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Novak Djokovic remains favourite to win this year’s Wimbledon as the tournament approaches the semi-final stage.

The Serb is priced at 4/5 with online exchange Betfair to retain the SW19 trophy ahead of his last four encounter with Roger Federer on Friday.

Federer is second favourite for the competition at a price of 4/1, just ahead of Britain’s Andy Murray at 5/1.

Murray faces Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the semis, with his opponent listed as the 12/1 outsider for a surprise Wimbledon success.

Djokovic is 4/9 favourite to defeat Federer in their semi-final, with the Swiss priced at 11/5 to overcome the number one seed.

Murray is 40/85 to win his semi with Tsonga, who is available at odds of 2/1 to topple the home favourite.

In the women’s tournament, American Serena Williams is 6/5 favourite for Grand Slam glory, ahead of her Belarusian semi-final opponent Victoria Azarenka at 5/2.


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GAMBLING GOES hand in hand with running a racetrack, so it's not a shock that Monmouth Park plans to defy federal law and become the first in New Jersey to offer sports betting, probably in time for this fall's football season.

Dennis Drazin, the park's operator, is confident that neither the National Football League nor anyone else will get in the way. As he told The Record, "I'm not convinced that the NFL or the federal government will try and stop me."

That may be wishful thinking. Notwithstanding the huge amount of money bet illegally each year on pro football games, the NFL has steadfastly fought attempts to expand legalized sports gambling and we don't see why New Jersey would be an exception.

What's encouraging Drazin is a law signed by Governor Christie in May allowing sports betting at New Jersey racetracks and casinos despite the federal ban, which was championed by former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, a onetime star with the New York Knicks. Enacted in 1992, it banned sports betting with the exception of the four states that had it at the time, most famously Nevada and in limited form, Delaware, Montana and Oregon.


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Rising British welterweight fighter Kell Brook is expected to get a shot at the IBF welterweight title if Brook can, as expected, beat American Carson Jones on Saturday in England. Brook is a big -850 favorite for the bout on Bovada’s boxing odds, with the over/under rounds set at 9.5.

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The 26-year-old Brook (27-0, 18 KOs) is coming off an impressive and lopsided decision win against countryman and former European welterweight champ Matthew Hatton on March 17 to win the IBF “international” welterweight belt. That bout took place at the same Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield where Saturday’s fight will be held, so Brook will have the hometown edge.

Jones (34-8-2, 24 KOs), 25, is riding an eight-fight winning streak -- all by knockout, including stoppages of Allen Conyers and 2000 U.S. Olympic silver medalist Ricardo Williams Jr. Jones has vowed to "beat the hell” out of Brook and make the Brit's face "look nasty." Brook has countered by warning his rival he is ready to show his "nasty" side, promising a knockout and calling Jones a quitter.

Jones, who holds the USBA welterweight title, is rated No. 3 among welterweights by the IBF, while Brook is No. 4. However, Jones has never in his career met anyone in the Top 20. The title is currently held by Randall Bailey, who stunned previously unbeaten Mike Jones in June on the Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley undercard. Bailey will make his first title defense on Sept. 8 against Devon Alexander.

The Brook-Jones winner would then likely fight the Bailey-Alexander winner. Jones has also made noise about potentially fighting another Brit, Amir Khan, next. Jones had been considered as an opponent for Khan after his fight with Lamont Peterson was cancelled when Peterson tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. Khan is fighting Danny Garcia for the WBC light welterweight title on July 14 in Las Vegas.

Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel will be looking to make a move in the Formula 1 driver standings this weekend when he hits the track at Silverstone as the favorite on the auto racing odds at Bovada to win the 2012 British Grand Prix.

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Vettel is back in fourth place in the drivers championship heading into Sunday's race at Silverstone; he's managed to pick up just one victory and 85 points this season, which puts him behind Ferrari's Fernando Alonso (111 points), teammate Mark Webber (91 points), and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton (88 points) after the first eight races.

However, Vettel is still pegged as the 5/2 favorite at Bovada on the odds to win the British Grand Prix this weekend, putting him ahead of the 7/2 Hamilton and the 5/1 Alonso.

Alonso is the only driver with multiple victories on the Formula 1 circuit this season, as he took the checkered flag in Malaysia in March and again in Spain at the European Grand Prix last time out. Vettel, Webber, Hamilton, McLaren's Jenson Button, Mercedes' Nico Rosberg, and Williams' Pastor Maldonado earned the other six wins.

Webber is tied with Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen at 12/1 to win the British Grand Prix this weekend, and they both trail Raikkonen's teammate Romain Grosjean (11/1) on that list. The Lotus drivers are sixth (Raikkonen) and seventh (Grosjean) in the current standings.

Button (14/1), Rosberg (16/1), Mercedes' Michael Schumacher (18/1), and Maldonado (33/1) round out the top contenders to win at Silverstone at Bovada.

Alonso, who won the British Grand Prix last season, is at 13/8 on the current Formula 1 futures at Bovada to win the drivers championship in 2012, with both Hamilton and Vettel at 3/1, Raikkonen at 12/1, and Webber at 14/1. Red Bull is the 2/3 favorite to win the constructors championship this season, followed by McLaren at 11/8 on that odds list.

Ryan Hunter-Reay will try to pay off on the IndyCar betting odds for the third straight race on Sunday afternoon as the circuit heads up north for the 2012 Honda Indy Toronto.

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Hunter-Reay is coming off back-to-back victories in Milwaukee and Iowa; his first two IndyCar Series wins of the season. That set of results has pushed him into second place in the circuit's driver standings, where he trails series leader Will Power by just three points.

Power leads all IndyCar Series drivers with three victories on the season, but he hasn't managed to cross the finish line in first place since the fourth race of the year back on April 29 in Brazil. Helio Castroneves, Scott Dixon, Justin Wilson, and Dario Franchitti have won the other four races this season, with Franchitti claiming the 2012 Indianapolis 500.

And Franchitti is also the defending champion at the Honda Indy Toronto, as he held off Dixon and Hunter-Reay to win that event last season. Marco Andretti and Vitor Meira made up the rest of the top five drivers at that race, with Power finishing back in 24th place.

Power, however, won the IndyCar race at Toronto in both 2010 and 2007, with Franchitti also taking the checkered flag at the street circuit in 2009 and back in 1999. Wilson won the event at Toronto during the 2005 season; the race wasn't held in the 2008 season.

Franchitti is back in eighth place in the driver standings heading into this weekend's race in Toronto, where he sits 70 points behind Power. Dixon, Castroneves, James Hinchcliffe, Simon Pagenaud, and Tony Kanaan sit third through seventh in the driver standings.

Australian sports betting is on the rise, as reported by articles today from the Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph. Of course the lamestream media couldn’t help themselves with their sensationalist headlines – does anyone really believe that “rising online betting fears” really are “gripping the nation” or that sports betting has become an “epidemic” down under?


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Why go to Nevada to bet on the Super Bowl or March Madness?

Californians overwhelmingly want the right to gamble on sports events in their state, too, judging from Field Poll results released Thursday.

Fans love watching professional or collegiate teams, and it's common now to bet with friends or through an office pool on big games, said Mark DiCamillo, poll director.

"If they're going to do that anyway, you might as well legalize it and have the state reap some tax revenue from it," DiCamillo said. "I think that's the reason for the support."

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Nationwide Series drivers will get a chance to pay off on the Bovada auto racing odds at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday afternoon as they compete in the F.W. Webb 200.

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Last year this race was called the New England 200, and it was Kyle Busch who beat Kevin Harvick across the finish line to take the checkered flag at that event. Kasey Kahne, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Aric Almirola rounded out the top five drivers at that race, with Elliott Sadler ending up in 12th place that day.

In fact, Busch has won this race in each of the last three seasons, and he's listed as part of the field for the event again this weekend. Through his eight starts on the Nationwide Series in 2012 Busch has zero wins, two Top-5 finishes, and three Top-10s.

It's Sadler, though, that has the lead in the Nationwide Series standings heading into this weekend's race at New Hampshire, with the steady driver having picked up two wins, six Top-5 results, and 12 Top-10 finishes through the circuit's 16 races.

Sadler, Austin Dillon, and Stenhouse Jr. are the only Nationwide Series regulars who have earned victories on the circuit so far in 2012; Dillon has one win to go along with nine Top-5 results and 12 Top-10 finishes, while Stenhouse Jr. has three wins to go along with eight Top-5 results and 11 Top-10 finishes.

The other 10 races have been won by non-Nationwide Series drivers, with Joey Logano alone claiming the checkered flag in five of them but not listed as part of the field for the F.W. Webb 200. Kurt Busch has two Nationwide Series wins this season, while Brad Keselowski, James Buescher and Nelson Piquet Jr. each have a single Victory Lane visit.

On the auto racing odds at Bovada, Kyle Busch is the 9/4 favorite to win the F.W. Webb 200 on Saturday, with Harvick at 4/1, Keselowski at 17/4, and Stenhouse Jr. at 25/4. Kahne sits at 163/20 on the list, with Sadler at 11/1 and Dillon at 12/1 to take the checkered flag.

China pulled off an upset at the 2008 Summer Olympics on their own turf in Beijing, topping the United States in total gold medals won at the Games by a wide margin. However, Team USA is favored at Bovada to retake that crown at the London Olympics this month.

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On the Olympic Specials props at Bovada right now the United States has been listed as the -175 favorite to pick up the most gold medals at the Summer Olympics in London this year, with China second at +140 on those betting odds.

In Beijing four years ago China won 51 gold medals, which accounted for over half of their 100-medal haul at those Games. The United States did manage to pick up 110 total medals in Beijing, but only 36 of them were gold that summer.

It was a different story in Athens in 2004, when the United States earned 35 gold medals compared to China's total of 32. That year the Americans won a total of 101 medals, while China only managed to pick up 63 medals.

The United States had the most gold medals back in 2000 in Sydney as well, earning 37 of them compared to 28 for China. Russia was actually second that year with 32 gold medals.

And Russia is listed third on the most gold medals prop bet at Bovada at a long shot +2500 odds to win that count in London this month, with host Great Britain also on the list at +3300 odds. The Russians won 23 gold medals in Beijing, and the British picked up 19.

On the OVER/UNDER lines for the London Olympics, it's the United States at 38.5 gold medals, with China at 36.5, Russia at 25.5, and Great Britain at 21.5. You can also find an OVER/UNDER for Germany at 15.5 and for Australia at 14.5 for this summer's games.

Hungary has walked away with the gold medal in men's water polo in each of the past three Summer Olympics, but it is listed second behind the favored Serbians on the odds to win the event at Bovada heading into the Games.

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Hungary won gold in men's water polo in 2000 in Sydney, in 2004 in Athens, and in 2008 in Beijing, and they're at 9/4 on the odds list at Bovada to make it four golds in a row.

However, Serbia is pegged as the 3/2 favorite, and they have a strong Olympic water polo track record as well. Last time around in Beijing Serbia took home the bronze medal in water polo, while the former Serbia and Montenegro won the silver medal at the event in Athens, and the former Yugoslavia was the bronze-medal winner in Sydney.

Serbia also won each of the last two FINA Water Polo World Cup tournaments in 2010 and 2006 (as the combined Serbia and Montenegro for the earlier event), and it finished as the runner-up at the 2011 World Aquatic Championships in water polo behind Italy. Serbia won the 2009 World Aquatic Championships in water polo.

Croatia (4/1) and Montenegro (6/1) follow Hungary and Serbia on the odds list for the men's water polo event in London, with Italy at 7/1, and the United States at 16/1. The Americans won a silver medal in men's water polo at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Longshots to win gold in men's water polo are Spain (40/1), Greece (50/1), Romania (50/1), Australia (150/1), host Great Britain (500/1), and Kazakhstan (500/1).

For women's water polo in London it's the United States pegged as the 7/4 favorite over 3/1 Australia. The Americans have picked up a medal in all three women's water polo events held at the Olympics, winning silver in 2000, bronze in 2004, and silver in 2008.

Australia took home bronze in 2008, and won the gold medal in Sydney in 2000. The Russians, who won bronze in 2000, are then at 9/2 odds for London, with China and Italy both at 11/2; the Italians won gold in women's water polo in 2004 in Athens.

Hungary (12/1), Spain (16/1), and Great Britain (100/1) round out the odds for the event.

In an odd dichotomy that seems to not only defy logic but also seems to be rampant, a survey of voters in California have different opinions on two forms of gambling that may make their way into the state.

According to a story in the Riverside Press-Enterprise written by Jim Miller and Ben Goad, respondents to a Field Poll were asked about two hotly debated gaming topics, the possibility of opening up the state for sports betting and the chance of regulating and opening online poker to boost the state coffers. 997 registered voters were surveyed on the two subjects and the poll’s results were based on a random subsample of 512 respondents with a ±4.5% margin of error. With both subjects the basis of pending legislation in the California General Assembly, the outcome was a bit surprising.

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Paddy Power has been entering markets that were considered in the past to be difficult to penetrate but has been successful and continues with the bold approach it is well known for. This year’s most wagered upon sporting event the Euro 2012 Football Tournament was a big upset for some of Europe’s top sports books but Paddy Power seems to have come out from the wagering wilderness with few worries.

The tournament allowed the Irish bookie to gain a footing in the Italian online betting market last month. Other Italian facing book makers such as Lottomatica, Sisal, and Snai were not able to capitalize fully on the tournament. Paddy Power on the other hand were fresh and became the alternative to the others during the event in the Italian market.

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Tiger Woods is listed as the favorite on the odds to win the British Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes this week, and he's also the subject of plenty of golf props for the major event.

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Woods sits at 8/1 on the British Open odds at Bovada, and he's also pegged at 12/1 odds to be in the lead after the first round of the tournament has been completed on Thursday.

Think Tiger will come roaring out the gates at the event? Woods is listed at +350 odds to score a birdie or better on the first hole, with par at -175 on that prop bet at Bovada. Woods carding a bogey or worse on the first hole of the British Open is listed at +333.

The last time Woods ended up in the Top 10 at the British Open was back in 2006, when he won the tournament for the second straight year (and for the third time in his career). For this week you can find Woods at EVEN odds to record a Top-10 finish at Royal Lytham & St Annes, and he's at -130 odds to end up outside the Top 10. A Top-5 result sits at 13/8.

Woods has managed to record seven Top-10 results at the British Open since 1998, although he ended up in 25th place when the event was held at Royal Lytham & St Annes in 2001. Tiger was low amateur (22nd place) on that course at the British Open in 1996.

Woods last picked up a trophy at a major tournament in 2008 at the U.S. Open, and he's at 5/2 on the golf props at Bovada to win another major event in 2012. Tiger finished in 21st place at the U.S. Open in June, and was 40th at the Masters back in the spring.

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It only happens once every four years and is the biggest sporting event spectacle of the year and of course, there is betting on it. The Summer Olympics are just around the corner and there are Olympic betting odds posted for a variety of events, the gold medal count and Olympic props that are specific to each sportsbook that offers betting on the Olympics.

Since the games are still a week or so away, many of the event specific wagers have not yet been posted. But almost every online sportsbook has Olympic betting odds for ‘Total Gold Medals’ and also ‘Gold Medal Matches’, where the bet is based on how many times two countries will meet in the gold medal round. As expected, the United States Olympic team has the most medals listed with a total of 38.5 and that is pretty much a global number, where books from Europe to Costa Rica to Australia all have the same number of medals won. But bookmakers in their respective countries (or the countries they service) have different numbers for their ‘home teams’. For example Bovada, which caters mainly to U.S.



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Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel is favored on the auto racing odds at Bovada to take the checkered flag at Hockenheimring this weekend as the Formula 1 season continues with the 2012 German Grand Prix.

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Vettel is listed at 5/2 at Bovada to win the F1 event on Sunday, which puts him ahead of Ferrari's Fernando Alonso (9/2), McLaren's Lewis Hamilton (5/1) and Red Bull teammate Mark Webber (6/1) on that list.

Those four drivers have combined to win six of the nine Formula 1 events so far this season, with Alonso winning in Malaysia and Valencia, Webber winning in Monaco and Great Britain, Hamilton winning in Canada, and Vettel picking up his only victory so far this season in Bahrain back in April.

Lotus drivers Romain Grosjean (12/1) and Kimi Raikkonen (16/1) plus McLaren's Jenson Button (16/1) and Mercedes drivers Michael Schumacher (20/1) and Nico Rosberg (20/1) round out the second tier of contenders for the German Grand Prix, with Ferrari's Felipe Massa at 25/1. Button won in Australia to open the season, and Rosberg won in China.

Williams' Pastor Maldonado – at 40/1 to win the German Grand Prix on Sunday – finished in first place at the Spanish Grand Prix in May.

Alonso, who leads Webber 129-116 in the points race right now, is pegged as the 15/8 favorite on the F1 futures at Bovada to win the drivers’ championship this season, with Vettel at 9/4, Hamilton at 4/1, and Webber at 5/1; Vettel has 100 points, Hamilton has 92.

Red Bull has a 216-152 lead on Ferrari in the current constructors championship, and they're the big 2/9 favorite to win that title. Ferrari is at back at 16/1 on that list, behind 9/2 McLaren (142 points) and 12/1 Lotus (144 points).

Hamilton won the German Grand Prix in 2011 at Nurburgring and in 2008 at Hockenheimring. Alonso has also won the event twice in his career (2010 and 2005), with Schumacher claiming the checkered flag in the race four times back in his heyday. Webber won the German Grand Prix at Nurburgring in 2009.

Justin Allgaier won the inaugural STP 300 at Chicagoland Speedway last year, but he's an underdog on the auto racing lines at Bovada for Sunday afternoon as he looks to pick up the checkered flag in the Nationwide Series event once again.

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Allgaier is at 13/1 to win the STP 300 this weekend, after he edged Carl Edwards and Trevor Bayne for first place at the race in 2011. Aric Almirola and Jason Leffler followed those three drivers across the finish line last year to complete the Top 5 on the day.

Kyle Busch didn't compete in the Nationwide Series race at Chicagoland in 2011, but he's the 11/5 favorite for the weekend; Busch has raced in nine events on the circuit so far in 2012, with just two Top-5 finishes and three Top-10 results to show for his efforts.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (14/5), Austin Dillon (11/2) and Elliott Sadler (27/4) are also high on the odds to win the STP 300, and they hold down the top three spots in the standings – Sadler has a three-point lead on Dillon, and he's 16 points up on Stenhouse Jr.

Sadler finished in 12th place at the STP 300 in 2011, while Stenhouse Jr. was 14th, and Dillon wasn't in the field. Sadler has two wins and 13 Top-10 results in 17 races this season, while Dillon has one win and 13 Top-10 results, and Stenhouse Jr. has three wins and has finished in the Top 10 a dozen times.

Sam Hornish Jr. (13/1), Ryan Truex (15/1), Parker Kligerman (16/1), Brendan Gaughan (16/1), Danica Patrick (30/1), Cole Whitt (33/1), and Travis Pastrana (35/1) round out the posted odds for this weekend's Nationwide Series race at Chicagoland Speedway.

Patrick turned in a 10th-place result at this event in 2011, and she's ninth in the Nationwide Series driver standings this year with one Top-10 result over the 17 races.

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Way back in 1993, when Bradley Wiggins travelled to Paris to see Spaniard Miguel Indurain stand triumphantly on the Champs-Élysées for his third of five Tour de France wins, the Londoner could surely never have thought that 19 years later the spark of inspiration that Indurain's win created that day inside him would one day lead Wiggins – as it did yesterday – to follow his boyhood idol's footsteps on to the Paris podium and in the process become the first Briton to seal overall victory in cycling's biggest race.

There were no tears from Wiggins, just a huge smile of satisfaction, as he donned the final yellow jersey of the 2012 Tour de France and then listened to the British National Anthem played in that same iconic Paris location, flanked by Sky team-mate Christopher Froome, and Italy's Vincenzo Nibali, who finished third.

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