2012 February at BetLM

Burfict Says He’s “misunderstood”

Until Cow­boys owner Jerry Jones can find a way to fina­gle cam­eras into the player-team inter­view ses­sions, we’ll have to set­tle for the things a player says at the Scout­ing Com­bine when meet­ing with the media. Ari­zona State line­backer Von­taze Bur­fict had his chance to talk on Sunday. He has been slid­ing on draft boards due to con­cerns regard­ing an abil­ity to prop­erly har­ness his fiery on-field demeanor. Nat­u­rally, Bur­fict said that he’s “misunderstood.” Part of the mis­un­der­stand­ing comes from a fight with a team­mate. Bur­fict was asked... 

Moss Could Starting Visiting Multiple Teams as Soon as This Week

Mul­ti­ple teams are inter­ested in vet­eran wide receiver Randy Moss and vis­its could begin after the end of the NFL Scout­ing Com­bine, league sources said Sunday. Sources also said a deal could be a pos­si­bil­ity before March 13 if Moss is close to being in the con­di­tion that he’s been telling people. Moss, 35, announced recently that he was eager to play again in 2012 after sit­ting out the 2011 sea­son. He also claimed that he has recently run a 4.3-second 40-yard dash. Since he isn’t under con­tract to any team, Moss is eli­gi­ble to begin tak­ing vis­its imme­di­ately... 

Pac-12 Vet Hired as Stanford’s Special Teams Coordinator

Stan­ford had pre­vi­ously announced that Mike San­ford would become the Cardinal’s recruit­ing coor­di­na­tor in place of Brian Polian, who left for a job at Texas A&M ear­lier in the year. Now, the foot­ball pro­gram has announced a sec­ond hire to assume another of Polian’s titles. In a release, Stan­ford announced that Pete Ala­mar has been hired as the program’s spe­cial teams coor­di­na­tor. Ala­mar comes to Stan­ford from Fresno State, where he spent the past two sea­sons as the Bull­dogs’ spe­cial teams coordinator/tight ends coach. “Pete came highly... 

Karlsson’s Impressive Season Powering Sens

Erik Karls­son had a week Bobby Orr would have been proud of. Defense — OTT GOALS: 14 | ASST: 49 | PTS: 63 SOG: 204 | +/-: 15 The 21-year-old scored four goals and added six assists for 10 points in three games while going plus-5 and pow­er­ing the Ottawa Sen­a­tors to two wins in three games. He’s had six goals and 15 points dur­ing a six-game points streak that has helped the Sen­a­tors set­tle solidly into sev­enth place in the East­ern Con­fer­ence play­off race. Karlsson’s surge has also turned the race for most points by a defense­man into a run­away. He shares... 

Raonic Advances to Second Straight Final

By TERESA M. WALKER, Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Cana­dian Milos Raonic needed only 75 min­utes to beatBen­jamin Becker of Ger­many 6–4, 6–4 Sat­ur­day in the semi­fi­nals of the RegionsMor­gan Kee­gan Cham­pi­onships and reach his sec­ond final in as many weeks. Raonic won at San Jose last week and is 15–1 in match play this year. Ranked35th in the world, the ATP World Tour’s first mul­ti­ple win­ner this sea­son willtry to win his third title Sun­day against Aus­trian Jur­gen Melzer, a 6–4, 3–6,6–3 win­ner over No. 3 seed Radek Stepanek. “It’s a... 

Chris Perez Out 4–6 Weeks With Strained Left Oblique

From Nick Camino of WTAM 1100 in Cleve­land comes word that Indi­ans closer Chris Perez is expected to be side­lined for the next 4–6 weeks after suf­fer­ing a left inter­nal oblique strain dur­ing his first bullpen ses­sion of the spring. Tribe trainer Lon­nie Soloff told reporters Sun­day in camp that Perez’s “body wasn’t ready for the inten­sity” of the throw­ing ses­sion, hint­ing at a pos­si­ble off­sea­son con­di­tion­ing issue. The Indi­ans aren’t rul­ing him out for Open­ing Day, but Perez would have to return on the early side of his recov­ery timetable... 

Nats, Zimmerman Agree to Terms

Updated Feb 26, 2012 1:36 PM ET VIERA, Fla. Ryan Zim­mer­man and the Wash­ing­ton Nation­als have agreed to a new con­tract, FOXSports.com’s Ken Rosen­thal has learned. The third base­man signed a deal for six years for $ 100 mil­lion with a club option for a sev­enth. Zim­mer­man has two sea­sons left on a $ 45 mil­lion, five-year con­tract, and the new deal, which con­tains a no-trade clause, will keep him with the Nation­als through 2019. Zimmerman’s agent, Brodie Van Wage­nen, says the two sides “bridged mul­ti­ple impor­tant gaps on major parts of the con­tract”... 

It’s Daytona 500 Day!

The 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup sea­son offi­cially kicks off today with the 2012 Day­tona 500. The weather is threat­en­ing with rain def­i­nitely in the fore­cast for today. Let’s hope we get a full, safe race in today. The Camp­ing World Truck Series and the Nation­wide Series both kicked off their sea­sons in Day­tona with a lot of bent sheet metal. Nei­ther race made it to the check­ered flag before last-lap wrecks ended the race short of the fin­ish line. Given the mess that the Sprint Cup dri­vers made of the Bud­weiser Shootout last week I don’t hold much hope of a clean-and-green... 

Marussia Expands Young Driver Development With GP2 Linkup

Marus­sia are to strengthen their young dri­ver devel­op­ment pro­gramme by join­ing forces with Car­lin to com­pete in this season’s GP2 Series. Indonesia’s Rio Haryanto and British hope­ful Max Chilton will drive for the newly renamed Marus­sia Car­lin GP2 Team. Car­lin have won over 215 races in Porsche Super­cup, Nis­san World Series, For­mula BMW UK, World Series by Renault and F3 Euro Series. They’ve also claimed seven British F3 crowns and two For­mula Renault 3.5 dri­vers’ titles. “Our Young Dri­ver Pro­gramme now com­prises all the rac­ing cat­e­gories... 

Mark Davis Touts Changes, Calls It ‘Brand New Day’ for Raiders

INDIAN OLIS — Oak­land Raiders owner Mark Davis said he isn’t “step­ping in the shoes” of his late father, Al Davis, because the orga­ni­za­tion has started a new chap­ter that will bring about sev­eral changes over the next few months. “It’s a brand new day,” Davis said after receiv­ing the Tank Younger Award from the Fritz Pol­lard Alliance for his father’s com­mit­ment to racial and gen­der equal­ity. “When he came to the Raiders in 1963, there were maybe six coaches, eight coaches, maybe four front-office peo­ple. Scouts like Ron Wolf and those guys. They did...