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/ To celebrate the upcoming NFL betting season Sportsbooks.com is offering 10% bonuses on all deposits. Bonus cash is available to be used in the Sportsbook, Casino , Racebook and Poker Room. http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/741727.html This is one of those times where I really hope I'm wrong. Because as a boxing fan, writer or mildly interested bystander, it's hard not to like Juan Diaz. He's a good young kid. Articulate. Smart. A great role model. And he's not a bad fighter either -- what with IBF, IBO, WBA and WBO lightweight title belts that used to reside alongside the WBC youth championship jewelry on his mantelpiece in Houston. But that's precisely where the quandary set http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/739795.html Maybe it's the travel lag and/or my general grumpiness. Because after a seven-day stretch that's included more than 2,000 road miles over four states and two time zones - not to mention a pair of multi-hour plane rides, stays in three hotels and what seemed like 100 hours of convention events - I'm a little short on patience. So when I began making notes to create this week's column in the lobby of yet another lodging establishme http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/738490.html Manny Pacquiao will fight on November 13, 2010 after all just not against the undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. Instead, the title holder in seven different weight divisions will face, according to multiple sources, the disgraced Antonio Margarito in a bout that has yet to be given a destination. Margarito (37-8-0) and his trainer, Javier Capetillo, had their boxing licence suspended by the California State Athletic Commission after a s http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/738272.html Beibut Shumenov kept his WBA light heavyweight title with a 12-round unanimous decision over Viacheslav Uzelkov Friday night. Shumenov (10-1), in his first title defense, won by scores of 118-108 on two of the scorecards and 117-109 on the other. Uzelkov (22-1), who was participating in his first championship bout, floored Shumenov in the first round, but was dropped to the canvas in round three. Uzelkov never got momentum the rest of the fight http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/734947.html All things considered, it's a good thing I'm a writer. Though message-board contributors and e-mailers frequently suggest I take up house painting or grocery bagging for a living, this is really the only legitimate form of work I'm qualified to do. In fact, I shudder sometimes when pondering the professional path I might have taken had it not been for my seventh-grade English teacher -- Robert Rycombel -- who scribbled a grade onto a 1981 http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/733879.html Fernando Montiel recorded a third-round knockout of Rafael Concepcion on Saturday to easily hold on to his WBC and WBO bantamweight titles. Montiel (43-2-2, 33 KOs) knocked Concepcion (14-5-1, 8 KOs) down several times prior to the final knockout, at 1:07 in the third round. http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/733649.html The mega-fight between Manny Pacquiao and undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. will apparently not happen this year, as the suggested deadline to sign a deal has come and gone. The Mayweather camp did not respond to Bob Arum's self-imposed midnight (pt) cutoff to agree to a much-anticipated November 13th showdown. "Floyd for whatever reason, and I'm sure he's got some valid reason, did not want to commit," said Arum, Pacquiao's promoter, in a pr http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/732411.html Hi. My name is Lyle. And I have a problem. No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to ignore Zab Judah. Through the years, the pint-sized loudmouth from Brooklyn has given me myriad reasons to look elsewhere when his act is in town. Anyone who knows me knows I hate winter. But when I lived in Philadelphia, I once trekked to New York in January to see him defend welterweight titles against a soft touch named Carlos Baldomir -- a presumed prelude to a sho http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/732147.html Wladimir Klitschko will defend his IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight crowns against Alexander Povetkin on September 11. The bout will take place at Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt. Klitschko owns a record of 54-3 with 48 knockouts and last fought on March 20, notching a 12th-round knockout of Eddie Chambers. He's won 12 straight fights since a loss to Lamon Brewster in 2004. Povetkin, a 30-year-old native of Russia, is unbeaten in 19 bouts with 1