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07/22/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Citi Field must feel many moons away for the New York Mets, who will continue their disappointing road trip tonight with the first of four straight games against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Chavez Ravine.
New York was just swept in three games by the lowly Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix and fell to 1-6 on its 11-game, three-city tour out West with Wednesday's 4-3 setback in 14 innings.
Fernando Nieve gave up Chris Snyder's game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the 14th inning to suffer the loss for the Mets, who have lost nine of 11 overall and are 4-12 in their last 16 road games. New York has been held to four runs or less in 12 straight games, going 3-9 in that span, and is 5-12 in July after going 18-8 in June.
"Offensively, we're just not clicking," Mets manager Jerry Manuel said on the team's website. "We've got too many guys that are not hitting, and that's not a good way to operate."
Angel Pagan finished 3-for-5 with a home run and a pair of runs for the Mets, while Rod Barajas also went deep in defeat. Carlos Beltran drove in a run, but Jason Bay finished 0-for-6 at the plate for New York. Bay is 4-for-36 over his last 10 games and owns just three multi-hit outings since June 18.
The Mets, who are 6 1/2 games behind Atlanta for the NL East lead, will hand the ball to Japanese left-hander Hisanori Takahashi in tonight's series opener in Hollywood. Takahashi is coming off Saturday's 8-4 loss at San Francisco in which he allowed six runs and seven hits in only 2 2/3 innings. The southpaw had been 3-1 in his previous four decisions, but fell to 7-4 in 26 games (10 starts) to go along with a 4.69 ERA this season.
Takahashi beat the Dodgers back on April 27 by holding them to a run over 3 1/3 relief innings of a 10-5 triumph at Citi Field.
Los Angeles put an end to its six-game losing streak with a 2-0 victory over the Giants on Wednesday in the finale of a three-game series. Chad Billingsley threw his second career shutout and held San Francisco to five hits with three strikeouts and a pair of walks. He allowed seven runs and 10 hits through four innings in his previous start.
"Chad was great tonight," Dodgers acting manager Don Mattingly said afterward. This is pretty much what we needed. Hopefully this is something that gets us going in the other direction,"
Casey Blake hit a solo homer and drove in another run with a single for the Dodgers, who are six games off San Diego's lead in the NL West and received some disciplinary action from Major League Baseball before the contest. After three batters were hit by pitches in Wednesday's game, leading to three ejections, MLB suspended Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw along with manager Joe Torre and bench coach Bob Schaefer. Kershaw was given a five-game suspension, while Torre and Schaefer got one-game bans.
The Dodgers did a fine job with Mattingly serving as interim skipper last night and will hand the ball to Hiroki Kuroda on Thursday. Kuroda has lost three straight starts and is only 2-7 with a 4.58 ERA in his last 10 outings.
Kuroda was saddled with a tough loss in Saturday's 2-0 decision at St. Louis, as he gave up just one run and four hits in six innings of work. He struck out eight batters before falling to 7-8 in 18 trips to the mound this season.
The right-hander has never beaten the Mets before, having 0-3 with a 7.71 ERA in four career starts. Kuroda lost in Flushing back on April 27, when he gave up two runs in six innings of a 4-0 setback.
New York swept that three-game home series from LA back in late April and has won four of the past five matchups between the teams. The Dodgers won all three meetings with the Mets held at Chavez Ravine last year.
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REPORT DATES: July 29th (Rookies), July 30th (Veterans)
SITE: Virginia Mason Athletic Center, Renton, WA
CAMP OBJECTIVES: The first training camp of the Pete Carroll era in Seattle
will have to follow an aggressive ag
New Orleans Saints 2010 Training Camp Preview >>
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REPORT DATE: July 29th
SITE: Saints Training Facility, Metairie, LA
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Washington Redskins 2010 Training Camp Preview >>
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REPORT DATE: July 29th
SITE: Redskins Park, Ashburn, VA
CAMP OBJECTIVES: Expectations are extremely high for the Redskins in 2010, but
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St. Louis Rams 2010 Training Camp Preview >>
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REPORT DATE: July 28th (Rookies), July 30th (Veterans)
SITE: Russell Training Center, Earth City, MO
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March Madness odds and printable March Madness brackets
With the field of 64/65 set, MySportsbook.com has the Florida Gators as the 4-1 favorite to successfully defend their National Championship. Men’s Division-1 College Basketball has not seen a team repeat as National Champions since Duke won back to back championships in ’91 & ‘92. After losing three out of four late in the season, the Gators are full of momentum as they won their last four games by an average of 18 points. Not surprisingly, right behind the Gators are the other three top seeds: Kansas 5-1, UNC 6-1, and Ohio State 7-1. Many consider Kansas to be the hottest team in the country, having won 11 straight. With Kansas, it is hard to ignore all of the early exits from the “dance” in recent years. With an impressive ACC Tournament, UNC ensured themselves the other top seed. UNC has about as much talent as any other team in the tournament but with a team that’s best players are primarily freshman and sophomores, could youth be a concern. Behind freshman sensation, Greg Oden, OSU will look to do what their football team failed to do just a few months earlier. OSU seems to have peeked at the right time, as they currently have a 17 game winning streak. Since the tournament field was expanded in 1985, there has never been an instance where all four #1 seeds advanced to the Final Four. It is obvious that each of the top seeds have the talent to make it through to Atlanta. But as everyone knows, when makes the NCAA Tournament so special are all of the spoilers and “Cinderella” stories that knock off the favorites on a daily basis.
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MySportsbook.com’s odds to win the Championship and Regions:
| EAST | National Championship | Region |
| Arkansas | 300-1 | 50-1 |
| Belmont | 1000-1 | |
| Boston College | 100-1 | 40-1 |
| Eastern KY | 1000-1 | |
| George Washington | 75-1 | |
| Georgetown | 10-1 | 3-2 |
| Marquette | 100-1 | 40-1 |
| Michigan State | 100-1 | 25-1 |
| New Mexico St. | 500-1 | 200-1 |
| UNC | 6-1 | 6-5 |
| Oral Roberts | 500-1 | |
| Texas | 15-1 | 5-1 |
| Texas Tech | 200-1 | 5-1 |
| USC | 75-1 | 20-1 |
| Vanderbilt | 100-1 | 30-1 |
| Washington State | 40-1 | 15-1 |
| WEST | ||
| Duke | 50-1 | 10-1 |
| Florida A&M | 1000-1 | |
| Gonzaga | 200-1 | 40-1 |
| Holy Cross | 300-1 | |
| Illinois | 300-1 | 60-1 |
| Indiana | 75-1 | 40-1 |
| Kansas | 5-1 | 13-10 |
| Kentucky | 100-1 | 40-1 |
| Niagara | 1000-1 | |
| Pittsburgh | 40-1 | 8-1 |
| Southern Ill. | 50-1 | 12-1 |
| UCLA | 10-1 | 3-2 |
| VCU | 500-1 | 100-1 |
| Villanova | 100-1 | 40-1 |
| VA Tech | 50-1 | 15-1 |
| Weber St | 1000-1 | |
| Wright St | 1000-1 | 300-1 |
| MIDWEST | ||
| Arizona | 50-1 | 30-1 |
| Butler | 40-1 | 30-1 |
| Davidson | 300-1 | |
| Florida | 4-1 | 4-5 |
| Georgia Tech | 75-1 | 25-1 |
| Jackson State | 1000-1 | |
| Maryland | 30-1 | 6-1 |
| Miami-OH | 300-1 | |
| Notre Dame | 100-1 | 20-1 |
| ODU | 500-1 | 100-1 |
| Oregon | 40-1 | 6-1 |
| Purdue | 300-1 | 60-1 |
| Texas A&M CC | 1000-1 | |
| UNLV | 100-1 | 30-1 |
| Winthrop | 500-1 | 100-1 |
| Wisconsin | 15-1 | 7-2 |
| SOUTH | ||
| Albany | 200-1 | |
| BYU | 200-1 | 40-1 |
| Central CT St. | 1000-1 | |
| Creighton | 100-1 | 35-1 |
| Long Beach St. | 500-1 | 200-1 |
| Louisville | 40-1 | 10-1 |
| Memphis | 30-1 | 4-1 |
| Nevada | 75-1 | 35-1 |
| North Texas | 500-1 | |
| Ohio State | 7-1 | 6-5 |
| Penn | 500-1 | |
| Stanford | 200-1 | 50-1 |
| Tennessee | 100-1 | 20-1 |
| Texas A&M | 12-1 | 11-5 |
| Virginia | 75-1 | 18-1 |
| Xavier | 100-1 | 40-1 |
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