{"id":3730,"date":"2009-03-11T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/world-baseball-classic-tiger-woods-and-montreal-canadians-top-online-betting-report\/"},"modified":"2009-03-11T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T15:49:00","slug":"world-baseball-classic-tiger-woods-and-montreal-canadians-top-online-betting-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/world-baseball-classic-tiger-woods-and-montreal-canadians-top-online-betting-report\/","title":{"rendered":"World Baseball Classic, Tiger Woods, and Montreal Canadians Top Online Betting Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/\">online betting<\/a> news features several teams going in different directions. In NHL betting, the <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Montreal <span class=SpellE>Canadiens<\/span><\/span> pulled out a dramatic victory last night over <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Edmonton<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in their first game since firing head coach Guy <span class=SpellE>Carbonneau<\/span>. Longtime captain <span class=SpellE>Saku<\/span> <span class=SpellE>Koivu<\/span> tied the game late and scored the overtime winner.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Those who bet on hockey need to watch <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Montreal<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> closely down the home stretch in the Stanley Cup odds. <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>Hockey teams often catch fire, at least temporarily, with new coaches<\/span>. The Penguins have won nine of 10 with new coach Dan <span class=SpellE>Bylsma<\/span> at the helm, so the <span class=SpellE>Habs<\/span>, who joined the Pens as top Eastern Conference contenders to start the season, could follow suit with Bob <span class=SpellE>Gainey<\/span> behind the bench. You might want to place a few bets on the <span class=SpellE>Habs<\/span> soon while they&#8217;re<span class=GramE>&nbsp; still<\/span> undervalued.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><span class=GramE><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Speaking of undervalued, raise your hand if you saw <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>the <\/span><\/span><\/font><\/span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span   class=GramE><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Netherlands<\/span><\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><span class=GramE><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&#8217; <i><span style='font-style:italic'>two straight victories <\/span><\/i>over the <\/span><\/span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span   class=GramE><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Dominican Republic<\/span><\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><span class=GramE> coming in World Baseball Classic betting.<\/span> If you did, you&#8217;re probably filthy rich now. Unbelievably, the <st1:country-region><st1:place>Netherlands<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> shocked the Dominicans for the second game in a row, winning an extra-innings thriller. Since many people considered the Dominicans the odds-on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sportsbook\/default.aspx\">sportsbook<\/a> favorites entering the tournament, the World Baseball Classic is anyone&#8217;s bet. Defending champion <st1:country-region><st1:place>Japan<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> still looks strong while the <st1:country-region><st1:place><span   style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>U.S.<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>, by far the deepest team in the tournament, is probably the safest pick to win<\/span> it all right now.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/betting-edge\/basketball\">NBA betting<\/a>, a wounded powerhouse is ripe for the picking these days. The hobbled <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Celtics should be without five regulars against <\/span><\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:   bold'>Miami<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'> tonight <\/span>&#8211; including Kevin Garnett and <span class=SpellE>Rajon<\/span> Rondo. That makes the Heat, who <span class=GramE>are<\/span> riding Dwayne <span class=SpellE>Wade&#8217;s<\/span> massive MVP push, an attractive sportsbook pick. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On the links, <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Tiger Woods makes his long-awaited return to stroke play<\/span> tomorrow at the <span class=SpellE>WGC<\/span>-CA Championship. Some online betting fans may stay away from him, as he certainly showed rust at the World Match Play Championship two weeks ago. However, Tiger owns Doral, so his comfort at the course could balance out any kinks.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The best sports picks are at <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><font color=blue><span style='color:blue;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/b><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s online betting news features several teams going in different directions. In NHL betting, the Montreal Canadiens pulled out a dramatic victory last night over Edmonton in their first game since firing head coach Guy Carbonneau. Longtime captain Saku Koivu tied the game late and scored the overtime winner. Those who bet on hockey need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/world-baseball-classic-tiger-woods-and-montreal-canadians-top-online-betting-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Baseball Classic, Tiger Woods, and Montreal Canadians Top Online Betting Report<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}