Biffle holds off Edwards to win Las Vegas Nationwide race
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02/28/2009 -
Las Vegas, NV (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Greg Biffle survived a crash-filled Sam's
Town 300 and held off his Roush Fenway Racing teammate Carl Edwards in an
overtime finish at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Saturday to end a 76-race winless
streak in the Nationwide Series.
After leading 46 consecutive laps, Biffle ran out of fuel and coasted into the
pits on lap 146. He fell one lap behind after his stop. Biffle, however,
rebounded quickly and was back in front when his other Roush Fenway teammate
David Ragan crashed while he held the lead during a round of green-flag stops
on lap 169.
A wreck involving Mike Bliss and Denny Hamlin in the closing laps setup the
green-white-checkered finish. Hamlin cut a tire, which slowed his progress.
Bliss then slammed into the back of Hamlin, putting him into the wall.
On the final restart, Edwards moved ahead of Jason Leffler for second after
Leffler ran out of fuel. Edwards then challenged Biffle for the lead, but
could not make the winning pass during the final two laps.
"I ran out of gas on the restart going into turn one," Biffle said. "I think
they said (Leffler) ran out of gas also. I just kept it on the bottom, and the
fuel pressure came back. I tried to block Carl going down the back, but I
couldn't do it. So I just stayed on the throttle on the outside and my car was
just so good. I was able to pass him back."
Biffle, who led a race-high 86 laps, beat Edwards to the finish line by 0.391
seconds for his 19th career Nationwide victory, but his first since February
25, 2006 at California.
Despite a cut tire just before the 100-lap mark, which put him a lap down,
Edwards moved back into winning contention in the late-stages. His second-
place finish gave Roush Fenway a one-two finish at Las Vegas.
"I drove in there as deep as I thought was reasonable, and Jason Hedlesky, my
spotter, was telling me, 'He's still there, he's still there,' and I'm
thinking, 'he's got me'," Edwards said. "I wanted to keep my leg in it, but I
thought I would wreck him. So I did the best I could."
Brian Vickers finished third, followed by Leffler and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Rookie drivers Michael McDowell, Brendan Gaughan, a Las Vegas native, Justin
Allgaier and Scott Lagasse Jr. were sixth through ninth, respectively. Jeff
Burton completed the top-10.
Edwards moved into the lead in the series championship standings. He now holds
a 48-point advantage over Vickers after the first three races of the season.
The almost three-hour event featured 12 cautions for a track record 60 laps.
Two of this year's favorites to win the series title were involved in crashes
that now have them behind in the early season point standings.
Kyle Busch made hard contact into the wall on lap 22. Busch dove beneath Kevin
Harvick in an attempt to take the lead from him, but Busch lost control of his
car as it skidded up the track and bounced off the wall.
"It was just a mistake on my part battling for the lead that early in the
race," Busch said, "It was 100 percent my fault trying to race for the lead."
Busch ended up finishing 39th and dropped to fifth in points (-109).
Scott Speed's day at Las Vegas ended early when he rammed into Busch's car.
Speed, in his first career Nationwide start, led the opening two laps before
Harvick passed him for the top position. He won the pole earlier in the day,
becoming the ninth driver in the series to qualify first in his debut.
The incident forced NASCAR to halt the race 10 minutes for track clean-up
efforts.
Mike Bliss and Brad Keselowski made contact on the seventh lap. Bliss got
turned sideways, while Keselowski suffered damage to the left front panel on
his car.
Keselowski's troubles continued on lap 16 when he cut a tire and slammed into
the wall. He returned 35 laps later and finished 27th.
"I don't know what I could have done differently," Keselowski said. "It's just
the way these cars are. This is a great Chevrolet and it's tore up. We've had
three great race cars this season and just can't seem to close the deal."
After finishing third in the Nationwide championship standings last year,
Keselowski currently sits 22nd in points (-244).
The race was stopped for another 10 minutes on lap 92 to clean up the mess
from Robert Richardson Jr.'s badly damaged car. D.J. Kennington bumped
Richardson from behind, sending him into the wall. Rookie Michael Annett also
was involved in the incident.
Just after the restart, Jeff Burton got loose coming out of turn four. Burton
slid into the wall and collected Harvick's car in the process. Harvick
suffered heavy damage to his car after running in the top-five during the
first half of the race.
"(Burton) wasn't all that good, and he just got up there, and got himself in a
bad spot and spun out," Harvick said. "Unfortunately we were the ones that hit
him...We had a car capable of winning the race."
After lengthy repairs, Harvick returned to the track 54 laps down and settled
for 29th-place finish.
Steve Wallace, David Green, Brandon Whitt and Stanton Barrett were also
involved in the wreck.
The next Nationwide race is scheduled for Saturday, March 21 at Bristol Motor
Speedway.
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Super Bowl 2009, the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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MySportsbook.com put up the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds late on Sunday night with the Pittsburgh Steelers favored by 6.5 points and a total betting line at 47.5 points.
Since then, however, the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds have seen a good deal of movement and you’ll want to be on top of where they are likely to move to make sure you get the best line value for the big game.
Since opening, the Super Bowl 2009 betting lines went to Steelers -7 in the span of roughly 3 hours but were quickly bought back down just minutes later to 6.5 again.
After that is took about 5-6 more hours before the betting line went back to -7 where it has sat for a while now and is likely to remain. The opening betting total of 47.5 was bet down right after the line became available and went to 47 within minutes.
Roughly a day later it has been bet even further down to the 46.5 tally it currently is set at.
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FOOTBALL BETTING : Crabtree's base deal: six years, $32 million
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In the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree.
And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so.
Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal.
So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent. And we've gotten our mitts into them.
Per a league source, Crabtree has signed a six-year, $32 million contract. (The total includes guaranteed money, base salaries, and the one-time incentive based on achieving minimum playing time.)
The deal also includes $17 million in guaranteed money.
As reported elsewhere, the deal can void to five years based on performance triggers, wiping out a final year base salary of $4 million. But they won't be easily reached.
The source tells us that, in his first four seasons (including 2009), Crabtree must either qualify for two Pro Bowls, or he must qualify for one Pro Bowl in one year and he must participate in 80 percent of the offensive snaps in a separate year in which the team makes the playoffs.
In other words, if in 2010 he qualifies for the Pro Bowl and the team makes the playoffs and he participates in 80 percent of the snaps, he'll still need to make it to the Pro Bowl or achieve the 80-percent/playoffs in another season.
Since the chances of Crabtree making the Pro Bowl or participating in 80 percent of the offensive snaps this year is roughly zero percent, he'll have three years to get it done.
And it won't be easy. Frankly, he'll be hard pressed to make it to one Pro Bowl in three years with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith, the other Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks, DeSean Jackson, Johnny Knox, Percy Harvin, Greg Jennings, Roddy White, T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the same conference for sportsbook betting.
So, by all appearances, it's a six-year deal. And at $17 million in guaranteed money, the per-year guarantee is a tepid $2.83 million per year.
There's another problem with the deal -- it has no mid-tier incentive package. Instead, the additional $8 million that Crabtree can earn (pushing the max value to six years, $40 million) requires the kind of unrealistic, mega-star performances that no rookie is likely to ever achieve.
So while the contract paid to Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji covers five years and pays $22.5 million, he has the ability (if he's a solid player) to make up the difference between his base deal and Crabtree's five-year, $28 million haul via the mid-tier incentive package in Raji's deal.
And unless Crabtree meets the performance thresholds necessary to void the sixth year, he'll be stuck under contract for another year at a base salary of only $4 million.
There's one other area of concern with the deal. Crabtree, per the source, received no option bonus. Instead, he has significant money tied to a fairly new device known as a "discretionary salary advance," which unlike an opition bonus is subject to forfeiture if Crabtree decides in a year or two that he wants to hold out for a better deal. (We're also told that the 49ers have included language that would make certain escalators subject to forfeiture, too.)
Meanwhile, the deal falls well short of the mark for which Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were aiming -- the five-year, $38.25 million contract paid by the Raiders to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the draft.
Even if Crabtree successfully voids the final year, he'll make more than $2 million per year less on average than Heyward-Bey.
Thus, as we explained earlier in the day, this is a deal that Crabtree could have done in July, which would have given him a much better chance of making a contribution to the 49ers during his rookie year.
So while the final outcome can be described as win-win, the broader view suggests that it's really a lose-lose situation.
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