Covers.com Top 5: July’s best sports bets (Covers.com)
Hot streaks don’t last forever. The key to successful handicapping is to identify trends and react to them. Therefore, we give you the following list of the five best bets in sports today. Texas Rangers and the Under Texas, which sported …

How can I get the most out of my day at the track? (San Diego Union-Tribune)
That annual beach party, otherwise known as Del Mar thoroughbred racing season, kicks off July 22.

Tom owed big-time (Daily Telegraph)
THE $1million Eddie Hayson allegedly owes Tom Waterhouse is just one of a number of large outstanding debts due the bookmaker.

Tebow will take one of two ESPYs (Independent Florida Alligator)
There are three events that consistently mark the middle of July on my calendar – the release of the annual update to EA Sports’ NCAA Football game (which my colleague Adam Berry so generously opined on in Tuesday’s paper), my birthday (today, time to do it big) and the always-interesting ESPY Awards.

MEDIA: TVG’s Olivares much more than just a pretty face (Los Angeles Daily News)
In horse racing’s year of female synchronicity, Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra might be getting a run for their roses from TVG studio host and reporter Christina Olivares.

Bad beats: Deeper, trendier than ever (Covers.com)
David Payne writes for Covers Experts’ Ben Burns . Last week ‘s Bad Beats column either spawned the most intellectual conversation ever had in a Covers forum or the dumbest, depending how you look at it. To quickly summarize, some of you beli…

Big Stick Media Corporation Announces Financial Results for the Quarter Ended May 31, 2009 (Marketwire)
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – July 17, 2009) – Big Stick Media Corporation (“BSM” or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE:BSM) announces today its financial results for the quarter ended May 31, 2009. For the quarter ended May 31, 2009, the Company incurred a net loss of $354,687 versus a net loss of $2,059,668 for the quarter ended May 31, 2008. The net loss figures includes various …

Big Stick Media Corporation Announces Financial Results for the Quarter Ended May 31, 2009 (CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance)
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA– – Big Stick Media Corporation announces today its financial results for the quarter ended May 31, 2009.

Sandbagging violates the integrity of bowling (News & Messenger)
Almost all league bowlers in Prince William County are familiar with a so-called lack of integrity among a small percentage of bowlers. When we talk about integrity in bowling, we are thinking about such things as values, ethics, trustworthiness, honesty and honor. It can be said that integ-rity indicates a commitment to doing what is right and fair.

Watson and the British Open: Golf love affair for the ages continues (The Kansas City Star)
After bogeying Turnberry Golf Club’s seventh hole Friday — his fifth bogey in six holes — Tom Watson received a pat on the back and some playful encouragement from 29-year-old playing partner Sergio Garcia. “He said, ‘Come on, old man,’ ” Watson recalled. “I said, ‘That’s right. I am an old man.’ ”

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