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03/18/2009 - Columbus, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Chicago Blackhawks have activated center Samuel Pahlsson from the injured reserve list.
Pahlsson, acquired from Anaheim at the trade deadline, will likely make his debut for the Blackhawks on Wednesday against Columbus. He had been sidelined since February 1 with mononucleosis.
The 31-year-old native of Sweden has five goals and 10 assists in 52 games this season. He was the leading faceoff man for the Ducks, winning 54 percent of his draws.
Pahlsson, set to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season, has 52 goals and 91 assists for 143 points in 544 NHL games with Boston and Anaheim. He was a member of the Ducks' Stanley Cup championship squad in the spring of 2007.
The Blackhawks also assigned left wing Pascal Pelletier to the club's AHL affiliate in Rockford. He failed to score in seven games with Chicago, but leads Rockford with 27 goals this season.
<< Vancouver awarded MLS expansion franchise
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Major League Soccer announced on Wednesday
that Vancouver, British Columbia, will be the home of the league's 17th team.
The team will begin play in 2011 at the newly-renovated BC Place Stadium in
the cit
<< Cavs' Szczerbiak out at least two weeks with MCL sprain
Cleveland, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Cleveland Cavaliers guard/forward Wally
Szczerbiak is expected to miss the next two-to-three weeks after suffering a
knee injury in Tuesday night's victory over Orlando.
Szczerbiak underwent an MRI
<< Browns' Stallworth releases statement
Berea, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte' Stallworth
released a statement through the team on Wednesday in which he expressed his
grief and prayers for an accident that killed a pedestrian last Saturday
morning
<< Roberto Carlos would consider Real return
Madrid, Spain (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Brazilian veteran Roberto Carlos would be
interested in returning to Real Madrid, if Florentino Perez became president
of the Spanish giants again this summer.
The 35-year-old defender, who left the
Skiles, CV31 and Twitter-gate >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - I'm usually safely behind the curve in the
technological revolution.
I text, and am fairly well versed in the world of computers, but I still
struggle with my DVR and can't figure out how to sync up Rhapso
Arizona's Warner has surgery >>
Tempe, AZ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner got a new two-
year deal with the Cardinals this offseason. Now he has a seemingly healthy
left hip as well.
Warner underwent surgery on Tuesday to repair a labrum tear i
Steelers re-sign CB Bryant >>
Pittsburgh, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Pittsburgh Steelers announced on
Wednesday they have re-signed cornerback Fernando Bryant to a one-year
contract. Terms of the new deal were not disclosed.
Bryant joined the Steelers as
Prado seeks second straight Lane's End Stakes >>
Florence, KY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Hall of Fame jockey Edgar Prado will go after
his second consecutive victory on Saturday in the $500,000 Lane's End Stakes
at Turfway Park. Prado will be aboard West Side Bernie who will face 11 rivals
in the
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Rule No. 1 in the gamblers' handbook states, "Avoid sports betting on meaningless games."
When you're drowning in a sea of baseball monotony, however, things change. Even a hint of pro football betting can persuade the most disciplined bettor to break a few rules.
The NFL preseason is around the corner, with a tempting Hall of Fame match kicking off on Sunday. But bettors must stay vigilant. Wagering on NFL exhibition games is an entirely different beast than the regular season. Most fans don't recognize the players on the field because starters get as much action in August as Warcraft fans get on Prom night.
The only certainty about the NFL this time of year is uncertainty – and yet there are some who say betting in August can be a gold mine.
“I actually feel the NFL preseason presents solid profit opportunities for sharp bettors and handicappers,” Sports Expert Steve Merril explains. “My experience has been that the sportsbooks fear the preseason, which is evident by lower limits and massive moves.”
The line moves are attributed to the limited knowledge available regarding playing-time distribution. One team’s top unit out on the field for one more series has an impact on the pointspread. Setting lines in the preseason often is a shot in the dark.
“We base the betting lines mostly on public perception,” Pete Korner, founder of the Sports Club in Las Vegas, says. “It’s very tough to predict, almost a guessing game.”
The preseason is all about figuring out who’s in and for how long.
“It becomes a race between bettors and oddsmakers to find out how long the quarterbacks are going to stay in,” Korner admits. “If a sharp gets the information first, he could exploit an early line. I’m a full believer in moving the line in the preseason if the books find out something late in the week.”
Determining what each team’s motive is can help bettors handicap. To do this you must pay close attention to the philosophies head coaches employ in exhibition play.
“You need to know what a coach is trying to accomplish,” says Covers Expert Bryan Leonard. “Sometimes a new coach will want to instill a winning attitude. Others just want to make sure their starters don’t get hurt."
So how do you distinguish who’s playing scared and who’s playing for keeps?
“Head coaches on the hot seat or new coaches trying to implement a winning attitude usually try harder to win in the preseason,” Merril says.
Cleveland Browns head coach Romeo Crennel fits this criteria. He’s entering his third season as the sideline boss and has yet to lead the Browns to more than six wins.
Cleveland is an enticing bet as well because of the unresolved quarterback situation. General manager Phil Savage sacrificed the Browns’ first-round pick in next year’s draft for Brady Quinn, but the former Notre Dame quarterback hasn’t signed or reported to training camp yet.
Charlie Frye and Derek Anderson split time at QB last season and it looks like either player (or even Quinn) could be the opening-day starter.
“If a team has quarterback depth and the pecking order hasn’t been decided, it’s a big advantage,” Leonard says.
Even in the third week of the preseason when starters generally play the most, the final outcome of the game is in the hands of fringe players. A team's talent, all the way down to the last man on the roster, is something to consider.
The New England Patriots have long been considered one of the deeper teams in the NFL and coach Bill Belichick has said in the past he’s unafraid of stars getting hurt in games with nothing on the line. He shocked his colleagues in 2003 by playing some of his starters on special teams in the preseason.
“We want to have the team ready to play a tough, physical game and preparation has to go into that and I imagine a certain amount of injuries go with it,” Belichick told the Providence Journal in August 2003.
Bettors can only hope to find more teams that share the Pats' business-like approach to the preseason (New England is 17-9-3 against the spread since 2000) and take advantage of teams who detest the exhibition schedule.
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