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02/15/2010 - College Station, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The top-ranked Kansas Jayhawks have made their way to College Station for a Big 12 Conference battle with the Texas A&M Aggies.
On Saturday, Kansas defeated Iowa State by a 73-59 final, giving head coach Bill Self his 400th career victory. The Jayhawks, who are 23-1 overall, have won nine straight since suffering their only loss of the season to Tennessee. They are 9-0 against Big 12 competition and 6-1 in true road games.
As for Texas A&M, it has posted four consecutive wins to move to 18-6 overall and 7-3 in conference. On Saturday, the Aggies showed a great deal of toughness in posting a 67-55 road win over Texas Tech. The team has reason to be supremely confident tonight despite the opposition's prowess, as Texas A&M is a perfect 13-0 at home in 2009-10.
Kansas owns a commanding 14-1 series advantage over Texas A&M, which includes a 5-0 mark at Reed Arena.
There are four double-digit scorers in the lineup for Kansas, which is putting up 83.3 ppg on 49 percent shooting from the field, including 40.1 percent from three-point range. The Jayhawks have been tremendous at the defensive end as well, allowing just 62.5 ppg on 36.5 percent field goal efficiency. The fact that Kansas is ripping down 7.8 rpg more than the opposition on average has been a key to the team's success. Sherron Collins leads the top-ranked squad with 15.4 ppg, and Xavier Henry adds 13.1 ppg. Marcus Morris pitches in 13.0 ppg, and Cole Aldrich rounds out the group with 11.6 ppg and 10.3 rpg. Aldrich has also blocked 87 shots, more than the rest of the team combined. In the 14- point victory over Iowa State on Saturday, Henry tallied 16 points, while Collins, Aldrich and Marcus Morris all had 11 points. Aldrich ripped down 12 boards and blocked three shots, while Morris finished with 10 rebounds. Kansas held Iowa State to 33.3 percent field goal efficiency.
Donald Sloan has started all 24 games for Texas A&M and is averaging 18.3 ppg this season. Bryan Davis adds 10.4 points and 7.6 rebounds per game while shooting 53.1 percent from the field. The Aggies are generating 73.4 ppg while holding opponents to 65.6 ppg on 41.2 percent shooting from the field. In the recent victory over Texas Tech, A&M clearly benefited from a 40-29 rebounding advantage, including a 13-8 edge on the offensive glass. The Aggies did turn the ball over 21 times, but they played strong enough in other areas to overcome the mistakes. B.J. Holmes had 18 points in the victory, and Sloan tallied 14. As for Davis, he finished with 13 points and 16 boards from his center position.
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<< Field and Lookin At Lucky top first Kentucky Derby Future Wager
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Mayweather picked to beat De La Hoya
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya and his rival Floyd Mayweather Jr. arrived at the MGM Grand here Wednesday amid the pomp and pandemonium befitting two of the biggest stars in the sport who are about to duke it out for the WBC super welterweight crown this Saturday (Sunday in Manila).
As of Wednesday, MySportsbook.com closed its book with Mayweather a favorite to defeat De La Hoya at -170 (a $100 bet wins $70), while De La Hoya is a +140 underdog (a $100 bet wins $140).
Mayweather arrived at about 11:30 a.m. on a big truck with his face and a big "World's Best Pound-for-Pound" sign scribbled across the vehicle. He was accompanied by his entourage made up of rappers and his training team.
A crowd of close to 3,000 eager fans packed the MGM Grand lobby, with their cameras in tow, all trying to vie for position to get a good angle at Mayweather, who is acknowledged as the world's best fighter pound-for-pound.
Eric Gomez, Golden Boy Promotions vice-president, described the fan turnout as "amazing" and swore he had never seen anything quite like this event.
"The crowd was fantastic. Everybody was just too eager to see the two fighters," said ALA manager Michael Aldeguer, who was among those who waited at the lobby together with his ward Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista and AJ Banal.
De La Hoya made his own grand entrance at the hotel lobby at around 12:30 p.m. accompanied by GBP chief executive officer Richard Schaefer and trainer Freddie Roach.
The same group of fans who trooped to see Mayweather also lingered around to get a close look at De La Hoya, who has been secretly working out at a Las Vegas gym for days after arriving from his main training camp in Puerto Rico.
The golden boy then took part in a closed-door afternoon workout with Bautista and Banal. The two, along with Aldeguer and wife Christine, as well as an HBO crew were the only ones allowed inside the gym.
De La Hoya and Mayweather take part in today's final press conference before the official weigh-in this Friday.
Ring Magazine, the acknowledged bible of boxing, reported in its June 2007 issue that 12 out of 20 boxing experts it interviewed have favored Mayweather to defeat De la Hoya, with only 8 favoring the latter.
But Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao said in a recent interview with The Freeman's Emmanuel Villaruel that De La Hoya will win by unanimous decision over Mayweather.
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In the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree.
And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so.
Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal.
So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent. And we've gotten our mitts into them.
Per a league source, Crabtree has signed a six-year, $32 million contract. (The total includes guaranteed money, base salaries, and the one-time incentive based on achieving minimum playing time.)
The deal also includes $17 million in guaranteed money.
As reported elsewhere, the deal can void to five years based on performance triggers, wiping out a final year base salary of $4 million. But they won't be easily reached.
The source tells us that, in his first four seasons (including 2009), Crabtree must either qualify for two Pro Bowls, or he must qualify for one Pro Bowl in one year and he must participate in 80 percent of the offensive snaps in a separate year in which the team makes the playoffs.
In other words, if in 2010 he qualifies for the Pro Bowl and the team makes the playoffs and he participates in 80 percent of the snaps, he'll still need to make it to the Pro Bowl or achieve the 80-percent/playoffs in another season.
Since the chances of Crabtree making the Pro Bowl or participating in 80 percent of the offensive snaps this year is roughly zero percent, he'll have three years to get it done.
And it won't be easy. Frankly, he'll be hard pressed to make it to one Pro Bowl in three years with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith, the other Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks, DeSean Jackson, Johnny Knox, Percy Harvin, Greg Jennings, Roddy White, T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the same conference for sportsbook betting.
So, by all appearances, it's a six-year deal. And at $17 million in guaranteed money, the per-year guarantee is a tepid $2.83 million per year.
There's another problem with the deal -- it has no mid-tier incentive package. Instead, the additional $8 million that Crabtree can earn (pushing the max value to six years, $40 million) requires the kind of unrealistic, mega-star performances that no rookie is likely to ever achieve.
So while the contract paid to Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji covers five years and pays $22.5 million, he has the ability (if he's a solid player) to make up the difference between his base deal and Crabtree's five-year, $28 million haul via the mid-tier incentive package in Raji's deal.
And unless Crabtree meets the performance thresholds necessary to void the sixth year, he'll be stuck under contract for another year at a base salary of only $4 million.
There's one other area of concern with the deal. Crabtree, per the source, received no option bonus. Instead, he has significant money tied to a fairly new device known as a "discretionary salary advance," which unlike an opition bonus is subject to forfeiture if Crabtree decides in a year or two that he wants to hold out for a better deal. (We're also told that the 49ers have included language that would make certain escalators subject to forfeiture, too.)
Meanwhile, the deal falls well short of the mark for which Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were aiming -- the five-year, $38.25 million contract paid by the Raiders to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the draft.
Even if Crabtree successfully voids the final year, he'll make more than $2 million per year less on average than Heyward-Bey.
Thus, as we explained earlier in the day, this is a deal that Crabtree could have done in July, which would have given him a much better chance of making a contribution to the 49ers during his rookie year.
So while the final outcome can be described as win-win, the broader view suggests that it's really a lose-lose situation.
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