2012 May at LinesMaker

Fairley Arrested for DUI, Attempting to Elude Police

DETROIT (NFL/Newsfeed) — Detroit Lions defen­sive tackle Nick Fair­ley was arrested by Alabama State Troop­ers on Sun­day morn­ing for dri­ving under the influ­ence and attempt­ing to elude police, accord­ing to the Mobile County Sheriff’s office. WALA-TV in Mobile, Ala. reported Fair­ley was taken into cus­tody shortly after 1 a.m. and was released on $ 1,750 bond shortly after 9 a.m. Troop­ers also told the tele­vi­sion sta­tion that Fair­ley was tick­eted for reck­less dri­ving, no proof of insur­ance and hav­ing an open container. The Lions released a state­ment... 

Halladay Exits Start Due to Shoulder Soreness

ST. LOUIS (MLB/Newsfeed) — Roy Halladay’s out­ing against the Car­di­nals on Sun­day lasted just two innings as he exited as a pre­cau­tion due to right shoul­der sore­ness. He was pinch-hit for in the third with Philadel­phia trail­ing 4–0 after throw­ing 36 pitches. Hal­la­day allowed a two-out grand slam to Yadier Molina in the first inning after load­ing the bases on two sin­gles and a walk. Hal­la­day shut down the Cards in order in the sec­ond, induc­ing three groundouts. He was done after allow­ing four runs on four hits with a walk and no strikeouts. The out­ing... 

Kyle Busch Scores Four-in-a-Row as Cautions Are Key in Richmond

The last two yel­low flags defined the 2012 Cap­i­tal City 400 pre­sented by Vir­ginia is for Lovers at Rich­mond Inter­na­tional Raceway. Jim­mie John­son was in con­tention and received a penalty on pit road to ruin his day. Carl Edwards was penal­ized by NASCAR for jump­ing the restart while leading. Tony Stew­art had the race in hand when the final cau­tion erased his lead. Then his team was beat on pit road which was the final nail in his hopes. Kyle Busch had the fastest car in the clos­ing laps and claimed his fourth con­sec­u­tive spring win in Richmond. BetLM's sports betting news features unique sports betting articles as well as current sports news compiled from leading wire services.... 

Johnson Focuses on Positives in Face of Near-Miss at Richmond

RISHMOND, Va. (NASCAR/Newsfeed) — Jim­mie John­son fin­ished a respectable sixth in the Cap­i­tal City 400 Sat­ur­day night at Rich­mond Inter­na­tional Raceway. He felt like he passed enough cars to fin­ish much higher than that, though. That’s because he did pass a lot, but it didn’t mat­ter because of a penalty he had to serve when his No. 48 Chevro­let pit crew failed him on a late stop. As John­son came to pit road on Lap 311, the cau­tion flag flew and it looked as it was all going to work to his advan­tage as long as he could wheel the car back out onto the track before... 

Keselowski Gets Push From Busch to Win Talladega

TALLADEGA (NASCAR/Newsfeed) — The leader on the last lap isn’t sup­posed to win at Tal­ladega Super­speed­way. Every­body knows that. Brad Keselowski dis­agrees, and he showed how to do it Sun­day with a cal­cu­lated plan that sent him to Vic­tory Lane. Keselowski used a big push from Kyle Busch to pass leader Matt Kenseth, and after leav­ing the Day­tona 500 win­ner in their wake, Keselowski staved off Busch’s attempt to snatch the win. Using a move Keselowski said he had dreamed about, he held on for his sec­ond win of the sea­son and sec­ond at Talladega. “I had this... 

Hierro Wins $200k Grade 3 Derby Trial

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (HORSES/Newsfeed) — Hierro stayed calm to the delight of trainer Steve Asmussen as a vio­lent storm moved through Churchill Downs. He showed a lit­tle moxie, too, in cap­tur­ing the $ 200,000-added Grade 3 Derby Trial. The 3-year-old chest­nut colt with jockey Julien Lep­aroux lurked in fifth early before mak­ing his move on the back­stretch to beat Payn­ter and Steal­case in the mile race around the sloppy dirt track on Sat­ur­day night. “This evening with the weather ear­lier and then the delay in the pad­dock, I loved how he acted,” Asmussen said. “I... 

Chizik: Auburn Still 1 Recruiting Class Away

AUBURN (CFB/Newsfeed) — The steady drum­beat of con­struc­tion equip­ment pounded through Gene Chizik’s office Thurs­day morn­ing, a sign of the work in progress at Auburn. That national cham­pi­onship 15-plus months ago didn’t mean the Tigers had fin­ished the rebuild­ing job remark­ably ahead of sched­ule. To Chizik, Auburn’s fourth-year coach, a pos­i­tive sign his pro­gram is clos­ing in on that com­ple­tion came dur­ing the spring with all the com­pe­ti­tion for start­ing jobs on a team that has only a hand­ful of vacancies. “If you look at our senior class... 

Knicks’ Davis Knee Injury Requires Surgery

NEW YORK (NBA/Newsfed) — Knicks’ guard Baron Davis will undergo surgery later this week after an MRI on Mon­day revealed major dam­age to his right knee, accord­ing to the Knicks. Davis, whose right knee buck­led in the third quar­ter Sun­day in Game 4 of the play­off series with the Miami Heat, has a par­tial tear of the patella ten­don and com­plete tears of the ante­rior cru­ci­ate and medial col­lat­eral knee lig­a­ments. Recov­ery from the surgery will take about 12 months. Davis, who has bat­tled injuries all sea­son, is the lat­est Knicks guard lost to an injury.... 

Eric McClure Released From Alabama Hospital

CHARLOTTE (NASCAR/Newsfeed) — NASCAR dri­ver Eric McClure has been released from an Alabama hos­pi­tal on Mon­day, two days after he was injured in a crash at Tal­ladega Superspeedway. McClure was air­flifted to UAB Med­ical Cen­ter in Birm­ing­ham fol­low­ing Saturday’s crash in the Nation­wide Series race at Tal­ladega Superspeedway. His team said Mon­day that McClure suf­fered a con­cus­sion and inter­nal bruis­ing in the acci­dent. A state­ment says he’s expected to make a full recov­ery, but will visit with spe­cial­ists this week regard­ing his injuries. McClure... 

Minnesota Vikings Stadium Bill Passes House, Goes to Senate

ST. PAUL, Minn. (NFL/Newsfeed) — The Min­nesota Vikings took a giant step Mon­day night toward a new taxpayer-subsidized foot­ball sta­dium when the state House approved leg­is­la­tion, but law­mak­ers upped the share the team would have to pay. On a 73–58 vote, the $ 975 mil­lion sta­dium plan remained alive. The state Sen­ate was to vote Tues­day on a com­pet­ing plan, mov­ing the Vikings closer than ever to a replace­ment for the Metrodome. Demo­c­ra­tic Gov. Mark Day­ton hailed the vote by thank­ing fans who have flooded law­maker phone lines, email inboxes and...