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08/10/2007 - Elkhart Lake, WI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sebastien Bourdais captured the provisional pole for Sunday's Generac Grand Prix at Road America in Elkhart Lake, WI. The No.1 Newman/Haas/Lanigan driver circled the historic 4.048-mile road course in one minute, 42.385 seconds to take the top spot.
The pole victory guarantees Bourdais a starting spot on the front row and one championship point.
Behind the Frenchman were Will Power (1:43.116), Neel Jani (1:43.417), Dan Clarke (1:43.439) and Justin Wilson (1:43.525).
"Road America is a high-speed track, more what I'm used to in Europe," said former Formula One driver Robert Doornbos. "You sort of have to shift your mind set, just as you'd change the setup on your car after racing on a street course. For one thing, there is so much more speed around the turns compared with the street circuits that you have to be much more delicate and precise with the car. We did well at the test earlier this year, and I can't wait to get back there."
With seven races left in the series, Bourdais, who just announced that he would leave the series to drive for Formula One's Toro Rosso in 2008, is on track to win his fourth consecutive series championship. The Frenchman used a win at Edmonton to reclaim the top spot and a fifth-place two weeks ago to maintain his lead. It is where Bourdais always expects to be. In 68 races, Bourdais has been the points leader for 42 of them.
However, Bourdais will bring just an 11-point lead over "rookie" Doornbos into this week's race at Road America. Doornbos cut the lead in half with a win at San Jose.
The second qualifying session is set for Saturday at 3 p.m. (et) and the race is scheduled to drop the green flag on Sunday at 3 p.m.
<< Kim survives again at U.S. Women's Amateur
Carmel, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Kimberly Kim is proving a tough out at the U.S.
Women's Amateur.
The defending champion survived another round of match play at Crooked Stick
by squeezing out a 1-up victory over Jennifer Song in the quar
<< Mets activate Beltran from DL
Flushing, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The New York Mets have activated outfielder
Carlos Beltran from the 15-day disabled list on Friday.
Beltran, who is in the starting lineup against the Marlins, has been out since
July 25 with a strained left a
<< Lehigh names Reed head basketball coach
Bethlehem, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Lehigh University has named Brett Reed as its
new head men's basketball coach.
Reed, who was elevated from associate head coach, takes over for Billy Taylor,
who left the program to become Ball State's coach
<< Clemens declines to appeal five-game suspension
Cleveland, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens
decided not to appeal his five-game suspension and started serving the penalty
on Friday for the opener of a weekend series against Cleveland.
Clemens was suspe
Kansas City signs midfielder from Argentina >>
Kansas City, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Kansas City added another option to its
potent offense this week, signing forward/midfielder Eloy Colombano out of
Argentina.
The 24-year-old has played for Defensa y Justicia and LP Estudiantes
Stuttgart ties Schalke in Bundesliga opener >>
Stuttgart, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Substitute Ivan Rakitic scored in the
76th minute as Schalke tied Stuttgart, 2-2, in the Bundesliga season opener
Friday.
Schalke took the early lead on a goal from Levan Kobiashvili midway thro
Isles ink Sutton to three-year deal >>
Uniondale, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The New York Islanders signed defenseman
Andy Sutton to a three-year contract on Friday. Per club policy, terms of
the deal were not disclosed.
"We're very pleased to bring Andy Sutton to Long Isla
Wickman gets OK to pitch, Dotel to DL >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Friday was a good news/bad news day for
the Atlanta Braves, who learned that closer Bob Wickman received a clean bill
of health, but placed reliever Octavio Dotel on the 15-day disabled list.
Wickman
Michael Vick is back, Brett Favre isn't and the NFC East remains the best division in the NFC, maybe in all of football.
As players start to gather for the start of another season, some things change and some stay the same in the world of the NFL.
The NFC East has been the dominant division in the National Conference for a while, despite limited playoff success, save for the New York Giants surprise Super Bowl win two seasons ago.
Hell, there's a generation of kids in Texas who have never seen the Cowboys win a playoff game (last win was in 1996).
But collectively, the Giants, Eagles, Cowboys and Redskins (well, maybe not so much the Redskins) are as good as a division gets in an NFC conference that has struggled to stay competitive with the AFC side.
Sports bettors have both acknowledged the NFC East's dominance, as one glance at the NFL future odds menu will show.
Looking over the NFL betting odds at online sports book MySportsbook.com we see the top three teams listed to win the NFC Championship are all from the NFC East:
Dallas Cowboys - 7 - 1
Philadelphia Eagles - 13 - 2
New York Giants - 9 - 2
Slotting in behind these three are two teams from the NFC North: the Minnesota Vikings (15-2) and the Chicago Bears (10-1).
Again, despite the lack of recent playoff success, the Dallas Cowboys are popular with the sports betting community, as they hold 14% of all the money wagered on who will win the NFC Championship.
So far, the New York Giants are the bettors' favorite to represent their conference in the Super Bowl, as they have 24% of the overall NFC Championship betting volume.
And what about the Philadelphia Eagles? For the most part, the Eagles had a very productive offseason, the kind that could bring them back to the top.
They had a good draft adding the likes of WR Jeremy Maclin and RB LeSean McCoy.
Unfortunately, the team received a blow when long-time defensive coordinator Jim Johnson passed away on Tuesday.
But this team will make a real run at the division title this year. Going into the regular season, Philly is listed at +240 to win the division.
Last season the Eagles were 9-6-1 SU and 10-6 ATS.
Teams from the NFC East will play teams from the AFC West in the regular season and the Eagles haven't really been a good bet in the last 20 games against the likes of San Diego, Oakland, K.C. and Denver, only going 8-12 ATS.
Two seasons removed from that Super Bowl title, the New York Giants see themselves listed as the odds-on favorite in NFC East championship futures at +162.
Plaxico Burress is gone and with him all the bad publicity surrounding the gun in the sweatpants incident, but can they replace him in the offense?
Last season the Giants were a very reliable bet going 12-4 ATS.
In the Giants' last 20 games against fellow teams from the NFC East; they are 13-7 ATS.
Dallas is listed at +240 to win the division.
Dallas went 9-7 SU and 7-9 ATS last season and with the amount of talent the Cowboys have, a similar performance won't do.
The Cowboys have been atrocious against divisional rivals, going 6-14 ATS in their last 20.
The Washington Redskins are longshots to win the division at +550.
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