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08/11/2007 - Lebanon, TN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mike Skinner captured the pole for this evening's Toyota Tundra 200 Craftsman Truck Series race at the Nashville Superspeedway. The 1995 series champion circled the 1.333-mile cement oval in 30.061 seconds (159.635 m.p.h.).
The pole victory was Skinner's eighth of the season and record 40th of his truck career. No other driver has more than one pole victory in 2007.
Starting alongside Skinner will be three-time series champion Jack Sprague, who posted a time of 30.128 seconds.
Defending series champion Todd Bodine (30.206) and Joey Clanton (30.215) will make up row two.
Skinner continues to dominate the Craftsman Truck Series leaderboard. The No.5 Bill Davis Toyota driver leads the series in points (2,346), driver rating (121.8), winnings ($490,750), laps led (811), wins (4), poles (8), top- fives (11) and races led (14).
Yet with all of these statistics, his lead is only 77 points over Ron Hornaday Jr. The Palmdale, CA native has also had a great year winning three times and earning 13 top-10s. His win total and top-10s are already more than he collected in all of 2006.
Hornaday Jr. is coming off a dominating win at O'Reilly Raceway Park, leading 90 of 201 laps en route to a 0.350-second win over Johnny Benson. Skinner finished 20th in the race, the first time all season that he failed to crack the top-10.
The race is set to drop the green flag tonight at 6:30 p.m. (et).
<< Broncos LB Holdman out three months with spinal cord injury
Englewood, CO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Denver Broncos linebacker Warrick Holdman
will be sidelined at least three months due to a spinal-cord concussion
suffered in early August.
On August 2, Holdman was injured in training camp wh
<< Blackhawks acquire Adams from Coyotes
Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Chicago Blackhawks acquired center
Kevyn Adams from the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday in exchange for forward Radim
Vrbata.
The 32-year-old Adams spent last season with Carolina and Phoenix and tota
<< Reds option Belisle to minors
Cincinnati, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Cincinnati Reds optioned pitcher Matt
Belisle to Triple-A Louisville on Saturday.
In 23 starts this season, Belisle is 6-8 with a 5.40 earned run average and
one complete game.
In a correspond
<< Judge rules Pacman can participate, just not wrestle
Franklin, TN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - A Williamson County judge reportedly ruled
Saturday morning that Tennessee Titans suspended cornerback Adam "Pacman"
Jones can participate in wrestling, but he is restricted from being involved
in any
Celtic returns to championship form >>
Falkirk, Scotland (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Kenny Miller, Shunsuke Nakamura and
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink each scored to lead Celtic over Falkirk, 4-1, in
Gordon Strachan's 100th competitive match for the Glasgow club on Saturday.
The de
Federer eases into Rogers Masters final >>
Montreal, QC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Top-seeded and defending champion Roger
Federer defeated Czech Radek Stepanek in the semifinal round of the $2.45
million Rogers Masters -- the sixth of nine Masters Series events this year.
The w
Giants option Sanchez, bring up Wilson >>
San Francisco, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The San Francisco Giants optioned pitcher
Jonathan Sanchez to Triple-A Fresno and recalled pitcher Brian Wilson from
Fresno on Saturday.
Sanchez is 1-2 with a 5.30 earned run average in 29 appearances
Klose, Toni lead Bayern Munich to easy win >>
Munich, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Miroslav Klose had two goals and an assist
and Luca Toni also scored as Bayern Munich cruised to a 3-0 win over promoted
Hansa Rostock in its Bundesliga opener on Saturday.
Klose scored twice in the seco
Is there such a thing as a trap game in the NFL?
I once asked that question to Pete Korner, who at the time was office manager and a senior linesmaker for Las Vegas Sports Consultants.
Korner almost ripped my head off. There is no such thing as a trap game, he loudly berated me. It’s a myth. The numbers are made using power ratings, he said.
There are trap games, though. They just might not be what you think. The perception is of a good team, say Philadelphia, laying a small number against New Orleans.
Using the highly-respected power ranking from The Gold Sheet, you’d find the Eagles with a power rating of 4 and the Saints at 8. When you factor the game being played in New Orleans, you could see why the line opened so short at less than a field goal.
For some, this makes it enticing to take the Eagles. That’s not a real trap game, though.
A real trap game, says professional gambler Dave Malinsky, is thinking you’re getting value betting a bad team, which brings us to the Oakland Raiders-Denver Broncos matchup.
The Raiders are +15 in this long-standing division rivalry. Denver is on a short week having dispatched Baltimore Monday. However, the Raiders haven’t covered the spread their last 10 games.
Many bettors don’t trust the Raiders to give a full effort. Few think much of Art Shell and his Oakland’s coaching staff.
So oddsmakers have to do something to make Oakland attractive if they hope to get equal action.
Now Malinsky is a value shopper. But he won’t touch the Raiders even getting more than two touchdowns.
“I try to eliminate the undisciplined, unfocused teams because they’re the ones most likely to suffer the bad beats,” he said.
Near the top of Malinsky’s list of stay-away teams is the Miami Dolphins, who have yet to cover a spread this season.
“Whatever you think of Nick Saban, you have to look at the penalties and turnovers,” Malinsky said.
It’s easy to point out the Dolphins failed to get the money this past week against New England because Olindo Mare missed a field goal and had another field goal blocked. But even though the Dolphins outgained the Patriots, 283-213, they committed eight penalties.
Bad teams not only cost themselves victories, but pointspread covers as well. The Arizona Cardinals and Green Bay Packers are two more examples.
The Cardinals couldn’t have been in a better position this past Sunday, up 14-0 at home against a mediocre Kansas City Chiefs squad. But they couldn’t hold it. The Packers got a push against St. Louis, but also could have won losing by three when Brett Favre fumbled at the St. Louis 11-yard line with 44 seconds left.
“The Packers were in a position to beat Philadelphia, too,” Malinsky said. “But they couldn’t even cover double digits.
“These teams just make mistakes and it costs you … they always will look good from a value standpoint. They really will. But that’s the trap.”
Houston and Tennessee rank among the six-worst teams. Malinsky wouldn’t be afraid to take either of these teams, however, if the price were high enough.
The Texans are bad, Malinsky said, but they have some discipline. The Titans showed they could not only come up with an outstanding game plan, but execute it as well, losing by one to the Colts on the road as an 18 ?-point underdog this past Sunday.
“Jeff Fisher is a worker,” Malinsky said of the Titans coach. “I’m not sure how hard Art Shell wants to work when he gets out of bed.”
Fisher, though, could be out as Tennessee coach after this season. Is he still worth backing in the right spot, with the right price, as a lame duck coach?
“It’s in his nature to keep working hard and not worry about any possible lame duck status,” Malinsky said. “He’s coaching for his resume.”
Note: Monday night game will be picked Monday. Lines used are from football betting lines.
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