Halladay goes for fourth win in as many starts in opener with Rangers
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(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former Cy Young Award winner Roy Halladay takes aim at a
major-league best fourth victory tonight when the Toronto Blue Jays host the
Texas Rangers in game one of a three-game series at Rogers Centre.
A 31-year-old native of Denver, Colorado, Halladay has gone seven innings for
victories in each of his three outings in 2009, defeating Detroit, Cleveland
and Minnesota on April 6, 11 and 16, respectively.
Overall in 21 innings, he's allowed 19 hits and seven hits while walking three
and striking out 17.
Halladay, a 20-game winner for the second time last season, was 1-1 in a pair
of starts against the Rangers last season, while allowing 17 hits and five
runs in 18 innings.
For Texas, 25-year-old righty Brandon McCarthy starts for third time in 2009
and seeks win No. 2.
He picked up a win in his debut on April 9 against Cleveland, allowing four
hits and three runs over five innings of a 12-8 Texas win. Five days later
against Baltimore, McCarthy got a no-decision after a six- inning effort in
which he allowed five hits and three runs.
McCarthy last started against Toronto in 2007, going 1-2 in three outings,
while allowing 14 hits and eight runs in 15 innings.
On Sunday in Arlington, Michael Young belted a solo homer to left- center
field in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift the Rangers to a 6-5 victory
over the Kansas City Royals in the finale of a three-game set.
Ian Kinsler also had a solo homer for the Rangers, whilFrank Francisco (1-0)
pitched a scoreless ninth frame to collect the win.
In Toronto, Lyle Overbay drove in the lone run of the game and Ricky Romero
pitched seven solid innings as the Blue Jays edged the Oakland Athletics, 1-0,
in the rubber match of a three-game series.
Romero (2-0) was brilliant over seven innings in earning the win. The left-
hander scattered four hits, struck out six and walked two. The Blue Jays
bullpen allowed only one hit in the final two frames. B.J. Ryan picked up his
second save of the season.
Kevin Millar scored the only run of the game for Toronto, which has won four
straight series to start a season for the first time since 2001.
Texas split its eight games with the Blue Jays last season and is 9-9 in its
last 18 matchups against them.
<< Dodgers hope to push win streak to nine in Houston
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Young right-hander Clayton Kershaw can make it nine
straight wins for the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight when they head to Minute
Maid Park to begin a three-game series with the Houston Astros.
The Dodgers haven't won nine st
<< Slumping Orioles return home to battle White Sox
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jose Contreras is still searching for his first win of the
2009 season and will take the hill for the Chicago White Sox tonight in the
opener of a three-game series against the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards.
Contreras
<< Washburn tries to pitch Mariners past reeling Rays
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jarrod Washburn tries for his third straight win to start
the year this evening, when the Seattle Mariners open a three-game series with
the Tampa Bay Rays at Safeco Field.
Since signing a lucrative free-agent deal with th
<< Mets hit the road for matchup with Cardinals
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Oliver Perez will try to string together back-to-back
decent starts when he leads the New York Mets tonight against the St. Louis
Cardinals in the opener of a three-game series at Busch Stadium.
Perez was rocked in his 200
<< Lakers, Jazz tangle in Game 2 at Staples Center
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Los Angeles Lakers hope to build on a solid but uneven
Game 1 performance when they resume their Western Conference quarterfinals
series against the Utah Jazz at Staples Center tonight.
Kobe Bryant scored 24 points and
Reds, Cubs begin series at Wrigley >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Newcomer meets ace tonight at Wrigley Field when the
Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs open a three-game series.
The Reds will go with No. 5 starter Micah Owings, who'll make his second start
since coming over as the player
Streaking BoSox open quick set vs. Twins >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - After a slow start the Boston Red Sox seem to have found
their way. Tonight, they try to win their sixth straight game when they open a
brief two-game series with the Minnesota Twins at Fenway Park.
Boston completed a
Phils send Moyer to hill in opener with Brewers >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Off to a rough start to the season, a rain delay prevented
the Phillies from building momentum from their latest win. Philadelphia gets
back to business tonight in the opener of a three-game set with the Milwaukee
Brewers
Pirates try to handle Marlins again in Steel City >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Facing the top team in baseball didn't scare Pittsburgh's
pitching staff. Coming off their third shutout win in four games, the Pirates
resume a three-game series with the Florida Marlins this evening at PNC Park.
Thoug
Nats go with another young arm vs. Braves >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - After getting a win out of one young hurler in yesterday's
series opener, the Nationals turn to a 22-year-old with hopes of building
their first winning streak of the season.
Shairon Martis and Washington play host
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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