This Week in Golf Betting

Following a dramatic British Open, golf betting Odds is spread out over three notable tournaments this week. Staying with the action across the pond, the European Tour is at the Barsebäck Golf & Country Club for the SAS Masters in Sweden.

Henrik Stenson is the sportsbook favorite at +700 win to outright. The native of Sweden is currently 16th on the European Tour and has made the cut in six of his eight starts this season. Outside of missing the cut at the St. Jude Classic, Stenson has been on fire in recent tournaments. He finished tied for 13th at the British Open, placed ninth at the U.S. Open, and won The PLAYERS Championship back in May.

Soren Kjeldsen and Soren Hansen are both priced at +1100 for the SAS Masters. Hansen was strong in the final round at the British Open. He fired a score of 67 and wound up tied for eighth. Kjeldsen also had a solid showing at the Open Championship. He finished tied for 27th with a 69 on the final day.

Above the border, the RBC Canadian Open welcomes some of the world's top players to Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ontario. The course has a par score of 71 and stretches 7,320 total yards.

Fan favorite Camilo Villegas is priced at +1400 for this week's event. He's posted three Top 10 finishes this season and is currently 13th in the world golf rankings. Villegas hasn't missed a cut since March and is coming off a 13th-place performance at the British Open. Last year he placed tied for 53rd at Glen Abbey with a score of one-under par.

Also coming in as a +1400 favorite is Retief Goosen. The notable South African had a strong effort at the Open Championship, finishing tied for fifth after firing a final round 72. Goosen has three Top 10 placings this season and is currently 16th on the money earnings list. He shot a five-under par in last year's Canadian Open and finished tied for 30th.

Host Mike Weir is listed at +1600 to win the Canadian Open. The native of Sarnia, Ontario has never won his country's top tournament and finished tied for fifth in 2008. This year, Weir is 27th in the world rankings. He had a disappointing showing at the Open Championship and missed the cut after shooting a second-round 78. Outside of the British, Weir has been steady in recent tournaments and has placed 16th or better in four of his last seven events.

The LPGA European Tour is in Évian-les-Bains, France for the Evian Masters. This tuneup for the Women's British Open draws not only the top talents in Europe but also many North American players.

One of those players crossing the pond is Lorena Ochoa, who is priced as a +500 favorite to win the Evian Masters outright. The Mexican currently sits sixth on the LPGA money list and has made the cut in all 11 events this season. Ochoa has two tournament wins this year and recently finished tied for 26th at the Women's U.S. Open.

Another North American talent heading to France is American Paula Creamer, who is listed at +800. Creamer is one of the most accurate players on the LPGA Tour and is currently sitting eighth on the money list. She was dealing with an injured thumb earlier this summer, which forced her to withdraw from the Wegmans LPGA in late June. However, Creamer did bounce back with a strong showing at the U.S. Open. She shot a final round 69 to tie for sixth for her sixth Top 10 finish of the season.

March Madness Bets - Arena Wars: Freedom Hall vs. Rupp Arena

Welcome to another edition of our summer series Arena Wars, where we've summoned the fans to defend their home court. 

Each week we pit two arenas and fans against each. Could be arenas of rival teams, arenas with similar characteristics or arenas that are simply historically significant. Then it's put up to vote and you decide which arena has the greatest home-court advantage. 

We turn to the bluegrass state for this week's featured matchup and that can only mean one thing -- the University of Kentucky's Rupp Arena vs. the University of Louisville's Freedom Hall. The state loves its basketball and both arenas annually rank top five in attendance and you place March Madness Bets.

Freedom Hall, 20 years the elder of Rupp having opened in 1956, has been a great arena for the Cardinals, who have posted a home record of 669-137 through the years. Alas, its days are numbered. Following the 2009-10 season, the Cardinals will move to a new state-of-the-art arena in downtown Louisville featuring a minimum capacity of 22,000 for men's basketball. 

While Kentucky's Rupp lacks the amenities of most arenas of its size, it hasn't kept fans from turning out in record numbers. In fact, it's the bleacher seating and absence of luxury boxes that allows Rupp to cram 23,000+ into the arena for every home game. Since opening in 1976, the Wildcats have lost just 60 home games while claiming 426 victories. 

If you've visited either of this week's featured arenas, chip in with your experiences in the March Madness Bets.

Oklahoma Sooners Betting Odds 2010 BCS National Championship – NFL Gambling

Oklahoma Sooners Betting Odds 2010 BCS National Championship - NCAA football betting players are awaiting the new season to begin, but Oklahoma is even more impatient after losing to Florida in the BCS title game. Early odds have the Sooners just behind the Gators to begin the season, and they'll have the defending Heisman winner back to lead the way. The NCAA Betting Odds list at Online sportsbook in SPORTSBETTING.com


Sam Bradford nixed the pros for his junior season after a phenomenal season which saw him lead the nation in quarterback rating, but he's one of only five returning starters. That doesn't matter to the Sooners, who had better backups last year than the first string of some teams. How often is it that you have two 1,000-yard rushers coming back? Chris Brown and DeMarco Murray should run all over the Big 12, even behind a line with just two returning starters. Jermaine Graham should step into the No.1 receiver slot nicely, as he led the team in touchdown catches with 14. The Sooners' depth makes them very attractive to handicapping software. Bet NCAA Odds at SPORTSBETTING.com

The entire defensive line makes up four of nine returning starters for the Sooners, who will be looking to improve a 68th-ranked defense. Travis Lewis, Ryan Reynolds and Keenan Clayton are a formidable trio of linebackers, while Brian Jackson and Dominique Franks are solid corners, although Franks would do well to keep his mouth shut after calling out Florida's Tim Tebow before the BCS title game. The Big 12 is now an offensive conference, which means all of their defenses got pulverized last year, but the Sooners should be much better in 2009, which makes them one of the top sportsbook picks of the fall.

The Sooners are rated at +500 to win the BCS, and tied with Texas at +150 in the Big 12. All eyes will be on Dallas on October 17th, when the Sooners look to avenge last year's loss to the Longhorns, who are still angry about being passed over for the national-championship game for Oklahoma. The Sooners also play BYU and Tulsa, while a tough closing stretch will see them travel to Nebraska and Texas Tech before closing the season at home against rival Oklahoma State. The Sooners have reached a BCS bowl in seven of the last nine years, and they should get there again. Bradford will be just as good, and the defense will be even better, so take a chance on the sportsbook Oklahoma Sooners odds this year.


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NFL Football Betting Online Preseason Odds

Hall-of-Fame game - The kick-off to the 2009 NFL Preseason schedule is closing in, with the first matchup taking place Hall-of-Fame weekend. That launches a little more than four weeks of NFL action, featuring 11 nationally televised games and is the official start of the NFL betting season.

Online sportsbooks will have all the NFL preseason odds posted soon, as teams head to camp. NFL preseason Week 1 odds will be up, plus you can look at Week 1 NFL odds which are live now.

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The annual Hall-of-Fame game features the Buffalo Bills vs. the Tennessee Titans in Canton, Ohio on Sunday, August 9th. The matchup, which will be nationally televised on NBC, was created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the American Football League.

When you’re involved in online sports betting, you are probably already starting to think about these preseason games, reading one or two NFL annual preview magazines and cruising NFL-focused sites.

Preseason NFL betting takes some finesse, as handicapping the exhibition games is quite different than handicapping NFL regular season tilts.

The first thing I do when betting on the NFL Football Betting Online during the preseason is look at QB depth and then quickly move on to handicapping the situation. If a team has a real QB battle going on, with two or three decent pro-level pivots on the roster who are going to be playing, this is of real interest. Look for quality on the depth chart below the starter. Peyton Manning and Tom Brady won’t have a significant impact on the NFL preseason betting results over the first couple of weeks. But the second and third stringers will. Keep this in mind.

The situation is also highly relevant. Particularly look for coaches and teams that are in spots where they might be really motivated to win. Preseason NFL games is the only time of the sports betting year when you will find varying motivations coming into a game. One coach might not care at all about whether his team wins or loses, he simply wants to get some players reps, evaluate a few key newcomers or watch for a positional battle or two. But it is not uncommon for a team like that to be facing a coach who does actually want to record a “W”, for whatever reason.

If the coach is a rookie and lost in Week 1, or the team is coming off a bad season and a new coach is looking to install a winning attitude early, etc. Fact is, some coaches simply don’t care about winning during the preseason and others do. Try and read local papers for pre-game interviews and see if you can pick up whether the coaches have been gameplanning for their preseason matchup. It’s unusual for a coach to spend time gameplanning for an opponent during the exhibition season, as they’re more focused on player evaluation, getting their schemes in place, etc. But if they’re studying film and putting in place plays to counteract or go after another team’s schemes, pay extra close attention. This is important to know when handicapping preseason games.

Looking at the betting odds during preseason games is not as critical as it is during the regular season. The first step in NFL handicapping during the “real” season is to check out all the NFL odds for that week and start the process of looking for value somewhere on the betting board.

That isn’t the case during August. You really don’t see significant favorites through the first couple of weeks of preseason ball. You’ll see many of the lines hover around 3, the obligatory number of points given to the home side. Don’t get too caught up with the pointspread when online sports betting during the early going of the NFL preseason.

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2009 Online College Football Betting

The Duke Blue Devils lost their final five games last season to finish their 2008 campaign at 4-8. They were just 1-7 in ACC play but have clearly narrowed the gap. Find out if narrowing the gap further will translate into more wins for the Blue Devils in this 2009 college football betting preview. Duke is listed at +6500 to win the 2009 ACC championship.

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Betus has the team listed at +800 on the moneyline to repeat as champion in the bookmaker's Cincinnati Bearcats 2009 Online College Football Betting Odds — BCS Odds 2010.

Offense – While Duke finished just 4-8 in David Cutcliffe’s first season, the season has to be viewed as a major step in the right direction considering that the Devils’ four wins equaled their tally from the previous four seasons. While the defense was better than expected, the offense ranked just 101st nationally in points per game (20.1). Cutcliffe is hoping to see more offensive production in 2009 due to the experience gained last year. Senior quarterback Thad Lewis steps under center following a 2,171-yard season in which he threw for 15 scores against just six picks. Lewis also saw his completion percentage go up from 55.3 to 62.0 percent last season. He appears poised for a strong senior campaign, but he will not have the luxury of throwing to wide receiver Eron Riley. Riley has departed after leading the Blue Devils in receiving and scoring over the last two seasons. Sophomore Johnny Williams, the team’s top returning receiver with 30 grabs for 327 yards in 2008, will be counted on to step in as Lewis’ new no. 1 target. The running game figures to get a boost from the return of Re’quan Boyette, who missed all of last season with a knee injury, as long as the new starters on the offensive line can hold their own.

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