2011 November at BetLM

Eagles’ Vick Out; McCoy, Asomugha Questionable vs. Seahawks

Eagles quar­ter­back Michael Vick and wide receiver Jeremy Maclin have been ruled out for Philadelphia’s Thursday-night matchup with the Seat­tle Seahawks. Vick pro­gressed on Tues­day, throw­ing on the side­lines for the first time since injur­ing his ribs in a Week 10 game vs. the Car­di­nals. His absence means quar­ter­back Vince Young will make his third straight start for the 4–7 Eagles. Young threw for 400 yards and one touch­down with one inter­cep­tion in last Sunday’s 38–20 loss to the New Eng­land Patriots. Maclin, like Vick, has missed the Eagles’ last two games... 

Houston’s Sumlin Deflects Talk of Future

HOUSTON — Hous­ton coach Kevin Sum­lin deflected ques­tions about his future Tues­day, say­ing he’s had sev­eral con­ver­sa­tions with Ath­letic Direc­tor Mack Rhoades about a con­tract extension. Sum­lin is a hot com­mod­ity after guid­ing Hous­ton to unprece­dented heights in four seasons. The seventh-ranked Cougars (12–0, 8–0) can fin­ish the program’s first unde­feated sea­son and likely land its first Bowl Cham­pi­onship Series berth with a vic­tory in Saturday’s Con­fer­ence USA cham­pi­onship game at home against No. 24 South­ern Miss (10–2, 6–2). Sumlin’s... 

Ecclestone Expects Europe to Keep 5 F1 Races

MADRID - For­mula One boss Bernie Eccle­stone says Europe likely will be left with only five Grand Prixs in the com­ing years when the sport moves to other countries. The 81-year-old Eccle­stone says in an inter­view in Marca news­pa­per that “Europe is a good place for tourism and not much else. Europe is finished.” Eccle­stone did not say which races would remain, only that he would like to take F1 to South Africa and Mex­ico, and he expects to main­tain about 20 Grand Prixs per season. F1 has recently gone to South Korea and India, while Rus­sia has a deal to be a host in... 

Gaborik, Richads Come Up Big for Rangers

NEW YORK - The Rangers bided their time for sev­eral years, build­ing their team through shrewd draft­ing and allow­ing those young play­ers develop their skills while the team as a whole went through grow­ing pains. To become an elite team, how­ever, elite play­ers are needed. Enter Mar­ian Gaborik and Brad Richards, a pair of expen­sive free-agent sign­ings designed to trans­form the Rangers from a team that’s just good enough to make the play­offs to one that’s good enough to com­pete with the best. On Tues­day night, Gaborik and Richards were worth every penny. They came... 

Janikowski Is the AFC Special-Teams Player of the Week

Janikowski is the AFC special-teams player of the week Posted by Mike Flo­rio on Novem­ber 29, 2011, 11:35 PM EST To lit­tle sur­prise, Raiders kicker Sebas­t­ian Janikowski has been named the AFC special-teams player of the week. In a Week 12 win over the Bears, Janikowski kicked six field goals, from 40, 47, 42, 19, 37, and 44 yards. It was a team record for field goals in a game, and it was the fourth time Janikowski con­nected on at least five field goals in one game. Janikowski’s com­pe­ti­tion for the award undoubt­edly included Raiders punter Shane Lech­ler, who showed... 

TCU K Evans Practices After Arrest

FORT WORTH, Texas — TCU kicker Ross Evans is back at prac­tice, though coach Gary Pat­ter­son isn’t sure yet if the team’s career scor­ing leader will play in the regular-season finale against UNLV on Sat­ur­day fol­low­ing his arrest. Evans faces a charge of mis­de­meanor crim­i­nal mis­chief after being accused of kick­ing in the door of a North Texas apart­ment. He sur­ren­dered to Den­ton police last week after learn­ing a war­rant had been issued for his arrest. Pat­ter­son says Evans was sus­pended last week while school offi­cials gath­ered infor­ma­tion... 

Valentine Hire Doesn’t Solve All Problems

Updated Nov 30, 2011 1:21 AM ET In the end, the Boston Red Sox decided to hire a celebrity manager. In the end, they gave fans (and reporters) some­one who will add intrigue to what had become a bland Red Sox-Yankees rivalry. In the end, they hired a native New Eng­lan­der with an ebul­lient per­son­al­ity and inci­sive, strate­gic mind. Bobby Valen­tine is the new Red Sox man­ager, reports say. At his intro­duc­tory news con­fer­ence, no one will ques­tion whether he can han­dle the Boston pres­sure cooker or if he has the nec­es­sary base­ball know-how. Valen­tine is,... 

Matchmaker, Matchmaker: Strikeforce and UFC Bookings on Deck

The UFC and Strike­force have been hard at work, putting together bouts to fill cards early in the new year. - Strikeforce’s has sched­uled a Show­time card for the Hard Rock in Las Vegas on Jan­u­ary 7. The rumored head­liner is Tim Kennedy tak­ing on Luke Rock­hold for the mid­dleweight belt. - When the UFC cut sev­eral Golden Glory fight­ers over their man­age­ment prac­tices, Jon Olav Einemo was caught in the cross­fire and lost his job. Now he’s back in the UFC and is expected to fight Mike Rus­sow at UFC on Fox 2 in Chicago. Rus­sow is a police offi­cer in Chicago,... 

Playing European Roulette at Online Casino Game Site

Roulette is the third most pop­u­lar game played at casi­nos all over the world, the most pop­u­lar being slots and video poker.  Being the favorite of most gam­blers play­ing at online casino game site, roulette with sin­gle zero wheel is con­sid­ered the best option at 2.63%. More­over, roulette with dou­ble zeros at 5.26% is not a good bet, as the best bet usu­ally is less than 3%. In the sin­gle zero or Euro­pean roulette, the casino advan­tage can be reduced to 2.63% with the best roulette wheel. In this, the sin­gle zero is placed between black 26 and red 32. Not only that,... 

French Apprentice Jockey Dies After Race Fall

PARIS — An appren­tice French jockey has died from his injuries after falling dur­ing a race, the French Jock­eys Asso­ci­a­tion said Tuesday. Ben­jamin Boutin, who was 21, was rid­ing Game Of Legs in an appren­tices’ race at Argen­tan in Nor­mandy on Sat­ur­day when he fell after being acci­den­tally blocked by another rider. “He died on Mon­day, but after his fall he was already in a deep coma. (It was) irre­versible,” French Jock­eys Asso­ci­a­tion Pres­i­dent Ronan Thomas told The Asso­ci­ated Press. “All the jock­eys are very affected by this. The French...