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06/25/2010 - Boston, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Boston Bruins brought back 42-year-old forward Mark Recchi on a one-year deal Friday.
The Boston Herald reported the deal is for $1 million with possible incentives.
Recchi posted 18 goals and 43 points in 81 regular-season games with the B's a season ago. He added six goals and 10 points in 13 playoff contests as Boston reached the conference semifinals before suffering an epic collapse against Philadelphia.
A seven-time NHL all-star and two-time Stanley Cup Champion with Pittsburgh and Carolina, Recchi has played in 1,571 regular-season games over 21 seasons.
The native of Kamloops, British Columbia has piled up 563 goals and 922 assists for 1,485 points. He has recorded 16 career 20-goal seasons, seven 30- goal seasons, four 40-goal seasons and one 50-goal season to his credit. In 164 career playoff tilts, the diminutive winger has tallied 56 goals and 77 assists.
The Bruins have the second-overall pick in the 2010 NHL Draft, which kicks off later Friday in Los Angeles. The club was able to get the coveted slot in the deal that sent Phil Kessel to Toronto last off-season. Highly-touted Canadian junior forwards Tyler Seguin and Taylor Hall are expected to be selected with the first two picks.
<< Columbus signs Carroll to four-year extension
Columbus, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Columbus Crew signed midfielder Brian
Carroll to a four-year contract extension on Friday.
Carroll has been a stalwart in the Crew's midfield since joining the club,
starting and appearing in 73
<< Chivas USA signs midfielder Nagamura
Carson, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chivas USA signed midfielder Paulo Nagamura, who
had eight goals and seven assists in 73 matches with the team from 2007-2009,
on Friday.
Nagamura spent the last six months playing with Mexican First Divisio
<< Tubert versus McCloskey at U.S. Women's Publinx
South Bend, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Emily Tubert and Lisa McCloskey both won
their semifinal matches on Friday to set up the 36-hole final of the U.S.
Women's Amateur Public Links Championship.
The first 18 of the championship match
<< Bobcats make qualifying offer to Tyrus Thomas
Charlotte, NC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Charlotte Bobcats have extended a
qualifying offer to forward Tyrus Thomas, making him a restricted free agent.
The move allows the Bobcats to match any offer Thomas receives from another
team.
Bucknell announces recruiting class >>
Lewisburg, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Three quarterbacks are part of head coach Joe
Susan's first recruiting class at Bucknell.
The 29-member class includes quarterbacks Derek-London Dierkes (6-foot-3,
185 pounds) of Woodsfield, Ohio; Austin
Baylor, Rojoas named managers for Futures Game >>
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Don Baylor and Cookie Rojas have been
named managers for the Futures Game, which will be a part of the All-Star Game
festivities in Anaheim.
The contest will take place on Sunday, July 11 at An
White Sox down Cubs, win 10th straight game >>
Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Carlos Quentin's three-run homer in the first
inning sent Cubs starter Carlos Zambrano into a frenzy, while Jake Peavy and
the White Sox continued to roll with a 6-0 decision to reach 10 straight wins
for the
Rose cruising at Travelers >>
Cromwell, CT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Justin Rose fired an eight-under 62 on Friday
to take a commanding lead after the second round of the Travelers
Championship.
The Englishman established a new 36-hole record with his 14-under 1
My fellow Americans, as tempting as it may be to don the coat and HD-ready tie in order to deliver this State of the Game address before the cameras, I know better. As Brad Paisley sings on his latest album, "I'm so much cooler online."
The ideas for this annual essay to kick off the MySportsbook.com college football betting preview flowed like frat-house beer, which is to say they were cheap and spilled all over the floor. The 2007 season will be better than 2007, if only because there will be more of it. A year ago, the NCAA Football Rules Committee made two rule changes in the interest of speeding up the game. These changes went over like Kobe burgers at a vegan banquet.
To its credit, the rules committee rectified its mistakes. This season the clock once again will start when a kickoff is received, rather than when it is kicked, and the clock will not start so quickly on a change of possession.
However, kickoffs have been moved back five yards, to the 30, which will force more returns. (Thus forcing the clock to run. Clever, huh?) Special teams might decide a lot of games, because coaching strategy will come straight out of another new Paisley lyric (almost), I'd like to check you for kicks.
Paisley sings with a twang, which is why he's appropriate for this college football season. The sun coming up over the 2007 college football betting lines season rises from the south. It's a Southern football world. As the Southeastern Conference begins its 75th year, the power shift is noticeable.
Eight-figure budgets, glamorous settings -- and that's just for the head coaches. The SEC has four coaches who have won national championships -- the greatest aggregation of coaching know-how since Eddie Robinson dined alone.
Steve Spurrier, Phil Fulmer, Nick Saban and Urban Meyer have given lie to the idea that a conference championship game is too daunting a hurdle on the road to No. 1. In six of the past 10 seasons, the national champions played and won a conference championship game -- three of the six (Tennessee, 1998; LSU, 2003; Florida, 2007) from the SEC.
There will be more of the same this season, if the preseason prognostications are correct. Six SEC teams are in the preseason coaches' poll, more than from any other conference. Only one conference has talent so deep that a team with 15 returning starters, including the best quarterback in the league, from an eight-win season is considered an afterthought. That may speak more to Kentucky's losing legacy than to the wisdom of the predictions, but there you have it. And seriously, keep an eye on Wildcats QB Andre' Woodson.
The reach of the South extends all the way to No. 1. Take a look at the team that is a consensus pick to win the national championship. The quarterback is from Shreveport. The best wide receiver is from Nashville. The top recruit is from New Orleans.
So what's the campus doing in Los Angeles? Hey, it is the University of Southern California.
USC lost two Pacific-10 Conference games a year ago, the first time that had happened in five seasons, and university officials withstood the urge to form blue-ribbon panels to unearth the cause of such a disaster. Instead, the Trojans gathered themselves and routed Michigan, 32-18, in the Rose Bowl.
USC's losses at Oregon State and at UCLA last year should have given pause to those who question the Pac-10's football prowess (such as, without naming names, L.M. from Baton Rouge). The league only got deeper this season; Dennis Erickson is taking over an Arizona State team that never quite got out of its own way under his predecessor, Dirk Koetter.
Erickson will resume his quest to become the first coach to win a national championship at two schools. Both he and Spurrier, now in his third season at South Carolina, returned to college football at schools with lower profiles than where they won their titles.
That isn't the case for the third coach looking for the national championship double. You may have missed this, but NASA reported the astronauts on the space shuttle last spring made contact with what can only be described as beings from another galaxy.
The leader of the aliens said, "We come in peace," followed by, "So how do you think Nick Saban will do at Alabama?"
The public is reacting to the new Crimson Tide coach as if he is the Barry Bonds of college football -- beloved at home for what his fans believe he is going to do, hated on the road for his intimidating attitude and for what his detractors believe he did (bend NCAA recruiting rules). I made this comparison from the dais at a charity dinner in Mobile, Ala., last month, and the chill that washed over me didn't come from the air conditioning.
Saban will attempt to prove that he can remake in Tuscaloosa what he built in Baton Rouge, much like another member of the national championship fraternity. Bobby Bowden is attempting to remake at Florida State what he built at, um, Florida State. Bowden rebuilt his offensive staff, bringing in four new coaches led by Saban's former offensive coordinator, Jimbo Fisher, to jump-start an offense that has been dead for a couple of years.
The Atlantic Coast Conference is expected to show new signs of life, too. That is said with no disrespect toward last season's champion, Wake Forest, which provided one of the best story lines of 2007. The Demon Deacons begin this season in their customary position, overshadowed by the Virginia Techs, Miamis and Florida States.
It's not that Wake will find it difficult to duplicate its success in 2007 as much as the feeling that success engendered. Surprising success is the narcotic of sport. It never feels quite so euphoric the next time. Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese has figured this out. He refers to 2007, when a league looked down upon by fans and foes alike took three undefeated teams into November, as "Cinderella."
The fairy tale may be over, but the Big East has four genuine Heisman Trophy candidates in Louisville quarterback Brian Brohm, West Virginia tailback Steve Slaton and quarterback Pat White, and Rutgers tailback Ray Rice. Rutgers, as did Wake Forest and, of course, Boise State, proved last season that the have-nots in college football occasionally have quite a lot.
The Broncos' rousing 43-42 overtime victory over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl has raised the profile of all schools in conferences that don't get automatic BCS bids. This season, TCU and Hawaii are the preseason favorites to burst through the BCS doors and earn an at-large bid. The Warriors return 14 starters from an 11-3 team, including quarterback Colt Brennan.
Brennan not only broke the single-season record with 58 touchdown passes in 2007, but he also led Division I-A in passing efficiency (186.0). The senior is expected to contend for the Heisman Trophy, and neither his success nor the rise of his team should come as any surprise in the 2007 season.
After all, Hawaii is the southernmost team in the country.
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