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02/23/2007 - New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Zach Parise and Jamie Langenbrunner scored in the shootout, sending the New Jersey Devils to a sweep of the New York Rangers, 3-2, in the back end of a home-and-home series at Madison Square Garden.
Parise was the first to skate in the shootout, and made a quick move before sending a beautiful backhand shot up and over the glove of Henrik Lundqvist.
Michael Nylander then took his turn for the Rangers, using the same move as Parise to best Martin Brodeur at the other end.
Patrick Elias and Sergei Brylin both had shots denied for New Jersey, while Marcel Hossa and Matt Cullen were turned away by Brodeur. Langenbrunner's wrist shot then glanced off Lundqvist and went straight up and over the netminder, who tried to reach for it, but the puck had already crossed the goal line.
With the crowd roaring, Petr Prucha was the final skater for New York, but his shot hit the crossbar to seal the win for New Jersey.
Parise had a goal in regulation and Brian Rafalski also scored for the Devils, who edged the Rangers 2-1 on Tuesday at the Meadowlands. New Jersey has won three in a row and four of its last five games, despite playing without leading goal-scorer Brian Gionta, who missed his second straight game due to a groin injury.
Brodeur finished with 28 saves for the Devils.
Hossa and Prucha both tallied for the Rangers, who have dropped three of their last four games. Lundqvist turned aside 24-of-26 shots in a losing cause.
Down 2-1 in the third, New Jersey tied things up in dramatic fashion. Travis Zajac won the faceoff, and the Devils quickly moved through the neutral zone before Zajac sent a wrist shot toward the net. Lundqvist made the initial save, but Parise was there to poke the rebound past the sliding netminder at 12:47 to make it 2-2.
New Jersey had a huge power play opportunity in the overtime session, as Jaromir Jagr was whistled for interfering with the goaltender, but the Devils couldn't convert on the man-advantage.
The Rangers successfully killed all five Devils power plays, while New Jersey finished 1-for-2 on the man-advantage.
Hossa, who was questionable at game time due to an upper-body injury, collected a forward pass by Marek Malik, skated in on a breakaway and wristed a shot past a sprawling Brodeur on the stick-side just 1:38 after the opening faceoff.
Prucha extended the Rangers edge to 2-0 with a power-play tally in the middle stanza. With Mike Rupp off for holding, Jagr was the catalyst to the score, as he surged toward the net off the left side, had a shot glance off the pad of Brodeur, and continued banging away at the disc. Nylander also took a stab at the puck, but Prucha got his stick on it, directing it over the goal line at 9:20.
The Devils finally scratched the scoreboard to cut their deficit to 2-1 at 13:34. Langenbrunner battled with Rafalski along the right boards, and Rafalski rifled a slap per from the top of the right circle that caromed off a Rangers' stick and past Lundqvist.
Game Notes
Langenbrunner also had a pair of assists for New Jersey...The Devils won the regular-season series 5-2-1, with six of the eight games won by one-goal margins...Brodeur has made 31 straight starts for the Devils...Parise has four regulation goals in his last five games.
<< Arenas leads Wizards over Kings
Washington, DC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Gilbert Arenas scored 43 points and
Washington overcame a monumental collapse in the fourth quarter and a waived-
off three-pointer at the buzzer by Sacramento's John Salmons to post a 109-106
win at
<< Lightning zap Thrashers in OT
Atlanta, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Martin St. Louis scored the game-winner with
1:16 left in overtime to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a big 5-4 win over
Atlanta to move one point ahead of the Thrashers for first place in the
Southea
<< Wesley's first goal in over a year leads Carolina past Philly
Raleigh, NC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Glen Wesley ended his 82-game scoring drought
in style, finding the back of the net 16 seconds into overtime with Carolina
down a man as the Hurricanes rallied for a 3-2 victory over the Philadelphia
Flyers.
<< Delaware knocks off No. 22 James Madison
Newark, DE (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Tyresa Smith poured in a career-high 32 points
on a 10-of-19 shooting performance to lead Delaware over 22nd-ranked James
Madison, 77-67, at the Bob Carpenter Center.
Chrissy Fisher added 22 points and pul
Venus, Peer reaches Memphis semis >>
Memphis, TN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Seventh seed Venus Williams continued her
strong play during her comeback week by posting a two-set victory over fellow
American Laura Granville to move into the semifinals at the $175,000 Regions
Morgan
No. 4 UNC stomps Wake >>
Chapel Hill, NC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Camille Little scored 19 points, and the
No. 4 North Carolina Tar Heels ripped Wake Forest, 96-47.
Erlana Larkins scored 15 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for the Tar Heels
(27-2, 11-1 ACC), who h
Venus, Peer reach Memphis semis >>
Memphis, TN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Seventh seed Venus Williams continued her
strong play during her comeback week by posting a two-set victory over fellow
American Laura Granville to move into the semifinals at the $175,000 Regions
Morgan
Horcoff, Oilers blank Blue Jackets >>
Columbus, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Shawn Horcoff tallied twice and recorded an
assist as Edmonton blanked Columbus, 4-0, at Nationwide Arena.
Ryan Smyth added a goal with two helpers for the Oilers, who snapped a four-
game losing streak.
Ten years ago, at just about this time, I called Alan Boston in Vegas and left him a voicemail that went something like this (abridged version): "Hey Alan, Chad Millman from ESPN The Magazine calling. I want to do a book about wise guys, you in?"
A couple weeks later I got a message back (abridged version): "I don't know, maybe," Boston said. "Call me and we'll talk about it. But not later today. I got $1,000 on Andre Agassi to win the French Open at 40-1, and he's in the finals."
Here's what happened next (abridged version): Agassi won his tourney. Boston won his $40,000. I wrote sportsbook.
In the ten years since, how much has been wagered on the big-time tennis events? Put it this way: The Nevada Gaming Commission doesn't even track the number year by year because it's so small.
"Tennis makes up about one-tenth of one percent of our take," says Lucky's bookmaking boss Jimmy Vaccaro. "The last big golf major we probably had $100,000 worth of bets. In tennis, we might have written two big tickets."
Tennis' lack of popularity amongst the American bettoratti is no surprise, really. For starters, the biggest sports betting holidays -- the Super Bowl, the NCAA tourney -- are must see TV. People, at least the degenerates I know, plan vacations around watching those events in Vegas sports books.
But Wimbledon? Doesn't exactly reel in the whales. "Seriously, it's the nuts as an event," says Boston. "But who even knows when it's on?"
Here's another reason that helps explain why golf gets traction, something I call "The Bubbe Theory." My Bubbe is pushing 95 and has cataracts so bad that, to her, even the most crystalline Chicago day is mostly cloudy. But she still listens to the Cubs games, and she still calls me in a fit if she disagrees with something Rick Telander writes in the Chicago Sun Times. She's a sports fan. If she doesn't know you, you're just filling a niche. And niche players, even historically good ones like Roger and Raf, don't drive betting volume. Only the highest profile names attract square money, which inflates wagering totals like a shot of saline to the lips. Bubbe, and the public, loved Agassi, tennis' last cross-the-rubicon, mainstream draw. She also has a crush on Tiger. She's given me standing orders to put a sawbuck on the big cat whenever I walk through a sports book (or mistakenly tap into one via my Internet machine.) That explains why the Masters is getting $100K in action at some books while the four tennis majors might not get that combined this year.
This isn't a case of tennis being a difficult sport to bet. In fact, in Europe, it's probably the second most popular sport for gambling after soccer. Granted, as the WSJ football betting last week and The Mag's Shaun Assael examined in even greater depth last year, that might be because gamblers across the pond see it as an easy game to fix. But it could also be because, over there it holds the kind of sway the big two do over here.
Street corners in Spain are peppered with public courts and kids doing their best Raffy impressions. In some war torn parts of Eastern Europe poverty-stricken kids view tennis as an escape route, like football or basketball here. A couple years ago The Mag's Lindsay Berra wrote a great piece about Belgrade's Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic and Novak Djokovic. They learned the game as kids while bombs were raining down on their homeland. They practiced in drained swimming pools. Not exactly Nick Bolletierri conditions.
In the United States, casual fans think tennis is played four times a year. But on the tightly packed European continent, national interest in homegrown talent runs deep every weekend. Of the ATP's current top 20 players, only two, tennis betting and James Blake, are American. Fourteen are from Europe, representing six different countries.
No wonder fans from Lisbon to Bhudapest get jacked up for the net game, whether it's Wimbledon or a low-level tourney like the Estoril Open in Portugal (congrats to Spain's Albert Montanes for winning that one, btw). Chances are good that someone representing their flag will not only be playing, but have a shot at winning.
And that's all any bettor can ask for.
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Let’s take a look at the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds and the betting line and figure out where they’ve been and where they are going to go.
MySportsbook.com put up the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds late on Sunday night with the Pittsburgh Steelers favored by 6.5 points and a total betting line at 47.5 points.
Since then, however, the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds have seen a good deal of movement and you’ll want to be on top of where they are likely to move to make sure you get the best line value for the big game.
Since opening, the Super Bowl 2009 betting lines went to Steelers -7 in the span of roughly 3 hours but were quickly bought back down just minutes later to 6.5 again.
After that is took about 5-6 more hours before the betting line went back to -7 where it has sat for a while now and is likely to remain. The opening betting total of 47.5 was bet down right after the line became available and went to 47 within minutes.
Roughly a day later it has been bet even further down to the 46.5 tally it currently is set at.
Roughly 60% of gamblers seem to be on the Cardinals here so the point spread will be bet down and a 7.5 would not last very long at all with many taking the early 6.5 in hopes of finding a potential middle in the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds.
If you like Arizona and see a 7.5, I’d take it as soon as possible because it’s unlikely to last. For Pittsburgh backers, the -7 might be the best you’ll be able to find but a 6.5 is definitely possible close to game time.
Regarding the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds for the total, most tracked gamblers are already on the over and with those who took the under 47.5 already securing a middle on the over 46.5, the only way I see it moving is back up to 47 so if you like the over, I’d recommend betting now.
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