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11/26/2007 - Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Award winning trainer Todd Pletcher concluded a record breaking Thanksgiving weekend with a brand new earnings mark. The three-time champion trainer eclipsed his yearly record from 2006 on Friday at Hollywood Park.
Pletcher set the mark last year when he recorded $27,670,243 in earnings. He surpassed that number on Friday with a victory by The Leopard in the $111,800 Generous Stakes for two-year-olds on the turf.
Overall, Pletcher had five wins Friday, including victories by A. P. Arrow in the $500,000 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs and by Mini Sermon in the $150,000 Top Flight at Aqueduct. His stable earned $585,612 on the day to push his season total to $26,850,873, $30,630 more than last year.
"It was a good day," Pletcher said from Louisville. "It's nice to break the record with some important wins. It's been a great year for the whole team."
In addition, according to statistics provided by Equibase Company, Pletcher is closing in on his North American single-season record for wins in Graded Stakes races. Through racing November 25, Pletcher has 54 wins, three shy of his previous record of 57 graded stakes wins set in 2006.
Pletcher is also nearing his North American single-season record for wins in stakes races. Through Sunday, Pletcher has 90 wins, 10 away of his current mark of 100 stakes wins, established in 2006.
Through Sunday Pletcher has won 271 races this year from 1167 starts and has earnings of $27,744,120.
<< Earthquakes acquire Burpo from Chivas USA
Carson, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chivas USA received a fourth-round pick in the
2008 Major League Soccer SuperDraft in a trade with the San Jose Earthquakes.
In exchange, Chivas USA sends goalkeeper Preston Burpo to the expansion
Earthqu
<< Palermo fires Colantuono, reinstates Guidolin
Palermo, Italy (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Palermo fired manager Stefano Colantuono on
Monday and reinstated former boss Francesco Guidolin following the club's 5-0
defeat at the hands of Juventus on Sunday.
Palermo is currently eighth in the Seri
<< 2007 European Tour Year In Review
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - With many of the top players having
typically solid years, a one-time phenom broke through to win the Order of
Merit.
Justin Rose burst onto the scene as a teenager at the 1998 British Open, b
<< Syracuse's Lindstrom named AHL Player of the Week
Springfield, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The American Hockey League announced today
that Syracuse Crunch left wing Joakim Lindstrom has been named the Rbk/AHL
Player of the Week for the period ending November 25, 2007. In two games last
week, Lindstr
Foster, Johnson, Sanders named finalists for Payton Award >>
Philadelphia (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Three quarterbacks were named as the finalists
for the 2007 Walter Payton Award, the Sportsbook Betting Lines announced on Monday.
Georgia Southern's Jayson Foster, San Diego's Josh Johnson and Eric Sanders of
Northern
Nuggets' Martin has bone bruise in leg >>
Denver, CO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin had an
MRI performed on his right leg Monday, which revealed a bone bruise of his
right tibia.
He is doubtful for Tuesday's game against Indiana, and will be da
No change atop women's rankings; Tennessee still No. 1 >>
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Defending national champion Tennessee is still
a unanimous choice as the top-ranked women's college basketball team,
according to the latest Associated Press poll.
Tennessee (4-0) earned all 50 firs
Trail Blazers have been streaky >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Even without Greg Oden, the youthful Portland Trail
Blazers have shown that they have some talent and the future looks very
bright.
Portland is 5-8 and sits in third place in the Northwest Division. The Tr
My fellow Americans, as tempting as it may be to don the coat and HD-ready tie in order to deliver this State of the Game address before the cameras, I know better. As Brad Paisley sings on his latest album, "I'm so much cooler online."
The ideas for this annual essay to kick off the MySportsbook.com college football betting preview flowed like frat-house beer, which is to say they were cheap and spilled all over the floor. The 2007 season will be better than 2007, if only because there will be more of it. A year ago, the NCAA Football Rules Committee made two rule changes in the interest of speeding up the game. These changes went over like Kobe burgers at a vegan banquet.
To its credit, the rules committee rectified its mistakes. This season the clock once again will start when a kickoff is received, rather than when it is kicked, and the clock will not start so quickly on a change of possession.
However, kickoffs have been moved back five yards, to the 30, which will force more returns. (Thus forcing the clock to run. Clever, huh?) Special teams might decide a lot of games, because coaching strategy will come straight out of another new Paisley lyric (almost), I'd like to check you for kicks.
Paisley sings with a twang, which is why he's appropriate for this college football season. The sun coming up over the 2007 college football betting lines season rises from the south. It's a Southern football world. As the Southeastern Conference begins its 75th year, the power shift is noticeable.
Eight-figure budgets, glamorous settings -- and that's just for the head coaches. The SEC has four coaches who have won national championships -- the greatest aggregation of coaching know-how since Eddie Robinson dined alone.
Steve Spurrier, Phil Fulmer, Nick Saban and Urban Meyer have given lie to the idea that a conference championship game is too daunting a hurdle on the road to No. 1. In six of the past 10 seasons, the national champions played and won a conference championship game -- three of the six (Tennessee, 1998; LSU, 2003; Florida, 2007) from the SEC.
There will be more of the same this season, if the preseason prognostications are correct. Six SEC teams are in the preseason coaches' poll, more than from any other conference. Only one conference has talent so deep that a team with 15 returning starters, including the best quarterback in the league, from an eight-win season is considered an afterthought. That may speak more to Kentucky's losing legacy than to the wisdom of the predictions, but there you have it. And seriously, keep an eye on Wildcats QB Andre' Woodson.
The reach of the South extends all the way to No. 1. Take a look at the team that is a consensus pick to win the national championship. The quarterback is from Shreveport. The best wide receiver is from Nashville. The top recruit is from New Orleans.
So what's the campus doing in Los Angeles? Hey, it is the University of Southern California.
USC lost two Pacific-10 Conference games a year ago, the first time that had happened in five seasons, and university officials withstood the urge to form blue-ribbon panels to unearth the cause of such a disaster. Instead, the Trojans gathered themselves and routed Michigan, 32-18, in the Rose Bowl.
USC's losses at Oregon State and at UCLA last year should have given pause to those who question the Pac-10's football prowess (such as, without naming names, L.M. from Baton Rouge). The league only got deeper this season; Dennis Erickson is taking over an Arizona State team that never quite got out of its own way under his predecessor, Dirk Koetter.
Erickson will resume his quest to become the first coach to win a national championship at two schools. Both he and Spurrier, now in his third season at South Carolina, returned to college football at schools with lower profiles than where they won their titles.
That isn't the case for the third coach looking for the national championship double. You may have missed this, but NASA reported the astronauts on the space shuttle last spring made contact with what can only be described as beings from another galaxy.
The leader of the aliens said, "We come in peace," followed by, "So how do you think Nick Saban will do at Alabama?"
The public is reacting to the new Crimson Tide coach as if he is the Barry Bonds of college football -- beloved at home for what his fans believe he is going to do, hated on the road for his intimidating attitude and for what his detractors believe he did (bend NCAA recruiting rules). I made this comparison from the dais at a charity dinner in Mobile, Ala., last month, and the chill that washed over me didn't come from the air conditioning.
Saban will attempt to prove that he can remake in Tuscaloosa what he built in Baton Rouge, much like another member of the national championship fraternity. Bobby Bowden is attempting to remake at Florida State what he built at, um, Florida State. Bowden rebuilt his offensive staff, bringing in four new coaches led by Saban's former offensive coordinator, Jimbo Fisher, to jump-start an offense that has been dead for a couple of years.
The Atlantic Coast Conference is expected to show new signs of life, too. That is said with no disrespect toward last season's champion, Wake Forest, which provided one of the best story lines of 2007. The Demon Deacons begin this season in their customary position, overshadowed by the Virginia Techs, Miamis and Florida States.
It's not that Wake will find it difficult to duplicate its success in 2007 as much as the feeling that success engendered. Surprising success is the narcotic of sport. It never feels quite so euphoric the next time. Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese has figured this out. He refers to 2007, when a league looked down upon by fans and foes alike took three undefeated teams into November, as "Cinderella."
The fairy tale may be over, but the Big East has four genuine Heisman Trophy candidates in Louisville quarterback Brian Brohm, West Virginia tailback Steve Slaton and quarterback Pat White, and Rutgers tailback Ray Rice. Rutgers, as did Wake Forest and, of course, Boise State, proved last season that the have-nots in college football occasionally have quite a lot.
The Broncos' rousing 43-42 overtime victory over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl has raised the profile of all schools in conferences that don't get automatic BCS bids. This season, TCU and Hawaii are the preseason favorites to burst through the BCS doors and earn an at-large bid. The Warriors return 14 starters from an 11-3 team, including quarterback Colt Brennan.
Brennan not only broke the single-season record with 58 touchdown passes in 2007, but he also led Division I-A in passing efficiency (186.0). The senior is expected to contend for the Heisman Trophy, and neither his success nor the rise of his team should come as any surprise in the 2007 season.
After all, Hawaii is the southernmost team in the country.
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