helped the Spurs to enhance their three-point advan­tage... 

NHL Betting Favorite Buffalo Overpowers Philadelphia

Ryan Miller reg­is­tered his sec­ond play­offs shutout with 32 saves, as the Buf­falo Sabres dom­i­nated the Philadel­phia Fly­ers, 1–0 on Wednesday. Draw­ing around 55% of the NHL bet­ting action, the Buf­falo Sabres were the clear favorites against Philadel­phia among Lines­Maker bet­tors. With the NHL lines at –108, Buf­falo delighted the major­ity of bet­tors by beat­ing the Fly­ers (+100). This was Miller’s third shutout in 44 post-season games, while both shutouts in the quar­ter­fi­nals of East­ern Con­fer­ence were for 1–0 score. Buffalo’s Jason Pom­inville... 

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Giants Spoil Jimenez’s Return, Win 6–3

DENVER —Ubaldo Jimenez was rusty in his return. Jimenez came off the 15-day dis­abled list Tues­day night and reported no issues with the thumb on his pitch­ing hand, which devel­oped a cracked cuti­cle two weeks ago, forc­ing to him miss­ing two starts. What Colorado’s ace did have trou­ble with was San Francisco’s lineup, allow­ing four runs in the first inning of Colorado’s 6–3 loss to the Giants, the big blow a three-run homer by Pablo San­doval on a mis­placed slider. “I put the team in a dif­fi­cult posi­tion right away,” Jimenez said. “The first inning, I was...