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04/20/2009 - Barcelona, Spain (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Tenth-seeded Spanish favorite Nicolas Almagro and 12th-seeded Russian Igor Andreev were among Monday's first-round winners at the $2.6 million Barcelona Open.
Almagro was tied with Victor Hanescu 3-6, 7-6 (9-7), 2-2 when the Romanian retired due to some cramping problems on the red clay at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona. Before Hanescu called it quits, Almagro saved a pair of match points in the second set.
Meanwhile, Andreev snuck past capable Italian Andreas Seppi 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 and 15th-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych was leading Martin Vassallo Arguello 5-2 when the Argentine quit with a back injury.
In some other opening-round play, Italian Potito Starace overcame Latvian Ernests Gulbis 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, Argentine Jose Acasuso erased Israeli Dudi Sela 6-4, 7-5, Argentine Juan Ignacio Chela got past Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, and Russian Igor Kunitsyn took out Spanish hero Juan Carlos Ferrero 7-5, 7-6 (7-3). The wild card Ferrero is a former world No. 1 and captured the ultimate clay-court event, the French Open, back in 2003. He won this Barcelona tournament in 2001.
Additional Day-1 wins came for Spaniards Santiago Ventura, a qualifier this week, and wild card Alberto Martin, Portuguese qualifier Frederico Gil, Belgian Christophe Rochus, Kazakhstani qualifier Mikhail Kukushkin, and Serbian Janko Tipsarevic.
This week's top seeds are Spanish favorites Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco, Russian Nikolay Davydenko and another Spaniard, David Ferrer. Nadal is the reigning four-time Barcelona champ. He beat Ferrer in last year's popular all-Spanish finale here.
The reigning Australian Open, Wimbledon, French Open and Olympic titlist Nadal is fresh off his fifth straight Monte-Carlo championship, having beaten Serb Novak Djokovic in Sunday's finale in Monaco.
Nadal will open defense of his Barcelona title against the aforementioned Gil.
This week's champion will pocket $370,000. The top-eight seeds all received first-round byes.
<< AFL's Avengers fold
Los Angeles, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Los Angeles Avengers of the suspended
Arena Football League have decided to cease operations.
In a statement on the team's website, the Avengers announced their decision to
fold.
"The entire Aven
<< Wild re-sign D Scott
St. Paul, MN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Minnesota Wild have re-signed defenseman
John Scott to a one-year, $550,000 contract, the team announced Monday.
The 26-year-old Scott played in 20 games for the Wild this past season and
posted one
<< Pompey boosted by Kranjcar
Portsmouth, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Niko Kranjcar has provided Portsmouth
with a timely boost after scans revealed he suffered no major ankle damage in
the weekend victory over Bolton.
The Croatia winger was stretchered off in the
<< Line of Scrimmage: Draft '09 - The Mocking Continues
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Though Anquan Boldin and/or Braylon
Edwards could screw this thing up any second now, below is the latest
installment of my 2009 mock draft for your perusal:
1. Detroit Lions (0-16) - Matthew Stafford, QB,
Red Sox complete sweep of Orioles in Patriots Day blowout >>
Boston, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Dustin Pedroia went 4-for-6 with three RBI and
three runs scored as the Boston Red Sox completed a four-game sweep of the
Baltimore Orioles with a 12-1 blowout on Patriots Day at Fenway Park.
Jacoby Ellsb
Kanu unsure over Portsmouth future >>
Portsmouth, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Portsmouth striker Nwankwo Kanu has
revealed he is unsure of his Fratton Park future beyond the end of the season.
Kanu, 32, scored the winner in Saturday's 1-0 victory over Bolton with his
firs
This Week in Golf - April 23rd through April 26th >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - PGA TOUR - ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS,
TPC Louisiana, Avondale, Louisiana - After weather delayed action on Saturday
last year, Andres Romero returned to the course Sunday and closed out rounds
of 65-6
Van Buyten expresses Barca interest >>
Munich, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Bayern Munich defender Daniel van Buyten
has suggested he would like to join Barcelona should teammate Franck Ribery
make the move to Spain in the summer.
France international Ribery is reported to
American Idol odds : Blake Lewis the Early Standout
An important American Idol betting lines recap from February 20 Guys episode. The 12 men came out flat overall with Blake Lewis appearing to have the early edge after the first hour and a half.
Rudy - was quite good singing "Free Ride" to start off. Randy was not impressed though. Paula thought he started off fantastic. "Never had anyone stop off so lively" said Paula but Simon (who does not like Rudy) does not feel he has a distinct voice and was not impressed either.
Brandon was a little pitchy according to Randy and Paula agreed. Simon said he was a good singer but the song was "too safe" and he needs to make an impact. He was listed at +1200 odds or $1200 paid out on a $100 bet should he win the competition.
Big favorite Sundance came in with a flat version of "Knights in White Satin" and the judges let him have it, including Paula. Randy claimed the song was out of pitch throughout.
Korean American - and a Jenny Woo favorite - Paul Kim was up next. Another pitchy flat one but Randy said he still liked his potential. Kim at +3000 odds was said to have sung a "third rate version of that (George Michael) song" according to Simon Cowell. He sang "Careless Whisper".
22 year old Chris Richardson was up next. He was listed with +1100 odds coming in. He got the best response from the judges though Simon did not believe the vocal was that great.
Nick was boring and pitchy. Simon didn't think he was that bad though and predicted he would be back next week. Nick Pedro was a big +3000 dog coming into this competition.
Beat boxer Blake Lewis was listed with early +1000 odds or $1000 payout on a $100 bet if he were to become the next American Idol winner odds . These of course were the early odds. He was considered original for picking an "odd song". He did not beat box and the judges felt it was the best vocal of the night.
Sanjaya came in as the second biggest favorite after Chris Sligh but his performance Tuesday night was not very good.
Chris Sleigh was the early favorite at +450 odds. Great voice and a great sense of humor. He's a real standout. Randy felt it was on point but maybe ahead of the chorus a little bit. Simon Cowell said he felt like he was in some "sort of weird student gig".
Jared Cotter followed. He was listed with +2000 odds early on to win the competition. The judges felt he needs to take more risks but looked good.
22-year old AJ Talbado, who has tried out for American Idol five times, was up next. "Kind of a theme park performance" said Simon. Though the judges felt he performed okay. Simon did feel AJ might be better than he originally thought.
Phil - this season's military favorite - came into this competition with +1200 odds to win the competition. He was the last to perform. He was certainly strong enough to get through this stage of the competition and perhaps the best one after a shaky start.
Tomorrow night, the ladies perform and I sure hope they do a better job than the boys. Check out all the American Idol betting odds here.
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