2011 October at Linesmaker

Stricker Approves of Couples’ Selection of Woods

Steve Stricker is sup­port­ive of Fred Cou­ples’ deci­sion to appoint Tiger Woods to the Pres­i­dents Cup team head­ing to Aus­tralia next month. “I think it’s great. I talk to Tiger through tex­ting every now and then. He’s really excited. We’re look­ing for­ward to it. I think he’ll be ready, too,” Stricker said to the Mil­wau­kee Journal-Sentinel. “He’ll find a way to get it done. When you play him one on one, he’ll find a way. Just like at the Ryder Cup last year. He trounced the guy he was play­ing (Francesco Moli­nari of Italy, 4 and 3, in sin­gles). He... 

Report: James Harrison Likely to Return for Steelers

The Steel­ers could lose one of their book­end line­back­ers for Sun­day Night’s game against the Ravens, but they also sound likely get one Pro Bowl line­backer back. James Har­ri­son should return to the lineup, accord­ing to Ed Bouchette of the Pitts­burgh Post-Gazette. He frac­tured his orbital bone and missed four games. Lamarr Woodley’s sta­tus is up in the air after hurt­ing his ham­string Sun­day. Mike Flo­rio reports Wood­ley is “week-to-week” with his injury. (Also week-to-week: Florio’s inabil­ity to win a round of PFT Picks.) Our sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services. This arti­cle was... 

Fox Saw Improvement in Tebow During Lions’ Rout of Broncos

Tim Tebow will keep his job as Den­ver Bron­cos start­ing quar­ter­back — at least for one more week. One day after giv­ing his embat­tled young quar­ter­back a less than ring­ing endorse­ment fol­low­ing a humil­i­at­ing 45–10 loss at home to the Lions, Bron­cos coach John Fox said he’s stick­ing with Tebow. “For this week, yes,” Fox said. Tebow said he doesn’t feel as though he’s on a week-to-week basis but that he’s not one to fret about the future anyway. “It’s just take it one day at a time, con­sis­tently try­ing to get bet­ter and not focus­ing... 

Stanford TE Ertz Out, WR Owusu Uncertain

STANFORD, Calif. — Tight end Zach Ertz will most likely be side­lined for at least two weeks for No. 4 Stan­ford with a lower right leg injury, leav­ing one of the team’s most pro­duc­tive units shorthanded. The school announced Mon­day that Ertz is expected to miss Saturday’s game at Ore­gon State and the Nov. 12 matchup against sixth-ranked Ore­gon that could deter­mine the Pac-12 North cham­pion. How­ever, he has not been com­pletely ruled out next week when the Ducks (7–1, 5–0) visit Stan­ford Stadium. “I’ll be back before you know it!” Ertz wrote on his Twit­ter... 

Cardinals’ La Russa Retires as Champ

Updated Oct 31, 2011 3:12 PM ET St. Louis man­ager Tony La Russa is retiring. “I think this just feels like it’s time to end it,” La Russa said Mon­day morn­ing dur­ing a news con­fer­ence at Busch Stadium. La Russa, 67, goes out a cham­pion after lead­ing the Car­di­nals to a stir­ring seven-game World Series tri­umph over the Texas Rangers just days ago. It was his third cham­pi­onship. He also won the 1989 World Series with Oak­land and the 2006 Series with St. Louis. The four-time Man­ager of the Year won six pen­nants, three in the AL with the Ath­let­ics and three... 

Another Hamilton, Massa Crash

For the fourth time this sea­son, Lewis Hamil­ton and Felipe Massa col­lided as the two fought for posi­tion. This time, how­ever, for the first time, it was Massa of Fer­rari who received the penalty. This was prac­ti­cally the only inci­dent worth notic­ing in an oth­er­wise tame race, although there was a lit­tle bit of action at the start, espe­cially when Kamui Kobayasi ran his Sauber into the Marus­sia Vir­gin of Timo Glock, caus­ing the lat­ter to retire. Our sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services. This arti­cle was dis­trib­uted by X2 news wire and aggre­ga­tion ser­vice, For more news see: Another... 

Charges Expected for Vancouver Riot

VANCOUVER — Police on Mon­day said they’ve rec­om­mended charges against 60 indi­vid­u­als for their actions dur­ing the June 15 Stan­ley Cup riot in down­town Vancouver. Police rec­om­mended a total of 163 charges. Of the 50 men and 10 women fac­ing charges, the aver­age age is 21. The youngest sus­pect is a 16-year-old boy. The old­est sus­pect is a 52-year-old man who is known to police and has a lengthy crim­i­nal his­tory of theft, break and enter and sex offences. While names have been with­held, police released details of some cases. In one of them, a 23-year-old... 

Rams Get Boost From World Series Champs in Upset Victory Over Saints

Behind A.J. Fee­ley, the pre­vi­ously win­less Rams upset a Saints team that was com­ing off a 62-point per­for­mance against another win­less club. Watch BetLM's sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services. This arti­cle was dis­trib­uted by X2 news wire and aggre­ga­tion ser­vice, For more news see: Rams get boost from World Series champs in upset vic­tory over Saints. <!– This arti­cle was dis­trib­uted by X2 News Wire and Aggre­ga­tion ser­vice, For more infor­ma­tion see: -> Keep... 

Jaguars Defense Complains of Dirty Play by Texans After Loss

It seems like we can’t go a week with­out some­one accus­ing some­one else of play­ing dirty football. The lat­est accu­sa­tions were made by the Jack­sonville Jaguars about the Hous­ton Tex­ans after Sunday’s 24–14 Hous­ton victory. “I still don’t like them, and I have no respect for them at all,” Jaguars defen­sive tackle Ter­rance Knighton said, accord­ing to the Hous­ton Chron­i­cle. “It was just the dirty stuff they were doing. I don’t want to get into specifics; I just don’t like them. “I’m not going to get into names or any­thing like that, but we... 

No. 8 Arkansas Rallies Again, Tops Vandy

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The eighth-ranked Arkansas Razor­backs know they have plenty of tal­ent. That’s what makes falling behind early and hav­ing to rally for vic­tory so frustrating. They fell behind by double-digits for the third time this sea­son Sat­ur­day, trail­ing Van­der­bilt by 14 points before com­ing back for a 31–28 vic­tory. The come­back was keyed by Jerry Franklin’s 94-yard fum­ble return for a touch­down that turned a 28–20 deficit in the fourth quar­ter into a 28-all tie. Arkansas receiver Chris Gragg said it gives him a heart attack some­times falling behind,...