Donovan to miss South Africa friendly
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11/13/2007 - Carson, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - U.S. national team forward Landon Donovan will miss Saturday's friendly at South Africa with a calf strain.
Donovan, who plays for Los Angeles in Major League Soccer, was injured during a friendly Sunday against the Minnesota Thunder of the United Soccer Leagues. The Galaxy won the exhibition on penalty kicks.
Donovan, 25, will not be replaced on the roster, leaving the U.S. with just 17 players. Eddie Lewis will also not be with the team after Derby County decided it didn't want him making the trip to South Africa.
Fulham's Clint Dempsey and New York's Jozy Altidore are the only forwards left on the U.S. roster. Altidore, 18, has never played for the senior team.
Pachuca, Mexico (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mexican Clausura champion Pachuca failed to clinch a berth in the Apertura playoffs on a tiebreaker and begins a two-game, aggregate series against Cruz Azul on Thursday to try and qualify. Pachuca went 12
<< Boynton suspended for instigating fight
Toronto, ON (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Phoenix Coyotes defenseman Nick Boynton
received the automatic one-game suspension for instigating a fight within the
final five minutes of a game on Tuesday.
Boynton instigated the fight with San Jo
<< Recharged Rams get in the win column
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - For the first time in a while, St. Louis Rams fans got to
see their club close to healthy. No surprise then, that the team posted its
first win of the season.
The Rams opened the 2007 season with eight straight losses befo
<< Rhoden, Masingill share lead at Champions Q-School
Coral Springs, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former major league pitcher Rick Rhoden
and Scott Masingill opened with rounds of four-under-par 68 Tuesday to share
the lead after the opening round of the Champions Tour National Qualifying
Tournam
<< Bears rally again on the road
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Winning on the road hasn't been a big problem for the
Chicago Bears this year. Heck, even rallying from behind to do it hasn't been
that difficult.
Only something was different this time in the team's 17-6 victory over the
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - People often say what goes around, comes around. That came to fruition this Sunday in Nashville, where the NFL's top-ranked run defense played with more holes than a slice of Swiss cheese. The Tennessee Titans entered thei
Stars fire GM Armstrong; name Hull and Jackson co-GMs >>
Frisco, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Dallas Stars fired general manager
Doug Armstrong Tuesday and named Brett Hull and Les Jackson interim co-general
managers.
Hull and Jackson will run the Stars' hockey operations for the remaind
Defense key to Cards' win >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Many like to talk about the Arizona Cardinals and their
potentially explosive offense. And with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Anquan
Boldin and Edgerrin James, who could blame them?
So perhaps the defense just really want
NHL fines Rangers, Maple Leafs, Avery, Tucker for altercation >>
Toronto, ON (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The National Hockey League fined New York
Rangers forward Sean Avery $2,500 and Toronto Maple Leafs forward Darcy Tucker
$1,000 for their actions in the pre-game warm-ups on November 10.
In addition, the
49ers' Smith not moving forward >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - When you are the No. 1 pick of the NFL draft, big things
are expected out of you. But right now, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex
Smith isn't even doing the little things.
The 49ers faced a big decision in the 2005 dra
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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.
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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.
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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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