Weather halts play in Mallorca

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10/25/2007 - Mallorca, Spain (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Thursday's first round of the Mallorca Classic was halted by thunderstorms and play at Pula Golf Club was eventually suspended for the day.

The first round will resume Friday morning with the second round to follow.

Andrew McLardy and Gary Murphy both opened with rounds of four-under-par 66 to share the top spot on the leaderboard. They were joined there by Richard Finch, who is minus-four through six holes.

Englishmen Graeme Storm and James Hepworth both posted 67s and are among seven players tied for third. Joakim Backstrom also posted minus-three.

Those three were joined there by four players -- Luis Claverie, Emanuele Canonica, defending champion Niclas Fasth and Sam Little -- who are all in the middle of their opening rounds.

McLardy started on the back nine Thursday and parred his first 11 holes. He caught fire on the front nine with three straight birdies from the par-four third.

The 33-year-old McLardy moved to minus-four with a birdie on the par-four seventh. He parred his final two holes. McLardy needs a solid finish to move into the top 60 on the Order of Merit and gain entry into next week's Volvo Masters.

"This is my 'mulligan' because I should have sealed my Volvo Masters place last week in Portugal," said McLardy, who tied for 60th last week. "I only needed 25th place, but shot a 76 in the final round and fell away. Today I started hitting the ball close, that gave me confidence and then I started putting well."

Murphy also started his round on the 10th tee. He picked up his first birdie on the 11th, before running off seven consecutive pars.

Around the turn, Murphy birdied the first to move to two-under. He poured in back-to-back birdie putts from the third to grab a share of the lead. Murphy parred his last five holes to remain tied for the lead.

Finch also started on the 10th, but had more success on that side than his fellow leaders did. He opened with three straight birdies from the 10th. The Englishman birdied the 14th to grab a piece of the lead before play was stopped for the day.

Sergio Garcia, who hasn't finished outside the top two in the last three years here, opened with a two-under-par 68. He shares 11th with Alastair Forsyth and Jyoti Randhawa, while six more players are at minus-two in the middle of their opening rounds.

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Two playoff teams from 2007 take center stage on the NFL Network Sunday night in a Week 2 NFL betting match-up when the (0-1) New England Patriots betting head south to Florida for a contest with the (1-0) Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

New England HC Bill Belichick couldn’t care less about the way his team plays in the preseason. With a chance to tie last week’s game with the Baltimore Ravens betting, He elected to go for the two-point conversion and outright victory. The conversion failed, and the Pats ended up falling to the Ravens by a 16-15 final count.

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HC Jon Gruden had to be impressed with the way his Bucs played on both sides of the ball in their dominating 17-6 victory over the Miami Dolphins in Week 1’s NFL pre-season betting action. Bucs bettors were quite happy with the effort, as they made a mockery of the fact that they were underdogs in the game.

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RB Michael Bennett had 19 carries and four receptions, totaling 90 yards and a touchdown. Expect to see more of Bennett, Kenneth Darby, and Earnest Graham, as they all compete for playing time with Warrick Dunn in the backfield this season. Defensively, the Bucs recorded four sacks and held the Fins offense in check all day.

First round draft pick Aqib Talib was impressive in the secondary, recording a tackle and two pass defenses in his debut. Don’t be surprised to see Talib in the starting lineup opposite Ronde Barber for the Bucs in ’08.

The betting trends suggest that NFL bettors should be backing the Bucs in this intra-conference exhibition.

These two teams hooked up last year in Tampa Bay, with the Bucs winning that game 13-10. The Buccaneers have only lost one preseason game at home dating back to the beginning of the ’05 preseason. The Patriots have had a mixed bag of results in their recent exhibitions. They have gone 2-2 ATS and SU each of the last three years.

New England currently sits as modest 1-point favorites in this preseason showdown with the ‘total’ now sitting at 34.5.

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Of the three remaining undefeated teams, only one, New Orleans, enters this week's game as an underdog. Despite an emotional and resounding win over Atlanta on Monday night, the Saints are a 7.5 point underdog against the struggling Carolina Panthers. Indianapolis looks to stay perfect when they face the New York Jets as a 9 point road favorite while the Cincinnati Bengals are a 6 point favorite at home to the New England Patriots.

Six teams enter the week still looking for their first win, with a seventh, Tampa Bay, on a bye week. The prospect of dropping another game would not bode well for a potential playoff run. Since 1990, just three teams -- the 1992 Chargers, 1995 Detroit Lions and 1998 Buffalo Bills -- have overcome losing their first three games of the season to earn a postseason berth. And only the Chargers managed to accomplish the feat after starting 0-4.

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