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08/15/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Nick Watney held a three-shot lead over fellow American Dustin Johnson and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy when the final round of the PGA Championship got underway Sunday.
Watney, a two-time PGA Tour winner, was seeking his first major championship at the age of 29 and trying to hold off a chase pack that included nine players within five shots of his lead at 13-under par.
With six top-10 finishes this season and more than $1.78 million in earnings, Watney is hardly a dark-horse contender. This is not Shaun Micheel, who was No. 169 in the world when he came from nowhere to win the 2003 PGA Championship.
Watney, one of the best ball-strikers on tour, was No. 31 in last week's rankings, just ahead of Geoff Ogilvy and 2009 PGA champion Y.E. Yang.
Still, his performance in this championship can be considered surprising.
Prior to this year, Watney had never posted a score better than 75 in his two previous starts at the PGA Championship, missing the cut in 2007 and '09.
After three fog-delayed rounds at Whistling Straits, however, his scorecard read: 69-68-66. He was the only player to break 70 in all three rounds.
Three shots behind Watney sat Johnson, 26, who has played well since his disastrous stint as the 54-hole leader at the U.S. Open; and the 21-year-old McIlroy, long a star in the making who is looking to build on his maiden PGA Tour win at the Quail Hollow Championship. Both players are also seeking their first major championship.
Four shots back were Australia's Jason Day, China's Wen-Chong Liang and Germany's Martin Kaymer, all looking to make some history.
Day was seven years old when Steve Elkington won the 1995 PGA Championship, the last time an Australian captured the season's fourth major. Day is looking to snap that 14-year drought.
If Kaymer wins, meanwhile, he would make Germany the eighth country with a PGA champion. A victory for Wen-Chong Liang would give China its first major championship winner, one year after Yang earned South Korea's first at the PGA.
It's not until you reach the group of players who are five shots back that you find your first contenders with prior experience at winning major championships.
The foursome is led by former U.S. Open winner Jim Furyk, prior Masters champion Zach Johnson and the '95 PGA winner Elkington. It also includes Jason Dufner.
In all likelihood, these are the players Watney will have to contend with on Sunday. He certainly won't feel a charge from Tiger Woods, who started the round 10 shots back; or Phil Mickelson, who trailed by 12 shots.
What will Sunday's final round look like? Who knows. But this is how some recent PGA Championships were won:
'NICE JOB, YANG!' (2009)
Woods' struggles, at least on the course, can be tracked back to last year's PGA Championship, which marked the first time he was ever defeated after holding the 54-hole lead at a major championship.
Yang provided us one of the most surreal finishes of all time: the sight of Woods walking up the 18th fairway surrounded by a boisterous gallery that was mostly cheering for somebody else for once.
Clinching the victory with one of the all-time great hybrid shots to 10 feet at the last hole, Yang closed with a birdie to become the first Asian-born man to win a major championship.
He shot a final-round 70 at Hazeltine, beating Woods by three, and celebrated by lifting his golf bag over his head. One spectator's words summed up the day perfectly:
"Nice job, Yang!" a young fan screamed.
PADDY'S DAY (2008)
Padraig Harrington holed a gutsy 12-foot par save to complete a two-shot victory at Oakland Hills and become the fourth player ever to win the British Open and PGA Championship in the same season, joining Walter Hagan, Nick Price and Woods in fine company.
Indeed, it was Harrington who took control of the sport while Woods was sidelined following his victory at the U.S. Open, winning back-to-back majors -- his second and third in two seasons.
Harrington was the first European to win the Wanamaker Trophy since Tommy Armour in 1930 and the first European to take home consecutive majors.
Sergio Garcia and Ben Curtis tied for second place. Still without a major, Garcia missed one of his best opportunities that Sunday when he held the lead on the back nine.
WOODSIAN (2006-07)
Woods may have been beaten by Yang at last year's PGA, but he still owns four titles at the year's final major. The last two came in back-to-back years at Medinah in 2006 and Southern Hills in '07.
His victory in '06 moved him to second place alone on the all-time list with 12 majors (he currently holds 14, four shy of Jack Nicklaus' record) and came a month after he won the British Open.
Woods shot a 68 in the final round, beating Micheel by five shots in an outcome that was never really in doubt. He won the '07 PGA in similar fashion, closing with a 69 to beat a pesky Woody Austin by two and Ernie Els by three.
That may look close, but it was not. Said Els after Saturday's third round: "If I was not a golfer -- a fan on the couch -- I'd be putting my house on him."
It was a hot, steamy four days at Southern Hills and it was still around 100 degrees when Woods hoisted the trophy on Sunday.
PHIL GETS NO. 2 (2005)
Mickelson got up and down for a birdie on the last hole to win the '05 PGA Championship by one shot over Thomas Bjorn and Elkington. He captured his second major championship in a rain-delayed Monday finish, shooting his second consecutive 72 to polish off a wire-to-wire win.
Baltusrol marked Mickelson's second win in seven majors. He famously broke through for his first at the '04 Masters, ending an 0-for-46 career drought.
It marked the first Monday finish at the PGA Championship since 1976 at Congressional.
VIJAY IN A PLAYOFF (2004)
The first time the PGA Championship was held at Whistling Straits, Vijay Singh defeated Chris DiMarco and Justin Leonard in a playoff after all three players ended at eight-under 280.
Singh birdied the first hole of a three-hole aggregate playoff, then sealed the win with back-to-back pars for his second PGA Championship.
After DiMarco and Leonard made pars on the first two playoff holes, Singh carried a one-shot lead to the final hole. He hit three-wood off the 18th tee, then knocked a utility wood onto the green to set up his winning par.
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Will Ohio State continue to run the table in College Football betting odds?
MySportsbook.com favors Buckeyes, Fighting Irish and Golden Bears in this weekend's big games.
NEW YORK, NY, Sept. 21 - My Sportsbook NCAA football fans: things are beginning to get really interesting on college football's national stage. Following last weekend's "Separation Saturday", which included five teams ranked in the top 15 dropping games, the BCS Championship picture is beginning to take shape - with Ohio State leading the charge. And, according to odds makers at MySportsbook.com, the number-one-ranked Buckeyes will continue their winning ways this weekend.
Revenge will be the name of the game in Columbus this Saturday, as Ohio State looks to even the score following last season's loss to Joe Paterno's Nittany Lions. Although Penn State are listed as 16.5 point underdogs, they are 11-10 all-time versus the Buckeyes. Paterno and the Lions, however, will have to shut down Heisman Trophy favorite Troy Smith who has thrown for 769 yards and seven touchdowns this season.
Speaking of revenge, Notre Dame will be out for some against Michigan State, following last year's 44 - 41 overtime loss to the Spartans in South Bend. The thirteenth-ranked Irish, listed as a 3-point favorite, will also be looking to avenge last Saturday's thrashing from the Michigan Wolverines. The Spartans, meanwhile, have won seven of the last nine match-ups against Notre Dame and are coming off an impressive 38-23 victory over Pittsburgh.
Out west, 22nd-ranked Arizona State will be battling for their first victory over 21st-ranked California since 2000. Although the Golden Bears are listed as 7.5-point favorites, the Sun Devils are 3-0, lead the nation in sacks with 18 and possess the Pac-10's leading passer in sophomore quarterback Rudy Carpenter.
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NCAA Football betting lines (home team in CAPS)
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Date Favorite Opponent Point Spread
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Sept 21 GEORGIA TECH Virginia 17
Sept 22 NEVADA Northwestern 6.5
Sept 23 MICHIGAN Wisconsin 14
Sept 23 Minnesota PURDUE 3
Sept 23 SYRACUSE Miami (Ohio) 6.5
Sept 23 MISSOURI Ohio 21.5
Sept 23 Louisville KANSAS STATE 14
Sept 23 TENNESSEE Marshall 22
Sept 23 CLEMSON North Carolina 16.5
Sept 23 FLORIDA Kentucky 24
Sept 23 Iowa ILLINOIS 20.5
Sept 23 FLORIDA STATE Rice 30.5
Sept 23 AUBURN Buffalo 41.5
Sept 23 BOWLING GREEN Kent 7
Sept 23 NAVY Tulsa 4.5
Sept 23 VIRGINIA TECH Cincinnati 27
Sept 23 BYU Utah State 29
Sept 23 OHIO STATE Penn State 16.5
Sept 23 TEXAS Iowa State 25
Sept 23 Washington State STANFORD 10
Sept 23 CALIFORNIA Arizona State 7.5
Sept 23 UCLA WASHINGTON 3
Sept 23 INDIANA Connecticut 1.5
Sept 23 Central Michigan EASTERN MICHIGAN 4
Sept 23 WYOMING Air Force 1
Sept 23 UTEP NEW MEXICO 9.5
Sept 23 West Virginia EAST CAROLINA 21
Sept 23 Boston College NORTH CAROLINA STATE 7
Sept 23 GEORGIA Colorado 27
Sept 23 ARKANSAS Alabama 1.5
Sept 23 BAYLOR Army 11
Sept 23 WESTERN MICHIGAN Temple 28
Sept 23 MISSISSIPPI Wake Forest 2.5
Sept 23 KANSAS South Florida 5.5
Sept 23 TEXAS A&M Louisiana Tech 23.5
Sept 23 UAB Mississippi State 9.5
Sept 23 LSU Tulane 36
Sept 23 Utah SAN DIEGO STATE 6.5
Sept 23 BOISE STATE Hawaii 15
Sept 23 Notre Dame MICHIGAN STATE 3
Sept 23 USC ARIZONA U 22
Sept 23 Oklahoma State HOUSTON 1
Sept 23 OREGON STATE Idaho 23
Sept 23 OKLAHOMA Middle Tennessee State 29
Sept 23 MARYLAND Florida International 18.5
Sept 23 AKRON North Texas 17.5
Sept 23 SOUTH CAROLINA Florida Atlantic 29.5
Sept 23 NEBRASKA Troy 23
Sept 23 SMU Arkansas State 6
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The AFC South and the NFC East are the favorite divisions to have the next Super Bowl champ among them in the NFL betting odds. But more down to the point, these football odds are in favor of the Indianapolis Colts, by far the strongest team in the AFC South, and the Dallas Cowboys of the NFC East.
Most sports fans would agree that these two teams top the list to win it all before the season even begins. In the BetUS Sportsbook football futures, the Colts are +800 in the odds to win the Super Bowl, while the Cowboys are sitting at +1000 and the Super Bowl XLIV champions New Orleans Saints at +900. In the AFC South, the Colts won the division for five straight years after the 2002 realignment, before the Tennessee Titans won it in 2008. But the Colts came back strong in 2009 to win the division again en route to the Super Bowl. The Cowboys are the favorite to win the NFC East, as well as to advance far into the post season. The Cowboys won the division last season before their horrendous loss in the NFC Divisional playoff to Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings. But the ‘Boys will take that loss humbly and be ready for the playoffs this time around.
The NFC South is also very strong, at +600 in the NFL futures, considering that it is home to the defending Super Bowl champions. However, some predictions have the Atlanta Falcons with possibilities of claiming the divisional title this season in place of the Saints, as no team has won back-to-back division championships since the division realignment took place. Let’s not overlook the AFC North at +500. As TO goes to Cincinnati to join Chad OchoCinco and Adam “Pac-Man” Jones, this team looks to claim the division title again. And it is likely they will do so. The Bengals lost in the AFC Wild Card spot in a hard-fought battle against the New York Jets last season. Lest not forget the Pittsburgh Steelers, the XLII Super Bowl Champions… All these teams present interesting odds and matchups for the upcoming season, but the safest and surest bet seems to be with the Colts in the AFC South and the Cowboys in the NFC East. Play this weekly NFL Football Contestto see if you can win.
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