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03/01/2007 - Washington, DC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Shaquille O'Neal scored 23 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as the Miami Heat held off the Washington Wizards, 92-83, at the Verizon Center.
Jason Williams added 23 points for Miami, which has won two of its last three games. Udonis Haslem chipped in with 12 points and 16 boards for the Heat, who are 2-2 since Dwyane Wade's injury.
DeShawn Stevenson deposited 19 points for Washington, which has lost four straight games. Gilbert Arenas shot just 3-of-18 for 15 points for the Wizards, who were again without Caron Butler and Antawn Jamison due to injury.
O'Neal scored all 10 of Miami's points in the fourth until Eddie Jones drilled a triple to put Miami ahead 82-73 with 1:12 left to play. The Heat then hit all eight of their free throws down the stretch to ice the game.
Washington shot just 7-of-26 in the fourth quarter.
Leading 9-8 Miami went on a 15-0 run to open up a 24-8 advantage with 3:51 left in the first stanza. The Wizards responded by scoring 12 of the final 15 points in the session to close within 27-20 after one period.
A Jones triple sparked a 7-0 run to start the second and the Heat took a 34-20 lead. Again, the Wizards fought back as a 16-6 run, capped by a Roger Mason Jr. trey pulled Washington within four, 40-36 midway through the quarter.
Miami held a 46-45 edge at the half.
Andray Blatche's dunk to start the third put the Wizards ahead, but the Heat immediately re-gained the lead with a Williams three and Haslem layup putting the Heat up for good 51-47 with 10:36 remaining in the third.
Miami led 69-65 heading into the final quarter.
Game Notes
Washington shot just 35.8 percent while Miami connected on 41.8 percent from the field...Miami outrebounded Washington 49-43...Miami has won 13 of its last 14 meetings with Washington.
<< Bears ink coach Smith, GM Angelo to contract extensions
Lake Forest, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Chicago Bears Wednesday signed
coach Lovie Smith to a four-year contract extension through the 2011 season,
and extended general manager Jerry Angelo's contract through the 2013 season.
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<< Bartoli out, Garbin moves on in Mexico
Acapulco, Mexico (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Top-seeded Marion Bartoli was a second-
round victim at the $180,000 Abierto Mexicano Telcel tennis tournament.
Bartoli was swept in the first set in a 6-0, 6-4 defeat at the hands of Julia
Schruff. S
<< Franklin leads Texas A&M past Texas
College Station, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - A'Quonesia Franklin scored 27 points
and dished out four assists as 14th-ranked Texas A&M downed Texas, 67-60, to
clinch at least a share of the Big 12 Conference championship for the first
time in
<< Portland State hires former NFL coach Glanville
Portland, OR (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Portland State University hired Jerry
Glanville as its new head football coach on Wednesday.
Glanville replaces former coach Tim Walsh, who left Portland State to become
the new offensive coordinato
No. 19 Bowling Green pounds Miami-Ohio >>
Bowling Green, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Carin Horne scored 23 points and Ali
Mann had 22 as 19th-ranked Bowling Green exploded in the second half to pound
Miami-Ohio, 92-62, on senior night at Anderson Arena.
Horne and Mann each pulled
Foster, Commodores silence Gamecocks >>
Columbia, SC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Shan Foster poured in a career-high 33
points, including five three-pointers, leading No. 19 Vanderbilt over South
Carolina, 99-90, in overtime at the Colonial Center.
Derrick Byars scored 18 points
Emery, Senators blank Hurricanes >>
Ottawa, ON (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Ray Emery stopped 27 shots for his fifth shutout
of the season, as the Ottawa Senators shut down the Carolina Hurricanes, 2-0,
in the back end of a home-and-home set between the teams at Scotiabank Place.
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Paul, Hornets sting Hawks >>
Oklahoma City, OK (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chris Paul posted 24 points and 13
rebounds, as the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets got their sixth straight
win at home with a 107-100 win over the Atlanta Hawks at the Ford Center.
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In the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree.
And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so.
Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal.
So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent. And we've gotten our mitts into them.
Per a league source, Crabtree has signed a six-year, $32 million contract. (The total includes guaranteed money, base salaries, and the one-time incentive based on achieving minimum playing time.)
The deal also includes $17 million in guaranteed money.
As reported elsewhere, the deal can void to five years based on performance triggers, wiping out a final year base salary of $4 million. But they won't be easily reached.
The source tells us that, in his first four seasons (including 2009), Crabtree must either qualify for two Pro Bowls, or he must qualify for one Pro Bowl in one year and he must participate in 80 percent of the offensive snaps in a separate year in which the team makes the playoffs.
In other words, if in 2010 he qualifies for the Pro Bowl and the team makes the playoffs and he participates in 80 percent of the snaps, he'll still need to make it to the Pro Bowl or achieve the 80-percent/playoffs in another season.
Since the chances of Crabtree making the Pro Bowl or participating in 80 percent of the offensive snaps this year is roughly zero percent, he'll have three years to get it done.
And it won't be easy. Frankly, he'll be hard pressed to make it to one Pro Bowl in three years with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith, the other Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks, DeSean Jackson, Johnny Knox, Percy Harvin, Greg Jennings, Roddy White, T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the same conference for sportsbook betting.
So, by all appearances, it's a six-year deal. And at $17 million in guaranteed money, the per-year guarantee is a tepid $2.83 million per year.
There's another problem with the deal -- it has no mid-tier incentive package. Instead, the additional $8 million that Crabtree can earn (pushing the max value to six years, $40 million) requires the kind of unrealistic, mega-star performances that no rookie is likely to ever achieve.
So while the contract paid to Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji covers five years and pays $22.5 million, he has the ability (if he's a solid player) to make up the difference between his base deal and Crabtree's five-year, $28 million haul via the mid-tier incentive package in Raji's deal.
And unless Crabtree meets the performance thresholds necessary to void the sixth year, he'll be stuck under contract for another year at a base salary of only $4 million.
There's one other area of concern with the deal. Crabtree, per the source, received no option bonus. Instead, he has significant money tied to a fairly new device known as a "discretionary salary advance," which unlike an opition bonus is subject to forfeiture if Crabtree decides in a year or two that he wants to hold out for a better deal. (We're also told that the 49ers have included language that would make certain escalators subject to forfeiture, too.)
Meanwhile, the deal falls well short of the mark for which Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were aiming -- the five-year, $38.25 million contract paid by the Raiders to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the draft.
Even if Crabtree successfully voids the final year, he'll make more than $2 million per year less on average than Heyward-Bey.
Thus, as we explained earlier in the day, this is a deal that Crabtree could have done in July, which would have given him a much better chance of making a contribution to the 49ers during his rookie year.
So while the final outcome can be described as win-win, the broader view suggests that it's really a lose-lose situation.
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