2012 May at BetLM

Race Strategy More Important — Drivers Too

Autosport is report­ing that strat­egy is going to be much more impor­tant this year for teams to win races thanks to the wear­ing out of the tires. Teams have noted also that dri­vers’ obser­va­tions are going to be much more impor­tant in terms of tire wear. Indeed, with a vic­tory of Fer­nando Alonso in the Fer­rari in the Malaysian Grand Prix, it is clear that not always the fastest car will win, but the dri­ver and his men­tal approach will no doubt become more important. Our 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,... 

Van Riemsdyk Sparks Flyers in Game 1

PHILADELPHIA (NHL/Kimelman) — James van Riems­dyk might have been one of the most dom­i­nant play­ers in the 2011 Stan­ley Cup Play­offs, scor­ing seven goals in 11 games. He was so good, he fin­ished tied for ninth goals with­out play­ing past the sec­ond round. After an injury-plagued 2011-12 sea­son, that player finally made his reappearance. Van Riems­dyk had a goal, was a plus-3, took a team-high five shots on net and set the screen on Danny Briere’s over­time goal that allowed the Fly­ers to take a 1–0 series lead against the New Jer­sey Dev­ils with a 4–3 vic­tory... 

Dodgers Surge to Top Spot of MLB Power Rankings

As reported on MLB.com, this week’s MLB power rank­ings see the Dodgers surge to top spot.   This Week’s Power Rank­ings This Week Move­ment Power Player Last Week 1 A three-game home sweep of the Nation­als over the week­end has put the boys from Chavez Ravine in our top spot this week. Their 16–6 record is tied for tops in the Majors with the Rangers, and a lot of it still has to do with Kemp, who con­tin­ues to astound. The lat­est feat of hero­icism was a 10th-inning walk-off homer deep, and we’re talk­ing DEEP, into the Los Ange­les night on Saturday. 3 2 How... 

Knicks Will Evaluate Lin Further Later This Week

MIAMI (NBA/Newsfeed) — The New York Knicks sound hope­ful that Jeremy Lin’s return to the lineup may come sooner than later. Lin did some on-court work in Miami for the fourth con­sec­u­tive day, before the Knicks played the Miami Heat on Mon­day night in Game 2 of an East­ern Con­fer­ence first-round play­off series. Game 3 isn’t until Thurs­day in New York. The Knicks plan to prac­tice on Tues­day and Wednes­day, and that could give them time to get a bet­ter feel for how Lin’s recov­ery from surgery to repair torn car­ti­lage in his left knee is going. “We haven’t... 

Vermette Thriving in the Desert

GLENDALE, Az. (NHL/Newsfeed) — It was that gap­ing divot smack dab in the mid­dle of the Phoenix Coy­otes’ lineup. It was the rea­son the Coy­otes couldn’t match up with the rest of the Pacific Divi­sion, the rea­son they were fight­ing for their play­off lives in the West­ern Con­fer­ence. It was the rea­son Kyle Tur­ris’ petu­lant and pro­tracted con­tract hold­out and trade demands grated on fans like fin­gers across a chalkboard. The Coy­otes had a big, hard-checking cen­ter in Mar­tin Han­zal. But they lacked a true play­mak­ing cen­ter to match with their... 

WAC Officials Vow Conference Will Remain Viable

SALT LAKE CITY (CFB/Newsfeed) — West­ern Ath­letic Con­fer­ence offi­cials expressed con­fi­dence Tues­day that the league would remain viable despite rumored defections. Utah State and San Jose State both acknowl­edged this week they are in dis­cus­sions with the Moun­tain West Con­fer­ence over realign­ment for 2013. Con­fer­ence USA already is set to bring aboard Texas-San Anto­nio just months before the school was to begin its first sea­son in the WAC. WAC interim com­mis­sioner Jeff Hurd sub­se­quently issued a state­ment Tues­day say­ing he aware of the chang­ing... 

Matusz, Hughes Hoping to Pitch to Potential

Bal­ti­more (MLB/Fordin) — The Yan­kees may not have expected so many obsta­cles in their path to the top of the Amer­i­can League East, but they’re pre­pared to drive around them. New York will have a chance to pull ahead of the sur­pris­ing second-place Ori­oles on Tues­day, and man­ager Joe Girardi can under­stand his opponent’s success. “I think it’s because they’ve pitched a lot bet­ter,” Girardi said. “Two of the games we played there, we could’ve lost both of those. They were tight games. So I think they’re an improved team. They’re ath­letic. Nolan... 

Lakers Forward Hill Charged With Assault

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (NBA/Newsfeed) — Los Ange­les Lak­ers for­ward Jor­dan Hill faces a felony assault charge after his girl­friend accused him of chok­ing and shov­ing her in Hous­ton ear­lier this year. Hill is charged with assault­ing 28-year-old Dar­lene Luna on Feb. 29 at his apart­ment while the New York Knicks’ for­mer first-round draft pick was play­ing for the Hous­ton Rockets. The 24-year-old Hill was charged by Har­ris County pros­e­cu­tors in March, and he has a court appear­ance sched­uled for Tues­day in Houston. Hill was apolo­getic, but said lit­tle about... 

Coach, Draft Among Bergevin’s Challenges

MONTREAL (NHL/Newsfeed) — New gen­eral man­ager Marc Bergevin will be tak­ing over a Mon­treal Cana­di­ens team that fin­ished No. 15 in the East­ern Con­fer­ence and No. 28 in the League stand­ings, so obvi­ously he will be fac­ing a num­ber of chal­lenges to right the ship. While that list will be an exhaus­tive one, here are five of the pri­mary chal­lenges the 17th GM in Cana­di­ens his­tory will need to tackle. 1. Choose a coach — Randy Cun­ney­worth cur­rently is the coach, but he is not expected to be the man behind the bench for long. Aside from Cunneyworth’s... 

You Can’t Keep Colt McCoy Away From Work With Browns

Cleve­land (NFL/Newsfeed) — On Thurs­day morn­ing, the Cleve­land Browns leaked infor­ma­tion that they expected Colt McCoy to make a “big leap for­ward” in 2012. By Thurs­day night, he was on the trade block. Mon­day has arrived, and McCoy is back where he started: The Browns’ team facil­ity. Tom With­ers of The Asso­ci­ated Press noted that McCoy was present for the team’s off­sea­son program. Really, what choice does he have? Jason La Can­fora of NFL Net­work tells ATL that the Browns expect McCoy to be back on the team. The Browns can’t get any­thing for him...