{"id":5854,"date":"2009-10-01T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/kansas-odds-hendrick-trio-leads-way-at-kansas\/"},"modified":"2009-10-01T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T20:17:00","slug":"kansas-odds-hendrick-trio-leads-way-at-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/kansas-odds-hendrick-trio-leads-way-at-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Odds &#8211; Hendrick Trio Leads Way At Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Before you get into your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sports-betting\/football\/nfl\/nfl-week-4-matchups\" title=\"NFL Week 4 matchups\">NFL Week 4 <span class=SpellE>matchups<\/span><\/a>, check out Sunday&#8217;s Price Chopper 400, the third race of the Chase for the Sprint Cup. The first two races have been won by <span class=SpellE>Hendrick<\/span> drivers, and they&#8217;ll win a third, but it won&#8217;t be either of the drivers sitting atop the points standings. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:State><st1:place><b><font size=3   face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Kansas<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/st1:place><\/st1:State><b><span style='font-weight:bold'> Odds &#8211; Sunday, October 4, <\/span><\/b><st1:time Hour=\"14\" Minute=\"0\"><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>2:00 PM ET<\/span><\/b><\/st1:time><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Jimmie Johnson (+350):<\/span><\/font><\/b> The No.48 driver won this race last year from the pole, and he just completed a season sweep at <st1:City><st1:place>Dover<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> by romping through the field last week. He&#8217;s finished in the top 10 in five of his seven trips to <st1:State><st1:place>Kansas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, and his 4.9 average <span class=GramE>start<\/span> is top among active drivers. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Mark Martin (+500):<\/span><\/font><\/b> The <span class=GramE>points<\/span> leader came in second to Johnson last week after winning at <st1:State><st1:place>New Hampshire<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, and he won this race in 2005. He finished 18<sup>th<\/sup> at Kansas last year, but we all know he is in much better equipment now, and he&#8217;s on a run of five straight top-five finishes. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Jeff Gordon (+700):<\/span><\/font><\/b> Gordon won the first two races at <st1:State><st1:place>Kansas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in 2001 and 2002, and he&#8217;s flying under the radar due to his <span class=SpellE>Hendrick<\/span> teammates, Johnson and Martin. This makes him even more valuable to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sportsbook\" title=sportsbook>sportsbook<\/a>&nbsp;players, as he offers better value than the favorites, and he&#8217;s proven to be great at this track. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Juan Pablo Montoya (+1000):<\/span><\/font><\/b> Even though he has an average of 24.0 in two races here, numbers don&#8217;t matter to the No.42 team this year as they&#8217;re miles ahead of where they were. He&#8217;s finished in the top three in three of his last four races, and momentum is a crazy thing in sports. <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Clint Bowyer (+2500):<\/span><\/font><\/b> Here&#8217;s your <span class=SpellE>longshot<\/span> pick if you want a big reward in your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.payperhead.com\" title=\"gambling software\">gambling software<\/a>. Bowyer&#8217;s 7.7 <span class=GramE>average<\/span> is the best among active drivers, but that is only through three <st1:State><st1:place>Kansas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> races. However, this is his home track, and a win would be a bright spot in what has been an awful season for Bowyer, his No.33 team and the entire <span class=SpellE>RCR<\/span> organization.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>PICK<\/span><\/font><\/b>: Someone needs to stop this from being a two-horse race between Johnson and Martin, and who better to do it than their teammate with four championship titles? Go with Jeff Gordon in your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesportsbetting.org\/\" title=\"sports picks\">sports picks<\/a>. <\/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>Before you get into your NFL Week 4 matchups, check out Sunday&#8217;s Price Chopper 400, the third race of the Chase for the Sprint Cup. The first two races have been won by Hendrick drivers, and they&#8217;ll win a third, but it won&#8217;t be either of the drivers sitting atop the points standings. Kansas Odds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/kansas-odds-hendrick-trio-leads-way-at-kansas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kansas Odds &#8211; Hendrick Trio Leads Way At Kansas<\/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-5854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854","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=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}