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08/10/2010 - Toronto, ON (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Wimbledon runner-up Tomas Berdych was an easy second-round winner at the $2.43 million Roger Cup, an ATP Masters event. Former champion Andy Roddick pulled out of the draw here on Tuesday, citing an illness.
The seventh-seeded Berdych handled Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-2, 6-4 in 90 minutes on the hardcourts at Rexall Centre. The 6-foot-4 Berdych was a runner- up at the Miami Masters tournament back in April.
Roddick, meanwhile, was seeded eighth here and received a bye into the second round, where France's Paul Henri Mathieu will now take his place in the draw on Wednesday.
The former world No. 1 Roddick, who captured this Canadian event in 2003 and was the runner-up in 2002 and 2004, dropped out of the top 10 this week, leaving the men's top 10 without an American for the first time since the computer rankings began in 1973.
Unseeded Argentine David Nalbandian remained hot by outlasting and upending 10th-seeded Spaniard David Ferrer 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 in 2 hours, 15 minutes. Nalbandian tallied six service breaks, while Ferrer settled for five in the hard-fought affair.
Nalbandian is fresh off his title in Washington, D.C.. where he beat Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis in a hardcourt finale. The former top-five Argentine has now won his last nine matches overall.
Baghdatis will not reach a second final in two weeks, as the former Aussie Open runner-up succumbed to France's Jeremy Chardy 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (7-4) in round one Tuesday.
Serb Viktor Troicki posted a first-round upset by dismissing 11th-seeded Croat Marin Cilic 6-4, 7-6 (7-2).
Additional first-round wins came for Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov, Taipei's Yen-Hsun Lu, Belgian Xavier Malisse and Italian qualifier Fabio Fognini, who erased Czech Radek Stepanek 6-2, 6-4.
Andy Murray beat Argentine Juan Martin del Potro in last year's final in Montreal. This tournament shifts between Montreal and Toronto each year.
This week's big winner will collect $443,500.
<< Montana's Wilson to be held out
Missoula, MT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - University of Montana senior cornerback Jimmy
Wilson, whose athletic eligibility was restored following his acquittal on
murder charges, will be held out of the beginning of fall camp drills because
of an alleged
<< Missouri State G/F Pickens out for season
Springfield, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Missouri State guard/forward Keith
Pickens is expected to miss the upcoming season following knee surgery.
Pickens ruptured his left patellar tendon during off-season conditioning last
week. Surg
<< Major schedule changes have come, but does there need to be more
Sparta, KY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - With the 2011 schedule for all three of
its national touring series expected to be released within the next couple of
weeks, NASCAR is making some significant revisions to its Sprint Cup schedule,
in hop
<< Another purse boost for Louisiana Derby
New Orleans, LA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - For the second straight year the Louisiana
Derby at the Fair Grounds will receive an increase in purse money. The 1 1/8-
mile race for three-year-olds will be worth $1 million an increase of
$250,00
Chivas loans Galindo to USSF club FC Tampa Bay >>
Carson, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chivas USA forward Maykel Galindo was loaned to
FC Tampa Bay of the USSF Division 2 Professional League, the second tier of
American soccer, on Tuesday.
Since joining Chivas USA in 2007 from then-USL side S
Portland names Spencer first head coach >>
Portland, OR (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Portland Timbers, who will join Major
League Soccer as an expansion club in 2011, named John Spencer the first head
coach in club history Tuesday.
Spencer spent the last five seasons as an assistant
It's official: Kentucky added to 2011 Sprint Cup schedule >>
Sparta, KY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is coming to the
"Bluegrass State," starting in 2011.
After more than a decade of requesting a Cup date, Kentucky Speedway will be
added to the 2011 schedule. Bruton Smith,
Chargers sign S Teal >>
San Diego, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The San Diego Chargers have signed safety
Quinton Teal to a two-year contract.
Teal played in all 16 games for Carolina last season, starting three, and
compiled 20 tackles.
During his three seaso
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In any football or basketball game (the main sports that use point spreads) there are two teams playing against each other.
Those teams, though, are rarely exactly evenly matched – meaning that typically one team has a better chance than the other to win the game. If bettors were allowed to bet on who was simply going to win the game, smart ones would obviously bet on the better team (likely winning more than 50% of the time in the process).
If winning were that easy the Las Vegas and online sportsbooks would stop taking any bets! This is where the point spread comes in: the basic function of the point spread is to balance the likelihood of each team “winning” by adjusting the final score by the point spread. After this adjustment is made you get the Against The Spread result (ATS result for short).
Let’s look at Super Bowl XXXIX, New England Patriots vs. Philadelphia Eagles. Most people believed the defending champ Patriots to be the better team – so if betting were simply based upon which team would win the game, an uneven majority of people would have wagered on New England. But, by using the point spread, the bookmakers adjusted the terms of the bet, evening the proposition so about half the people believed the Pats to be the smart bet, while the other half considered Philly to be the smart bet.
New England Patriots -7 vs. Philadelphia Eagles
The better team, called the Favorite, is expected to win the game and must “give” or “lay” points to the weaker team. The favorite is listed with a minus sign and the number of points they are favored by (e.g., New England -7)
In the case of our example, New England must not only win the game, but they must win by more than 7 points for Pats bettors to have a winning ATS result. An Eagles bettor wins his bet either if:
There was also the possibility that the final score could land exactly on the spread number (for example, the Pats winning 28-21 when -7), which is called a “push” or “no action” and a refund is then issued to bettors of both teams.
The same game with the same point spread can be considered from the weaker team’s perspective: The Underdog (Philly in the case of our example) is not expected to win the game and online football betting thus receives or “gets” points given by the stronger team. When a game is stated from the underdog’s perspective the team is listed with a plus sign and the number of points they are underdogs by:
Philadelphia Eagles +7 vs. New England Patriots
Keep in mind that Philadelphia +7 and New England -7 is the same point spread on the same game, simply stated differently. The first is from the underdog’s perspective; the later is from the favorite’s.
Not a must, but for some a mathematical approach is insightful. You can determine the ATS winner by either:
Let’s look at the actual result of Super Bowl XXXIX: New England 24 Philadelphia 21
The favorite, New England, won the game but not by more than the point spread they were favored by (7), so the ATS result was a LOSS for Pats bettors.
Looking at it from the underdog’s perspective, Philly did not win the game, but they lost by less than the point spread (7), so the ATS result was a WIN for Eagle bettors.
Mathematically considered, 24 for the favorite Pats minus 7 equals 17, which is less than the 20 the Eagles scored, so the underdog Eagles win the ATS result (or you could figure 20 plus 7 equals 27 for the Eagles, which is more than 24 for the Pats).
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