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07/04/2009 - Paris, France (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Overnight leader Rafa Echenique birdied the last hole Saturday to hold on to his spot atop the leaderboard after the third round of the Open de France.
Echenique shot a one-under 70 and finished 54 holes at 11-under 202 and is one clear of first-round leader Martin Kaymer, who managed a 69, at Le Golf National.
Paul Waring posted a three-under 68 and is alone in third at minus-nine.
Seve Benson (68), Richard Green (70) and Peter Hanson (70) are knotted in fourth place at eight-under 205.
Echenique began the third round with a two-shot cushion, but a bogey at the first hole hurt him out of the gate. He atoned for the error with a birdie at the fourth and made it two in a row with a 12-footer for birdie at the par- four fifth.
Echenique dropped a shot at the par-three eighth hole and fell to 10-under par for the championship.
Kaymer, Waring and Charl Schwartzel all eventually tied Echenique atop the leaderboard. Schwartzel bogeyed 12, 14 and 15 to fall down the board, then Waring bogeyed 14.
Kaymer kept pace with Echenique thanks to smart, even-par golf. Kaymer, the German who matched the course record on Thursday, birdied six and seven and parred nine straight around the turn.
At the 17th, Kaymer holed a tricky, multi-breaking 25-footer for birdie to match Echenique atop the leaderboard at minus-10.
Echenique, playing in the final group, narrowly missed the fairway at the par- four closing hole. He knocked his approach to six feet and drained the birdie putt to take sole possession of first.
"That last birdie was very good because the putter just didn't work for me today," acknowledged Echenique. "When you are playing in the last group in these conditions then you are always going to be a little nervous, but after the first three holes I realized that I should calm down and try to play my game."
Echenique will be in search of his first European Tour victory on Sunday. He has two Challenge Tour titles, but never broke through on the big circuit.
It certainly looked like Echenique had a good chance at that first win last week at the BMW International Open. The Argentine holed his second shot at the par-five 18th on Sunday to scare eventual winner Nick Dougherty.
"This is one of the biggest and best events on the European Tour and I believe that I can do it," said Echenique. "I did it in the Argentinean Open, so why not here? I will try to keep the same strategy as I have all week -- try and take irons off of most of the tees and get the putter working again because it wasn't working great today. It would be very big for me to win here."
Schwartzel finished with a one-over 72 and is tied for seventh place with Lee Westwood (70) and Robert-Jan Derksen (68). The trio is knotted at seven-under 206.
Ian Poulter carded a five-under 66 and is alone in 10th at minus-six.
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According to odds makers at MySportsbook.com, on January 8, the Fighting Irish faithful may be toasting their 14th national title in Arizona – Notre Dame’s first national championship in close to 20 years.
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MySportsbook.com has also posted gambling odds on the conference championships for the ACC, Big 12 and SEC. In the ACC – it could be anyone’s title, particularly for the two schools from the Sunshine State. Florida State and Miami, both listed at 2-1, are favored to win the ACC Championship Game odds, with the ‘Noles hoping to finish in the nation’s top 10 for the first time in five years, and the ‘Canes looking to avenge their 10-7 loss against FSU in last year’s ACC Championship betting.
Moving west to the Big 12, MySportsbook.com has betting lines listing Texas as 7-5 favorites to repeat as conference champions, even though the Longhorns lost their national championship-winning quarterback Vince Young to the NFL. In the south, the Auburn Tigers – led by Heisman-hopeful senior running back Kenny Irons – have been given the best odds to win the SEC Championship odds at 5-2.
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In the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree.
And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so.
Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal.
So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent. And we've gotten our mitts into them.
Per a league source, Crabtree has signed a six-year, $32 million contract. (The total includes guaranteed money, base salaries, and the one-time incentive based on achieving minimum playing time.)
The deal also includes $17 million in guaranteed money.
As reported elsewhere, the deal can void to five years based on performance triggers, wiping out a final year base salary of $4 million. But they won't be easily reached.
The source tells us that, in his first four seasons (including 2009), Crabtree must either qualify for two Pro Bowls, or he must qualify for one Pro Bowl in one year and he must participate in 80 percent of the offensive snaps in a separate year in which the team makes the playoffs.
In other words, if in 2010 he qualifies for the Pro Bowl and the team makes the playoffs and he participates in 80 percent of the snaps, he'll still need to make it to the Pro Bowl or achieve the 80-percent/playoffs in another season.
Since the chances of Crabtree making the Pro Bowl or participating in 80 percent of the offensive snaps this year is roughly zero percent, he'll have three years to get it done.
And it won't be easy. Frankly, he'll be hard pressed to make it to one Pro Bowl in three years with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith, the other Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks, DeSean Jackson, Johnny Knox, Percy Harvin, Greg Jennings, Roddy White, T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the same conference for sportsbook betting.
So, by all appearances, it's a six-year deal. And at $17 million in guaranteed money, the per-year guarantee is a tepid $2.83 million per year.
There's another problem with the deal -- it has no mid-tier incentive package. Instead, the additional $8 million that Crabtree can earn (pushing the max value to six years, $40 million) requires the kind of unrealistic, mega-star performances that no rookie is likely to ever achieve.
So while the contract paid to Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji covers five years and pays $22.5 million, he has the ability (if he's a solid player) to make up the difference between his base deal and Crabtree's five-year, $28 million haul via the mid-tier incentive package in Raji's deal.
And unless Crabtree meets the performance thresholds necessary to void the sixth year, he'll be stuck under contract for another year at a base salary of only $4 million.
There's one other area of concern with the deal. Crabtree, per the source, received no option bonus. Instead, he has significant money tied to a fairly new device known as a "discretionary salary advance," which unlike an opition bonus is subject to forfeiture if Crabtree decides in a year or two that he wants to hold out for a better deal. (We're also told that the 49ers have included language that would make certain escalators subject to forfeiture, too.)
Meanwhile, the deal falls well short of the mark for which Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were aiming -- the five-year, $38.25 million contract paid by the Raiders to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the draft.
Even if Crabtree successfully voids the final year, he'll make more than $2 million per year less on average than Heyward-Bey.
Thus, as we explained earlier in the day, this is a deal that Crabtree could have done in July, which would have given him a much better chance of making a contribution to the 49ers during his rookie year.
So while the final outcome can be described as win-win, the broader view suggests that it's really a lose-lose situation.
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