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Bucks shoot for home-and-home sweep of Raptors

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01/22/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - This season hasn't gone as hoped for the Milwaukee Bucks so far, but the club seems to have the Toronto Raptors' number.

Milwaukee will shoot for its third victory over the Raptors in 2009-10, as well as a sweep of a home-and-home series between the teams that concludes this evening at the Air Canada Centre.

The Bucks dealt Toronto a 113-107 loss Wednesday in Milwaukee despite a tremendous game out of Raptors' star Chris Bosh, who poured in a career-best 44 points and pulled down 12 rebounds. Milwaukee's Andrew Bogut came through with a big effort as well, however, with the former No. 1 overall pick netting 27 points on 11-of-14 shooting and grabbing 12 boards.

Carlos Delfino added 22 points and eight rebounds to help the Bucks halt a two-game losing streak, with rookie Brandon Jennings contributing 16 points and six assists to the win.

Milwaukee had just returned from a rough six-game Western road trip in which the team lost five times.

"We were kind of slow in the beginning of the game, which is understandable when you come off of a trip like that, it happens a lot," said Bucks head coach Scott Skiles. "But we were able to regroup and had a great second half and a lot of guys contributed, which is what we need."

Milwaukee trailed by a 56-49 score at intermission, but opened the third quarter on a 12-5 run to tie the game less than three minutes into the second half. The Bucks took the lead soon afterward on a Charlie Bell jumper that made the score 66-65.

"They came out harder then we did in the third quarter," said Bosh. "I think they made a concentrated effort to do better. They had better energy to start out the third quarter."

The contest remained close down the stretch, with Toronto pulling to within 103-102 on a three-point play from Bosh with 2 1/2 minutes left, but Milwaukee responded with seven straight points to pull away. Bell capped the spurt with a layup with under a minute to go.

Toronto, which fell to 8-16 on the road this season, also received 16 points off the bench from Jose Calderon and 13 out of Hedo Turkoglu.

The Raptors have been much better at the Air Canada Centre, having produced a 13-6 record on their home floor and posting victories in seven of their last eight games as the host. The team has topped the Bucks five times in the past seven meetings in this series held in Toronto.

Milwaukee has won four of its last five overall encounters with the Raptors, however, and routed Toronto by a 117-95 count at the Bradley Center back on December 9.

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NFL owners, already life's biggest winners, want to try their luck with the lottery.


That was the news out of their meetings last week, where team bosses voted unanimously to allow stamping state and local lottery tickets with franchise logos, if, ahem, any governments wanted to do a deal.

A shocker: Within days the Pats announced they'd be sponsoring the Massachusetts state lottery, the Skins said they'd slap their sticker on Virginia scratch-offs and the Ravens admitted they were talking to Maryland lottery bosses. In all likelihood, it won't be long before every team is a presenting sponsor of scratch-offs or just plain old pick fives. "The change in policy was approved 32-0," said NFL spokesman Greg Aiello. "So you can expect to see more deals soon."

It's a branding opportunity too big for the owners to ignore, and one a couple of dozen baseball franchises have enjoyed for years. The fact the NFL has been slower to act than those slack-brained Seligites is indicative of its complicated relationship with all forms of gambling. Consider this: Last Thursday, as the Pats and the Redskins finalized their new lottery deals, a lawyer representing the NFL argued before Delaware's Supreme Court that the state's newly signed sports betting law should be repealed.

The NFL betting is the face of opposition to sports gambling . And as much as it would like to share that responsibility with other leagues, that's not going to happen as long as more than 40% of all money legally wagered on games is bet on football. That's why the Brewers can do a multi-million dollar deal with a local casino, or the Celtics can make their own pact with the Mass lottery, and the response is, "Sweet, let's play." But when the NFL does it the stakes are higher, and everyone from NPR's Frank Deford to the Associated Press to the guys blogging at Deadspin will line up to play gotcha.

So I asked Aiello, who surely knew there'd be piling on, how the league can rail against being bait for sports bettors, then allow its franchises to be just that for lotteries, the most insidious and addictive form of gambling around. He emailed me this response: "We are not moral crusaders. NFL personnel are permitted to engage in legal forms of gambling, except for betting on NFL games. We are making a distinction here between the spread of gambling on the outcome of our games and supporting state lottery scratch-off games, that have nothing to do with the outcome of our games."

Here's where I should rip him. But, the thing is, he's right. Not to get Obama on you, but this is a complicated, nuanced issue. As much as lotteries are considered a tax on the poor, the NFL isn't a socially obligated government program -- it's just a business. Scratch-off's help the bottom line, sports betting doesn't. Now, it's okay to call the league hypocritical when it releases injury reports, which players have told me only helps bettors … But when it supports other forms of gaming? Big Deal.

Now, it's okay to call the league hypocritical when it releases injury reports, which players have told me only helps bettors. And it's okay to mutter something obscene when the league pretends gambling doesn't help drive TV ratings and fan interest and put money in owners' pockets. But when it supports other forms of gaming? Big Deal. The Bears should put an orange "C" on every deck of cards dealt at Harrah's in Joliet; the Eagles should slap their logo on roulette wheels at the Borgata in Atlantic City; the Dolphins should hold training camp at the El San Juan in Puerto Rico.

Seriously.

The NFL's problem, when it comes to the gambling world, isn't hypocrisy, it's worse: The bosses lack vision. That's why the league is picking unwinnable fights in Delaware and taking pot shots from critics after making smart sponsorship deals. Roger Goodell and his gang are acting and thinking locally rather than globally, which is rare for them, especially compared to their professional (and amateur) counterparts.

The NBA held its All Star game in Las Vegas and David Stern's kingdom didn't crumble (although the town did bring plenty of players to their knees.) I'd say it's 6 to 5 and pick 'em that Lebron will make a road swing through Sin City before his career is over.

Even the NCAA College Football Betting is more progressive on this issue than the NFL. Several years ago Rachel Newman Baker, college sports' gambling czar, opened a dialogue with Vegas bookmakers to learn about how they do business. She's visited Nevada sports books, studied their operations and listened to how they regulate action. Now she knows she can expect a call from bookmakers, who lose money when sports are fixed, if they think something sketchy is going on in NCAA games. She's not in favor of sports betting, but, as she once told me, "I know it's not going away, either."

The NFL can't seem to accept that. And until it can find peace with the idea, it'll get flack, even when it's right.

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