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Hunter Mahan was one of the most successful golfers on the PGA Tour in 2009. Even though he didn’t win a single tournament last year, Hunter Mahan had 6 Top 10 finishes including a runner-up finish in the AT&T National. On Sunday, he finally took home his second PGA Tournament trophy when he beat Rickie Fowler by a single stroke, -16 to -15. Mahan’s victory in the Phoenix Open is his first after winning the Traveler’s Championship in 2007. Mahan did it by shooting a 65 third round and a 65 fourth round for a final score of 268 in the Golf Phoenix Open.

Sunday was a masterful day for Mahan who had to rally from four strokes down in order to win the tournament. He finished the last two rounds of the tournament bogey-free and became the 8th U.S. golf player in his 20’s to win more than one tournament. Mahan was sort of a forgotten man in the golf sportsbook as he was going off at higher than 20 to 1 to odds to win the Phoenix Open.

Even though it ended up being Mahan’s day, the real story to come out of the Phoenix Open is 21 year old Rickie Fowler. Fowler, the balley-hooed player from Oklahoma State the same school that produced Hunter Mahan, shot a brilliant final round 68 to finish a stroke off of Mahan. Fowler didn’t shoot anything higher than a 69 in all four rounds. Although he’s missed the cut in three tournaments in 2010, the Sony Open, Bob Hope Classic, and Northern Trust Open, he scored a 5th place finish in the Farmers Insurance Open and a 27th place finish in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro Am.

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Dubai, UAE – Top seed Novak Djokovic has punched at his weight class to negotiate a path into the Barclay‘s Dubai Tennis Championships. That he has reached the final is a relief for tournament organizers that watched as the carefully assembled draw fell apart on sub-standard performances by some of the top seeds.

Namely Andy Murray, who not only fell to Tipsarevic on the back of a poor effort in the second round but added insult to injury when, with a backhanded jibe he claimed, he didn’t care about his loss. Apparently, defeat here wasn’t the end of the world because events of this nature are an opportunity to experiment and practise different tactics.

Dubai organizers that paid Murray handsomely for attending the event (requisite $1 million+ guaranteed fee to turn up) and put him up in lap of luxury in a $2,300 a night duplex suite at the 7-star Burj al Arab hotel since arriving in the Gulf a week ago were not too pleased with the Scott let us just say. Justifiably so.

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Jimmie Johnson is one of the best NASCAR racer in the world. Sure, there are a lot of individuals who don’t consider NASCAR racecar drivers athletes, but that’s because they don’t know anything about driving a NASCAR racecar. It takes incredible reflexes, skill, and flat out luck in order to win a single Sprint Cup race. Jimmie Johnson, who has won four Sprint Cup Championships in a row, just won his second straight Sprint Cup NASCAR race of the year this past Sunday when he took the checkered flag in the Shelby American at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

JJ held off teammate Jeff Gordon and Kevin Harvick in order to secure the victory. That means that Team Johnson has won 2 out of the first 3 Sprint Cup races of 2010. Counting the Budweiser Shoot-out and Gatorade duels, and Johnson is 3 out of 6 so far in 2010. JJ and his crew are obviously well on their way to another Sprint Cup Championship. Going off at 4 to 1 in the NASCAR sportsbook, Jimmie was expected to win at Las Vegas, but that shouldn’t keep fans and sports gamblers from looking at the masterful Johnson in awe.

As crazy as it sounds, JJ and his crew appear more focused this year than they have in the four previous NASCAR Cup Championship years. If that is the case, that they are actually more focused than they have been in the past, then does any other team in NASCAR have a shot at winning the Sprint Cup? Probably not. I thought that Johnson solidified his credentials as one of the best athletes in the world in 2009 and the best racecar driver of all time. Now, I’m beginning to believe that he’s one of the best athletes in any sport ever.

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Jeff Gordon laughed at his own bad back and finished 3rd in the Shelby American to Hendrick teammate Jimmie Johnson on Sunday.

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Jamie McMurray, who was about a 25 to 1 underdog in the BetUS NASCAR sportsbook, outlasted his rivals on Sunday to take the checkered flag in the 2010 Daytona 500.

McMurry crashed out of the NASCAR race in 2009 before winning it this year. Sunday’s Daytona 500 victory, no doubt, is the biggest of McMurray career. McMurray knew how important the victory was because he could not stop himself from weeping like a little girl who had found her freakin puppy after a flood. Seriously, it was one of the worst displays of non-manhood I have ever seen in NASCAR sports. The man made Terrell Owens look like a mannequin. I was afraid he was going to drown; he was crying so much.

Besides McMurray’s awesome display of tear duct invulnerability, some might argue that another positive came out of this past Sunday’s Daytona 500. What was it? Their biggest NASCAR star, Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished 2nd.

Dale Jr., who was going off at +700 in the NASCAR sportsbook, shot from 22nd to 2nd because of two green-white checkered flag overtimes. Why did NASCAR break out with the goofy green-white checkered flags? Because somehow, someway, a pothole developed on the track.

NASCAR needed two red flags in order to fix the hole. The two red flags and the two green-white-checkered overtime flags led to a 6-hour Daytona 500. Because of that, I’m just not sure if it’s fair to say that McMurray’s victory was legitimate. I mean, how often is this going to happen? It took NASCAR race 144 minutes to fix both potholes. It took 1 hr and 40 minutes to fix the first pothole. Two green-white flags and the victory of the Daytona 500, NASCAR’s most important race, was crowned.

Really? Is that the way to start out one of the most important seasons in your sport’s history? NASCAR television ratings took a huge hit in 2009. Running a 6 hour Dayona 500 probably isn’t the way to get those viewers back. I don’t believe that pumping up Dale Jr. is the way to do it either, but at least that’s something positive that NASCAR race van convince they got out of this NASCAR race. It’s actually the only thing.

Jimmie Johnson, the 2009 AP Athlete of the Year, and 4 time Sprint Cup Champion, believes that the hole in the track caused him to split a tire. He ended up 35th after crashing during the NASCAR race.

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So in my quest to identify who the money plays are and who are not, I have arrived at the proverbial “Big Four” in the men’s game, one of the most popular tennis players – World #1 Roger Federer, #2 Rafael Nadal, #3 Novak Djokovic and #4 Juan Martin Del Potro. All four are Grand Slam champions of tennis, three of which split the four major titles last year amongst themselves. More likely than not, your next Aussie Open Tennis champion lies within this group.

Here is the lowdown on the top four frontrunners:

Tennis player: Roger Federer +250

BetU.S. opened trading on Roger Federer at +200 but he has since slipped to +250. The prevalent mood in the market is that Roger Federer tennis player will not win the Aussie Open Tennis this year. Hence, the market moving in a negative direction. This mood flies in the face of certain facts, important facts. Those are that Roger Federer tennis player has won a record 15 grand slam titles and he is enjoying an ongoing run of 22 consecutive semi-final appearances, which means he has reached the semis or better in the last 22 Grand Slams. That incredible, record streak spans over five years. Call me crazy but I cannot take him out of the equation just yet.

Sure, he floundered at the Barclay’s ATP World Tennis Tour Finals and at the Qatar Exxon Mobil tourney at the start of the season, both times against tennis player Nikolay Davydenko. In between, he even lost to Robin Soderling at the Abu Dhabi exhibition event.

But this is a Grand Slam – a stage on which he has vowed to focus and where he typically plays his best tennis. In a best of five sets, nobody save for tennis players: Nadal, Djokovic, Juan Martin Del Potro and Marat Safin has gotten the better of him in the last five years.

Federer is very much in the running, his pedigree alone speaks loudly. In terms of value, at +250 he is at the longest odds I have seen for some time. That alone should encourage bettors to chance on him. That said if I were honest, I am not convinced he is our next champion.

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Sometimes a horseplayer can take a look at a horse and something jumps out at him. It could be the trainer, jockey, or a specific work. It could be anything. When that happens, there is only one thing for that horseplayer to do. That would be to put money on the horse to win but often times the horse that jumps out to you will be going off as the favorite. When that happens it might be tough to find value.

All is not lost, of course. There are many ways of creating “value” at the horse racing track besides betting a horse to win. I like to play a straight exacta under these circumstances. I’m going to try and do that, find value, in Horse Racing 7 at Santa Anita Park on Thursday.

Santa Anita Park – Horse Racing 7 (7:07 pm EST)

Optional Claiming $40,000

For Fillies and Mares Four Years Old and Upward Which Have Never Won $10,000
Other Than Maiden, Claiming or Starter or Which Have Never Won Two Horse Races or
Optional Claiming Price of $40,000

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National horse racing handicapper Michael Dempsey will attempt to pad his bankroll and yours with his daily column. He will feature at least one Pick 3 or Pick 4 play from a major track along during the week and covers major stakes horse races on the weekends.

Gusty winds and a heavy dose of rain forced Aqueduct to cancel on Wednesday. Horse-players looking for action could not find any at Turfway Park or Hawthorne either, and Beulah Park canceled after running three horse races.

The rain will be gone at the Big A for Thursday, but the forecast still calls for blustery conditions.

I am hoping we get the card in today, because our Late Pick 3 play could send us into the holiday in good shape if we can hit it.

We have five horses in the three horse race sequence at odds of 8/1 or higher, which could pad our bankroll handsomely if we can get a couple of them home first.

Today’s Play of the Day from Aqueduct:

AQU Horse Race 5 Clm $10,000 (2:20 ET)

• 6 Boss Tiffany 2/1
• 8 Carmen Camacho 12/1
• 9 Crazy Thing 3/1
• 10 Holy Trouble 7/2

Analysis: #6 Boss Tiffany stalked the early pace and finished evenly for fourth against $35,000 claimers, beaten 1 1/2 lengths for the top spot. The mare takes a stiff class drop here in for $10,000 and his four previous speed figs are a good fit at this level. The barn claimed him for $30,000, has won about $70,000 with him, so the class drop here does not look very alarming to me.

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NASCAR Racing Preview: With Two NASCAR Races to Go, Jimmie 4th Sprint Cup Almost a Certainty

NASCAR Race-day: 11/15/2009

NASCAR Race-time: 2:30 pm EST

With two nascar races to go in The Chase, Jimmie Johnson has a 73 point over fellow Hendrick Motor Sports driver Mark Martin and a 112 point lead over fellow Hendrick driver Jeff Gordon.

The chances of Jimmie losing the Sprint Cup arent very good, but stranger things have happened which is why the Checker O`Reilly Auto Parts 500, this Sunday`s nascar race at Phoenix International Raceway, is such a big deal. JJ finished 38-th last week in Texas and another finish like that, along with let`s say a Mark Martin victory, would make next week`s final nascar race in The Chase very interesting.

Could Johnson possibly blow the Sprint Cup lead he garnered by winning the three of the four Chase nascar races? Sure he could if he keeps finishing close to 40-th place and his teammate, Martin, wins a couple more.

Martin, by the way, returns to Phoenix where he won in April and where he averages a 9-th place finish. The oldman of Hendrick hasn`t been driving like an old timer all season and definitely has enough left in the tank to make a serious run at JJ should Jimmie and his crew blow another nascar race.

The NASCAR odds on Johnson in the nascar race are +400. The odds on Mark Martin in the sportsbook are +500. I`d go with Martin in this situation. He is coming off of a 4-th place finish at Texas and has won at PIR before.

This NASCAR race is Martin`s to lose, not Jimmie`s to win, which means that a seriously interesting matchup next week at Homestead cold be brewing after Sunday. Which Busch will show up in Phoenix? Will Kurt hold off Kyle, like he did last weekend at Texas, or will Kyle finally secure another victory in 2009?

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Valencia, Spain – Fourth seed Fernando Verdasco and seventh seed Tommy Robredo are set to go head-to-head in an all Spanish quarterfinal showdown Friday, a spot in the Valencia Open 500 semis on the line. Tennis player Fernando Verdasco is probably Spain’s best shot for a Spaniard to win the title. As such, as the crowd cheers on both countrymen, anxious for a praiseworthy clash, they will all the while be most likely slightly biased towards tennis player Verdasco, hoping he gets to stay around a little longer. Robredo would like it to be otherwise, naturally.

Tennis Betting Line: Fernando Verdasco -300 Tommy Robredo +200

Match Time: 02:00 P.M. Eastern Time Friday November 6, 2009

Tennis Betting Verdict: World No.8 tennis player Fernando Verdasco enters this match as the solid favourite to win outright, listed at BetUS Sportsbook at -300. The reason for the favourite nod is obvious. He has a noteworthy ranking in the top ten and a slight ranking edge over tennis player Robredo who weighs in at No.15.

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The Big East plugged along last week with another week of ups and downs in football gambling. Find out how the teams stack up against each other in this week’s college football power rankings.

1: Connecticut Huskies (7-1 ATS, 4-4 SU) (LW: 1) The Huskies have finally been bounced from the ranks of the unbeaten ATS teams in the land after they were toppled by Rutgers in the dying seconds. HC Randy Edsall’s squad has been through a ton these past couple weeks, and it’s a wonder if they’re even going to muster a bowl bid. In all likelihood, UConn is going to 4-6 in two weeks’ time.

Up Next NCAA College Football: Away vs. Cincinnati (OTB)

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