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06/11/2007 - Arlington, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Geoff Jenkins belted a three-run homer in the 12th, and the Milwaukee Brewers topped the Texas Rangers, 9-6, in the finale of a three-game set.
Prince Fielder ripped his NL-leading 23rd home run, and Craig Counsell also homered for Milwaukee, which had 22 hits, but left 17 on base. Milwaukee starter Dave Bush allowed six hits and four runs -- three earned -- in 4 1/3 innings, fanning four and walking a pair. Carlos Villanueva (5-0) tossed two scoreless innings of relief for the Brewers, who ended a three-game skid. Claudio Vargas picked up his first save of the season.
Marlon Byrd was 4-for-6 with two RBI and two runs, and Michael Young had three RBI singles for Texas. Vicente Padilla was rocked for 11 hits in 4 2/3 innings, but allowed only two runs while fanning five for the Rangers, who have dropped five of eight. Willie Eyre (2-3) threw two scoreless frames, but gave up Jenkins' homer in the 12th.
Ryan Braun's groundball went through Ian Kinsler and, after Fielder struck out, Corey Hart singled to put two men on for Jenkins, who came through with a 410-foot blast to right, his 11th of the season.
The Rangers hit the ground running with two in the first, with Young plating one run with a single to left and, after a Sammy Sosa walk, Frank Catalanotto's fielder's choice groundout scoring another.
Young added to the lead with another RBI single in the third.
Fielder belted a two-run shot to dead center in the fifth, pulling the Brewers to within one. Young answered for the Rangers, though, poking his third RBI single of the game to left to put the Rangers ahead 4-2.
Braun laced a two-out single to center in the sixth, and Fielder followed with a single to left. Texas reliever C.J. Wilson, who came in to face Fielder, plunked both Hart and Jenkins, loading the bases, then forcing in a run. Johnny Estrada followed with a two-run single to center, and the Brewers had a 5-4 lead.
Counsell's solo homer to right with one out in the seventh padded the Milwaukee lead.
Kenny Lofton roped a one-out double in the seventh, and came home on Byrd's single, pulling the Rangers to within one.
Gerald Laird singled to center with one out in the ninth for Texas, and, after Lofton's flyout, stole second. Byrd came through with the two-out hit, a single to left, and Laird came around to tie the game.
Game Notes
Seven appears to be the magic number for the Rangers, who are just 7-38 when scoring six or less, but are 16-2 when they score seven or more...The Brewers snapped a seven-game road losing streak, and improved to 12-17 on the road for the season...It was Dog Night for the Rangers, and more than 300 fans brought their canines to the game.
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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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