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08/05/2010 - Los Angeles, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Los Angeles Lakers and guard Shannon Brown have reportedly agreed to a two-year deal on Thursday.
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Brown's agent, Mark Bartelstein, said the deal is worth about $4.6 million.
Los Angeles acquired Brown in a trade with Charlotte early in 2009. Last season, he appeared in 82 games, mostly off the bench. He averaged 8.1 points and 2.2 rebounds over close to 21 minutes per contest.
Over four seasons in the NBA, he has appeared in 174 games with Cleveland, Chicago, the Lakers and Charlotte. He has averaged 6.1 points and 1.5 rebounds in 15.0 minutes per game.
He opted out of the final year of his contract early in the summer to test the free agency market.
<< NCAA says WVU football commits rules violations
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -West Virginia student managers, graduate assistants and other non-coaching staff worked with football players on their skills and techniques in violation of NCAA limits during the Rich Rodriguez era and under current coach Bi
<< Guard Shannon Brown to re-sign with Lakers
LOS ANGELES (AP) -Shannon Brown is returning to the Los Angeles Lakers, turning down more lucrative offers for a shot at a third straight championship.Brown's agent, Mark Bartelstein, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the high-flying free a
<< Nebraska's move a sour note for KU fight song
For almost a century, the Kansas fight song has boasted about husking corn and listening to the Cornhuskers' ``wail.''Come October, the classic standard ``I'm A Jayhawk'' will be revised to account for Nebraska's move to the Big Ten next year and Co
<< Royals designate Guillen for assignment
Seattle, WA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Kansas City Royals designated outfielder
Jose Guillen for assignment on Thursday to make room for the team's younger
players to receive more playing time.
Guillen, 34, was in the midst of his thir
Wozniacki moves into Copenhagen quarters >>
Copenhagen, Denmark (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Top-seeded Danish favorite Caroline
Wozniacki needed all three sets to win her second-round match Thursday at the
$220,000 e-Boks Sony Ericsson Open.
The 2009 U.S. Open runner-up Wozniacki dropp
Giants reinstate Wellemeyer from DL >>
Atlanta, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The San Francisco Giants reinstated pitcher
Todd Wellemeyer from the 15-day disabled list after a long stint on the
sidelines due to a right quad strain.
Wellemeyer last appeared in a game on June
Chargers claim LB Highsmith off waivers from Arizona >>
San Diego, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The San Diego Chargers claimed linebacker Ali
Highsmith off waivers from the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday.
Highsmith, who was signed as an undrafted rookie out of Louisiana State by
Arizona in 2008, ha
Indians C Santana to undergo surgery, out for season >>
Boston, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Cleveland Indians rookie catcher Carlos Santana
will miss the remainder of the 2010 regular season after suffering a gruesome
left knee injury on Monday in Boston.
Santana will undergo surgery on Friday at
“You play to win the game!”
Those are the words of notoriously intense head coach Herman Edwards. Unfortunately, from a bettors’ perspective, most coaches don’t feel that way about the NFL preseason. August is a time to evaluate young players, finalize the depth chart and pray your star players stay healthy.
The trick to making money during the exhibition schedule is identifying coaches – like Edwards – who can’t stand losing even when there's nothing on the line.
The New York Jets betting won 15 of 21 preseason games and went 14-7 against the spread (ATS) during Edwards’s five-year tenure with the club. In his first season as the Kansas City Chiefs field boss, the team improved from 0-4 to 2-2.
Identifying win-a-holics like Edwards is a good start if you plan betting the preseason – even though most say you shouldn’t ... but what the hell do they know anyway?
Here’s a brief rundown of two teams that have a habit of winning during the second-stringers’ season, and another club that has a good chance of exceeding this year.
Playing in the media hub of North America can be stressful but the press can’t write anything negative about the way Tom Coughlin’s boys play in the preseason. The Giants won and covered all four games last summer, improving their record to 7-1 both straight up (SU) and against the spread over the last two years.
Coughlin has shown he’s not afraid to give his starters more time in the second preseason game than most of his colleagues, no doubt one of the reasons his team has been so dominant.
Bettors can count on America’s team early on. The Cowboys are 14-6 both SU and ATS since 2002 in warm-up contests. Former coach Bill Parcells, the coach of the team the last four years, has an intimidating, in-your-face presence – surely a reason Dallas has had so much early success.
The Big Tuna won’t be strolling the sidelines with looks of disgust, but new coach Wade Phillips will be anxious to make a good first impression for owner Jerry Jones.
Dallas plays the Indianapolis Colts and the Denver Broncos before things get serious. They then face the Houston Texans in their third contest (the game starters see most game time) and finish off with the Minnesota Vikings.
Expect a Dallas team able to walk away with another 3-1 preseason record.
This team scored a league-worst 12 offensive touchdowns last season, so the rookies and veterans each have something to prove. There’s a bounty of first-unit jobs up for grabs and plenty of bodies competing for those slots.
First-time head coach Lane Kiffin will be eager to impress an owner who employs the philosophy, “Just win, baby!”
The 32-year-old Kiffin has to command respect from a locker room full of players older than him. All of these factors should lead to purpose in preseason.
Don’t forget: before playing like a team that belonged in NFL Europe, Oakland went 4-1 (both SU and ATS) in exhibition games.
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MySportsbook.com and Kentucky Derby Offer Bonuses
The 2008 Kentucky Derby has announced a $1-million bonus for this weekend’s 134th ‘Run for the Roses’ and MySportsbook.com is doing the same.
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According to MySportsbook.com, the favorites for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky are: Curlin (+250); Street Sense (+500); Scat Daddy (+700); Circular Quay (+750); and Nobiz Like Shobiz (+800).
Derby organizers announced this week that there will be a $1-million bonus at the 2007 Kentucky Derby odds if the first-place horse wins by more than 6 1/2 lengths – the margin of Barbaro's victory last year. The bonus would be divided Saturday among the winning trainer, jockey, owner and a charity, with each receiving 25 percent. The designated charity is the Barbaro Memorial Fund.
''It's certainly creative, it's certainly fun and it has something for the horsemen, which we always want to embrace,'' Churchill Downs president and chief executive Robert Evans said at a news conference. ''What's really cool is it will force us to remember Barbaro.''
Meanwhile, the Derby favorite – Curlin – is going against the odds this year. It's been 125 years since Apollo won after skipping his 2-year-old season, and not since Regret in 1915 has such a lightly seasoned horse worn the blanket of red roses.
Arkansas Derby winner Curlin – unbeaten in three career races – tries to overcome both those obstacles in Saturday's 133rd Derby.
''We're not running against history,'' trainer Steve Asmussen said Monday. ''We're running against who they load up.''
Six other horses have run in the Derby without benefit of 2-year-old races and with three or fewer starts. The best any of them managed was a sixth-place finish by Showing Up last year.
Asmussen dismissed suggestions that Curlin's lack of racing experience could keep him from the winner's circle.
”He exudes confidence and he's got a great presence about him,'' the trainer said. ''I feel great about the position we're in. He's not worried about anything, why should you be?''
The Kentucky Derby is at 4:04 p.m., ET Saturday.
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