http://www.sportsbooks.com/ Sportsbooks - Pro and College sport headlines and stories on the NFL, NBA, NCAA, NHL, MLB, football, baseball, basketball, World Series, Super Bowl. en-us jackblack@sportsbooks.com http://www.sportsbooks.com/ Players making their first deposit with Sportsbooks.com will automatically receive a Tournament Ticket to the $500 Welcome Freeroll. http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/909006.html Mexico's Ulises Solis won a 12-round unanimous decision over Jether Oliva on Saturday night to retain his IBF light flyweight title. Solis (34-2-3) won easily on scorecards that read 118-110, 120-108 and 119-109 in the first title defense of his second IBF reign. He also held the flyweight title from 2006-09. Oliva (17-1-1) was fighting for the first time outside his native Philippines, and in his first title bout. http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/908860.html Russian Alexander Povetkin bested Uzbekistan's Ruslan Chagaev by unanimous decision to earn the WBA "regular" heavyweight crown on Saturday night at Messehall. Povetkin (22-0) withstood a middle-round challenge from Chagaev (27-2-1), but worked his foe into submission in the later rounds of the bout. He walked away victorious thanks to 117-113, 117-113 and 116-112 scorecards. The 31-year-old Povetkin has won each of his last two http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/908497.html Karoly Balzsay earned a unanimous decision over Stanyslav Kashtanov to take the vacant WBA super middleweight title. Balzsay (24-2) took a 115-113, 115-114, 116-111 decision over the previous undefeated Kashtanov (28-1). In the main event, Viacheslav Senchenko (32-0) defended his WBA welterweight title for the third successful time with a sixth-round TKO over Marco Antonio Avendano (30-8-1). http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/908434.html Really folks I tried. But no matter how many times I clicked from channel to channel in the Gulf- side hideaway of Cape Coral this week, the images coming back at me in 50-inch high-definition never changed. Seems that the latest pop culture poster girl for talentless excess -- known these days as Kim Kardashian -- went and got herself hitched to a sparkly 6- foot-9 clothes horse who's made far less impact in seven NBA seasons than he'll make on ta http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/905741.html Suriyan Sor Rungvisai earned a unanimous decision to dethrone WBC super flyweight champion Tomas Rojas. Rungvisai (19-5-1) received scores of 116-112, 117-111 and 115-114 at Khunmuangsri stadium. Rojas (36-13-1) was making his third title defense. http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/905573.html Robert Guerrero pulled out of his August 27 WBA super lightweight bout against Marcos Maidana due to a left shoulder injury. The bout, which has been postponed indefinitely, was to take place at HP Pavilion in San Jose, but now the entire card has been canceled. It was to be shown on HBO. Guerrero sustained the injury during a sparring session Wednesday afternoon. He was on his way to get an MRI to determine the severity of the inju http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/905081.html I'm a baseball guy. Sure, it's taken a back seat over the years to dozens of middleweight title fight recaps and myriad interim championship rants, but every now and then I get back to my roots. So as I pondered this week's prose while watching my three-year-old dissect a cheese quesadilla at our friendly neighborhood Denny's the other day, it's no accident I regressed. After all, when I was just slightly more than little Ryan's age, baseball was all http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/903467.html Abner Mares earned a majority decision over Joseph Agbeko to take home the IBF bantamweight belt Saturday. Mares (22-0-1) won 115-111 on two scorecards, while the third was tied 113-113. He knocked Agbeko (28-3) down in the first round, and then overcame a cut over his left eye -- which was caused by an accidental head butt in the sixth -- to put the defending champion on the mat again in the 11th. http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/902084.html Japan's Kazuto Ioka won a 12-round unanimous decision over Juan Hernandez of Mexico on Wednesday to retain his WBC strawweight belt. In his first title defense since winning the belt from Oleydong Sithsamerchai in February, Ioka (8-0) beat Juan Hernandez on scorecards that read 116-112, 117-111 and 118-111. Hernandez (18-2), the No. 1 contender, was appearing in his first career title fight and first bout outside Mexico. http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/901480.html Ahhh hero worship. It's a dangerous game in any form. But it can take a particularly macabre turn in boxing. Unlike sports where the saddest occurrence for a favorite player is a long, slow decline ultimately leading to impromptu release, trade or fade (see: Namath, Joe; Los Angeles Rams), diminishing talents in the ring too often result in sad surrender of title belts, not to mention dramatically increased peril. See: Ali, Muhammad; Robinso