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01/29/2012 - Stuttgart, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Monchengladbach remained within one point of the Bundesliga summit on Sunday after a 3-0 win at Stuttgart.
Mike Hanke's first-half goal gave the visitors a halftime lead before Marco Reus and Igor de Camargo each scored in the final 10 minutes to put the result out of reach and give Monchengladbach its third straight win.
Stuttgart has lost its last four matches to slip into the bottom half of the league.
Reus played provider on the opening goal, which arrived just after the half- hour mark, when his free kick was headed inside the right post by Hanke from the middle of the penalty area.
The visitors controlled the play for most of the match but didn't secure the points until the final 10 minutes as Reus found the net for the 12th time in league play this season after latching onto a through ball from Patrick Herrmann.
De Camargo capped off the win with a goal of his own three minutes later as Herrmann's low cross through the face of goal left him with a simple tap in at the back post.
Mainz 3, Freiburg 1
Mainz, Germany - Mainz tallied three goals, including two from Maxim Choupo- Moting, in the opening 17 minutes en route to a 3-1 win over Freiburg on Sunday.
The match got off to a flying start as Choupo-Moting scored in the opening three minutes before Freiburg was reduced to 10 men when Fallou Diagne was sent off for a foul on Adam Szalai inside the area in the sixth minute.
Eugen Polanski converted the subsequent spot kick for Mainz, and Choupo-Moting made it 3-0 in the 17th minute, leaving Freiburg no way back.
The visitors did manage to pull one goal back through Pavel Krmas in the 68th minute, but the club has now lost three of its last four games and remains on the bottom of the Bundesliga.
Mainz snaps a five-match winless skid and moves three points clear of the drop zone.
<< Bledsoe back with Clippers
Denver, CO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Clippers guard Eric Bledsoe is back with the
team after being recalled from Bakersfield of the NBA Development League on
Sunday.
Bledsoe has not played for Los Angeles this season because of a right k
<< De Jong's hat trick moves Twente into second
Enschede, Netherlands (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Luuk de Jong's hat trick propelled
Twente to a 4-1 win over Groningen on Sunday, moving the club past third-
place AZ Alkmaar on goal difference.
AZ's surprising 2-0 defeat to Roda on Saturday
<< Falcons add former Fresno State coach Pat Hill
Flowery Branch, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former Fresno State head coach Pat Hill
will join the Atlanta Falcons' staff as offensive line coach.
Hill spent the past 15 seasons guiding the Bulldogs and was fired in December
after the team strugg
<< Clippers and Nuggets square off in Denver
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - A pair of Western Conference contenders meet in the Rockies
Sunday when the Denver Nuggets entertain the Los Angeles Clippers at Pepsi
Center.
The surprising Nuggets sport the second best record in the West and come into
Buckeyes down Wolverines to move atop Big Ten >>
Columbus, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Lenzelle Smith, Jr. finished with 17 points
and 12 rebounds, and No. 4 Ohio State pulled away for a 64-49 victory against
20th-ranked Michigan.
The teams had been tied atop the conference standings, but th
Chelsea's Ramires out up to four weeks >>
London, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chelsea midfielder Ramires will be out for
up to four weeks after sustaining a knee injury in his team's 1-0 FA Cup win
over QPR on Saturday.
Scans after the match revealed that the Brazilian had suffere
Foot injury sidelines Podolski >>
Cologne, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Relegation-threatened Cologne received
some bad news on Sunday as it was revealed that striker Lukas Podolski will be
out for the next three weeks because of a foot injury.
Podolski scored the opening
Banham leads Minnesota to upset of No. 9 Ohio State >>
Minneapolis, MN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Rachel Banham had 20 points as Minnesota
took down No. 9 Ohio State, 76-65, in Big Ten action.
Kiara Buford donated 15 points and seven assists for the Golden Gophers
(12-11, 4-5 Big Ten), who sna
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In any football or basketball game (the main sports that use point spreads) there are two teams playing against each other.
Those teams, though, are rarely exactly evenly matched – meaning that typically one team has a better chance than the other to win the game. If bettors were allowed to bet on who was simply going to win the game, smart ones would obviously bet on the better team (likely winning more than 50% of the time in the process).
If winning were that easy the Las Vegas and online sportsbooks would stop taking any bets! This is where the point spread comes in: the basic function of the point spread is to balance the likelihood of each team “winning” by adjusting the final score by the point spread. After this adjustment is made you get the Against The Spread result (ATS result for short).
Let’s look at Super Bowl XXXIX, New England Patriots vs. Philadelphia Eagles. Most people believed the defending champ Patriots to be the better team – so if betting were simply based upon which team would win the game, an uneven majority of people would have wagered on New England. But, by using the point spread, the bookmakers adjusted the terms of the bet, evening the proposition so about half the people believed the Pats to be the smart bet, while the other half considered Philly to be the smart bet.
New England Patriots -7 vs. Philadelphia Eagles
The better team, called the Favorite, is expected to win the game and must “give” or “lay” points to the weaker team. The favorite is listed with a minus sign and the number of points they are favored by (e.g., New England -7)
In the case of our example, New England must not only win the game, but they must win by more than 7 points for Pats bettors to have a winning ATS result. An Eagles bettor wins his bet either if:
There was also the possibility that the final score could land exactly on the spread number (for example, the Pats winning 28-21 when -7), which is called a “push” or “no action” and a refund is then issued to bettors of both teams.
The same game with the same point spread can be considered from the weaker team’s perspective: The Underdog (Philly in the case of our example) is not expected to win the game and online football betting thus receives or “gets” points given by the stronger team. When a game is stated from the underdog’s perspective the team is listed with a plus sign and the number of points they are underdogs by:
Philadelphia Eagles +7 vs. New England Patriots
Keep in mind that Philadelphia +7 and New England -7 is the same point spread on the same game, simply stated differently. The first is from the underdog’s perspective; the later is from the favorite’s.
Not a must, but for some a mathematical approach is insightful. You can determine the ATS winner by either:
Let’s look at the actual result of Super Bowl XXXIX: New England 24 Philadelphia 21
The favorite, New England, won the game but not by more than the point spread they were favored by (7), so the ATS result was a LOSS for Pats bettors.
Looking at it from the underdog’s perspective, Philly did not win the game, but they lost by less than the point spread (7), so the ATS result was a WIN for Eagle bettors.
Mathematically considered, 24 for the favorite Pats minus 7 equals 17, which is less than the 20 the Eagles scored, so the underdog Eagles win the ATS result (or you could figure 20 plus 7 equals 27 for the Eagles, which is more than 24 for the Pats).
Emily’s boyfriend understood the point spread and wagered $100 on the Eagles at +7. The Eagles may not have gotten a Super Bowl ring, but since they won the ATS result Emily’s boyfriend cashed his bet – giving him money to take her out to a nice dinner.
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