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10/22/2011 - Talladega, AL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mike Wallace claimed his first win in the Camping World Truck Series in 11 years by taking Saturday's Coca-Cola 250 at Talladega Superspeedway.
Wallace, a Nationwide Series regular, got a lot of pushing help from his Kevin Harvick Inc. teammate, Ron Hornaday Jr., to lead 54 of the 94 laps. Both drivers were hooked up in a two-truck tandem for most of the race at the 2.66- mile superspeedway.
The 52-year-old Wallace substituted for Elliott Sadler in KHI's No.33 Chevrolet. Sadler was scheduled to drive the truck, but his wife, Amanda, is expecting their second child, which prompted the substitution earlier this week.
"Ron Hornaday is an incredible and unselfish individual, because he could have gone for the win," said Wallace, who crossed the finish line 0.06 seconds ahead of Hornaday. "We were sideways at one point."
Wallace and his wife, Carla, had planned on celebrating their wedding anniversary this weekend, before he received a phone call from team co-owner Kevin Harvick.
"I have to thank Kevin and DeLana Harvick and everybody at KHI," Wallace noted. "It's been so long since I've won a race, and nobody knows how much this means to me."
Wallace had not won a race in any one of NASCAR's three national series since July 2004 at Daytona. His most recent truck win came in 2000 at Mesa Marin Raceway in Bakersfield, CA.
He is now a five-time race winner in the truck series.
Since taking over driving duties in KHI's No.2 truck, Hornaday has won at Kentucky and Las Vegas and finished second at Talladega.
"It's been fun driving this No.2 truck; this is what it's all about," he said.
James Buescher finished third, followed by Ricky Carmichael and Jason White. Chevrolet swept the top-five positions.
Todd Bodine, in a Toyota, took the sixth spot.
Points leader Austin Dillon rebounded from a penalty in the closing laps to finish seventh. Dillon had been running fourth prior to the last caution, but NASCAR penalized him for not maintaining proper speed during the caution. He had to drop to the tail end of the lead lap for the final restart with two laps to go.
"I shut [the engine] off to save gas when I released fourth gear, and the thing that matters is I got it started up before I got to the start/finish line, and I thought I got all of my positions back," Dillon said. "The truck never stopped. It was rolling. If [NASCAR] can show me where I completely stopped and lost 20 positions...they can't, I don't think. I'll be waiting to see it."
Dillon now holds a three-point advantage over Buescher. Johnny Sauter fell 14 points behind after his 15th-place finish. Sauter was involved in an accident with his ThorSport teammate Matt Crafton on lap 36. He spent two laps on pit road for repairs.
Hornaday moved to within 16 points of Dillon, while Timothy Peters fell 42 markers out of the lead following his 23rd-place run.
Just three races remain -- Martinsville (October 29), Texas (November 4) and Homestead (Nov. 18).
<< Tannehill leads No. 17 Aggies past Cyclones
Ames, IA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Ryan Tannehill threw for 263 yards and two
touchdowns, as the 17th-ranked Texas A&M Aggies upended the Iowa State
Cyclones, 33-17.
Christine Michael rushed for 142 yards and a score, while Cyru
<< Canucks, Panthers swap 4 players
Vancouver, BC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Vancouver Canucks have acquired left wing
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the Florida Panthers in exchange for right wing Mikael Samuelsson and left
wing Ma
<< Houston's Keenum sets NCAA record for total offense
Houston, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - University of Houston quarterback Case Keenum
set the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision record for total offense during
Saturday's game against Marshall.
Keenum entered Saturday's contest needing only
<< Salo lifts Canucks over Wild in OT
Vancouver, BC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sami Salo scored a power-play goal with 21
seconds remaining in overtime to lift the Vancouver Canucks to a 3-2 win over
the Minnesota Wild at Rogers Arena.
Minnesota's Dany Heatley went off for slashi
Maple Leafs G Reimer leaves game >>
Montreal, QC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender James Reimer
left Saturday's game against the Montreal Canadiens with an undisclosed
injury.
Just 1:15 into the game, Reimer stopped a shot from the point. Brian Gio
Houston aims to improve wild card position vs. L.A. >>
Houston, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - By the time the Los Angeles Galaxy roll into
Robertson Stadium for their clash with the Houston Dynamo on Sunday, the
playoff picture will be much more clear for the home side.
With a playoff berth a
No. 1 LSU routs Auburn, awaits Alabama >>
Baton Rouge, LA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Rueben Randle and No. 1 LSU crafted another
big win.
In fact, this one was historic.
Randle caught two long touchdown passes from Jordan Jefferson and Jarrett Lee
in the last five minutes of the first
Craig's HR has Cardinals on top in Game 3 >>
Arlington, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Allen Craig's home run two batters into Game
3 of the World Series has the Cardinals on top of the Texas Rangers, 1-0,
after three innings.
The defending AL champions evened the best-of-seven series by rallyi
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.
Two playoff teams from 2007 take center stage on the NFL Network Sunday night in a Week 2 NFL betting match-up when the (0-1) New England Patriots betting head south to Florida for a contest with the (1-0) Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
New England HC Bill Belichick couldn’t care less about the way his team plays in the preseason. With a chance to tie last week’s game with the Baltimore Ravens betting, He elected to go for the two-point conversion and outright victory. The conversion failed, and the Pats ended up falling to the Ravens by a 16-15 final count.
New England rolled off twelve unanswered points to give it a chance at securing the victory, but it never threatened to cover the 3.5-point spread. NFL bettors saw this one coming, as they bet the Ravens down from +6 to +3.5 as the week progressed. QB Tom Brady didn’t take part in the Patriots first preseason clash, but could see action this weekend.
His three replacements all put up embarrassing numbers. They went a combined 17 for 33, and threw three interceptions and no touchdowns. The New England defense was encouraging, as they held the Ravens to 2/12 third down conversions and surrendered just ten first downs. That ‘D’ should be bolstered with the addition of former Bucs and Denver Broncos betting safety John Lynch, who could make his Patriots debut on Sunday against his former mates.
HC Jon Gruden had to be impressed with the way his Bucs played on both sides of the ball in their dominating 17-6 victory over the Miami Dolphins in Week 1’s NFL pre-season betting action. Bucs bettors were quite happy with the effort, as they made a mockery of the fact that they were underdogs in the game.
The logjam at the quarterback position didn’t get any easier to separate for Gruden, as all four of his QBs had positive experiences in the first exhibition of 2008. The four combined to complete 28 of their 40 passes for 204 yards and a touchdown, and that was without starting QB Jeff Garcia in the lineup.
RB Michael Bennett had 19 carries and four receptions, totaling 90 yards and a touchdown. Expect to see more of Bennett, Kenneth Darby, and Earnest Graham, as they all compete for playing time with Warrick Dunn in the backfield this season. Defensively, the Bucs recorded four sacks and held the Fins offense in check all day.
First round draft pick Aqib Talib was impressive in the secondary, recording a tackle and two pass defenses in his debut. Don’t be surprised to see Talib in the starting lineup opposite Ronde Barber for the Bucs in ’08.
The betting trends suggest that NFL bettors should be backing the Bucs in this intra-conference exhibition.
These two teams hooked up last year in Tampa Bay, with the Bucs winning that game 13-10. The Buccaneers have only lost one preseason game at home dating back to the beginning of the ’05 preseason. The Patriots have had a mixed bag of results in their recent exhibitions. They have gone 2-2 ATS and SU each of the last three years.
New England currently sits as modest 1-point favorites in this preseason showdown with the ‘total’ now sitting at 34.5.
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