C-a-C: DeAndre Jordan struggles through short-term memory loss
C-a-C: DeAndre Jordan struggles through short-term memory loss
DeAndre Jordan(notes): “You are not a basketball. Why am I holding you aloft beneath the rim?” Child: “JE NE SAIS PAS JE SUIS JUSTE UN PETIT ENFANT” Jordan: “Wow, I forgot you are French. Wow, I forgot I know French.” Navigating the lockout is a constant struggle when are living with That Thing from “Memento.” Courage, DeAndre. Best caption wins instructional “Muzzy” tapes, like DeAndre doesn’t remember using. Good luck. In our last adventure: Marcus Banks(notes) is considering an offer to play in Lick-tenstein. (That will be 10 comedy dollars, please. I accept PayPal.) Winner, Grey Ghost: Marcus Banks enjoys making faces at his new Brian Cardinal(notes) action figure. Runner-up, Kb: Banks: “How can I afford this? Because I’ve been making the NBA average salary the last few seasons even without playing more than 25 games a year. Thank you, NBPA.” NOTE: I think you meant to write, “Thank you, Phoenix Suns and Robert Sarver,” since they’re the ones who ACTUALLY SIGNED Banks to a five-year, $21-million contract in 2006 to back up Steve Nash(notes). Like Clay Davis and most everybody else in the world, Marcus Banks will take any mother’s father’s money if he just GIVIN’ it away. Winner, Al: Things were cool with the “double dog dare,” but Marcus fell for the “triple dare you.” It was not a happy ending. Related: Marcus Banks, DeAndre Jordan, Brian Cardinal, Steve Nash, Phoenix Suns, Create-a-caption, NBA lockout
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Sixers bought 18 items at Erving auction (AP)
Sixers bought 18 items at Erving auction (AP)
PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Dr. J has scored big again. SCP Auctions says more than 140 items from Julius Erving’s personal collection sold for a record $3.5 million. The auction ran from October until Sunday. Among the highlights: His 1974 New Jersey Nets ABA championship ring sold for $460,471; 1983 76ers championship rings sold for $244,240; 1983 All-Star game MVP trophy ($115,242); final game worn jersey from May 3, 1987 ($88,826); and 1974-75 ABA MVP trophy ($173,10) Erving told The Associated Press last month he’s never been a “hoarder or collector,” and planned to donate a portion of the auction proceeds to the Salvation Army. The 61-year-old Erving said the auction was part of a long-planned celebration of his career. He said most of his cherished possessions were in storage.
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Stewart, Edwards deliver a bout to remember (NASCAR.com)
Stewart, Edwards deliver a bout to remember (NASCAR.com)
Tony Stewart played the role of chaser to Carl Edwards for nine weeks, but the roles reveresed in the final 32 laps. (Getty Images) This was an epic conclusion to a riveting 10-week mini-series that captivated NASCAR and all those who religiously follow it, plus perhaps many who were only dabbling in doing so at the beginning of the 2011 Chase for the Sprint Cup. When veteran drivers Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards staged a duel for the ages Sunday night at Homestead-Miami Speedway, it capped a comeback season that began with a fresh-faced rookie named Trevor Bayne seemingly coming out of nowhere to capture the Daytona 500. Stewart ultimately won Sunday’s season finale and the 2011 championship, while Edwards finished a strong second in both. But together, they won the admiration of all who watched and even of those who participated in it with them. “I’m sure there will be people who will say that this was fake, this was set up, because it’s just so unbelievable. I mean, it was like a movie,” Edwards said. Stewart came in three points behind Edwards in the Chase standings despite having won four of the first nine races in it. That’s because Edwards was Mr. Consistency, making up for what he may have lacked in Stewart’s flair by running smooth, mistake-free circuits lap after lap, race after race, week after week. His 4.9 average finish in the Chase was the best of any driver since the playoff system was introduced in 2004. Edwards started Sunday’s deciding race from the pole, while Stewart started 15th. Then Stewart got a hole punched in the grille of his No. 14 Chevrolet early in the race and fell back once, got up to the front, and fell back again after more damage to the front-end of his car. But he kept coming. He kept coming even after a pair of pit-road mishaps—neither of which was his fault—set him back yet again. Stewart was relentless in his pursuit of Edwards, who flawlessly led all but a handful of the race’s first 112 laps and went on to lead six times in all for a race-high total of 119. But where Edwards was flawless, Stewart was dogged. Where Edwards was spectacularly solid, Stewart was merely spectacular—taking his car three-wide and four-wide and always toward the front. Stewart’s story Stewart was asked afterward if the race had a special “epic-like” feel to it from the driver’s seat perspective. “The storyline was pretty amazing,” Stewart said. “You’ve got a guy who goes out and is leading in the point standings. He qualifies on the pole and he’s leading the first part of the race. The guy who’s the underdog and is three points behind is having to jump hurdles and through hoops to salvage their day.” Then came the rain. There was one red-flag period brought on by the wet stuff that caused a one-hour, 14-minute delay, which Stewart, who had been ramping up the trash talk all week long leading up to the race, used to hurl more verbal abuse toward Edwards’ No. 99 Ford camp. As he walked from his own car to wait out the delay, Stewart strolled past engine builder Doug Yates and car owner Jack Roush, two of the talented brains behind Edwards’ operation. “Tell your boy to get up on the wheel because I’m on my way and I’m coming,” Stewart said. Edwards was leading at the time, but Stewart had rallied repeatedly from the earlier incidents and mistakes and was fifth. And true to his word, he kept coming for Edwards all night long. “There were crew guys [during the rain delay] who were asking me, ‘What are you doing? What’s going on here? Where are you coming from?’ ” Stewart said. “And I told them, ‘What else am I going to do? If I crash this thing on the way to the front, so be it.’ It wasn’t that I was throwing caution to the wind. I mean, we were trying to be calculating and methodical about what we were doing—but the storylines were total opposites. “You got the guy who’s got the poker face going. I mean, he’s leading laps—and when he’s not leading, he’s second or third. He’s right in the position where he wants to be at that point, and then you have the other the guy who was like, man, can I get there from here? You feel like you have the big fish on the hook and you’re running out of line, and you’re wondering if you’re going to run out soon.” Storybook ending Stewart never did run out of line. In the end, it was Edwards who ran out of time and grip in his older left-side tires. In the last 30 laps or so, even though there were 41 other cars jostling for position on the track, it seemed as if the two drivers were the only ones racing in the entire state of Florida. “I think it was a true test,” Edwards said. “It’s been a battle. As best I can, right now, if I step back away from this and look at it I say, ‘OK, here are two guys, one of which has a lot more experience in these situations than the other. He won half of the races in the Chase. And the other guy, I mean, he stood his ground, did a darned good job of forcing these guys to perform their best.’ “I’m proud of that. And I think the fact that it was that way, that it just turned into this, you know, man-to-man battle … that was very interesting. That’s something you don’t see in this sport. It shouldn’t happen. It only happened, I believe, because subconsciously everybody on these teams just raised their level of performance.” Edwards had attempted to deflect Stewart’s off-the-track bluster for the last several weeks of the Chase. But in the end, he couldn’t fend off Stewart’s ferocious approach on it. “To be honest with you, I was very, very impressed with Tony,” Edwards said. “I think that for all of the talk and all of the chest-pounding that he did, I could see that he was really nervous about this, too. I mean, he had to perform at a very high level and I honestly thought that there was a good chance of them making a mistake, of him over-driving, trying too hard. They showed a lot mental toughness to watch us go lead the first half of this race essentially and not panic, not make mistakes. I thought they did a really good job.” In the end, the performance that Stewart’s mentor A.J. Foyt said was the best of the winning driver’s storied racing lifetime earned Stewart his third Cup championship and left Edwards wanting more. But for all those who watched this Chase unfold, and particular for all those who tuned in for the final race in it, there was literally no more to be had. “Man, I feel like I passed half the state of Florida,” said Stewart, upon being informed by NASCAR officials that he had passed 118 in all on the night. Edwards, of course, was the one who mattered most. “To have the week that we had, and the [verbal] sparring that we had at [Championship contenders’] media day, and then to come here and finish first and second, I don’t know how it gets any better than that,” Stewart added. “No matter what the outcome was, there would have been no shame in finishing second to him in the championship [Sunday night]. But to have that battle come down to him and me, that’s epic.” The opinions expressed are solely those of the writer. 1. +1 Tony Stewart * 2403 Leader 5 2. -1 Carl Edwards 2403 Leader 1 3. — Kevin Harvick 2345 -58 4 4. +2 Matt Kenseth 2330 -73 3 5. -1 Brad Keselowski 2319 -84 3 6. -1 Jimmie Johnson 2304 -99 2 7. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2290 -113 0 8. +3 Jeff Gordon 2287 -116 3 9. +1 Denny Hamlin 2284 -119 1 10. -1 Ryan Newman 2284 -119 1 11. -3 Kurt Busch 2262 -141 2 12. — Kyle Busch 2246 -157 4
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NFL Playoff Wagering Consensus
NFL Playoff Wagering Consensus
NFL Conference Round Consensus Betting Banner -Online Sports Bettingat Bodog Sportsbook NFL Football Game Picks Bears at Eagles Spread Pick Ravens at Steelers Spread Pick NY Giants at New England ATS Pick Tampa Bay at New Orleans ATS Pick NFL Betting Recap – Week 8 San Diego at Kansas City Betting Pick Dallas at Philadelphia ATS Pick Cleveland at San Francisco ATS Pick New England at Pittsburgh Odds NFL Betting Recap – Week 7 Baltimore at Jacksonville ATS Pick Indianapolis at New Orleans ATS Pick Kansas City at Oakland ATS Pick Houston at Tennessee ATS Pick Buffalo at NY Giants ATS Pick New Orleans at Tampa Bay ATS Pick Chicago at Detroit ATS Pick Green Bay at Atlanta ATS Pick Oakland at Houston ATS Pick Bettors Toolbox 2011 NFL Betting Trends 2011 Strength Of Schedule Free Office Football Picks NFL Handicapper’s Database Weather Forecasts NFL Future Odds AFC East Odds AFC West Odds AFC South Odds AFC North Odds NFC West Odds NFC East Odds NFC South Odds NFC North Odds Super Bowl Odds Rookie of the Year Odds Top Defensive Rookie Most Passing Yards Most Rushing Yards Most Receiving Yards NFL Handicapping Halftime Betting Tips Strategy for Wagering NFL Totals Sandwhich Game Handicapping Theory 8 Myths about Betting on Football NFL Key Numbers Halftime Betting Preseason Betting Football Gambling – How to Win Overlooked Handicapping Tools NFL Betting Basics
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Neal haunts former team, Pens cool Stars (AP)
Neal haunts former team, Pens cool Stars (AP)
PITTSBURGH (AP)—James Neal(notes) scored two power-play goals against the team that traded him nine months ago and led the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-1 win over the Dallas Stars on Friday night. Neal netted his 10th and 11th goals of the season to pull within one of the NHL lead, and Matt Cooke(notes) scored on a penalty shot in the third period as Pittsburgh won for the seventh time in nine games. Eric Nystrom(notes) had a goal in his fifth consecutive game for Dallas, which had a four-game winning streak snapped. The game matched the teams with the most points in their respective conferences. Pittsburgh is on top in the East, and Dallas leads the West. Both of Neal’s goals came seconds after Penguins goals were waved off by officials. There had been speculation that Penguins captain Sidney Crosby(notes) would make his season debut after being out since January because of a concussion, but he won’t return before Tuesday at the earliest. Pittsburgh traded for Neal in February with the thought that he might fit on a line with Crosby, but he had only one goal in 20 games last season. Neal scored in the second and third periods. For the second consecutive home game—15 days apart—the Penguins had an apparent goal waved off. Cooke was cited for interfering with the goalie Oct. 27. This time, Chris Kunitz(notes) was ruled to have gotten his stick up above the crossbar to deflect Evgeni Malkin’s(notes) shot late in the second. Fans were still booing that call when 24 seconds later Neal scored on a snap shot from the left circle that found its way between Kari Lehtonen’s(notes) right arm and torso. The puck trickled over the goal line before Stars defenseman Nicklas Grossman(notes) was able to swat it away. Neal nearly scored again at 6:56 of the third when he threw the puck toward the net from the right boards. It went in off Dallas defenseman Mark Fistric(notes), and sent the sellout crowd into another premature celebration. But the call didn’t count because Kunitz made contact with Lehtonen. However, 23 seconds later Neal did score after being set up by a quick pass from Malkin. Neal intended to feed a wide-open Kunitz, but the puck hit off Stars defenseman Trevor Daley’s(notes) stick and went into the net. Dallas entered with 22 goals in three games, but managed only 20 shots Friday. The Stars’ lone goal was scored by Nystrom off a feed from Dvorak. Dallas played the final two periods without defenseman Alex Goligoski(notes), who was in the trade that sent Neal to Pittsburgh. Goligoski was spotted with a heavily-bandaged thumb. The Stars played with only four defensemen for the final seven minutes of the second period, when Fistric went to the locker room after taking a puck to the face. He returned for the third. Pittsburgh’s Marc-Andre Fleury(notes) made 19 saves, improving to 6-0-1 in his past seven games. He has allowing only 10 goals in that span. Fleury is 5-0 against Dallas. NOTES: The Stars haven’t won in Pittsburgh since Dec. 23, 2000. … Cooke’s goal was his 100th point with Pittsburgh. … The Penguins, who had a five-day break between games, are 5-0-2 against Western Conference teams. … Letang has an assist in five straight games. … Pittsburgh, the NHL’s top penalty-killing team, turned aside both Dallas power-play chances. … The Penguins improved to 5-1-1 at home. … Lehtonen lost a road game for the first time in six starts this season, falling to 11-2 overall. He’s never beaten Pittsburgh in five tries.
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Good start of the month
Good start of the month
Written by Betting-RSS admin on 04 November 2011. Same good start that we had in every month of the last 4. It is always good to have a good start because it is important in betting to have morale high and lose money from profit rather than from the bank when bad days come. Here are the statistics for the 1st 3 days: November 20113 WON / 0 VOID / 0 LOST Staked 13 / Returned 24.69 Yield 89.92% / ROI 189.92 Total P/L 11.69 Only 2 places available this month for the payment picks, so be fast. The money management can also be found here one page behind if you are interested or you may ask me anytime questions at admin@betting-rss.comYou can read all about the prices and what you will receive HERE. You can follow us on Facebook and Twitter. And maybe give us a like on the right sidebar Facebook module on the Website and then subscribe for the payment picks at any time.
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