Sporting's struggles continue
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02/13/2012 - Lisbon, Portugal (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sporting Lisbon fell further off the pace at the top of the Portuguese Liga after a 2-0 defeat at Maritimo on Saturday.
The result leaves Sporting in fourth place and 16 points back of leaders Benfica after a run of only one win from its last six league matches.
Selim Ben Achour scored the lone goal in the first half and Danilo Dias doubled the lead on the hour mark for Maritimo.
The outcome of the match was also enough for Sporting to replace manager Domingos Paciencia with Ricardo Sa Pinto, which was announced on Monday.
Benfica remains unbeaten in 18 games after a 4-1 win over Nacional that saw Rodrigo score twice, while FC Porto remains five points adrift in second place after a comfortable 4-0 triumph over 10-man Uniao Leiria as Porto netted four goals in the final 25 minutes following a red card to Jose Alberto Schaffer.
Braga strengthened its hold on third place by toppling Setubal, 3-0, on Friday with two goals from Lima.
Pacos Ferreira downed Feirense, 3-1, in a battle of bottom-half sides, Rio Ave moved three points clear of the bottom three after a 2-0 triumph at Olhanense, a first-half goal from Marcelo Toscano was enough to hand Guimaraes a 1-0 win over Beira Mar and Gil Vicente moved past Academica in the middle of the table after a 2-0 road win on Monday.
San Sebastian, Spain (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sevilla's struggles continued on Monday at Real Sociedad as the visitors saw their winless streak reach eight games following a 2-0 defeat. The two sides entered the final 30 minutes of the
<< Napoli tops Chievo to snap winless skid
Naples, Italy (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Napoli snapped a five-game winless streak on
Monday by securing a 2-0 home win against Chievo which improves the club's
European hopes.
Napoli had been held without a goal in its last two games but scor
<< Patriot League adding football scholarships in 2013
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Touchdown.
After exhaustive debate in recent years, the Patriot League has decided to
start awarding athletic scholarships in football - 15 each year - beginning
with the 2013 season.
The league
<< CAA gets deal with NBC Sports Group
Richmond, VA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Colonial Athletic Association announced
Monday a five-year agreement with the NBC Sports Group to broadcast conference
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The agreement begins with the 2012-13
<< NASCAR champ Stewart appearing on ABC television show
Daytona Beach, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
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Stewart, who captured his third Sprint Cup title last season, will appear on
an upcoming episod
Bogota, Colombia (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sixth-seeded Mathilde Johansson was a first-round loser at the XX Copa BBVA Colsanitas on Monday. Johansson fell to Russia's Valeria Savinykh 7-6 (7-2), 3-6, 7-5 on the red clay at the Centro d
Bryant to play six home games in 2012 >>
Smithfield, RI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Bryant University football will play six
home games as part of its first season of FCS playoff eligibility, Bulldogs
head coach Marty Fine said Monday.
Bryant has posted a combined 26-18 record in first four
Hobbled Comrie finally retires >>
Pittsburgh, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mike Comrie, who hasn't played in the NHL
yet this season due to multiple hip surgeries, retired on Monday.
Comrie's agent. Ritch Winter, made the announcement earlier in the day on his
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Morgantown, WV (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chicago Bears linebacker J.T. Thomas was
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Thomas w
Bulls' Rose has no structural damage in back >>
Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Bulls guard Derrick Rose has no structural
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A team spokesman said the reigning NBA MVP, who has missed two straight games
with a sor
MySportsbook.com and Kentucky Derby Offer Bonuses
The 2008 Kentucky Derby has announced a $1-million bonus for this weekend’s 134th ‘Run for the Roses’ and MySportsbook.com is doing the same.
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According to MySportsbook.com, the favorites for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky are: Curlin (+250); Street Sense (+500); Scat Daddy (+700); Circular Quay (+750); and Nobiz Like Shobiz (+800).
Derby organizers announced this week that there will be a $1-million bonus at the 2007 Kentucky Derby odds if the first-place horse wins by more than 6 1/2 lengths – the margin of Barbaro's victory last year. The bonus would be divided Saturday among the winning trainer, jockey, owner and a charity, with each receiving 25 percent. The designated charity is the Barbaro Memorial Fund.
''It's certainly creative, it's certainly fun and it has something for the horsemen, which we always want to embrace,'' Churchill Downs president and chief executive Robert Evans said at a news conference. ''What's really cool is it will force us to remember Barbaro.''
Meanwhile, the Derby favorite – Curlin – is going against the odds this year. It's been 125 years since Apollo won after skipping his 2-year-old season, and not since Regret in 1915 has such a lightly seasoned horse worn the blanket of red roses.
Arkansas Derby winner Curlin – unbeaten in three career races – tries to overcome both those obstacles in Saturday's 133rd Derby.
''We're not running against history,'' trainer Steve Asmussen said Monday. ''We're running against who they load up.''
Six other horses have run in the Derby without benefit of 2-year-old races and with three or fewer starts. The best any of them managed was a sixth-place finish by Showing Up last year.
Asmussen dismissed suggestions that Curlin's lack of racing experience could keep him from the winner's circle.
”He exudes confidence and he's got a great presence about him,'' the trainer said. ''I feel great about the position we're in. He's not worried about anything, why should you be?''
The Kentucky Derby is at 4:04 p.m., ET Saturday.
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