Canucks re-up D Rome with two-year pact
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06/15/2010 - Vancouver, BC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Vancouver Canucks have re-signed defenseman Aaron Rome to a two-year contract.
Per club policy, financial terms of the contract were not released.
Rome, 26, skated in 49 games with Vancouver last season and registered four assists alongside 24 penalty minutes while posting a minus-two rating.
Originally a fourth-round draft pick by the Kings in 2002, Rome has played parts of four seasons with Anaheim, Columbus and Vancouver and has accumulated one goal, six assists and a minus-six rating over 75 games.
Terre Haute, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Indiana State promoted assistant Greg Lansing to men's head basketball coach Tuesday. Kevin McKenna resigned as bench boss for the Sycamores on Monday to take a an assistant coaching position at Oreg
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left fist as he screamed with excitement.
Klose was celebrating his goal in Germany'
<< AL West: Rangers' bats starting to flex some muscle
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Conventional wisdom suggests it was only a matter of time
before the Texas Rangers' offense really got going.
After all, this was an offense that ranked second in the American League in
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<< Pujols overtakes Utley in NL All-Star balloting
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert
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balloti
<< Chipper Jones to discuss retirement Tuesday
Atlanta, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chipper Jones is meeting with Braves brass
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2010 season.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Jones is meeting with Braves
Eden Prairie, MN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Minnesota Vikings have signed running back Ryan Moats, who was released by Houston last week. Moats had spent the last two seasons with the Texans, and in 2009 ran for 390 yards with four touchdown
Top-seeded Ljubicic falls in The Netherlands >>
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Cheyney, WA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The instillation of red artificial turf at
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Arena League headed back to Philly >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Arena Football League will reportedly
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Henderson, Allgood & McIntosh earn Week 12 honors >>
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Mayweather picked to beat De La Hoya
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya and his rival Floyd Mayweather Jr. arrived at the MGM Grand here Wednesday amid the pomp and pandemonium befitting two of the biggest stars in the sport who are about to duke it out for the WBC super welterweight crown this Saturday (Sunday in Manila).
As of Wednesday, MySportsbook.com closed its book with Mayweather a favorite to defeat De La Hoya at -170 (a $100 bet wins $70), while De La Hoya is a +140 underdog (a $100 bet wins $140).
Mayweather arrived at about 11:30 a.m. on a big truck with his face and a big "World's Best Pound-for-Pound" sign scribbled across the vehicle. He was accompanied by his entourage made up of rappers and his training team.
A crowd of close to 3,000 eager fans packed the MGM Grand lobby, with their cameras in tow, all trying to vie for position to get a good angle at Mayweather, who is acknowledged as the world's best fighter pound-for-pound.
Eric Gomez, Golden Boy Promotions vice-president, described the fan turnout as "amazing" and swore he had never seen anything quite like this event.
"The crowd was fantastic. Everybody was just too eager to see the two fighters," said ALA manager Michael Aldeguer, who was among those who waited at the lobby together with his ward Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista and AJ Banal.
De La Hoya made his own grand entrance at the hotel lobby at around 12:30 p.m. accompanied by GBP chief executive officer Richard Schaefer and trainer Freddie Roach.
The same group of fans who trooped to see Mayweather also lingered around to get a close look at De La Hoya, who has been secretly working out at a Las Vegas gym for days after arriving from his main training camp in Puerto Rico.
The golden boy then took part in a closed-door afternoon workout with Bautista and Banal. The two, along with Aldeguer and wife Christine, as well as an HBO crew were the only ones allowed inside the gym.
De La Hoya and Mayweather take part in today's final press conference before the official weigh-in this Friday.
Ring Magazine, the acknowledged bible of boxing, reported in its June 2007 issue that 12 out of 20 boxing experts it interviewed have favored Mayweather to defeat De la Hoya, with only 8 favoring the latter.
But Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao said in a recent interview with The Freeman's Emmanuel Villaruel that De La Hoya will win by unanimous decision over Mayweather.
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