2011 November at BetLM

On Fire Baby Take Golden Rod at Churchill Downs

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — On Fire Baby led from the starts and pulled away in the stretch for a 6 1/4-length vic­tory in the $ 169,350 Golden Rod at Churchill Downs on Saturday. Favored in the field of 10, On Fire Baby returned $ 7.40, $ 4.40 and $ 3.40. Gol­drush Girl was sec­ond and paid $ 19.60 and $ 9.20. Back Spin returned $ 11.40 to show. Trained by Gary Hart­lage and rid­den by Joe John­son, the daugh­ter of Smoke Glacken became the sev­enth horse to sweep Churchill’s fall meet stakes for juve­nile fil­lies. She won the Grade 3 Poc­a­hon­tas in her last start. On... 

Broncos Players Are Learning to Tune In, Turn on to Tebowmania

SAN DIEGO — On Sat­ur­day, Den­ver quar­ter­back Tim Tebow stood in front of his team­mates, both offense and defense, to deliver a mes­sage that res­onated deep into Sun­day evening, long after the Bron­cos bat­tled it out with the Charg­ers in over­time for a fifth con­sec­u­tive win. It was another quote from the Bible, another expres­sion of his reli­gion that many of his crit­ics seem to believe bor­ders on overly pious devotion. “As iron sharp­ens iron, men sharpen men,” Tebow told the group, loosely quot­ing Proverbs 27:17. Do Tebow’s con­stant ref­er­ences... 

Colts’ Manning to Have Neck Re-Evaluated on Wednesday

Pey­ton Man­ning told reporters Sun­day fol­low­ing yet another Indi­anapo­lis Colts loss that he’s set to have another X-ray/checkup on his sur­gi­cally repaired neck this Wednes­day, but he gave no indi­ca­tion in regard to how his rehab is progressing. “I’ll prob­a­bly check in with y’all this week,” said Man­ning, via the Indi­anapo­lis Star. Man­ning under­went neck surgery Sept. 8 — his third such oper­a­tion in 19 months — and has been out indef­i­nitely since the operation. Man­ning has not been placed on season-ending injured reserve, and the Star... 

Erickson Out as Arizona State Coach

TEMPE, Ariz. — Den­nis Erick­son is out as Ari­zona State coach, a uni­ver­sity offi­cial told The Asso­ci­ated Press, after another sea­son in which the results didn’t meet the expec­ta­tions for the Sun Devils. The offi­cial spoke on the con­di­tion of anonymity on Sun­day because details of Erickson’s depar­ture have not been finalized. Erick­son will meet with ath­letic direc­tor Lisa Love as early as Mon­day and, at 64, could be allowed to retire rather than be fired. Erick­son could still coach in what­ever bowl game the Sun Dev­ils play in. Erickson’s job... 

Dalembert Considering Heat, Knicks, Rockets

Cen­ters are at a pre­mium in this league, that should be evi­dent by now. Nene, Tyson Chan­dler, Marc Gasol, all will lead this free agency class. Dwight Howard head­lines the next. Chandler’s defen­sive impact was a pri­mary fac­tor in the Mav­er­icks win­ning the title. So Samuel Dalem­bert will be get­ting his fair share of calls in the next few weeks as teas vie for his ser­vices. More impor­tantly? Dalembert’s will­ing to take less to play for a con­tender. Say hello to Miami. From FoxSportsFlorida.com: Soon, the Miami Heat might have a bas­ket­ball vol­un­teer in... 

Sunny Days for Aulie

ANAHEIM — From a snow­storm in New­found­land to sunny, hot weather in south­ern California. No won­der defence­man Keith Aulie was smil­ing on Sun­day afternoon. Sum­moned from the Toronto Mar­lies on Sat­ur­day morn­ing, Aulie spent all of that day on the road. He flew from St. John’s, where the Mar­lies were play­ing, to Toronto. After a four-hour lay­over, Aulie hopped on a plane to Los Ange­les and landed at 10 p.m. “They called me at the hotel and said: ‘Good news, you’re going across the con­ti­nent,’ ” Aulie said. “I woke up (Sun­day morn­ing) and... 

Is Boston the Best NHL Betting Option This Week?

Shak­ing off their Stan­ley Cup hang­over, the Boston Bru­ins are com­ing on the right track. Mean­der­ing through­out the month of Novem­ber, Boston remains unbeaten in the reg­u­la­tion with 11–0-1 record and one game left in the month. Tim Thomas and Tuukka Rask, the stel­lar goal­tenders, con­tributed to the three shutouts for the Bru­ins. Even the offense was impres­sive with five or more goals com­ing six times dur­ing this stretch. Tyler Seguin, the sopho­more sen­sa­tion, is tak­ing the lead with 12 goals and 23 points to his credit. Boston has to per­form even... 

Online Poker Room Tips: Winning Poker Hands

Play­ing poker has always been and will always be one of the favorite pas­times of peo­ple all over the world. If you too wish to try your hands at online poker room, then it is impor­tant that you know the basic rules of the game includ­ing the types and num­ber of cards used in dif­fer­ent poker games. Once you know the basics well, then it is vital for you to know how to iden­tify the win­ning hands in a poker room website. You are good to go the moment you under­stand the fact that a flush beats a straight in poker and a three of a kind beats two pair. If one of the player in poker... 

Mariners Acquire Catcher John Jaso From Rays

Given the Rays’ strug­gles behind the plate last sea­son, it didn’t seem all that likely that the team would be con­tent to replace Kelly Shop­pach with Jose Molina and call it a day. They went in another direc­tion Sun­day, trad­ing incum­bent John Jaso to the Mariners for reliever Josh Lueke and a player to be named or cash. Jaso, 28, is known for his on-base skills, and he’ll pro­vide a pretty stark con­trast to Miguel Olivo when he’s in Seattle’s lineup next sea­son, assum­ing he bounces back. Jaso hit .263/.372/.378 as a rookie in 2010 before slip­ping to .224/.298/.354... 

Vikings Rule Out RB Peterson Because of High Ankle Sprain

Min­nesota Vikings run­ning back Adrian Peter­son has been down­graded to out for Sunday’s matchup with the Atlanta Fal­cons, the team announced Saturday. The Vikings said Peter­son wouldn’t travel with the team as he misses just the fourth game of his five-year NFL career. Vikings coach Leslie Fra­zier said Peter­son was out of his walk­ing boot on Thurs­day and made progress by work­ing on the side at prac­tice Fri­day but still wasn’t able to plant his foot or make a cut well enough to play. Peter­son had been listed as doubt­ful because of lig­a­ment dam­age in his left ankle. Peter­son...