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12/08/2008 - London, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Arsenal midfielder Tomas Rosicky will not be back in action until March at the earliest as he continues his comeback from a long-term hamstring injury.
The 27-year-old Czech Republic international has not been seen in a Gunners shirt since January and will definitely complete an entire calendar year on the sidelines, according to manager Arsene Wenger.
"He's doing rehab at the moment," the Frenchman told the club's official website. "He's back here on December 17 and then hopefully we can start to work with him.
"But it's a long-term prospect - maybe March at the earliest."
However, Wenger has been boosted by the imminent return from injury of Eduardo.
The Croatia striker is poised to resume reserve-team action just 10 months after suffering a horrific double leg break.
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<< De Biasi out as Torino boss
Turin, Italy (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Relegation-threatened Torino have sacked coach
Gianni De Biasi in the wake of the embarrassing 4-1 home defeat to Fiorentina
at the weekend.
Torino has won only three of their 15 Serie A games so far this
<< Hughes reveals ambitious City transfer plan
Manchester, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Manchester City boss Mark Hughes has
revealed he is targeting five new signings when the transfer window reopens
next month.
The Citizens have been linked with a host of leading players from acr
<< Veteran kicker Andersen finally calls it quits
Copenhagen, Denmark (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Morten Andersen, the NFL's all-time
leading scorer, has officially retired.
The 48-year-old, who has not played in the league this season and has been
plagued by knee problems, made the anno
<< United's Moreno undergoes successful hernia surgery
Washington, D.C. (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - D.C. United forward Jaime Moreno underwent
successful sports hernia surgery on his right abdominal wall on Saturday, the
Major League Soccer club announced on Monday.
According to the team, Moreno will be
Madrid's Diarra out for season >>
Madrid, Spain (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The crisis engulfing Real Madrid has taken a
further turn for the worse after scans confirmed Mahamadou Diarra will miss
the rest of the season through injury.
The Mali midfielder has been sidelined since
Stenson to No. 7 in world rankings >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Henrik Stenson rolled to a nine-shot win
at the Nedbank Challenge on Sunday and moved up five places to No. 7 in the
latest world rankings for golf.
Stenson's victory in South Africa came over an imp
Middlesbrough faces defensive crisis for Arsenal visit >>
Middlesbrough, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Middlesbrough boss Gareth Southgate
is facing up to a defensive crisis ahead of Saturday's visit of Arsenal to the
Riverside Stadium.
The Teessiders will be without David Wheater following his
Former AL MVP Joe Gordon elected to Hall of Fame >>
Cooperstown, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former AL MVP Joe Gordon was elected to the
baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.
Gordon, a second baseman with the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians, was
the only player among 20 consider
In the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree.
And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so.
Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal.
So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent. And we've gotten our mitts into them.
Per a league source, Crabtree has signed a six-year, $32 million contract. (The total includes guaranteed money, base salaries, and the one-time incentive based on achieving minimum playing time.)
The deal also includes $17 million in guaranteed money.
As reported elsewhere, the deal can void to five years based on performance triggers, wiping out a final year base salary of $4 million. But they won't be easily reached.
The source tells us that, in his first four seasons (including 2009), Crabtree must either qualify for two Pro Bowls, or he must qualify for one Pro Bowl in one year and he must participate in 80 percent of the offensive snaps in a separate year in which the team makes the playoffs.
In other words, if in 2010 he qualifies for the Pro Bowl and the team makes the playoffs and he participates in 80 percent of the snaps, he'll still need to make it to the Pro Bowl or achieve the 80-percent/playoffs in another season.
Since the chances of Crabtree making the Pro Bowl or participating in 80 percent of the offensive snaps this year is roughly zero percent, he'll have three years to get it done.
And it won't be easy. Frankly, he'll be hard pressed to make it to one Pro Bowl in three years with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith, the other Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks, DeSean Jackson, Johnny Knox, Percy Harvin, Greg Jennings, Roddy White, T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the same conference for sportsbook betting.
So, by all appearances, it's a six-year deal. And at $17 million in guaranteed money, the per-year guarantee is a tepid $2.83 million per year.
There's another problem with the deal -- it has no mid-tier incentive package. Instead, the additional $8 million that Crabtree can earn (pushing the max value to six years, $40 million) requires the kind of unrealistic, mega-star performances that no rookie is likely to ever achieve.
So while the contract paid to Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji covers five years and pays $22.5 million, he has the ability (if he's a solid player) to make up the difference between his base deal and Crabtree's five-year, $28 million haul via the mid-tier incentive package in Raji's deal.
And unless Crabtree meets the performance thresholds necessary to void the sixth year, he'll be stuck under contract for another year at a base salary of only $4 million.
There's one other area of concern with the deal. Crabtree, per the source, received no option bonus. Instead, he has significant money tied to a fairly new device known as a "discretionary salary advance," which unlike an opition bonus is subject to forfeiture if Crabtree decides in a year or two that he wants to hold out for a better deal. (We're also told that the 49ers have included language that would make certain escalators subject to forfeiture, too.)
Meanwhile, the deal falls well short of the mark for which Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were aiming -- the five-year, $38.25 million contract paid by the Raiders to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the draft.
Even if Crabtree successfully voids the final year, he'll make more than $2 million per year less on average than Heyward-Bey.
Thus, as we explained earlier in the day, this is a deal that Crabtree could have done in July, which would have given him a much better chance of making a contribution to the 49ers during his rookie year.
So while the final outcome can be described as win-win, the broader view suggests that it's really a lose-lose situation.
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“You play to win the game!”
Those are the words of notoriously intense head coach Herman Edwards. Unfortunately, from a bettors’ perspective, most coaches don’t feel that way about the NFL preseason. August is a time to evaluate young players, finalize the depth chart and pray your star players stay healthy.
The trick to making money during the exhibition schedule is identifying coaches – like Edwards – who can’t stand losing even when there's nothing on the line.
The New York Jets betting won 15 of 21 preseason games and went 14-7 against the spread (ATS) during Edwards’s five-year tenure with the club. In his first season as the Kansas City Chiefs field boss, the team improved from 0-4 to 2-2.
Identifying win-a-holics like Edwards is a good start if you plan betting the preseason – even though most say you shouldn’t ... but what the hell do they know anyway?
Here’s a brief rundown of two teams that have a habit of winning during the second-stringers’ season, and another club that has a good chance of exceeding this year.
Playing in the media hub of North America can be stressful but the press can’t write anything negative about the way Tom Coughlin’s boys play in the preseason. The Giants won and covered all four games last summer, improving their record to 7-1 both straight up (SU) and against the spread over the last two years.
Coughlin has shown he’s not afraid to give his starters more time in the second preseason game than most of his colleagues, no doubt one of the reasons his team has been so dominant.
Bettors can count on America’s team early on. The Cowboys are 14-6 both SU and ATS since 2002 in warm-up contests. Former coach Bill Parcells, the coach of the team the last four years, has an intimidating, in-your-face presence – surely a reason Dallas has had so much early success.
The Big Tuna won’t be strolling the sidelines with looks of disgust, but new coach Wade Phillips will be anxious to make a good first impression for owner Jerry Jones.
Dallas plays the Indianapolis Colts and the Denver Broncos before things get serious. They then face the Houston Texans in their third contest (the game starters see most game time) and finish off with the Minnesota Vikings.
Expect a Dallas team able to walk away with another 3-1 preseason record.
This team scored a league-worst 12 offensive touchdowns last season, so the rookies and veterans each have something to prove. There’s a bounty of first-unit jobs up for grabs and plenty of bodies competing for those slots.
First-time head coach Lane Kiffin will be eager to impress an owner who employs the philosophy, “Just win, baby!”
The 32-year-old Kiffin has to command respect from a locker room full of players older than him. All of these factors should lead to purpose in preseason.
Don’t forget: before playing like a team that belonged in NFL Europe, Oakland went 4-1 (both SU and ATS) in exhibition games.
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