Weibring two clear in Oregon
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08/20/2010 - Sunriver, OR (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - D.A. Weibring carded his second straight five- under 67 to take a two-stroke lead at the halfway point of the Tradition.
Weibring completed 36 holes of the season's fourth major at 10-under-par 134.
Tom Lehman, who shared the first-round lead with Weibring, posted a three- under 69 and is alone in second at minus-eight.
Bob Tway carded a five-under 67 to move into a share of third place at seven- under 137. He stands alongside Jay Don Blake (68), 2008 winner Fred Funk (69) and two-time champion Gil Morgan (69).
Weibring rolled in a birdie effort from just outside 15 feet on the first to get his round going. After four straight pars, he kicked in a short birdie putt on the sixth at the Crosswater Club at Sunriver Resort.
The five-time winner on the Champions Tour made it two in a row as he converted a 12-footer for birdie on the seventh to move to eight-under.
Weibring parred five consecutive holes from the eighth. At the par-three 13th, he rolled in a downhill 15-foot birdie try. Two holes later, he drained an 18- footer for birdie to climb to 10-under.
At the 17th, Weibring three-putted for bogey as his lead fell two strokes. However, he recovered that lost stroke at the last, where he converted a birdie putt from 20 feet out to finish two clear of Lehman.
"It was a bit cool this morning, but it warmed up nicely," Weibring said. "I got off to a good to start. I played some nice shots. I putted very well today and that was the key. I made two or three good par putts."
Lehman, the 2006 U.S. Ryder Cup captain, started his round with a birdie on the second. He gave that stroke back when he tripped to a bogey on the par- four eighth.
After five straight pars around the turn, Lehman rolled in back-to-back birdie efforts from the 14th to move to seven-under. On the par-three 17th, Lehman found sand off the tee, but holed out for birdie to end two back.
"Today was a really difficult day for me because I started out playing so well, but wasn't making any putts," Lehman explained. "I was hitting good putts and they were not going in. I was really starting to lose my patience."
Bernhard Langer (69) and Jay Haas (65) are tied for seventh place at six- under-par 138.
Langer is trying to join Gary Player as the only two men in Champions Tour history to win three straight major championships. Player did so in 1987-88 when he won the last two majors in '87 and the first one in '88.
NOTES: Weibring has won all three times he held the 36-hole lead, but all three of those events were 54-hole tournaments...Weibring hasn't won since the 2008 Senior Players Championship...Haas had the low round of the day with his seven-under 65...Defending champion Mike Reid carded a three-under 69 to get to plus-four through two rounds.
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FOOTBALL TRASH TALK
NFL Football Trash TalkTrash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing).
Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion.
Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).
Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.
Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit. And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. The plug-necked yahoos on your team, you can say, will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.
The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.
What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Wheres your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, I'll try to type slower for you next time. Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.
Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, dont just conclude by saying your opponent is a twerp who drafts like my grandmother. Say that your opponent is a sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars. By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.
But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You wont be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, Im sure, to reply.
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SPORTS BETTING
NFL Football Betting OnlineIn terms of sports wagering, the NFL is "the most popular game in town." The explanation behind that is easy.
It is called the "pointspread."
Many years ago, NFL games, as well as the more popular college games, used straight odds as a vehicle for betting. For example, if the Bears were playing the Giants, and it shaped up as a competitive contest, the Bears might be, say, a 7/5 favorite. If they were playing an also-ran, it might be 10/1. Well, there is a point where a line becomes prohibitive, as far as betting the favorite. And who would waste money betting an underdog that has virtually no chance? Such a setup did not contribute to promoting betting action.
But in modern sports betting, a "pointspread" is used.
A NFL pointspreads are exactly that, a pre-established point difference between the two sides that will, for all intents and purposes, create a handicap that evens things out, and in doing so, produces comparable wagering activity on both sides of that proposition. So in lieu of a odds figure in which to bet the team to win outright, the Bears might be a three-point favorite over the New York Giants, and a 17-point favorite over the also-ran. Now that the team that is the underdog can "get" points, there can be equal action on both sides.
In sportsbooks, this is usually done with efficiency by charging the losing bettors 10% extra - in effect, bettors are laying 11/10 on those games. So they are actually betting $110 to win $100. If they lose, they pay the "vig." If they win, they simply collect.
The establishment of the pointspread as the corner stone around which team sports like football can be wagered upon was truly what brought gridiron betting into the stratosphere for online football betting .
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