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03/03/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Washington Wizards will try to stay unbeaten against the Milwaukee Bucks tonight, when the two teams square off at the Bradley Center in the opener of a home-and-home set.
Washington has won the first two matchups with the Bucks, including a 109-97 triumph in Wisconsin back on December 23. Milwaukee, however, has won 16 of the previous 21 contests as the host in this series. These two teams will meet again on Friday at the Verizon Center.
The Wizards ended a two-game slide with an 89-85 victory at New Jersey on Sunday, as Andray Blatche posted a career-high 36 points, 15 rebounds and four assists for the Wizards, who won for the fourth time in seven tries. Randy Foye finished with 16 points and Al Thornton added 20 and eight boards.
"I just came off aggressive," Foye said of his clutch shot down the stretch. "Yi (Jianlian) was on me, he tried to give me a little bit of pressure. I just jabbed at him a little bit, he backed up and I pulled up for the jumper."
Washington will try to work on its 9-18 road mark Wednesday night.
Milwaukee hopes to get back in the win column after having its six-game winning streak come to a close with Sunday's 106-102 overtime loss at Atlanta in the finale of a three-game road swing.
John Salmons ended with a season-high 32 points and eight rebounds for the Bucks, who had been 6-0 since acquiring the shooting guard from Chicago before the NBA's trade deadline. Jerry Stackhouse came off the bench and scored 20 points, while Andrew Bogut chipped in 14 points, nine rebounds and four blocks in defeat.
"We just weren't able to settle down [in overtime]," Bucks head coach Scott Skiles said. "We played really hard...We came out today with a lot of positives."
The Bucks have won two in a row at home and are 18-9 as the host this season.
<< Best and worst clash as Cavs face Nets
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Cleveland Cavaliers will try to sweep the season series
from the New Jersey Nets for a second straight year when the two teams collide
Wednesday night at the Meadowlands.
The Cavs won all three meetings a season ago an
<< Short-handed Sixers visit Hawks
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Atlanta Hawks All-Star Joe Johnson is approaching a
career milestone and will most likely reach it tonight versus the Philadelphia
76ers in the opener of a brief two-game homestand at Philips Arena.
Johnson leads the Hawks
<< Magic host woeful Warriors
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Orlando Magic are back at home and will try to ride the
momentum from a blowout win in south Philly tonight, when they play host to
the Golden State Warriors at Amway Arena.
The Southeast Division-leading Magic crushed
<< Chiefs part ways with WR Darling
Kansas City, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Kansas City Chiefs released wide
receiver Devard Darling and running back Dantrell Savage on Wednesday.
The 27-year-old Darling, who was on injured reserve for the entire 2009
season, had
Suns pay a visit to Clippers >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The red-hot Phoenix Suns get back to work in Los Angeles
Wednesday against their Pacific Division rival, the Clippers.
The Suns won for the sixth time in seven tries on Monday when Amare Stoudemire
poured in 19 points
Blazers host Pacers in Rose City >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Portland Trail Blazers hope to build on a successful
road trip tonight when they return to the Rose Garden to face the lowly
Indiana Pacers.
The Blazers finished an impressive 4-1 trek on Monday in Memphis w
Top-five foes collide in Lawrence in Big 12 battle >>
Lawrence, KS (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - A top-five showdown is on tap in Lawrence this
evening, as the second-ranked Kansas Jayhawks close out the home portion of
their schedule, as they host the fifth-ranked Kansas State Wildcats at the
Allen Fieldhou
Terps take on Blue Devils in crucial ACC matchup >>
College Park, MD (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The top two teams in the ACC collide in
College Park this evening, as the fourth-ranked Duke Blue Devils come calling
on the 22nd-ranked Maryland Terrapins.
Duke sits atop the conference standings at 12-2
My fellow Americans, as tempting as it may be to don the coat and HD-ready tie in order to deliver this State of the Game address before the cameras, I know better. As Brad Paisley sings on his latest album, "I'm so much cooler online."
The ideas for this annual essay to kick off the MySportsbook.com college football betting preview flowed like frat-house beer, which is to say they were cheap and spilled all over the floor. The 2007 season will be better than 2007, if only because there will be more of it. A year ago, the NCAA Football Rules Committee made two rule changes in the interest of speeding up the game. These changes went over like Kobe burgers at a vegan banquet.
To its credit, the rules committee rectified its mistakes. This season the clock once again will start when a kickoff is received, rather than when it is kicked, and the clock will not start so quickly on a change of possession.
However, kickoffs have been moved back five yards, to the 30, which will force more returns. (Thus forcing the clock to run. Clever, huh?) Special teams might decide a lot of games, because coaching strategy will come straight out of another new Paisley lyric (almost), I'd like to check you for kicks.
Paisley sings with a twang, which is why he's appropriate for this college football season. The sun coming up over the 2007 college football betting lines season rises from the south. It's a Southern football world. As the Southeastern Conference begins its 75th year, the power shift is noticeable.
Eight-figure budgets, glamorous settings -- and that's just for the head coaches. The SEC has four coaches who have won national championships -- the greatest aggregation of coaching know-how since Eddie Robinson dined alone.
Steve Spurrier, Phil Fulmer, Nick Saban and Urban Meyer have given lie to the idea that a conference championship game is too daunting a hurdle on the road to No. 1. In six of the past 10 seasons, the national champions played and won a conference championship game -- three of the six (Tennessee, 1998; LSU, 2003; Florida, 2007) from the SEC.
There will be more of the same this season, if the preseason prognostications are correct. Six SEC teams are in the preseason coaches' poll, more than from any other conference. Only one conference has talent so deep that a team with 15 returning starters, including the best quarterback in the league, from an eight-win season is considered an afterthought. That may speak more to Kentucky's losing legacy than to the wisdom of the predictions, but there you have it. And seriously, keep an eye on Wildcats QB Andre' Woodson.
The reach of the South extends all the way to No. 1. Take a look at the team that is a consensus pick to win the national championship. The quarterback is from Shreveport. The best wide receiver is from Nashville. The top recruit is from New Orleans.
So what's the campus doing in Los Angeles? Hey, it is the University of Southern California.
USC lost two Pacific-10 Conference games a year ago, the first time that had happened in five seasons, and university officials withstood the urge to form blue-ribbon panels to unearth the cause of such a disaster. Instead, the Trojans gathered themselves and routed Michigan, 32-18, in the Rose Bowl.
USC's losses at Oregon State and at UCLA last year should have given pause to those who question the Pac-10's football prowess (such as, without naming names, L.M. from Baton Rouge). The league only got deeper this season; Dennis Erickson is taking over an Arizona State team that never quite got out of its own way under his predecessor, Dirk Koetter.
Erickson will resume his quest to become the first coach to win a national championship at two schools. Both he and Spurrier, now in his third season at South Carolina, returned to college football at schools with lower profiles than where they won their titles.
That isn't the case for the third coach looking for the national championship double. You may have missed this, but NASA reported the astronauts on the space shuttle last spring made contact with what can only be described as beings from another galaxy.
The leader of the aliens said, "We come in peace," followed by, "So how do you think Nick Saban will do at Alabama?"
The public is reacting to the new Crimson Tide coach as if he is the Barry Bonds of college football -- beloved at home for what his fans believe he is going to do, hated on the road for his intimidating attitude and for what his detractors believe he did (bend NCAA recruiting rules). I made this comparison from the dais at a charity dinner in Mobile, Ala., last month, and the chill that washed over me didn't come from the air conditioning.
Saban will attempt to prove that he can remake in Tuscaloosa what he built in Baton Rouge, much like another member of the national championship fraternity. Bobby Bowden is attempting to remake at Florida State what he built at, um, Florida State. Bowden rebuilt his offensive staff, bringing in four new coaches led by Saban's former offensive coordinator, Jimbo Fisher, to jump-start an offense that has been dead for a couple of years.
The Atlantic Coast Conference is expected to show new signs of life, too. That is said with no disrespect toward last season's champion, Wake Forest, which provided one of the best story lines of 2007. The Demon Deacons begin this season in their customary position, overshadowed by the Virginia Techs, Miamis and Florida States.
It's not that Wake will find it difficult to duplicate its success in 2007 as much as the feeling that success engendered. Surprising success is the narcotic of sport. It never feels quite so euphoric the next time. Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese has figured this out. He refers to 2007, when a league looked down upon by fans and foes alike took three undefeated teams into November, as "Cinderella."
The fairy tale may be over, but the Big East has four genuine Heisman Trophy candidates in Louisville quarterback Brian Brohm, West Virginia tailback Steve Slaton and quarterback Pat White, and Rutgers tailback Ray Rice. Rutgers, as did Wake Forest and, of course, Boise State, proved last season that the have-nots in college football occasionally have quite a lot.
The Broncos' rousing 43-42 overtime victory over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl has raised the profile of all schools in conferences that don't get automatic BCS bids. This season, TCU and Hawaii are the preseason favorites to burst through the BCS doors and earn an at-large bid. The Warriors return 14 starters from an 11-3 team, including quarterback Colt Brennan.
Brennan not only broke the single-season record with 58 touchdown passes in 2007, but he also led Division I-A in passing efficiency (186.0). The senior is expected to contend for the Heisman Trophy, and neither his success nor the rise of his team should come as any surprise in the 2007 season.
After all, Hawaii is the southernmost team in the country.
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