Giants' Manning leaves Wednesday's practice with illness
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01/18/2012 - East Rutherford, NJ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning left Wednesday's practice with a stomach illness.
Manning was listed as a limited participant on the injury report. David Carr took over for Manning at practice.
The Giants head to San Francisco on Sunday to play the 49ers in the NFC Championship Game.
Nashville, TN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Titans have made Mike Reinfeldt their chief operating officer and senior executive vice president, among other promotions. Reinfeldt had been the team's general manager for the last five seaso
<< Preds D Suter out for Thursday
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Nashville Predators defenseman Ryan Suter
pronounced himself out for Thursday's contest in Columbus with an undisclosed
injury.
Suter made the announcement on Wednesday following a visit to league offic
<< Sounders add forward Cato
Seattle, WA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Seattle Sounders FC signed forward Cordell Cato
on Wednesday. He will be officially added to the Sounders FC roster upon
receipt of his P-1 Visa and International Transfer Clearance (ITC).
Cato was a memb
<< Pardo re-signs with Fire
Bridgeview, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Chicago Fire announced on Wednesday that
the club has re-signed midfielder Pavel Pardo.
The Mexico international joined the Fire last July and appeared in 14 matches
for the club, scoring one goal with
<< Eastern Washington faces another tough start in 2012
Cheney, WA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Eastern Washington football refuses to ease into
a season.
After starting the 2011 season with four straight losses in September, the
Eagles will face another difficult schedule in the first month of the 2012
s
Glasgow, Scotland (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Celtic announced the signing of midfielder Rabiu Ibrahim on Wednesday, pending a successful work permit application. Ibrahim will join the Hoops on a free transfer after being released
Maynor undergoes successful ACL surgery >>
Oklahoma City, OK (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Oklahoma City Thunder backup point
guard Eric Maynor underwent successful surgery on his torn anterior cruciate
ligament in his right knee on Wednesday.
Maynor, who suffered the injury during t
South Dakota State to kick off 2012 at Kansas >>
Brookings, SD (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - South Dakota State football will open the
2012 season at the University of Kansas and rekindle a century-old rivalry
with South Dakota in an 11-game schedule announced Wednesday.
The Jackrabbits' visit to Law
Renney provides update on Hall >>
Edmonton, AB (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Edmonton Oilers second-year forward Taylor
Hall is doing much better one day after being injured in warmups prior to
Tuesday's game in Columbus.
"Having spoken to him (Taylor) he's doing much better
Sporting agrees to new deal with Sinovic >>
Kansas City, KS (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Sporting Kansas City defender Seth Sinovic
has signed a new contract with the club, it was announced on Wednesday.
The 24-year-old arrived at Sporting in May 2011 and made 23 appearances for
the team,
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Michael Vick is back, Brett Favre isn't and the NFC East remains the best division in the NFC, maybe in all of football.
As players start to gather for the start of another season, some things change and some stay the same in the world of the NFL.
The NFC East has been the dominant division in the National Conference for a while, despite limited playoff success, save for the New York Giants surprise Super Bowl win two seasons ago.
Hell, there's a generation of kids in Texas who have never seen the Cowboys win a playoff game (last win was in 1996).
But collectively, the Giants, Eagles, Cowboys and Redskins (well, maybe not so much the Redskins) are as good as a division gets in an NFC conference that has struggled to stay competitive with the AFC side.
Sports bettors have both acknowledged the NFC East's dominance, as one glance at the NFL future odds menu will show.
Looking over the NFL betting odds at online sports book MySportsbook.com we see the top three teams listed to win the NFC Championship are all from the NFC East:
Dallas Cowboys - 7 - 1
Philadelphia Eagles - 13 - 2
New York Giants - 9 - 2
Slotting in behind these three are two teams from the NFC North: the Minnesota Vikings (15-2) and the Chicago Bears (10-1).
Again, despite the lack of recent playoff success, the Dallas Cowboys are popular with the sports betting community, as they hold 14% of all the money wagered on who will win the NFC Championship.
So far, the New York Giants are the bettors' favorite to represent their conference in the Super Bowl, as they have 24% of the overall NFC Championship betting volume.
And what about the Philadelphia Eagles? For the most part, the Eagles had a very productive offseason, the kind that could bring them back to the top.
They had a good draft adding the likes of WR Jeremy Maclin and RB LeSean McCoy.
Unfortunately, the team received a blow when long-time defensive coordinator Jim Johnson passed away on Tuesday.
But this team will make a real run at the division title this year. Going into the regular season, Philly is listed at +240 to win the division.
Last season the Eagles were 9-6-1 SU and 10-6 ATS.
Teams from the NFC East will play teams from the AFC West in the regular season and the Eagles haven't really been a good bet in the last 20 games against the likes of San Diego, Oakland, K.C. and Denver, only going 8-12 ATS.
Two seasons removed from that Super Bowl title, the New York Giants see themselves listed as the odds-on favorite in NFC East championship futures at +162.
Plaxico Burress is gone and with him all the bad publicity surrounding the gun in the sweatpants incident, but can they replace him in the offense?
Last season the Giants were a very reliable bet going 12-4 ATS.
In the Giants' last 20 games against fellow teams from the NFC East; they are 13-7 ATS.
Dallas is listed at +240 to win the division.
Dallas went 9-7 SU and 7-9 ATS last season and with the amount of talent the Cowboys have, a similar performance won't do.
The Cowboys have been atrocious against divisional rivals, going 6-14 ATS in their last 20.
The Washington Redskins are longshots to win the division at +550.
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