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11/11/2007 - Florence, Italy (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Antonio Di Natale's goal in the 63rd minute allowed Udinese to claim a 2-1 win over Fiorentina and put an end to the Viola's 22-game home unbeaten streak.
Fiorentina had the better of the play throughout most of the match, but a few lapses cost the team the game. Fabio Quagliarella opened the scoring for Udinese in the 23rd minute, but Giampaolo Pazzini quickly equalized five minutes later to send the teams into halftime tied at 1-1.
The difference came in the 63rd minute when Di Natale finished off a cross from Simone Pepe to give Udinese the maximum points and pull the team level with Juventus and Roma on points in third place.
Both teams created openings in the first 20 minutes, but it was Quagliarella who got Udinese on the scoreboard first. Tomas Zapotocny got free down the wing and lofted a cross into the box near the penalty spot. Quagliarella got to the ball and headed it past keeper Sebastian Frey for a 1-0 Udinese lead.
Fabio Liverani then created the equalizer five minutes later when he stole the ball at the edge of the box and drove a cross through the face of goal.
Keeper Samir Handanovic was late to react and Pazzini was left with an easy finish.
The hosts started strongly after the restart, but after failing to take the lead, Udinese seized the advantage for good. Pepe crossed low into the area from the right and Di Natale was on the other end to slam the ball off the crossbar and in.
In other action in Italy on Sunday, Juventus fell behind Parma by two goals but rallied to score twice in the final 15 minutes to earn a 2-2 draw. Juve is now tied with Fiorentina and Roma, whose game with Cagliari was postponed on Sunday because of fan violence around Italy.
Lazio's game with Inter Milan was also postponed after a Lazio fan was killed during a clash with Juve supporters earlier in the day. AC Milan had its game with Atalanta suspended after less than 10 minutes because of fan violence as well.
Reggina got its first win of the season in beating Genoa 2-0, Livorno scored three times in the first half and held off Siena 3-2, while Torino and Catania Calcio finished 1-1.
<< LSU takes top spot in AP Poll; Ohio State falls to 7th
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - LSU seized upon a stunning loss by Ohio State
to regain the top spot in the latest Associated Press football poll.
The Tigers regained the top spot for the second time this season. LSU began
the year ran
<< Farias nets game-winner as Storm edge Wave
Hoffman States, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Carlos "Chile" Farias scored the game-
winner in the fourth quarter as Chicago edged Milwaukee, 10-9, on Saturday in
the Major Indoor Soccer League.
Farias finished with two goals and Matthew Stewart
<< Favre reaches 60,000 yards
Green Bay, WI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre
became just the second quarterback in NFL history to throw for 60,000 yards in
a career Sunday.
Favre needed 94 yards coming into the team's game against th
<< Baltimore tops Orlando to remain perfect
Baltimore, MD (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Denison Cabral had two goals and an assist as
Baltimore remained unbeaten with a 14-7 win over winless Orlando in the Major
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Vikings' Peterson leaves with knee injury >>
Green Bay, WI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Minnesota Vikings rookie running Adrian
Peterson left the team's game against the Green Bay Packers Sunday with a knee
injury.
Peterson was injured late in the third quarter when Al Harris tackled him
Maple Leafs D Kubina out indefinitely >>
Toronto, ON (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Pavel Kubina
will be out indefinitely after sustaining a medial collateral ligament injury
to his right knee during the third period of Saturday's 3-2 shootout loss to
the New
Bourdais ends Champ Car career with another win >>
Mexico City, Mexico (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sebastien Bourdais ended his Champ Car
career in grand style winning Sunday's Gran Premio Tecate Champ Car season
finale at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. The No.1 Newman/Haas/Lanigan
driver
Favre, Packers torch Vikings >>
Green Bay, WI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Brett Favre became just the second player in
NFL history to surpass 60,000 passing yards as Green Bay embarrassed
Minnesota, 34-0, at Lambeau Field.
It was the first time the Vikings were shutou
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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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