2012 January at BetLM

Tiger Takes Lead Into Final Round in Abu Dhabi

Yes, Tiger Woods won the last tour­na­ment he played in 2011, and when you haven’t won in two years — when you’re strug­gling to return to form, to the form of the great­est player on the planet, from swing changes, injuries and per­sonal trou­bles — any win is a good win. But Woods’ win in his own Chevron World Chal­lenge was not a tour win. Can Woods finally get another tour win on Sun­day at the Euro­pean Tour’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Cham­pi­onship? He ended Sat­ur­day tied for the lead with Robert Rock at 11-under. Woods’ scores have improved each round, from 70 to... 

NHL Enters Into Three-Year Awards Deal With Vegas

OTTAWA — The National Hockey League is bring­ing its annual Awards Show back to Las Vegas for at least three more years. NHL Com­mis­sioner Gary Bettman announced Sat­ur­day morn­ing after the Board of Gov­er­nors meet­ing at the Fair­mount Hotel that the League has signed a new three-year part­ner­ship with the Las Vegas Con­ven­tion and Visitor’s Author­ity. The 2012 NHL Awards Show is sched­uled to take place at the Encore The­ater in the Wynn Las Vegas Hotel and Casino Resort on June 20. “As part of this extended part­ner­ship, we will stage a vari­ety of new events... 

Colts WR Wayne on Offseason: ‘It’S Like a Soap Opera’

Colts wide receiver Reg­gie Wayne has been on the out­side look­ing in dur­ing what has started out to be a dra­matic off­sea­son in Indianapolis. Wayne has put dis­tance between him­self and the Pey­ton Manning-Jim Irsay melo­drama by spend­ing much of his time at his off­sea­son home in Miami. Just like any other casual observer, Wayne has been get­ting most of his infor­ma­tion through the media, and said he doesn’t know what else is in store for the Colts these next few months. “I have no clue, man,” Wayne told The Indi­anapo­lis Star this week. “I’m lean­ing on... 

Ex-Georgia LB Bell: Donnan Scammed Me

ATLANTA — For­mer NFL player Kendrell Bell has accused his col­lege foot­ball coach at the Uni­ver­sity of Geor­gia of dup­ing him out of $ 2 million. Jim Don­nan con­vinced Bell to invest the money in GLC Lim­ited, a liq­ui­da­tion com­pany that would buy appli­ances and fur­ni­ture for resale, accord­ing to doc­u­ments filed last month in U.S. Bank­ruptcy Court by Bell’s lawyers. Bell’s attor­neys say Don­nan, though, was the front man for a scam. Don­nan has filed for bank­ruptcy pro­tec­tion and Bell has filed a claim in bank­ruptcy court to recover his money. Bell’s... 

Alonso and Massa Head to Training Camp Ahead of Ferrari Launch

While Ferrari’s engi­neers put the fin­ish­ing touches to the Ital­ian team’s 2012 car ahead of its launch and test debut next month, dri­vers Fer­nando Alonso and Felipe Massa will be inten­si­fy­ing their own prepa­ra­tions at a pre-season train­ing camp in the Canary Islands. Alonso and Massa spent Tues­day at Ferrari’s base in Maranello hav­ing seat fit­tings in the new car and meet­ing team prin­ci­pal Ste­fano Domeni­cali and other engi­neers to dis­cuss its devel­op­ment. They will now jet off to the island of Lan­zarote for a spot of phys­i­cal train­ing,... 

Karlsson’s Humor Serves Him Well on and Off the Ice

OTTAWA, Ont. — Erik Karls­son is at the All-Star Game to show off his hockey skills, but out-of-town fans are also get­ting a taste of the 21-year-old’s quick wit. Defense — OTT GOALS: 7 | ASST: 40 | PTS: 47SOG: 168 | +/-: 5 “Local peo­ple know that he’s a really funny guy, and what he’s like in the room,” Jason Spezza said. “But for the national media to see how light­hearted he is — he’s such a friendly and con­fi­dent guy — it’s nice to see him get the recog­ni­tion. He’s a guy who’s really liked in our room.“ The Swede’s jovial nature has made him... 

UFC on Fox 2 Weigh-In: Weidman Ditches the Sloppy Joes to Drop 32 Pounds in 11 Days

Inter­est­ing, that was an ama­teur fighter who called out Bisp­ing at presser yes­ter­day and then said he was Chael fan (27:00 mark).…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 Syn­di­cated Sports news wire and aggre­ga­tion ser­vice, For more UFC news see: UFC on Fox 2 weigh-in: Wei­d­man ditches the Sloppy Joes to drop 32 pounds in 11 days.  

Kuznetsova, Zvonareva Win Doubles Title

By JUSTIN BERGMAN, Asso­ci­ated Press MELBOURNE, Aus­tralia — With sin­gles play on their minds, Svet­lanaKuznetsova and Vera Zvonareva nearly for­got to sign up in time for dou­bles atthe Aus­tralian Open. The Rus­sians were lucky they got in under the wire. On Fri­day, they ral­liedto beat the Ital­ian duo of Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci 5–7, 6–4, 6–3 to winthe women’s dou­bles championship. “We focus on sin­gles. Some­times I go to a Grand Slam, for exam­ple, and Idon’t know if I’m going to play or not in dou­bles,” said Kuznetsova, a two-timeGrand Slam... 

League Could Derail New Vikings Stadium at Site of Metrodome

League could derail new Vikings sta­dium at site of Metrodome Posted by Mike Flo­rio on Jan­u­ary 27, 2012, 11:51 PM EST Min­nesota Gov­er­nor Mark Day­ton wants a new Vikings sta­dium to be con­structed on the site of the cur­rent one. After ini­tially express­ing frus­tra­tion regard­ing the pos­si­bil­ity, the Vikings are now optimistic. But the NFL isn’t. Accord­ing to Brian Mur­phy of the St. Paul Pio­neer Press, the league isn’t happy with a plan that would require the Vikings to spend up to three sea­sons at TCF Bank Sta­dium, the open-air facil­ity on the... 

Dolphins’ Marshall Talks to Flynn About Teaming Up in Miami

HONOLULU — Call it quar­ter­back envy. Call it play­ful jealousy. What­ever you call it, Dol­phins wide receiver Bran­don Mar­shall has caught a seri­ous case of it dur­ing this week’s Pro Bowl prac­tices in Hawaii. Debate: Where will Flynn land? “Hey man, lis­ten, I’m out here at the Pro Bowl, and I’m not get­ting no balls thrown to me!” Mar­shall joked with NFL.com on Fri­day. “I need a quar­ter­back. You’ve got Big Ben throw­ing to (Mike) Wal­lace, you’ve got Philip (Rivers) throw­ing to (Anto­nio) Gates and Vin­cent (Jack­son), you’ve got Andy (Dal­ton)...