D.C., Dallas take mid-week confidence boost into weekend
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05/07/2010 -
Frisco, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - D.C. United and FC Dallas, the two last place
teams in their respective conferences, square off in a Major League Soccer
clash on Saturday night.
While both teams have gotten off to slow starts this season, both are also
feeling good after earning mid-week victories.
United (1-5-0) got two goals from forward Danny Allsopp to top the Kansas City Wizards 2-1 at RFK Stadium on Wednesday.
"Obviously it feels great," United coach Curt Onalfo said of his team
collecting its first win of the season. "It's just one win but it's
certainly an important one. What we've dealt with over five weeks in terms of
adversity has been very trying and I commend our group for not letting any
negativity enter into our group and understanding along the way what it takes
to win games in this league. It takes hard work, it takes sacrifice, it takes
playing every play like it's the last. We had a very good, hard-fought,
workmanlike effort for 90 minutes and it's really encouraging to get the
victory."
United rookie Bill Hamid also stepped in goal and played very well in place of
veteran Matt Pickens, who has been disappointing so far this season.
"I thought [Hamid] performed extremely well," Onalfo said. "He's 19-years-old
and it's his first MLS game. I think he looked a little bit shaky on a couple
of plays but that's normal but he's a gamer and that's the kind of performance
he put in during preseason and that's the reason why he's our backup. I'm
proud of his performance and I thought he had a really solid game."
Dallas (1-1-4) is also coming off its first win of the season after earning
draws in four of its first five league fixtures to start the season. A 1-0
result at Houston while playing down a man is as good as it gets for Dallas
faithful.
"I think the team is on the right track and I think it was a heck of an effort
[at Houston on Wednesday]," FCD coach Schellas Hyndman told mlssoccer.com.
"Maybe I'm a stubborn coach, but I look at that as the level of expectation.
You expect your players to work hard, you expect your players to be physical
and you expect your players to be courageous."
Ugo Ihemelu scored the game winner with a little over 10 minutes to play when
he knocked home a Dax McCarty's free kick. The kick was headed by Brek Shea
to Ihemelu, who headed it home from close range.
FC Dallas will be without defender Jair Benitez on Saturday because of the red
card he received late in the game on Wednesday. Also out are defender Kyle
Davies and midfielder Marvin Chavez with injury issues.
OUnited will be without defenders Marc Burch, Dejan Jakovic and Bryan Namoff,
and forward Chris Pontius, while defender Julius James is questionable and
defenders Juan Manuel Pena, Barry Rice and Clyde Simms are probable, all with
injuries.
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NFL owners, already life's biggest winners, want to try their luck with the lottery.
That was the news out of their meetings last week, where team bosses voted unanimously to allow stamping state and local lottery tickets with franchise logos, if, ahem, any governments wanted to do a deal.
A shocker: Within days the Pats announced they'd be sponsoring the Massachusetts state lottery, the Skins said they'd slap their sticker on Virginia scratch-offs and the Ravens admitted they were talking to Maryland lottery bosses. In all likelihood, it won't be long before every team is a presenting sponsor of scratch-offs or just plain old pick fives. "The change in policy was approved 32-0," said NFL spokesman Greg Aiello. "So you can expect to see more deals soon."
It's a branding opportunity too big for the owners to ignore, and one a couple of dozen baseball franchises have enjoyed for years. The fact the NFL has been slower to act than those slack-brained Seligites is indicative of its complicated relationship with all forms of gambling. Consider this: Last Thursday, as the Pats and the Redskins finalized their new lottery deals, a lawyer representing the NFL argued before Delaware's Supreme Court that the state's newly signed sports betting law should be repealed.
The NFL betting is the face of opposition to sports gambling . And as much as it would like to share that responsibility with other leagues, that's not going to happen as long as more than 40% of all money legally wagered on games is bet on football. That's why the Brewers can do a multi-million dollar deal with a local casino, or the Celtics can make their own pact with the Mass lottery, and the response is, "Sweet, let's play." But when the NFL does it the stakes are higher, and everyone from NPR's Frank Deford to the Associated Press to the guys blogging at Deadspin will line up to play gotcha.
So I asked Aiello, who surely knew there'd be piling on, how the league can rail against being bait for sports bettors, then allow its franchises to be just that for lotteries, the most insidious and addictive form of gambling around. He emailed me this response: "We are not moral crusaders. NFL personnel are permitted to engage in legal forms of gambling, except for betting on NFL games. We are making a distinction here between the spread of gambling on the outcome of our games and supporting state lottery scratch-off games, that have nothing to do with the outcome of our games."
Here's where I should rip him. But, the thing is, he's right. Not to get Obama on you, but this is a complicated, nuanced issue. As much as lotteries are considered a tax on the poor, the NFL isn't a socially obligated government program -- it's just a business. Scratch-off's help the bottom line, sports betting doesn't.
Now, it's okay to call the league hypocritical when it releases injury reports, which players have told me only helps bettors … But when it supports other forms of gaming? Big Deal.
Now, it's okay to call the league hypocritical when it releases injury reports, which players have told me only helps bettors. And it's okay to mutter something obscene when the league pretends gambling doesn't help drive TV ratings and fan interest and put money in owners' pockets. But when it supports other forms of gaming? Big Deal. The Bears should put an orange "C" on every deck of cards dealt at Harrah's in Joliet; the Eagles should slap their logo on roulette wheels at the Borgata in Atlantic City; the Dolphins should hold training camp at the El San Juan in Puerto Rico.
Seriously.
The NFL's problem, when it comes to the gambling world, isn't hypocrisy, it's worse: The bosses lack vision. That's why the league is picking unwinnable fights in Delaware and taking pot shots from critics after making smart sponsorship deals. Roger Goodell and his gang are acting and thinking locally rather than globally, which is rare for them, especially compared to their professional (and amateur) counterparts.
The NBA held its All Star game in Las Vegas and David Stern's kingdom didn't crumble (although the town did bring plenty of players to their knees.) I'd say it's 6 to 5 and pick 'em that Lebron will make a road swing through Sin City before his career is over.
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