Bayern rolls over Leverkusen to stay top

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09/24/2011 - Munich, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Bayern Munich's great run of form continued on Saturday at the Allianz Arena as the club won its sixth straight match in the league, topping Bayer Leverkusen, 3-0.

Goals from Thomas Muller and Daniel van Buyten in the first 20 minutes gave the hosts a comfortable lead, while Arjen Robben's late goal put the finishing touches on another impressive victory.

Bayern leads second-place Monchengladbach by two points at the top of the league, while Leverkusen suffered its second straight defeat.

Franck Ribery set up the opener after five minutes when he dashed into the penalty area and squared the ball to Muller for a simple finish from close range.

Van Buyten doubled the lead with a well-taken free kick from 25 yards that left goalkeeper Bernd Leno with no chance, while Leverkusen continued to struggle to get a hold of the match.

The second half saw Bayern continue to maintain control and Robben came off the bench to finish off the scoring in the final minutes.

Monchengladbach 1, Nurnberg 0

Monchengladbach, Germany - Monchengladbach continued its strong form on Saturday by beating Nurnberg, 1-0, with a second-half penalty kick from Filip Daems.

The win is the fourth in five games for Monchengladbach, which remains within two points of leaders Bayern Munich, while Nurnberg lost for the first time in four matches.

Nurnberg's Javier Pinola brought down Marco Reus of Monchengladbach 15 minutes from time, allowing Daems to provide the decisive strike from the penalty spot.

Borussia Dortmund 2, Mainz 1

Mainz, Germany - Borussia Dortmund went on the road to Mainz and came away with a 2-1 victory courtesy of a late goal from Lukasz Piszczek.

Nicolai Muller scored the only goal in the first half for Mainz, but after Ivan Perisic equalized for Dortmund in the 63rd minute, Mainz goalkeeper Heinz Muller punched a free kick from Mario Gotze clear, but only as far as Piszczek, who quickly sent the ball flying past the goalkeeper.

Dortmund had lost its last two games prior to Saturday's win, while Mainz owns four losses from its last five contests.

Schalke 4, Freiburg 2

Gelsenkirchen, Germany - Schalke snapped a brief two-game losing skid with a comfortable 4-2 triumph over Freiburg on Saturday.

Papiss Demba Cisse notched his sixth goal of the campaign after just three minutes for Freiburg, but Jefferson Farfan equalized before halftime for the home side.

Schalke turned on the style in the second half with three goals in the span of 14 minutes as Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Lewis Holtby and Raul each found the back of the net.

Freiburg pulled a goal back through Erik Jendrisek but it couldn't prevent the club from losing for the fifth time in six games.

Wolfsburg 1, Kaiserslautern 0

Wolfsburg, Germany - Wolfsburg grabbed three big points on Saturday with a 1-0 win over Kaiserslautern and did so with 10 men.

Just before halftime Wolfsburg's Sotirios Kyrgiakos was sent off, leaving his team to play the entire second half down a player.

But despite the numerical disadvantage, Ashkan Dejagah managed to score the lone goal of the game shortly after the hour mark, and Wolfsburg was able to hold off the visitors to snap a string of four defeats in five games.

Kaiserslautern has lost three of its last four and owns only one win in seven games this season.

Augsburg 0, Hannover 0

Augsburg, Germany - Augsburg remains the only team in the Bundesliga without a win this season, but the club did pick up a point against Hannover on Saturday with a 0-0 draw.

Hannover had the two best chances of the match as Didier Ya Konan struck the post twice in the second half, but neither side was able to find the decisive goal to win the match.

Augsburg has drawn its last two games after a three-match losing skid, with Hannover losing only once in its last five contests.

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SPORTS BETTING - Tennis is an underrated and under-utilized bettors' sport.

Ten years ago, at just about this time, I called Alan Boston in Vegas and left him a voicemail that went something like this (abridged version): "Hey Alan, Chad Millman from ESPN The Magazine calling. I want to do a book about wise guys, you in?"

A couple weeks later I got a message back (abridged version): "I don't know, maybe," Boston said. "Call me and we'll talk about it. But not later today. I got $1,000 on Andre Agassi to win the French Open at 40-1, and he's in the finals."

Here's what happened next (abridged version): Agassi won his tourney. Boston won his $40,000. I wrote sportsbook.

In the ten years since, how much has been wagered on the big-time tennis events? Put it this way: The Nevada Gaming Commission doesn't even track the number year by year because it's so small.

"Tennis makes up about one-tenth of one percent of our take," says Lucky's bookmaking boss Jimmy Vaccaro. "The last big golf major we probably had $100,000 worth of bets. In tennis, we might have written two big tickets."

Tennis' lack of popularity amongst the American bettoratti is no surprise, really. For starters, the biggest sports betting holidays -- the Super Bowl, the NCAA tourney -- are must see TV. People, at least the degenerates I know, plan vacations around watching those events in Vegas sports books.

But Wimbledon? Doesn't exactly reel in the whales. "Seriously, it's the nuts as an event," says Boston. "But who even knows when it's on?"

Here's another reason that helps explain why golf gets traction, something I call "The Bubbe Theory." My Bubbe is pushing 95 and has cataracts so bad that, to her, even the most crystalline Chicago day is mostly cloudy. But she still listens to the Cubs games, and she still calls me in a fit if she disagrees with something Rick Telander writes in the Chicago Sun Times. She's a sports fan. If she doesn't know you, you're just filling a niche. And niche players, even historically good ones like Roger and Raf, don't drive betting volume. Only the highest profile names attract square money, which inflates wagering totals like a shot of saline to the lips. Bubbe, and the public, loved Agassi, tennis' last cross-the-rubicon, mainstream draw. She also has a crush on Tiger. She's given me standing orders to put a sawbuck on the big cat whenever I walk through a sports book (or mistakenly tap into one via my Internet machine.) That explains why the Masters is getting $100K in action at some books while the four tennis majors might not get that combined this year.

This isn't a case of tennis being a difficult sport to bet. In fact, in Europe, it's probably the second most popular sport for gambling after soccer. Granted, as the WSJ football betting last week and The Mag's Shaun Assael examined in even greater depth last year, that might be because gamblers across the pond see it as an easy game to fix. But it could also be because, over there it holds the kind of sway the big two do over here.

Street corners in Spain are peppered with public courts and kids doing their best Raffy impressions. In some war torn parts of Eastern Europe poverty-stricken kids view tennis as an escape route, like football or basketball here. A couple years ago The Mag's Lindsay Berra wrote a great piece about Belgrade's Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic and Novak Djokovic. They learned the game as kids while bombs were raining down on their homeland. They practiced in drained swimming pools. Not exactly Nick Bolletierri conditions.

In the United States, casual fans think tennis is played four times a year. But on the tightly packed European continent, national interest in homegrown talent runs deep every weekend. Of the ATP's current top 20 players, only two, tennis betting and James Blake, are American. Fourteen are from Europe, representing six different countries.

No wonder fans from Lisbon to Bhudapest get jacked up for the net game, whether it's Wimbledon or a low-level tourney like the Estoril Open in Portugal (congrats to Spain's Albert Montanes for winning that one, btw). Chances are good that someone representing their flag will not only be playing, but have a shot at winning.

And that's all any bettor can ask for.

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