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The second leg of the 2008 Triple Crown series runs this weekend.

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The 2008 Preakness Stakes is set this Saturday, May 17 at Pimlico in Baltimore, Maryland as horse bettors from around the world can now look at the odds on whose going to win the $1 million purse.

The second and shortest leg of the 2008 Triple Crown trail, this year’s Preakness Stakes could be the start of a historic feat for the Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown.

If Big Brown wins the Preakness Stakes, he’ll only be needing one more win at the Belmont Stakes to be crowned the first Triple Crown series champion for quite a while.

Horse bettors can also look at other contenders who will be competing for the Preakness Stakes title. Behindatthebar, trained by Todd Pletcher and is coming from the Padua Stables, is the Lexington Stakes winner and has never been worse than second in four starts on synthetic surfaces.

Giant Moon, who is owned by Albert Fried, Jr., was the Count Fleet winner and has finished fourth, behind Tale of Ekati, War Pass and Court Vision, in the Wood Memorial (G1) at Aqueduct last April 5th. He’ll also be challenging Big Brown for…

Who’ll be playing for the biggest title on ice?

The 2008 NHL playoffs is heating up as teams inch closer to the highly coveted Stanley Cup. Who could be playing for it? Read on.

From the Eastern Conference, No.2 seed Pittsburgh Penguins continue their run in the 2008 NHL Playoffs. Thanks mainly to their team captain Sidney Crosby. Sidney Crosby’s leadership has been the main factor, doing his part in scoring which is tied for second with 15 points in the postseason.

‘’He never takes a shift off,’’ forward Max Talbot said. ‘’That’s the thing about him. He’s the best player in the world and the best worker on the team. It’s impossible for that not to make an impression.’’

Taking game one of the best of seven series against the Philadelphia Flyers was big for the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Penguins are 6-0 at home in the playoffs for the first time in franchise history and they have a good chance of making it all the way to the 2008 NHL Stanley Cup finals.

Meanwhile, in the Western Conference, the Detroit Red Wings took game 1 of their seven game series against the Dallas Stars. The Red Wings showed no signs of rust then, coming off a six-day lay off.

The Red Wings scored three power-play goals against a strong Dallas Stars penalty-killing unit. The Red Wings also improved to 6-0 at home and is one of the contenders for this year’s Stanley Cup.

Detroit was much quicker and consistently breaking…

Manchester United, champions of English football!

The 2007-08 English Premier League season finally concluded with the usual suspects, Man-U, winning the coveted English football title after beating Wigan 2-0 on the final day of the season.

This is now the 10th Premier League championship the Manchester United Red Devils have won in the last 16 years. Talk about domination huh? After taking it away from Chelsea last season, Man-U made sure that their title win last year was no fluke after successfully defending their crown despite the slow start to the season.

Speaking of Chelsea FC, they had the opportunity to make this year’s Premiership title chase interesting. They were up against Bolton on the final day of the season, holding a 1-0 lead. They could’ve had a 2-0 win over Bolton and steal the title away from their rivals from Man-U by taking over the points lead in the standings, instead, they gave up a goal merely a few minutes before the match ended, ending up with a 1-1 draw to the Bolton Wanderers and two points behind Man-U after the anticlimactic finish.

In the end, Manchester United finished with 87 championship points to win this year’s Premiership while Chelsea FC wound up with 85. This was the closest finish for the Premiership since Man-U edged Arsenal by a single point back in 1999.

Now, Manchester United, with 10 Premiership titles, will continue to chase the all-time record set by Liverpool of 18 league titles. Sure, these guys still have a long way to go before they get there but with young guns Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney on their side, eight more Premierships are not that too difficult to…

SBG Global Opening Line: Yankees - 124, Total 9 Under -120

The New York Yankees will try and win their fourth straight game on Tuesday as they open up a series against the Cleveland Indians. The Yankees swept the Mariners over the weekend, getting excellent starting pitching. New York’s starting pitchers had a 2.00 ERA in the series against Seattle, giving up just four runs and two walks over 18 innings. It also helped on Sunday in the win over the Mariners that Derek Jeter went 4-for-5 and Hideki Matsui extended his hitting streak to 14 games. The Yankees scored 19 runs and batted .324 against Seattle in their series.
SBG Global reports that early MLB betting has the public taking Yankees at Home.

New York will go with Andy Pettitte on Tuesday. Pettitte is 3-3 with an ERA of 3.93. He allowed three runs and seven hits in six innings of a 6-2 loss to the Tigers on Wednesday. He is 6-8 with a 4.63 ERA in 17 starts versus the Indians. The Yankees have usually owned the Indians in the regular season. They are 12-5 against Cleveland since 2006 including a four game split last month at Cleveland.

SBG Global Current Line: Yankees - 124, Total 9 Under -120

The Indians have had major trouble lately scoring runs. They have the second worst average in the American League. They were shut out on Sunday by Kansas City 2-0 on just four hits…

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Betting on the latest tennis tournament on clay was almost put to sleep.

The 2008 French Open at Roland Garros is merely days away before it kicks off. However, organizers of the clay court tournament want to stop any betting activity whatsoever on the coming Grand Slam event.

Luckily for sports betting fans, major online gambling companies fended off a legal challenge from French Open organizers to stop betting activities on the coming Grand Slam tournament. A liege court ruled that those online gambling companies are not violating any rights of the French tennis federation by offering bets for French Open matches.

The French tennis federation claimed that online betting has already stained the reputation of the French Open, especially after all those scandals Internet gambling found itself into. Because of this, the federation decided to sue three companies namely; Betfair, bwin and Ladbrokes.
Unfortunately for the federation, the court ruled in favor of the three.

In a statement, the European Gaming & Betting Association said the court had concluded ”these operators had behaved in a prudent and diligent manner.”

”EU-licensed bookmakers are professionals that have a high level of expertise, know-how and risk management skills. This has been clearly recognized by the Belgian judge looking at the fact-based evidence to dismiss all the claims in this case,” EGBA Secretary General Sigrid Ligne said.

”The judge also considered that the simple mention of…