Creamer still three in front after third round

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07/11/2010 - Oakmont, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Paula Creamer rolled in a four-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole Sunday to move three shots clear after the third round of the U.S. Women's Open.

Creamer finished the third round Sunday morning and posted an impressive, one- under 70 at a difficult Oakmont layout. She is the only player under par and got through 54 holes at one-under 212.

Wendy Ward also had a 70 in round three and is second at plus-two.

Suzann Pettersen (72), Christina Kim (72) and Amy Yang (71) are knotted in third place at three-over 216.

The third round was completed on Sunday morning after play was halted for darkness on Saturday.

The championship has played catch up after inclement weather halted action on Friday and forced the second round to be completed earlier Saturday.

Once the second round was completed, players went off the first and 10th tees in threesomes. More than half the field managed to complete round three before darkness fell at Oakmont Saturday night.

The players will go back out in threesomes off split tees for the final round, and with a bright forecast for Sunday, there should be no problem completing the final round.

Creamer was one-under for the championship after a missed short par putt on 13 Saturday night. The horn blew, but Creamer, well within her right, elected to putt out and missed a two-footer.

On Saturday, Creamer parred 14 and 15 and had a mere two feet left for par at the 16th. She missed that par putt to fall to even-par for the tournament, but the putter, and maybe nerves, got in the way again.

Creamer had three feet for birdie at the short, par-four 17th, but that putt never hit the hole. She was still at even, but hit a spectacular approach to four feet at the tough closing hole.

Creamer converted the birdie putt to build a three-stroke cushion with one round to go.

Creamer hasn't won a major, but has won several of the LPGA Tour's biggest events. She claimed the 2005 Evian Masters, the Tournament of Champions in 2007 and the 2008 Samsung World Championship.

The win at the Samsung stands as Creamer's last LPGA Tour victory as she has battled a thumb injury through most of last year and the earlier part of this season as well.

In fact, this is just Creamer's fifth start of the year and fourth since having surgery on her injured left thumb.

Lexi Thompson, 15, finished her third-round 70 on Saturday and is sixth at four-over 217.

World No. 1 Cristie Kerr, who romped to victory at the last major, the LPGA Championship, carded a four-over 75 and is tied for seventh place with Sophie Gustafson (74), In Kyung Kim (73), Natalie Gulbis (72), Sakura Yokomine (76) and first-round leader Brittany Lang (75). The group finished at plus-five.

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Michael Vick is back, Brett Favre isn't and the NFC East remains the best division in the NFC, maybe in all of football.

As players start to gather for the start of another season, some things change and some stay the same in the world of the NFL.

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The NFC East has been the dominant division in the National Conference for a while, despite limited playoff success, save for the New York Giants surprise Super Bowl win two seasons ago.

Hell, there's a generation of kids in Texas who have never seen the Cowboys win a playoff game (last win was in 1996).

But collectively, the Giants, Eagles, Cowboys and Redskins (well, maybe not so much the Redskins) are as good as a division gets in an NFC conference that has struggled to stay competitive with the AFC side.

Sports bettors have both acknowledged the NFC East's dominance, as one glance at the NFL future odds menu will show.

Looking over the NFL betting odds at online sports book MySportsbook.com we see the top three teams listed to win the NFC Championship are all from the NFC East:

Dallas Cowboys - 7 - 1

Philadelphia Eagles - 13 - 2

New York Giants - 9 - 2

Slotting in behind these three are two teams from the NFC North: the Minnesota Vikings (15-2) and the Chicago Bears (10-1).

Again, despite the lack of recent playoff success, the Dallas Cowboys are popular with the sports betting community, as they hold 14% of all the money wagered on who will win the NFC Championship.

So far, the New York Giants are the bettors' favorite to represent their conference in the Super Bowl, as they have 24% of the overall NFC Championship betting volume.

And what about the Philadelphia Eagles? For the most part, the Eagles had a very productive offseason, the kind that could bring them back to the top.

They had a good draft adding the likes of WR Jeremy Maclin and RB LeSean McCoy.

Unfortunately, the team received a blow when long-time defensive coordinator Jim Johnson passed away on Tuesday.

But this team will make a real run at the division title this year. Going into the regular season, Philly is listed at +240 to win the division.

Last season the Eagles were 9-6-1 SU and 10-6 ATS.

Teams from the NFC East will play teams from the AFC West in the regular season and the Eagles haven't really been a good bet in the last 20 games against the likes of San Diego, Oakland, K.C. and Denver, only going 8-12 ATS.

Two seasons removed from that Super Bowl title, the New York Giants see themselves listed as the odds-on favorite in NFC East championship futures at +162.

Plaxico Burress is gone and with him all the bad publicity surrounding the gun in the sweatpants incident, but can they replace him in the offense?

Last season the Giants were a very reliable bet going 12-4 ATS.

In the Giants' last 20 games against fellow teams from the NFC East; they are 13-7 ATS.

Dallas is listed at +240 to win the division.

Dallas went 9-7 SU and 7-9 ATS last season and with the amount of talent the Cowboys have, a similar performance won't do.

The Cowboys have been atrocious against divisional rivals, going 6-14 ATS in their last 20.

The Washington Redskins are longshots to win the division at +550.

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