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/741930.html Raul in Royal Blue? Fitting, I guess, even if it's tough to imagine. Raul ended his 16-year stay at Real Madrid this week and started his second life at Schalke on Thursday. Signed to a "lifetime contract" by Real Madrid just two years ago, the Spanish legend was allowed to walk away from the only club he's ever known. He has 323 goals in 741 career games, but the 33-year-old was no longer wanted. Real Madrid has made this mistake before, just not http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/740572.html If Argentina lifts the World Cup four years from now in Brazil, Oscar Ruggeri will be able to take some of the credit. No, Ruggeri is not a fleet-footed winger capable of scoring bags of goals, or even a stalwart defender who will help to shore up a leaky defense. Ruggeri was a coach on manager Diego Maradona's staff during the 2010 World Cup for Argentina, and he is partly to blame (or praise) for Maradona not being retained. All http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/738863.html With reports surfacing that Inter Milan are prepared to transfer Mario Balotelli to Manchester City for a fee in the range of 30 million Euros, the young star's tumultuous time with the club seems to be at an end. The 19-year-old Balotelli is a supremely gifted player with the ability to use his strength and quickness to elude opponents and create quality scoring opportunities. Even at a young age, the skill set the young Italian possesses is of an http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/735876.html The Champions League will follow the Europa League's lead and have two extra assistant referees for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 campaigns. The International Football Association Board (IFAB) has stated that the experiment will allow FIFA to take a decision on its long-term viability in 2012. A statement from IFAB read: "The Technical Sub-Committee has approved several requests from member associations and confederations to im http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/735848.html Croatian striker Eduardo signed a four-year contract on Wednesday with Shakhtar Donetsk, bringing to an end his time at Arsenal. The move is believed to have cost Shakhtar a reported $9 million, and it was announced on the club's official website on Wednesday. "Today on July 21 FC Shakhtar have signed a Brazilian-born Croatian forward Eduardo Da Silva from Arsenal on a four-year contract being anticipated by all the international media," r http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/733697.html Gerardo Martino has agreed to a four- year contract extension to remain in charge of Paraguay's national team, although he could still leave following the Copa America tournament. Martino's new contract runs until 2014, but both sides will have the opportunity to review his status following the Copa America next year. "We have agreed with (Paraguayan Football Federation president Juan Angel) Napout to continue through 20 http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/732080.html After briefly being knocked from the top of the FIFA Rankings, Spain has reclaimed its spot at the top thanks to its first World Cup Championship. Brazil, the previous No. 1, fell two spots to third as World Cup runner-up Netherlands moved from fourth to second. 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Milito was a proven scorer in the Italian Serie A, having finished second in scoring behind Inter's Zlatan Ibrahimovic during the 2008-09 season, but the move did not receive a huge amount of attention around Europe with players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka rumored to be headed to Real Madr http://www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/704506.html Diego Milito scored a goal in each half as Inter Milan was crowned champions of Europe for the first time since 1965, beating Bayern Munich 2-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday. Milito tallied the opening goal in the 35th minute after Bayern had a penalty appeal turned down, while he added a second goal in the 70th minute on the counter-attack after a good spell of pressure from the German side. The win completes a historic treble f