The USA women’s soccer team knows how to win the World Cup with the pressure of being the betting favorites. The women’s squad has won from the favorite position several times. This year, however, the team came into the World Cup as only the third choice of odds makers. They are the number one ranked team in the world, but that does not mean anything when dealing with Las Vegas sports books. The odds makers create the betting lines based on the betting public, and with that in mind, Germany was listed as the favorite, with Brazil the second choice. That left the top ranked team as the third choice. This past weekend, it looked as if the odds makers had it right, at least with the Brazilian team.

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Despite losing 1-2 in a tough fought Group C title match vs Sweden, the USA women’s World Cup team still found their way to the 2011 quarter-finals from outscoring the other teams in the Group stages. Now, the knock-out stage for the United States will begin as the USA women’s squad will only move in the tournament with a defeat of Brazil on Sunday. Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion in Dresden, Germany will host USA vs Brazil odds which are scheduled to go off the board at 11:30am EST on Sunday morning and can be seen live from Germany on ESPN, Galavision or online at ESPN3.

Sweden vs Australia will be the first match on Sunday at 7:00am EST as the winner will play vs Japan in the semifinals while the winner of USA vs Brazil odds will play vs France on July 13th. V

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The Boston Bruins know their hopes of getting back to Vancouver and a chance to win the Stanley Cup ride largely on how they play in front of the Canucks’ net.

Get traffic in front of goalie Roberto Luongo and start launching pucks his way. It’s a simple formula that helped the Bruins go 2-0 at home in the Stanley Cup Final, but hasn’t translated north of the border.

“Our net-front presence definitely caused problems for them in our two games here,” Boston center Gregory Campbell said. “Even before that, it’s worked for us in the last three rounds, too. If he can’t see the puck, he can’t stop it, so we want to keep doing it.”

Luongo has been a stalwart at home but suspect on the road in the series, which Vancouver leads 3-2 entering Game 6 Monday night in Boston.

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The French Open on the men’s side is all about Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic in tennis odds at the sportsbook.

The French Open begins on Sunday and unlike the men’s side where Nadal and Djokovic are expected to meet in the final, anything is possible on the women’s side and the odds at the sportsbook are wide open.  Let’s look at the leading contenders in sportsbook online odds at Sbg global.com and a couple of longshots.

Both of the Williams’ sisters are out with injuries so there is not a clear cut choice on the women’s side to win the French Open. There are some definite contenders though.

Caroline Wozniacki She is the top ranked player in the world but has yet to win a major. The world nu

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With all of the hoopla over the Cleveland Indians and their great start it would be very easy to ignore what the Arizona Diamondbacks have done vs. the baseball odds at the sportsbook.

This is an Arizona team that was 65-97 last season so getting to .500 is a big deal.  And when the Diamondbacks are underdogs in almost every game, you make money at the online sportsbook on Arizona if they go just 50-50.

Culture is Different The Diamondbacks are not the same team they were a year ago. The entire culture of the team has changed.  No longer does the team quit and play fundamentally bad baseball.  They always hustle and they are always trying to play the game the right way. It

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