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British Open is wide open
The 2008 British Open, one of golf’s four Majors, gets going Thursday at the Royal Birkdale course in Southport, Lancashire, England. World No. 1 Tiger Woods will miss his first major tournament in more than 10 years as he recovers from knee surgery. TNT will air the first two days of play, starting at 7 am ET Thursday, and ABC will have coverage of rounds three and four on Saturday and Sunday, starting at 8 am ET.

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No Tiger for this week’s 137th British Open means a wide-open field for PGA golf betting fans.
betED.com British Open betting odds have Sergio Garcia as a slight favorite at +950 to win the US $8.2 million tournament, one of golf’s four Majors, which gets going Thursday at the Royal Birkdale course in Southport, Lancashire, England.

Top spot in NL East up for grabs

First-place in the National League East division will be on the line when the Philadelphia Phillies visit the Florida Marlins for the opener of a three-game series on Friday (7:10 pm ET). The third-place Marlins were just 1 1/2 games back of the division-leading Phillies heading into the All-Star break, with the second-place New York Mets a half game back of the lead.

CFL Week 4 kicks off

Week 4 of the 2008 Canadian Football League season features a pair of weekend tilts: the Montreal Alouettes visit the defending Grey Cup-champion Saskatchewan Roughriders on Saturday (7 pm ET), and the Toronto Argonauts host the Edmonton Eskimos on Sunday (4 pm ET).

Mid-Summer Flaccid

The first half of the yearly epic that is the major league baseball season has come and gone, so tradition dictates that now is the time to look back at what happened.
Well, screw that. While we are dealing with this, the third straight day without any meaningful sports, the question needs to be asked, why is there an All-Star break at all?

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This year’s Open Championship takes place at Royal Birkdale on the Lancashire coastline where the world’s finest golfers will be lining up to claim the third major of the golfing year. Here at Sportingbet we’ve got the best odds on this great event. Why not open an account with us? We have £150 worth of Free Bets available if you get started now. Of course there is one major absentee this year and that is world number 1 Tiger Woods. The great man aggravated his dodgy knee while winning the US Open last month and he’s out for the rest of the season, which means we have the most open Open of the decade! With Tiger out the way who can grab the initiative and lift the Claret Jug? Let’s have a look at some of the big contenders?

Sergio Garcia heads our betting at 9/1 and the Spaniard will be eager to follow in the footsteps of his nations recent heroes: their football team and Rafael Nadal. The world number 7 looked in great shape in the recent European Open where he finished runner-up to Ross Fisher. This performance prompted a rush of money for Garcia and we cut him from 14/1 into 9/1.

Our market leader before Garcia’s London Club exploits was the 2002 winner Ernie Els. The South African has struggled with his form in the last couple of years but has a great Open record famously wining at Muirfield six years ago. Els can be backed at 14/1 to regain the Claret Jug.
There’s no doubt that Lee Westwood’s confidence will be high at the moment after his fantastic third place at last month’s US Open. The Worksop citizen missed out on a play-off by one stroke and heads into the Open a 12/1 chance.

Phil Mickelson has never had a great time at the Open although he did finish third in 2004 and Lefty goes into this major as the highest ranked player in the field. Fancy backing him at 16/1?

Last year Padraig Harrington ended an eight year European major drought when he claimed victory in the Open at Carnoustie. Harrington hasn’t been in the winner’s enclosure since but with the major monkey off his back may be a good bet at 17/1.

Of the other contenders there will be a strong European contingent lining up at Birkdale with Justin Rose (25/1), Robert Karlsson (28/1), European Open winner Ross Fisher (40/1) and Henrik Stenson (50/1) all high in the betting. US Masters champion Trevor Immelman is 50/1 to make it a major double in 2008.

Sergio Garcia 9/1
Lee Westwood 12/1
Ernie Els 14/1
Phil Mickelson 16/1
Padraig Harrington 17/1
Jim Furyk 25/1
Justin Rose 25/1
Vijay Singh 25/1
Luke Donald 50/1
Paul Casey 50/1
Colin Montgomerie 66/1
Mark O’Meara 750/1

We’ll also have a host of other exciting markets available like Top European, Will There Be A Hole In One? and To Make/Miss The Cut.

Harden Has Left the Building
The Oakland Athletics host AL West-division rival Los Angeles Angels Friday night and have penciled in ace Rich Harden for the start (10:05 pm ET). They’ll have to find another hurler, however, as they shipped Harden to the Chicago Cubs in a five-player deal on Tuesday. Oakland is in second place, chasing the Angels for top spot in the division. The Angels will start Jon Garland (8-5, 3.76 ERA) unless, of course, he gets traded.

B.C. Lions Ready to Roar
Football betting fans can get some satisfaction this weekend with a pair of CFL tilts. On Friday, the winless B.C. Lions take on the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (8 pm ET). The Lions will be extra-motivated after last weekend’s sudden passing of team President and CEO Bob Ackles, who also held executive positions with the Dallas Cowboys and other NFL teams. On Saturday, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats host the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Twins and Tigers in Motor City
The Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers go head-to-head in a AL Central-division clash in the Motor City on Saturday (3:55 pm ET). The Twins are fighting with the defending World Series champion Boston Red Sox for Wild Card positioning. The Twins and Tigers are also fighting for second spot in the division.

Best ever – but is it enough?
The praise is universal. Sunday’s Wimbledon final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal has been universally canonized as the greatest tennis match ever played.
But before that – just a side note – hasn’t 2008 been frikin’ amazing?

Seriously – did you really think you’d see something better than the best Super Bowl ever with Eli Manning et al beating the NFL’s supposedly perfect team? Or, an event that topped Tiger Woods winning the U.S. Open on a broken leg?

Well, if you tuned in on Sunday – you did.

And if you didn’t – boy, does it suck to be you.

It was so good the hyperbole is in hyperspace with a debate wondering if it was the greatest sporting event not just in ’08, but ever.
That’s uncharted territory for a sport that has suffered in the doldrums for a while now…

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The 2008 Summer Olympics could be a bonanza for sports betting fans.

betED.com is offering individual event odds, over/under medal totals, and dozens of prop bets for a wide range of sports at the Beijing Olympics, which start Aug. 8 and run to Aug. 24.

betED.com Summer Olympic Odds include the country to win the most gold, silver and bronze medals, as well as the winners of the basketball, soccer, 100-metres and many more Olympic events.

The U.S. men’s basketball team – aka, The Dream Team – is heavily favored to win the gold at -700, followed by Spain at +275, Argentina at +550, and Lithuania at +1200.
But the host country is favored to finish the Olympics with the most gold medals; China is a -300 favorite to take home the most gold, followed by the U.S. at +125 and Russia at +1200. Any other country is +2000.