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01/22/2012 - Jacksonville, AL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Three mid-year transfers, including two from FBS schools, have joined the Jacksonville State football program, Gamecocks head football coach Jack Crowe announced.
Safety Desmond Brown transferred from Clemson and tight end Gavin Ellis from Troy, while linebacker/defensive lineman Ketrick Wolfe signed out of Pearl River Community College. Each player is enrolled in the spring semester and eligible immediately.
Crowe also announced linebacker Clarence Jackson has left the team for personal reasons and will not play during the 2012 season. The transfer from Ole Miss is expected to rejoin the team in the future.
Brown, from Centre, Ala., was rated as the No. 24 safety in the nation and the 12th best player in Alabama by Rivals.com out of Cherokee County High School as a senior in 2009.
He was dimissed from the Clemson program during his redshirt freshman season last fall for a violation of team rules. He has three seasons of eligibility remaining.
Ellis, 6-6, 265, was a first-team all-state selection from Cullman, Ala., as a senior in 2008. He saw action in all 12 games during the 2011 season for Troy and played in six games as a freshman, primarily working on the field goal and extra point units.
He has two seasons of eligibility remaining.
The 6-3, 230-pound Ketrick Wolfe, from Sumrall, Miss., started all eight games last year and finished with 49 tackles with seven tackles for loss and two sacks.
He has two seasons of eligibility remaining.
Jacksonville State was 7-4 and earned a share of the Ohio Valley Conference title this past season.
<< Strong second half leads Saint Mary's over Santa Clara
Santa Clara, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Matthew Dellavedova scored 16 of his
game-high 26 points in the second half as 24th-ranked Saint Mary's took a
93-77 decision over Santa Clara.
Jorden Page added 19 points, while Rob Jones and
<< Giguere leads Avalanche past Kings
Los Angeles, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jean-Sebastien Giguere made 25 stops to
lift the Colorado Avalanche to a 3-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings.
Cody McLeod, Peter Mueller and Gabriel Landeskog all scored for the Avalanche,
who have won t
<< San Diego State downs Air Force
San Diego, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chase Tapley had 16 points and Jamaal
Franklin added 14 points and 10 rebounds as 16th-ranked San Diego State earned
a 57-44 win over Air Force.
The Aztecs (17-2, 3-0 MWC), who own a 10-game winni
<< Stempniak nets hat trick as Flames burn Oilers
Edmonton, AB (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Lee Stempniak completed his second career hat
trick and added an assist as the Calgary Flames thumped the Edmonton Oilers,
6-2, at Rexall Place.
Blake Comeau finished with a goal and two assists, while Ja
Hall returns to Wagner as defensive coordinator >>
Staten Island, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Malik Hall is returning to the Wagner
College football program for his second stint as defensive coordinator.
Hall, 31, will begin his duties next month. He was Wagner's defensive
coordinator in 2010 and
Nadal, Federer roll into quarterfinals at Aussie Open >>
Melbourne, Australia (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer were
both straight-set winners Sunday in fourth-round action at the Australian
Open.
Nadal cruised into the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 win over fello
Wozniacki, Clijsters reach QFs at Aussie Open >>
Melbourne, Australia (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki and Kim
Clijsters were a pair of fourth-round winners Sunday at the Australian Open.
Wozniacki continued her recent mastery of Jelena Jankovic with a 6-0, 7-5
victor
Legendary Penn State coach Paterno dies >>
State College, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Joe Paterno, the legendary coach of Penn
State who was ousted from his job in November, has succumbed to lung cancer.
He was 85.
The family announced his death Sunday morning.
More to follow...
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Ten years ago, at just about this time, I called Alan Boston in Vegas and left him a voicemail that went something like this (abridged version): "Hey Alan, Chad Millman from ESPN The Magazine calling. I want to do a book about wise guys, you in?"
A couple weeks later I got a message back (abridged version): "I don't know, maybe," Boston said. "Call me and we'll talk about it. But not later today. I got $1,000 on Andre Agassi to win the French Open at 40-1, and he's in the finals."
Here's what happened next (abridged version): Agassi won his tourney. Boston won his $40,000. I wrote sportsbook.
In the ten years since, how much has been wagered on the big-time tennis events? Put it this way: The Nevada Gaming Commission doesn't even track the number year by year because it's so small.
"Tennis makes up about one-tenth of one percent of our take," says Lucky's bookmaking boss Jimmy Vaccaro. "The last big golf major we probably had $100,000 worth of bets. In tennis, we might have written two big tickets."
Tennis' lack of popularity amongst the American bettoratti is no surprise, really. For starters, the biggest sports betting holidays -- the Super Bowl, the NCAA tourney -- are must see TV. People, at least the degenerates I know, plan vacations around watching those events in Vegas sports books.
But Wimbledon? Doesn't exactly reel in the whales. "Seriously, it's the nuts as an event," says Boston. "But who even knows when it's on?"
Here's another reason that helps explain why golf gets traction, something I call "The Bubbe Theory." My Bubbe is pushing 95 and has cataracts so bad that, to her, even the most crystalline Chicago day is mostly cloudy. But she still listens to the Cubs games, and she still calls me in a fit if she disagrees with something Rick Telander writes in the Chicago Sun Times. She's a sports fan. If she doesn't know you, you're just filling a niche. And niche players, even historically good ones like Roger and Raf, don't drive betting volume. Only the highest profile names attract square money, which inflates wagering totals like a shot of saline to the lips. Bubbe, and the public, loved Agassi, tennis' last cross-the-rubicon, mainstream draw. She also has a crush on Tiger. She's given me standing orders to put a sawbuck on the big cat whenever I walk through a sports book (or mistakenly tap into one via my Internet machine.) That explains why the Masters is getting $100K in action at some books while the four tennis majors might not get that combined this year.
This isn't a case of tennis being a difficult sport to bet. In fact, in Europe, it's probably the second most popular sport for gambling after soccer. Granted, as the WSJ football betting last week and The Mag's Shaun Assael examined in even greater depth last year, that might be because gamblers across the pond see it as an easy game to fix. But it could also be because, over there it holds the kind of sway the big two do over here.
Street corners in Spain are peppered with public courts and kids doing their best Raffy impressions. In some war torn parts of Eastern Europe poverty-stricken kids view tennis as an escape route, like football or basketball here. A couple years ago The Mag's Lindsay Berra wrote a great piece about Belgrade's Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic and Novak Djokovic. They learned the game as kids while bombs were raining down on their homeland. They practiced in drained swimming pools. Not exactly Nick Bolletierri conditions.
In the United States, casual fans think tennis is played four times a year. But on the tightly packed European continent, national interest in homegrown talent runs deep every weekend. Of the ATP's current top 20 players, only two, tennis betting and James Blake, are American. Fourteen are from Europe, representing six different countries.
No wonder fans from Lisbon to Bhudapest get jacked up for the net game, whether it's Wimbledon or a low-level tourney like the Estoril Open in Portugal (congrats to Spain's Albert Montanes for winning that one, btw). Chances are good that someone representing their flag will not only be playing, but have a shot at winning.
And that's all any bettor can ask for.
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