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06/27/2010 - Carson, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - David Ferreira converted a penalty kick in the 61st minute, two minutes after Chivas USA erased a first-half own goal, as FC Dallas won 2-1 at The Home Depot Center on Saturday night in MLS.
Ante Jazic turned the ball into his own net off a corner kick in the closing seconds of the opening half but Chivas USA equalized in the 59th through Osael Romero.
Dallas was awarded a penalty kick seconds after the restart, and Ferreira beat Chivas goalie Zach Thornton from the spot for his second goal of the season.
FC Dallas (4-2-6) pushed its undefeated streak to three matches and earned its fifth result on the road in six matches this season. Dallas has two victories and three draws on the road.
Chivas USA (3-9-1) lost its sixth straight game and now trails the Los Angeles Galaxy by 23 points in the Western Conference.
FC Dallas created the only shots on goal through 45 minutes, but Atiba Harris and Brek Shea failed to solve Thornton on their attempts in the 23rd and 42nd minutes, respectively.
Chivas then helped Dallas break through just seconds before half as Ferreira's corner kick was directed past Thornton by Jazic. Both teams crowded the six- yard box, and with Shea pressuring Jazic, the ball bounced off him and inside the left post.
Ferreira created another chance for Dallas seven minutes into the second half, but with Dario Delgado defending, could only put a shot wide of the left post.
Chivas countered, and Jesus Padilla forced Kevin Hartmann into his first save of the match. Chivas then leveled the game five minutes later, when Romero won a header just in front of Hartmann to score his first MLS goal.
Mariano Trujillo swung a cross in from the right, and Romero reached the ball just before Hartmann to direct the ball over the goalie and just under the bar in the 59th.
But before Chivas could finish celebrating its goal, Michael Umana took down Marvin Chavez in the area and Dallas was awarded a penalty kick.
Ferreira drilled the spot kick into the upper left with Thornton going to the right, and Dallas restored its lead in the 61st minute - less than two minutes after Chivas equalized.
Romero took a free kick in the 72nd for Chivas, but it was deflected well off target for a corner that the California club also failed to take advantage of.
Romero forced a strong save from Hartmann in the 77th, but Chivas struggled to create more chances over the final minutes as Dallas held on.
Chivas USA hosts the Philadelphia Union Dallas hosts the Kansas City Wizards on July 3, when both teams resume MLS play.
<< Angel lifts New York over Kansas City
Kansas City, KS (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Juan Pablo Angel scored two of New York's
three second-half goals, lifting the Red Bulls to a 3-0 win over the Kansas
City Wizards on Saturday at CommunityAmerica Ballpark in MLS.
Salou Ibrahim scored
<< Ngwenya's late goal helps Houston draw Colorado
Houston, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Joseph Ngwenya scored in the 80th minute as the
Houston Dynamo overcame an own goal by Lovel Palmer to tie the Colorado Rapids
2-2 on Saturday at Robertson Stadium in MLS.
Danny Cruz scored the opener for Hous
<< Dodgers down Yankees; Burnett loses fifth straight
Los Angeles, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - James Loney went 2-for-4 with four RBI
as the Los Angeles Dodgers clobbered the New York Yankees, 9-4, to give
manager Joe Torre his first win against his former team.
The Yankees took a 2-1
<< UCLA, South Carolina to face off for CWS title
Omaha, NE (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Trevor Bauer threw eight stellar innings,
striking out 13, and Blair Dunlap hit a three-run homer, as UCLA advanced to
the College World Series title series with a convincing 10-3 victory over TCU.
Baue
Indians trade Branyan back to Mariners >>
Cincinnati, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Cleveland Indians, mired in a seven-game
losing streak, have dealt first baseman Russell Branyan back to the Seattle
Mariners, where he enjoyed a breakout campaign in 2009.
The Indians will receive
Matsui's slam, Saunders' arm lifts Angels over Rockies >>
Anaheim, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Hideki Matsui blasted a grand slam in the
first inning, providing all the necessary offense in the Angels' 4-2 win over
the Rockies.
Matsui hit his sixth career grand slam and first since 2008 with the
Sonoda captures first Japan Tour win >>
Nishinomiya, Japan (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Shunsuke Sonoda shot a six-under 66 on
Sunday to win the rain-shortened Mizuno Open Yomiuri Classic for his first
title on the Japan Golf Tour.
Sonoda, a 20-year-old rookie, finished with a 15-
England's Horsey wins BMW International Open >>
Munich, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - David Horsey made two late birdies and shot
a five-under 67 on Sunday to capture his first European Tour win at the BMW
International Open.
Horsey overcame a five-shot deficit in the final round to earn a o
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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.
No wonder fans from Lisbon to Bhudapest get jacked up for the net game, whether it's Wimbledon or a low-level tourney like the Estoril Open in Portugal (congrats to Spain's Albert Montanes for winning that one, btw). Chances are good that someone representing their flag will not only be playing, but have a shot at winning.
And that's all any bettor can ask for.
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