11/11/2008 - London, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The teams have been revealed for next week's Davis Cup final between visiting Spain and host Argentina.
The best-of-five tie will he held on an indoor hardcourt at Estadio Islas Malvinas in Mar del Plata.
The Spaniards, who will compete without world No. 1 superstar Rafael Nadal, will feature David Ferrer, Fernando Verdasco, Feliciano Lopez and Marcel Granollers, who takes Nadal's spot on the squad. The Wimbledon, French Open and Olympic champion Nadal pulled out this week, citing a knee injury.
Powerful Argentina will counter with Juan Martin del Potro, David Nalbandian, Jose Acasuso and Agustin Calleri. The 20-year-old del Potro is playing at the prestigious Tennis Masters Cup event in Shanghai this week.
Emilio Sanchez captains Spain, while the favored Argentines will be guided by Alberto Mancini. The Spaniards own two Davis Cup titles, with both coming this decade (2000, 2004), while Argentina has never hoisted the coveted chalice.
Spain is 2-0 all-time versus Argentina, which will host for the first time in this series. The Spaniards prevailed, at home, in 1926 and 2003.
The Spaniards reached this year's final by beating the 32-time and defending champion United States in a semifinal in Madrid.
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The date for the Tour Championship is still being negotiated. That event will
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(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The residue of the Spygate controversy and the simmering
bad blood between head coaches Bill Belichick and Eric Mangini will have to
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The headline in the primetime tilt between the New En
<< Real's Van Nistelrooy in U.S. to see specialist
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The Dutch international will visit knee specialist surgeon Richar
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Manchester, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Manchester United's Owen Hargreaves will
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Hargreaves flew to the United States to try and get to the bottom of ongoing
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Edinburgh, Scotland (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Hearts' Saulius Mikoliunas is unlikely
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The 26-year-old Lithuanian picked up the injury during Saturday's
Coach Bradley selects 17 MLS players for U.S. camp >>
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training camp from Nov. 12-16 in Colorado.
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Germany coach Joachim Loew said last month that Kuranyi, who walked out on the
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Mayweather picked to beat De La Hoya
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya and his rival Floyd Mayweather Jr. arrived at the MGM Grand here Wednesday amid the pomp and pandemonium befitting two of the biggest stars in the sport who are about to duke it out for the WBC super welterweight crown this Saturday (Sunday in Manila).
As of Wednesday, MySportsbook.com closed its book with Mayweather a favorite to defeat De La Hoya at -170 (a $100 bet wins $70), while De La Hoya is a +140 underdog (a $100 bet wins $140).
Mayweather arrived at about 11:30 a.m. on a big truck with his face and a big "World's Best Pound-for-Pound" sign scribbled across the vehicle. He was accompanied by his entourage made up of rappers and his training team.
A crowd of close to 3,000 eager fans packed the MGM Grand lobby, with their cameras in tow, all trying to vie for position to get a good angle at Mayweather, who is acknowledged as the world's best fighter pound-for-pound.
Eric Gomez, Golden Boy Promotions vice-president, described the fan turnout as "amazing" and swore he had never seen anything quite like this event.
"The crowd was fantastic. Everybody was just too eager to see the two fighters," said ALA manager Michael Aldeguer, who was among those who waited at the lobby together with his ward Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista and AJ Banal.
De La Hoya made his own grand entrance at the hotel lobby at around 12:30 p.m. accompanied by GBP chief executive officer Richard Schaefer and trainer Freddie Roach.
The same group of fans who trooped to see Mayweather also lingered around to get a close look at De La Hoya, who has been secretly working out at a Las Vegas gym for days after arriving from his main training camp in Puerto Rico.
The golden boy then took part in a closed-door afternoon workout with Bautista and Banal. The two, along with Aldeguer and wife Christine, as well as an HBO crew were the only ones allowed inside the gym.
De La Hoya and Mayweather take part in today's final press conference before the official weigh-in this Friday.
Ring Magazine, the acknowledged bible of boxing, reported in its June 2007 issue that 12 out of 20 boxing experts it interviewed have favored Mayweather to defeat De la Hoya, with only 8 favoring the latter.
But Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao said in a recent interview with The Freeman's Emmanuel Villaruel that De La Hoya will win by unanimous decision over Mayweather.
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