2012 May at BetLM

Creative Cause Gets Trainer to 1st Derby at Age 71

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (HORSES/Newsfeed) — Mike Har­ring­ton is con­tent watch­ing the hub­bub sur­round­ing Ken­tucky Derby week from afar. The 71-year-old trainer is hap­pily tucked away in a non-descript barn lack­ing a view of the Twin Spires. Let Churchill Downs sta­ble vis­i­tors be enter­tained by Bob Baffert’s jokes or eaves­drop on Todd Pletcher’s train­ing tidbits. Har­ring­ton prefers lay­ing low with Cre­ative Cause, likely to be one of the top bet­ting choices for Saturday’s race. The gray-roan colt has never fin­ished out of the money in any of his eight career... 

McLaren Take Silver Medal at Edison Awards

New York (F1/Newsfeed) — McLaren’s com­mit­ment to car­bon reduc­tion and envi­ron­men­tal effi­ciency has received fur­ther recog­ni­tion with a sil­ver medal at the 2012 Edi­son Awards, held at a glit­ter­ing cer­e­mony in New York last week. McLaren, who have already earned offi­cial carbon-neutral sta­tus after achiev­ing annual sav­ings of over 1,500 tonnes of CO2 emis­sions, were nom­i­nated in the pres­ti­gious Green Imple­men­ta­tion category. “I’m delighted that our on-going efforts to man­age and improve our car­bon effi­ciency have been recog­nised... 

Daytona 500 Winner Ready for More at Talladega

Day­tona Beach, Fla. (NASCAR/Newsfeed) — Matt Kenseth’s 2012 Day­tona 500 win­ning car is sit­ting in the Day­tona 500 Expe­ri­ence fan attrac­tion in Day­tona Beach, Fla., so it will be of no use to him and his Roush Fen­way Rac­ing team this week­end at Tal­ladega Superspeedway. But Kenseth’s expe­ri­ence at Day­tona last Feb­ru­ary, which included win­ning his Gatorade Duel 150 qual­i­fy­ing race and then eas­ily cap­tur­ing his sec­ond edi­tion of the “Great Amer­i­can Race,” has him feel­ing pretty spe­cial as he trav­els later this week — par­tic­u­larly... 

Andujar, Lindstedt/Tecau Stop Traffic in Belgrade

BELGRADE (ATP/Newsfeed) — Top seeds Pablo Andu­jar, Robert Lind­st­edt & Horia Tecau joined Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic and tour­na­ment direc­tor Goran Djokovic for a game of mini-tennis Tues­day on the newly opened Ada bridge in Belgrade. “This was a very nice expe­ri­ence,” said Andu­jar, who is mak­ing his Ser­bian Open debut this week. “I never played on a bridge before. It is very high and nice to look at. We had a great time and a lot of fun today.” The play­ers met the bridge’s con­struc­tion crew, before bring­ing traf­fic tem­porar­ily to a halt for... 

Cards Activate Craig; Designate Komatsu

ST. LOUIS (MLB/Newsfeed) — Fol­low­ing a seven-game reha­bil­i­ta­tion assign­ment, Allen Craig has been acti­vated from the dis­abled list and will be in St. Louis for the open­ing of the Car­di­nals’ series against the Pirates on Tuesday. In order to make room for Craig on the 25-man ros­ter, the club has des­ig­nated Rule 5 out­fielder Erik Komatsu for assignment. Craig wrapped up his rehab stint with a three-hit, two-homer, five-RBI per­for­mance as Triple-A Mem­phis’ first base­man on Mon­day. In his seven Minor League games — three at Class A and four in Triple-A... 

Kellen Moore: No QB Will Be More Motivated Than Me

Detroit (NFL/Newsfeed) –Kellen Moore learned over the week­end that col­lege suc­cess doesn’t always trans­late to NFL inter­est. The Boise State prod­uct won a record 50 games dur­ing his col­lege career, but he was with­out an NFL job until the Detroit Lions picked him up as an undrafted free agent. Moore’s fall from grace hasn’t dimin­ished reader inter­est in him. He was the most pop­u­lar search item on NFL.com Sun­day. Ian Rapoport of NFL.com broke the news about Moore’s arrival in Detroit, and gained roughly 600 fol­low­ers on Twit­ter imme­di­ately thereafter. While... 

Predators Look Past Drama, Try to Get Back in Series

NASHVILLE (NHL/Newsfeed) — By sus­pend­ing wings Alexan­der Radulov and Andrei Kos­tit­syn for Game 3 of their West­ern Con­fer­ence Quar­ter­fi­nal series with Phoenix on Wednes­day at Bridge­stone Arena (9 p.m. ET, CNBC, TSN), the Nashville Preda­tors will be with­out two of their most skilled and most pro­duc­tive play­ers in these Stan­ley Cup Playoffs. Both play­ers are pure scor­ers, known for deadly wrist shots. In their place, coach Barry Trotz said, will be two of the fol­low­ing three: rookie Craig Smith, vet­eran Jordin Tootoo and Matt Halis­chuk, who has 121... 

Nuggets’ Chandler Has Surgery, Expected Ready for Camp

DENVER (NBA/Newsfeed) — The Den­ver Nuggets say for­ward Wil­son Chan­dler is expected to be ready by the start of train­ing camp next sea­son after under­go­ing surgery to repair a labral tear in his left hip. The arthro­scopic pro­ce­dure was per­formed Mon­day by Dr. Marc Philippon. Chan­dler arrived in Den­ver last year as part of the block­buster trade that sent Carmelo Anthony to the New York Knicks. He played for Zhe­jiang Guang­sha of the Chi­nese Bas­ket­ball Asso­ci­a­tion dur­ing the NBA lock­out and rejoined the Nuggets in March, sign­ing a five-year deal... 

Washington Redskins Release Jabar Gaffney

WASHINGTON, D.C. (NFL/Wyche) — The hint was cast when the Wash­ing­ton Red­skins gave rookie quar­ter­back Robert Grif­fin III jer­sey No. 10, which had been worn by wide receiver Jabar Gaffney. Real­ity came Tues­day when Gaffney was released by the Red­skins, accord­ing to a source with knowl­edge of the situation. The team later con­firmed the release on Twitter. The 10-year vet­eran had a career-best sea­son in 2011, when he led the Red­skins in both recep­tions and receiv­ing yards with 68 catches for 947 yards and five touchdowns. Wide receivers Josh Mor­gan and Pierre... 

Mistakes Prove Costly for Rangers in Game 2

NEW YORK (NHL/Lozo) — When the Rangers lose, it rarely has any­thing to do with a bevy of gaffes. The team rose to the top of the East­ern Con­fer­ence this sea­son on the strength of play­ing mistake-free hockey, “the right way,” as coach John Tor­torella calls it. On Mon­day night at Madi­son Square Gar­den, the Wash­ing­ton Cap­i­tals made the Rangers pay for doing things the wrong way. The seventh-seeded Caps won Game 2 of their East­ern Con­fer­ence Semi­fi­nal series with the Rangers 3–2, scor­ing all three goals directly off unchar­ac­ter­is­tic errors,...