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Blues head to LA to battle KingsHockey Betting Lines12/05/2009 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - After defeating the Pacific Division's leader on the road their last time out, the St. Louis Blues will try to knock off the second- place team in this afternoon's clash with the Los Angeles Kings at the Staples Center. The Blues enter this Saturday matinee off a confidence-building shootout victory over the powerful San Jose Sharks, owners of the highest point total in the NHL this season, Monday at HP Pavilion. Andy McDonald and T.J. Oshie each scored during the deciding phase in the 3-2 win, while Carlo Colaiacovo sent the contest into overtime with a dramatic short-handed goal in the final seconds of regulation. St. Louis seemed to be on the way to a third straight loss after Brad Boyes was whistled for a hooking penalty with 1:51 remaining in the third period and the Sharks clinging to a 2-1 lead. However, the Blues managed to sustain enough pressure to pull goaltender Ty Conklin and netted the equalizer when Colaiacovo fired a slapshot from the slot that made its way through traffic and into the net with only seven seconds left on the game clock. McDonald gave St. Louis an early advantage in the shootout when he used a forehand-to-backhand move to put the puck through San Jose netminder Evgeni Nabokov's legs, but the Sharks' Patrick Marleau kept his team alive by beating Conklin in the third and final round. Oshie, who had been 0-for-2 in shootout attempts coming in, then fired a wrist shot between the unsuspecting Nabokov's legs to end the game "You've got to give [the Blues] credit, they played all the way to the end," a disappointed Sharks defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic said afterward. "And they got two points, which I thought we should have deserved but we gave them up." The Blues don't figure to have an easy task ahead of them today as well, considering the Kings have won three straight games and are coming off an impressive 6-3 home triumph over Ottawa on Thursday. Justin Williams led the way with two goals and an assist to back a 27-save effort from goaltender Jonathan Quick. Los Angeles' Drew Doughty snapped a 3-3 tie when he scored on a one-timer off a feed from Anze Kopitar with 5:49 left in the second period, and Williams had both of his tallies in the final 2 1/2 minutes to help the Kings pull away. "It's two points and that's what it's all about," said Los Angeles head coach Terry Murray. "It wasn't pretty, let me just put it that way. There were a lot of things that we were doing that was out of character (from) what I've seen in the last half-a-dozen games. But at the end of the day it's a win, and that's obviously the most important part of it." Wayne Simmonds also had a goal for the Kings and has now notched six points (4 goals, 2 assists) during a five-game scoring streak. In injury news, Kings defenseman Rob Scuderi missed his eighth consecutive game with a lower-body injury on Thursday. The offseason acquisition is considered questionable to return to action this afternoon. These teams met in St. Louis on October 10, with Los Angeles coming away with a 2-1 win behind 29 saves from Quick. The Kings took three of their four matchups with the Blues last season, and St. Louis has lost in each of its last three trips to the Staples Center.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL BETTINGNCAA Football Betting : USC's reward: Top spot in Top 25NEW YORK (AP) -By staying away from the cupcakes, Southern California earned itself a slim new ranking. No. 1 always seems to fit USC. Southern California jumped two spots to No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 on Tuesday, rewarded by voters for opening the season with a dominant performance on the road against a BCS conference opponent. Georgia and Ohio State, the preseason Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, started their seasons with glorified scrimmages at home against FCS (formerly I-AA) teams. USC, however, traveled across country to face Virginia and could not have been more impressive in a 52-7 victory. Georgia fell to No. 2 and Ohio State to No 3. "We realize that rankings so early in a season are certainly fluid. But rankings do help establish a pecking order for things later in the season," USC coach Pete Carroll said in a statement. "As for moving into the No. 1 spot, it's nice to know that people think highly of our team." Since reaching No. 1 on Dec. 7, 2003, the final-regular season AP poll of that season, USC has been No. 1 in 39 polls, by far the most of any team during that time. "Some have said the voters are taking our schedule into consideration," Carroll said. "Our philosophy has always been to schedule outstanding opponents. We need to play challenging games like we just did, traveling across the country to open the season at Virginia. Games like that bring out our best and make us stronger as a team." The latest voting was close. USC received 21 first-place votes and 1,539 points from the 65-member media panel. Georgia had 20 first-place votes and 1,506 points. Ohio State got 15 first-place votes and 1,497 points. "I'd say we've evolved as pollsters," said Stewart Mandel of SI.com, who moved USC up to No. 1. "In the past, voters just kind of automatically moved teams up and kept teams where they were if they won." Georgia beat Georgia Southern 45-21 on Saturday and Ohio State opened with a 43-0 win over Youngstown State. "There's a bit of a growing backlash for the amount of teams that open with I-AA cupcakes," said Mandel, whose book "Bowls, Polls and Tattered Souls" chronicles college football's controversies. "To see a team [USC] go on the road and play a New Year's Day bowl team from last season, and not only play them but destroy them, how could you not reward that team?" USC also jumped past Georgia to No. 1 in the USA Today coaches' poll, which has the same top five as the AP poll. "It's definitely a privilege to be No. 1. But it's not heartbreaking to me if we drop," Georgia offensive lineman Josh Davis said. "It doesn't matter right now what we're ranked. What matters is our next game and right now, that's Central Michigan. The only time the polls matter is in December. That's when the polls matter." While the Bulldogs opened easy, their schedule ultimately should be as difficult as any team's. Georgia's big nonconference test is at No. 15 Arizona State on Sept. 20. The Bulldogs also face six Southeastern Conference rivals that've been ranked in the first two polls. As for Ohio State, the Buckeyes play at USC on Sept. 13 before getting into the Big Ten schedule. But of the teams in this week's top 10, USC and Texas are the only ones that don't play an FCS opponent, and the Trojans are the only team that doesn't play a team from a non-BCS conference. Get the latest 2009 BCS Championship odds at MySportsbook.com. The last team to drop from No. 1 after a victory was USC last season. LSU jumped from No. 2 to No. 1 when it beat Tulane 34-9, the same week the Trojans edged Washington 27-24 on the road. The last preseason No. 1 team to lose the top spot after winning its opening game was Florida in 2001. The Gators beat Marshall 49-14, but preseason No. 2 Miami opened with a 33-7 victory over Penn State and the Hurricanes jumped to No. 1 with Florida slipping to second. The next four teams in the new Top 25 stayed the same: No. 4 Oklahoma (two first-place votes), No. 5 Florida (five first-place votes), No. 6 Missouri (one first-place vote), No. 7 LSU (one first-place vote) and No. 8 West Virginia. No. 9 Auburn and No. 10 Texas each moved up a spot, taking advantage of Clemson's big drop. Clemson, ninth in the preseason, fell out after losing 34-10 to Alabama on Saturday. Also falling out after losses were Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh and Tennessee. Moving into the rankings were No. 21 Fresno State, No. 22 Utah, No. 23 UCLA and No. 24 South Carolina. Alabama moved up 11 spots after its big victory over Clemson. The second 10 started with No. 11 Wisconsin, followed by Texas Tech, Alabama and Kansas. BYU and Arizona State were tied for 15th. Rivals BYU and Utah are both ranked for the first time since 1996. South Florida was No. 17, ahead of Oregon, Penn State and Wake Forest at No. 20. The final five were all the teams to move into the ranking, except for Illinois, which dropped four spots and tied South Carolina for No. 24. Get free Sports Betting lines RSS feeds from top rated online sportsbook MySportsbook.com March Madness odds and printable March Madness brackets With the field of 64/65 set, MySportsbook.com has the Florida Gators as the 4-1 favorite to successfully defend their National Championship. Men’s Division-1 College Basketball has not seen a team repeat as National Champions since Duke won back to back championships in ’91 & ‘92. After losing three out of four late in the season, the Gators are full of momentum as they won their last four games by an average of 18 points. Not surprisingly, right behind the Gators are the other three top seeds: Kansas 5-1, UNC 6-1, and Ohio State 7-1. Many consider Kansas to be the hottest team in the country, having won 11 straight. With Kansas, it is hard to ignore all of the early exits from the “dance” in recent years. With an impressive ACC Tournament, UNC ensured themselves the other top seed. UNC has about as much talent as any other team in the tournament but with a team that’s best players are primarily freshman and sophomores, could youth be a concern. Behind freshman sensation, Greg Oden, OSU will look to do what their football team failed to do just a few months earlier. OSU seems to have peeked at the right time, as they currently have a 17 game winning streak. Since the tournament field was expanded in 1985, there has never been an instance where all four #1 seeds advanced to the Final Four. It is obvious that each of the top seeds have the talent to make it through to Atlanta. 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