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05/04/2010 - Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Chicago Bulls have fired head coach Vinny Del Negro and will discuss the move at a noon (et) news conference on Tuesday.
Bulls general manager Gar Forman will meet the media at the Berto Center to address the coaching change.
Del Negro, who had one season and about $2 million remaining on his contract, has had a turbulent two years with the Bulls, compiling an 82-82 regular season record to go with a 4-8 postseason mark. The Bulls finished with a 41-41 mark in each season and were ousted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the 2009-10 campaign.
The move is reportedly not related to Del Negro's altercation with senior vice president John Paxson on March 30. Reports surfaced that the two had a shoving match and the relationship between them had soured as the season went on.
Prior to his coaching stint with Chicago, Del Negro spent 13 seasons in the NBA with Sacramento, San Antonio, Milwaukee, Phoenix and Golden State, averaging 9.1 points and 3.2 assists in 771 career regular season games. He also spent parts of three seasons playing in Italy.
He had no previous coaching experience before being hired by the Bulls. Before being hired, Del Negro was the assistant general manager for the Phoenix Suns. He also served as the Suns' director of player personnel after a stint as a radio analyst.
<< Jimenez goes to 6-0 as Rockies top Padres
San Diego, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Ubaldo Jimenez struck out a career-high 13
batters in seven innings to lead the Colorado Rockies to a 5-2 win over the
San Diego Padres in the first of a three-game set at Petco Park.
Jimenez (6-0) bec
<< Harden fans nine in strong start, Rangers hold off A's
Oakland, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Rich Harden tossed seven innings of two-hit
ball to help Texas take down Oakland, 4-2, in the opener of a three-game set.
Harden (2-1) struck out nine and didn't walk a batter for the Rangers, who
have
<< Astros put Byrdak on DL
Houston, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Houston Astros put left-handed pitcher Tim
Byrdak on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right hamstring.
Byrdak gave up a hit and two runs in Monday's 9-1 loss to Arizona. He is
1-0 with a 5.23
<< Jags DE Smith to miss season
Jacksonville, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jacksonville Jaguars defensive end Bryan
Smith will miss the 2010 season due to an anterior cruciate ligament injury.
The team provided the information on its Twitter page, saying Smith slipped
and wi
Lakers aim to continue dominance over Jazz at Staples Center >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Utah Jazz will try to avoid falling in a 2-0 series
hole when they face the top-seeded Los Angeles Lakers tonight in Game 2 of the
Western Conference semifinals at Staples Center.
Los Angeles survived in Game 1 when Ko
Braves, Heyward head into DC to face Nats >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - While fans of the Washington Nationals wait for their
expected franchise player to arrive, they'll be able to get their first look
at the Atlanta Braves' new phenom when the two National League East members
start up a three
Dodgers welcome Brewers to Chavez Ravine >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Los Angeles Dodgers aim to build off their first
three-game winning streak of the 2010 campaign when the reigning National
League West champions begin a three-game series with the slumping Milwaukee
Brewers this evening a
Cubs carry hot bats into Steel City >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - After getting their offense to break out in a home series
over the weekend, the Chicago Cubs hit the road for six straight games
beginning with tonight's first of three straight meetings with the Pittsburgh
Pirates from PNC P
Trash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing).
Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion.
Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).
Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.
Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit. And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. The plug-necked yahoos on your team, you can say, will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.
The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.
What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Wheres your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, I'll try to type slower for you next time. Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.
Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, dont just conclude by saying your opponent is a twerp who drafts like my grandmother. Say that your opponent is a sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars. By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.
But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You wont be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, Im sure, to reply.
In addition to the trash talking, the Sports Alarm has a huge gallery of high resolution pictures of beautiful women and models in bikinis. The most popular models are: Lindsay Lohan, Carrie Underwood, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Paris Hilton.
In any football or basketball game (the main sports that use point spreads) there are two teams playing against each other.
Those teams, though, are rarely exactly evenly matched – meaning that typically one team has a better chance than the other to win the game. If bettors were allowed to bet on who was simply going to win the game, smart ones would obviously bet on the better team (likely winning more than 50% of the time in the process).
If winning were that easy the Las Vegas and online sportsbooks would stop taking any bets! This is where the point spread comes in: the basic function of the point spread is to balance the likelihood of each team “winning” by adjusting the final score by the point spread. After this adjustment is made you get the Against The Spread result (ATS result for short).
Let’s look at Super Bowl XXXIX, New England Patriots vs. Philadelphia Eagles. Most people believed the defending champ Patriots to be the better team – so if betting were simply based upon which team would win the game, an uneven majority of people would have wagered on New England. But, by using the point spread, the bookmakers adjusted the terms of the bet, evening the proposition so about half the people believed the Pats to be the smart bet, while the other half considered Philly to be the smart bet.
New England Patriots -7 vs. Philadelphia Eagles
The better team, called the Favorite, is expected to win the game and must “give” or “lay” points to the weaker team. The favorite is listed with a minus sign and the number of points they are favored by (e.g., New England -7)
In the case of our example, New England must not only win the game, but they must win by more than 7 points for Pats bettors to have a winning ATS result. An Eagles bettor wins his bet either if:
There was also the possibility that the final score could land exactly on the spread number (for example, the Pats winning 28-21 when -7), which is called a “push” or “no action” and a refund is then issued to bettors of both teams.
The same game with the same point spread can be considered from the weaker team’s perspective: The Underdog (Philly in the case of our example) is not expected to win the game and online football betting thus receives or “gets” points given by the stronger team. When a game is stated from the underdog’s perspective the team is listed with a plus sign and the number of points they are underdogs by:
Philadelphia Eagles +7 vs. New England Patriots
Keep in mind that Philadelphia +7 and New England -7 is the same point spread on the same game, simply stated differently. The first is from the underdog’s perspective; the later is from the favorite’s.
Not a must, but for some a mathematical approach is insightful. You can determine the ATS winner by either:
Let’s look at the actual result of Super Bowl XXXIX: New England 24 Philadelphia 21
The favorite, New England, won the game but not by more than the point spread they were favored by (7), so the ATS result was a LOSS for Pats bettors.
Looking at it from the underdog’s perspective, Philly did not win the game, but they lost by less than the point spread (7), so the ATS result was a WIN for Eagle bettors.
Mathematically considered, 24 for the favorite Pats minus 7 equals 17, which is less than the 20 the Eagles scored, so the underdog Eagles win the ATS result (or you could figure 20 plus 7 equals 27 for the Eagles, which is more than 24 for the Pats).
Emily’s boyfriend understood the point spread and wagered $100 on the Eagles at +7. The Eagles may not have gotten a Super Bowl ring, but since they won the ATS result Emily’s boyfriend cashed his bet – giving him money to take her out to a nice dinner.
And now hopefully you understand how to read point spreads, putting you one step closer to joining the fun of sports betting.
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