{"id":4732,"date":"2009-06-24T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/college-world-series-odds-overshadowed-by-ed-thomas-murder\/"},"modified":"2009-06-24T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T18:43:00","slug":"college-world-series-odds-overshadowed-by-ed-thomas-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/college-world-series-odds-overshadowed-by-ed-thomas-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"College World Series Odds Overshadowed by Ed Thomas Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today in the Daily Sports Roundup: American mourns the senseless and cowardly murder of legendary <\/span><\/font><\/span>Parkersburg<\/span><\/st1:City>, <\/span>Iowa<\/span><\/st1:State><\/st1:place> high school football coach Ed Thomas. The Waterloo Courier is reporting that one of his former players Mark Becker has been charged. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Maria Sharapova<\/span> has been upset in the <\/span><\/font><\/span>Wimbledon<\/span><\/st1:place> betting, while Roger Federer advanced. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span><\/font><\/span>Rockies<\/span><\/st1:place> continue their series in <\/span>Los Angeles<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, the Diamondbacks host the Rangers, and the Phillies take on the Rays.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

The College World Series odds<\/span><\/font><\/a><\/u> has the Championship Game 3 LSU-Texas has LSU -150 in the rubber match at Rosenblatt Stadium<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Meeting up on the diamond . . .<\/font><\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jason Marquis (9-4, 3.71 ERA) will be gunning for his 10th<\/sup> win of the season on Wednesday night when his Rockies play on the road against the Angels and Joe Saunders (7-4, 3.80 ERA). <\/span>Colorado<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has a 6-1 record in Marquis’ last seven trips to the mound, and the righthander<\/span> held the Pirates to three earned runs over 8 2-3 innings of work in his last start. Lefthander Saunders took a no-decision against the Dodgers in his last outing, giving up four earned runs in 6 1-3 innings pitched.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Diamondbacks’ Dan Haren<\/span> (6-4, 2.23 ERA) will get the ball at home on Wednesday against the Rangers and Vicente Padilla (5-3, 4.79 ERA). Righthander<\/span> Haren<\/span> has surrendered two or fewer earned runs in each of his past five outings, giving up just 22 hits in 38 innings of work. Righthander<\/span> Padilla was stuck with a no-decision in his last outing against the Astros, allowing three earned runs over his six innings. The Rangers are 7-3 in Padilla’s last 10 outings.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Back east, the Phillies will send Joe Blanton (4-3, 5.28 ERA) to the mound in Tampa Bay on Wednesday night against the Rays and Matt Garza (4-5, 3.83 ERA). Righthander<\/span> Blanton has surrendered only seven earned runs over his last three starts, but <\/span>Philadelphia<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> went 0-3 in those three contests. Righthander<\/span> Garza hasn’t picked up a victory since beating the Indians back on May 16, with his team going 2-4 in his last six starts. Garza lost to the <\/span>Rockies<\/span><\/st1:place> in his last start.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the diamond on Wednesday it’ll be St. Louis at the Mets, the Cubs at Detroit, Cleveland at Pittsburgh, Boston at Washington, Cincinnati at Toronto, Baltimore at Florida, the Yankees at Atlanta, Minnesota at Milwaukee, the Dodgers at the White Sox, San Francisco at Oakland, and San Diego at Seattle. As well, the Royals will continue their three-game set in <\/span>Houston<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, with KC’s Luke Hochevar<\/span> (2-3, 6.61 ERA) set to take on Astros ace Roy Oswalt (3-4, 4.48 ERA).<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Today in the Daily Sports Roundup: American mourns the senseless and cowardly murder of legendary Parkersburg, Iowa high school football coach Ed Thomas. The Waterloo Courier is reporting that one of his former players Mark Becker has been charged. Maria Sharapova has been upset in the Wimbledon betting, while Roger Federer advanced. The Rockies continue … Continue reading College World Series Odds Overshadowed by Ed Thomas Murder<\/span> →<\/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-4732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732","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=4732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}