Niners halt six-game slide and get first win under Singletary
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11/16/2008 -
San Francisco, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Shaun Hill threw for two touchdowns and
ran for another score, and Frank Gore rushed for two more TDs, as the San Francisco 49ers crushed the St. Louis Rams, 35-16, at Candlestick Park to give
interim head coach Mike Singletary his first triumph with the club.
Hill tallied 213 yards through the air, barely missing his career-high of 217
yards, on 15-of-20 passing for the Niners (3-7), who saw their six-game slide
become history. Gore racked up 106 yards on 18 touches, while Bryant Johnson
and Vernon Davis had TD receptions. Isaac Bruce had one catch for 20 yards in
the first game against his former team.
Marc Bulger was an 34-of-53 for 295 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions
for the Rams (2-8), who have dropped four straight contests. Antonio Pittman
gained 95 yards on 14 carries, while Donnie Avery grabbed a career-high nine
passes for 93 yards. Dane Looker had a touchdown grab and Josh Brown made 3-
of-4 field goal attempts.
The Rams were given a couple of bad breaks in the first half as left tackle,
and former number one pick, Orlando Pace went down with an apparent knee
injury. Right guard Richie Incognito also left with a strained shoulder just
before halftime. Neither player returned to the game.
On the second drive of the game, the Niners needed just four plays to open the
scoring. A five-yard touchdown run from Gore capped the 34-yard with 6:37
remaining in the first quarter.
The Rams countered with a 24-yard field goal from Brown to make it 7-3 early
in the second, but San Fran had an answer.
San Fran started at its own 31, and on first down Hill hit Bruce for a 20-
yard gain. Hill then hit Johnson for a 42-yard gain down to the St. Louis
seven. Three plays later, Davis hauled in a two-yard touchdown to give the
home team a 14-3 cushion.
On the Rams second play of their ensuing drive, Bulger coughed up the ball
and Parys Haralson recovered at the St. Louis 16. It took Gore four plays to
find paydirt, the finale a one-yard score.
"We have to find a way to score touchdowns when we get the opportunity," said
Bulger. "We came out fast, but weren't able to capitalize completely on our
opportunities. We didn't execute. It's up to us to make the plays."
Following a Walt Harris pick, Hill ran in a one-yard score to close out a
seven-play, 60-yard drive that made it a 25-point game.
"We know the second half of the season we need to have a sense of urgency and
we'd love to have started it last week, but it just didn't work out so we had
to start it this week without a doubt," said Hill. "So it was great to get
that (first) win for Coach Singletary and hopefully get this ball rolling."
On the heels of a Nate Clements interception, Hill connected with Johnson on a
fade route in the left corner of the end zone late in the second quarter to
make it 35-3 heading into the break.
The Rams have been outscored 75-3 in the first half over the past two weeks.
Brown hit a 48-yard field goal late in the third quarter, and then nailed a
44-yarder as time expired to make it 35-9.
Bulger hit Looker for a two-yard score late in the fourth frame to account
for the final margin.
Game Notes
Bruce spent the first 14 seasons of his career with St. Louis (1994-2007)
before being released after 197 games with the team in the offseason and
signing with the 49ers. He caught 942 passes with the Rams, posting 14,109
receiving yards and 84 touchdowns -- all franchise records...The Rams have
been outscored 116-25 over the last three games.
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SPORTS BETTING - Tennis is an underrated and under-utilized bettors' sport.
Ten years ago, at just about this time, I called Alan Boston in Vegas and left him a voicemail that went something like this (abridged version): "Hey Alan, Chad Millman from ESPN The Magazine calling. I want to do a book about wise guys, you in?"
A couple weeks later I got a message back (abridged version): "I don't know, maybe," Boston said. "Call me and we'll talk about it. But not later today. I got $1,000 on Andre Agassi to win the French Open at 40-1, and he's in the finals."
Here's what happened next (abridged version): Agassi won his tourney. Boston won his $40,000. I wrote sportsbook.
In the ten years since, how much has been wagered on the big-time tennis events? Put it this way: The Nevada Gaming Commission doesn't even track the number year by year because it's so small.
"Tennis makes up about one-tenth of one percent of our take," says Lucky's bookmaking boss Jimmy Vaccaro. "The last big golf major we probably had $100,000 worth of bets. In tennis, we might have written two big tickets."
Tennis' lack of popularity amongst the American bettoratti is no surprise, really. For starters, the biggest sports betting holidays -- the Super Bowl, the NCAA tourney -- are must see TV. People, at least the degenerates I know, plan vacations around watching those events in Vegas sports books.
But Wimbledon? Doesn't exactly reel in the whales. "Seriously, it's the nuts as an event," says Boston. "But who even knows when it's on?"
Here's another reason that helps explain why golf gets traction, something I call "The Bubbe Theory." My Bubbe is pushing 95 and has cataracts so bad that, to her, even the most crystalline Chicago day is mostly cloudy. But she still listens to the Cubs games, and she still calls me in a fit if she disagrees with something Rick Telander writes in the Chicago Sun Times. She's a sports fan. If she doesn't know you, you're just filling a niche. And niche players, even historically good ones like Roger and Raf, don't drive betting volume. Only the highest profile names attract square money, which inflates wagering totals like a shot of saline to the lips. Bubbe, and the public, loved Agassi, tennis' last cross-the-rubicon, mainstream draw. She also has a crush on Tiger. She's given me standing orders to put a sawbuck on the big cat whenever I walk through a sports book (or mistakenly tap into one via my Internet machine.) That explains why the Masters is getting $100K in action at some books while the four tennis majors might not get that combined this year.
This isn't a case of tennis being a difficult sport to bet. In fact, in Europe, it's probably the second most popular sport for gambling after soccer. Granted, as the WSJ football betting last week and The Mag's Shaun Assael examined in even greater depth last year, that might be because gamblers across the pond see it as an easy game to fix. But it could also be because, over there it holds the kind of sway the big two do over here.
Street corners in Spain are peppered with public courts and kids doing their best Raffy impressions. In some war torn parts of Eastern Europe poverty-stricken kids view tennis as an escape route, like football or basketball here. A couple years ago The Mag's Lindsay Berra wrote a great piece about Belgrade's Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic and Novak Djokovic. They learned the game as kids while bombs were raining down on their homeland. They practiced in drained swimming pools. Not exactly Nick Bolletierri conditions.
In the United States, casual fans think tennis is played four times a year. But on the tightly packed European continent, national interest in homegrown talent runs deep every weekend. Of the ATP's current top 20 players, only two, tennis betting and James Blake, are American. Fourteen are from Europe, representing six different countries.
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