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I'm Keith Glantz and this is the time of the year I live for.
The NBA playoffs are a culmination of a season's worth of stats and study. I have followed every playoff team from last year's pre-season to the final day. I know which teams peaked, then coasted and are now ripe for upsets. I know which teams started slow, were hampered by injuries, but are now coming on and will be as unstoppable freaight trains ready to roll through the finals.
In my years as the head linesmaker at some of the top sports books in Las Vegas, including the Palace Station Hotel and Casinos and then as the official linesmaker for the entire country with the Associated Press, I matched my line against anyone. AND MORE OFTEN THAN NOT I WAS RIGHT AND WON!
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Gordon Jones brings home the Top Prize again!
Contestants made 12 mythical $20 win-and-place wagers on the day’s
races with Jones compiling the top score of 1,842, thanks in large part
to a string of four straight winners, including three long shots.
Jones, aka “The Professor” from his days teaching at USC where his
pupils included the gambling-savvy announcer Al Michaels, won the top
prize of $12, 425 in addition to earning the Horseplayer World Series
berth, which is worth another $1000.
Jim O’Nail finished second with a score of 1,710.60 to claim $7100
runner-up prize, while Robert Ruben was third at 1,375.40 to earn
$5,325 and Mark Urbanski was fourth at 1,284 to collect $3,550. Fifth
through eighth place won $1,775 a piece.
The field drew 355 contestants who ponied up $100 a piece and was
won by well known horseplayer/handicapper/radio personality Gordon
Jones, who made his name on the California circuits from his days with
the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and most recently as the house
handicapper at Sams Town Hotel in Las Vegas and co-host of the Sams
Town sponsored “Track Talk” radio show that can be heard locally on
Saturdays and Sundays at 7:30 a.m. Pacific time on KLAV AM-1230 and
online at samstownlv.com .
Ex-claimer takes Kilroe Mile
Santa Anita
ARCADIA, Calif. - Ever a Friend, claimed for $62,500 at Hollywood Park in December, won his graded stakes debut in Saturday's $300,000 Frank Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita.
The second-longest shot in a field of six, Ever a Friend burst clear in early stretch to win the Grade 1 Kilroe Mile by 3 3/4 lengths. Ridden by Tyler Baze, Ever a Friend ($20.60) ran a mile on firm turf in 1:33.37.
Baze kept Ever a Friend near the front throughout, closely tracking Storm Military who set an early pace of 23.47 and 47.58 seconds. Racing outside of the leader, Ever a Friend moved closer on the final turn and took the lead turning for home.
Artiste Royale, making his first start since finishing eighth in the Japan Cup last November, finished second, a neck in front of War Monger, the even-money favorite. Out of Control and Storm Military finished in a dead heat for fourth, followed by Mr Napper Tandy.
Ever a Friend was 5-2 in the early betting for the Kilroe, and drifted up to 9-1 by post time. The race was run in light rain on a cool afternoon.
Ever a Friend, a 5-year-old Crafty Prospector gelding, was claimed by Steve and Jeff Ustin and Dan Capen and trainer Mike Mitchell in December out of a third-place finish in an optional claimer. Ever a Friend was entered to be claimed in that race.
Ever a Friend has won 5 of 18 starts and $378,668.
| NBA Basketball |
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| Date | # | Team | Money | Line | Total |
| 05-16-08 8:10 PM |
329 | Celtics (Boston) | +125 | 2.5(-105) | o179(-110) |
| 330 | Cavaliers (Cleveland) | -145 | -2.5(-105) | u179(-110) | |
| 05-16-08 10:40 PM |
331 | Lakers (L.A.) | +160 | 4(-105) | o213(-110) |
| 332 | Jazz (Utah) | -180 | -4(-105) | u213(-110) | |