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09/18/2007 - Salt Lake City, UT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Los Angeles Galaxy continue their whirl-wind tour of Major League Soccer cities Wednesday when they play Real Salt Lake at Rice-Eccles Stadium.
The match will be the Galaxy's 11th in league play since Aug. 5, with the MLS schedule maker hoping to give every market in the country a chance to see David Beckham and the his L.A. teammates. That hasn't been the case as the English superstar has been out with a knee injury since the SuperLiga final on Aug. 29, as well as a host of other Galaxy players being in and out of the lineup with various injuries.
"We have a game on Wednesday. I know that. It's on the schedule. We have to go and obviously get a win," Galaxy coach Frank Yallop said after his team's 3-1 loss Sunday to Houston.
Yallop is just trying to get through his team's final eight games, with realistic chances of making the playoffs slipping away loss by loss. The Galaxy have lost eight of their last nine league fixtures and are currently last in the league with just 17 points.
"Talk about a long year - I keep saying that, but we are so naive in certain spots," Yallop said of his team giving up two goals on suspect plays to Houston. "We are so naive with our fight and our will to do better. We just expect that another goal has gone in and guys just don't take responsibility. A lot of times, you have to make sure that you feel like something is your fault, and a lot of guys don't. They think that the players think that maybe they could have done in a situation, but they don't take responsibility and that's difficult."
"I've worked with Frank for the (Canadian) national team and in San Jose," Houston head coach Dominic Kinnear said. "He just has to keep his head up. I feel for him because I know the quality of coach he is and he doesn't deserve to get all these losses."
Real Salt Lake isn't in much better shape, just two points clear of the Galaxy in the Western table, but have been showing signs of life after some late season roster moves.
They are coming off a 0-0 tie at Toronto FC, but feel good after forward Fabian Espindola received a red card in the first half of the contest and the team was still hung on for the point on the road.
"We put ourselves in a tough position getting that red card in the first half and we were 60 minutes down a man, but that said we showed a lot of character a lot of fight, and we got out of here with a result," RSL forward Alecko Eskandarian said.
TFC actually peppered goalkeeper Nick Rimando with a team record in shots and shots on goal in an effort to break out of their league-record goalless streak, but the veteran goalkeeper stopped all shots in one of his more impressive performances of the season.
"That's what happens when you go a man down," Rimando said of the number of shots he faced. "You've got to expect that it's going to be a battle and that's what it was. They came after us, you know their fans are amazing, they gave them a little boost and they had their chances but we fought and we came out with a point, on an away game, playing here in Toronto and that's big for us."
"They were knocking on the door all day, and searching for that elusive goal," RSL defender Eddie Pope said. "And, went down a man - our backs were against the wall and they just came at us. Certainly we could have crumbled at some point and given up a goal at some point, but we held together, stuck together we were able to fight, scratch ... all that stuff and get out of here with a point."
That is exactly what L.A. will be trying to do Wednesday in an effort to climb out of the Western basement.
After Wednesday's match, the Galaxy host FC Dallas on Sunday while Real Salt lake hosts Colorado a day earlier.
<< Padilla, Swisher suspended for roles in brawl
Minneapolis, MN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Texas Rangers pitcher Vicente Padilla and
Oakland Athletics outfielder Nick Swisher were suspended Tuesday by Major
League Baseball for their roles in a September 16 altercation.
Padilla was suspende
<< Loss leaves Rams second guessing
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - It's tough to point out a single play and say that it lost
you the game. Regardless, Dante Hall was still probably hiding the box score
from his friends and family on Monday.
Hall, normally electric when returning kicks, w
<< Browns sign P Player
Cleveland, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Cleveland Browns signed veteran punter
Scott Player on Tuesday.
Player, who owns a career 43.1-yard punting average, was released by Arizona
prior to the start of the season.
Player will most li
<< Jags bag easy first win of season
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - If only the Jacksonville Jaguars could play the Atlanta
Falcons every week this season.
Although that would not be fair, since the Falcons have already been getting
kicked while they are down with the Michael Vick situatio
Cardinals hitting the ground running >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - If it is one thing the Arizona Cardinals did not excel at
last season, it was running the football.
Despite landing Edgerrin James via free agency prior to the year, Arizona
finished the 2006 campaign ranked 30th in the NF
49ers take away a key divisional win >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - This past Sunday's game between the San Francisco 49ers and
St. Louis Rams was a classic example of give and take. As in the 49ers offense
giveth and the 49ers defense taketh away.
San Francisco managed just 186 yards of o
Seahawks not on the same page >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - As any good husband or wife will tell you, and as every
bad spouse will attest to, communication is the key to a successful
relationship.
No word yet if Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck has contacted
Kevin Fed
Texas leads Men's State Team Championship >>
The Woodlands, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Defending champion Texas shot a seven-
under 137 Tuesday to lead after one round of the 2007 USGA Men's State Team
Championship.
Led by Trip Kuehne's four-under 68 and Jonathan Mathias' three-under,
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Coaches and bettors alike are desperate to make sense of the new time-keeping rules on the NCAA gridiron. One of the big stories to come out of the Ohio State-Texas clash last weekend was Texas coach Mack Brown's criticism of the NCAA's new clock rules that are intended to shorten the duration of college football games, therefore affecting college football betting.
"They scored with six minutes left and the game was over before we had a chance to do anything," Brown told ESPN.com. "I really hope whoever made these changes will go back and look them over."
Sure, it might be sour grapes; the Buckeyes thoroughly trounced the defending national champion Longhorns 24-7. However, Brown isn't alone in giving the changes their due thought. Bettors are also wondering about them, albeit for a completely different reason. Most experts agree that the changes will result in games being shortened by anywhere from 10 to 20 plays. The obvious consequence is lower scores, with more time rolling off the clock during changes of possession. (The Ohio State-Texas game flew well under the total of 52.)
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Less possessions means a better chance the game will be decided by three or seven points. For example, what might have been a 20-10 final score in 2005 may end at
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*UPDATE* - Sept. 25, 2007
New Clock Rules Boon for online bookmakers
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