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02/12/2012 - Pebble Beach, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sunday's final round at Pebble Beach was set up perfectly for Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods to battle head-to-head.
Neither was in the lead to start the round, but that changed quickly after Mickelson went five-under par through six holes and was well on his way to victory with two-thirds of the round still to go.
Mickelson fired a bogey-free eight-under 64 to win the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am by two shots over Charlie Wi. Mickelson, who had the low round of the day by three strokes, picked up his fourth win at this event at 17-under 269.
It was Mickelson's 40th PGA Tour victory, putting him alone in ninth place on the all-time wins list.
Woods never got anything going and missed several short putts. He struggled to a three-over 75 to slide into a tie for 15th place at eight-under 278.
Wi, the third-round leader, fought off some early struggles to post an even- par 72 but ended alone in second place at 15-under 271. It marked the third straight week that the 54-hole leader failed to hang on for the victory.
Ricky Barnes closed with a five-under 67 to grab third place at minus-13. Aaron Baddeley also shot 67 to take fourth at 12-under 274.
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<< Mutuel field heavy favorite in Kentucky Derby Future Wager
Louisville, KY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The first of three Kentucky Derby Future
Wagers for the 2012 Run for the Roses closed Sunday night with the mutuel
field being a heavy favorite. The top single three-year-old was Union Rags.
The Fu
<< Rondo's triple-double helps Celtics hold off Bulls
Boston, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Rajon Rondo recorded his ninth career triple-
double with 32 points, 15 assists and 10 rebounds, helping the Boston Celtics
hold off the Chicago Bulls, 95-91.
Kevin Garnett added 13 points and 12 boards f
<< No. 4 Stanford crushes UCLA
Stanford, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Nnemkadi Ogwumike netted a game-high 25 points
to go with eight rebounds as No. 4 Stanford ran over UCLA, 82-59, on Sunday.
Chiney Ogwumike finished with 19 points, while Toni Kokenis and Joslyn Tinkle
added
<< Panthers use strong second period to down Isles
Uniondale, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Tomas Fleischmann, Kris Versteeg and Jack
Skille tallied in the second period as Florida powered past the New York
Islanders, 4-1, at Nassau Coliseum.
Tyson Strachan also lit the lamp for the Pan
Hampton lifts WVU over No. 2 Notre Dame >>
South Bend, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Brooke Hampton came up huge for her team
with a pair of clutch free throws with 4.6 seconds left in the game, lifting
West Virginia to a 65-63 upset over second-ranked Notre Dame on Sunday.
Trailing,
Rondo has triple-double, Celtics top Bulls >>
Boston, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Rajon Rondo recorded his ninth career triple-
double with 32 points, 15 assists and 10 rebounds, helping the Boston Celtics
hold off the Chicago Bulls, 95-91, on Sunday.
Kevin Garnett added 13 points and
Tsonga lifts France to win over Canada >>
Vancouver, BC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - World No. 6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga breezed past
Frank Dancevic on Sunday and sent France to a Davis Cup quarterfinals meeting
with the United States.
Tsonga needed just around two hours to knock off Dancevi
Nolan scores winner as Kings top Stars >>
Dallas, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jordan Nolan capped his first NHL game with his
first career goal, the game-winning tally in the third period as Los Angeles
doubled up Dallas, 4-2, at American Airlines Center.
Justin Williams, Dwight King
Michael Vick is back, Brett Favre isn't and the NFC East remains the best division in the NFC, maybe in all of football.
As players start to gather for the start of another season, some things change and some stay the same in the world of the NFL.
The NFC East has been the dominant division in the National Conference for a while, despite limited playoff success, save for the New York Giants surprise Super Bowl win two seasons ago.
Hell, there's a generation of kids in Texas who have never seen the Cowboys win a playoff game (last win was in 1996).
But collectively, the Giants, Eagles, Cowboys and Redskins (well, maybe not so much the Redskins) are as good as a division gets in an NFC conference that has struggled to stay competitive with the AFC side.
Sports bettors have both acknowledged the NFC East's dominance, as one glance at the NFL future odds menu will show.
Looking over the NFL betting odds at online sports book MySportsbook.com we see the top three teams listed to win the NFC Championship are all from the NFC East:
Dallas Cowboys - 7 - 1
Philadelphia Eagles - 13 - 2
New York Giants - 9 - 2
Slotting in behind these three are two teams from the NFC North: the Minnesota Vikings (15-2) and the Chicago Bears (10-1).
Again, despite the lack of recent playoff success, the Dallas Cowboys are popular with the sports betting community, as they hold 14% of all the money wagered on who will win the NFC Championship.
So far, the New York Giants are the bettors' favorite to represent their conference in the Super Bowl, as they have 24% of the overall NFC Championship betting volume.
And what about the Philadelphia Eagles? For the most part, the Eagles had a very productive offseason, the kind that could bring them back to the top.
They had a good draft adding the likes of WR Jeremy Maclin and RB LeSean McCoy.
Unfortunately, the team received a blow when long-time defensive coordinator Jim Johnson passed away on Tuesday.
But this team will make a real run at the division title this year. Going into the regular season, Philly is listed at +240 to win the division.
Last season the Eagles were 9-6-1 SU and 10-6 ATS.
Teams from the NFC East will play teams from the AFC West in the regular season and the Eagles haven't really been a good bet in the last 20 games against the likes of San Diego, Oakland, K.C. and Denver, only going 8-12 ATS.
Two seasons removed from that Super Bowl title, the New York Giants see themselves listed as the odds-on favorite in NFC East championship futures at +162.
Plaxico Burress is gone and with him all the bad publicity surrounding the gun in the sweatpants incident, but can they replace him in the offense?
Last season the Giants were a very reliable bet going 12-4 ATS.
In the Giants' last 20 games against fellow teams from the NFC East; they are 13-7 ATS.
Dallas is listed at +240 to win the division.
Dallas went 9-7 SU and 7-9 ATS last season and with the amount of talent the Cowboys have, a similar performance won't do.
The Cowboys have been atrocious against divisional rivals, going 6-14 ATS in their last 20.
The Washington Redskins are longshots to win the division at +550.
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