Christine Song two clear at LPGA Q School

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12/01/2011 - Daytona Beach, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Christine Song managed a two-under 70 on Thursday to grab a two-stroke lead after two rounds of the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament.

Song's 70 matched the low round of the day as scores went soaring in windy conditions. She finished 36 holes at eight-under-par 136.

Amateur Stephanie Kono is still alone in second place as she posted a one- under 71 in round two. Kono, a senior at UCLA, finished two rounds at minus- six.

Those two have taken control of the tournament as the three players tied for third place are four shots behind Kono.

Jennie Lee (71), Jacqui Concolino (72) and Rebecca Durham (71) share third place two-under-par 142. Six more players are tied at minus-one as just 11 players finished two rounds in red figures.

LPGA Q School is played over five rounds and two courses. For the first four rounds, golf rotates over the Champions Course and Legends Course at LPGA International.

There will be a cut after 72 holes for the low 70 and ties. The final round will take place at the Champions Course, then it gets really interesting.

The low 40 and ties receive LPGA Tour membership for 2012. For the remaining players who make the cut, they will earn some type of status on the Futures Tour.

Song started her round on the first tee at the Legends Course. She birdied the second and fifth, before stumbling to her only bogey of the day at the sixth.

After six straight pars around the turn, Song converted a birdie try at the 13th. She parred the last five to finish two clear of Kono.

"The wind was tough today and when it was blowing, it was really blowing," Song said.

Kono, who was three groups after Song off the first tee, opened with four pars in a row. She converted a birdie chance at the fifth, but bogeyed the next two holes.

She erased those mistakes by pouring in three straight birdies from the eighth. Kono fell back to even-par for her round with bogeys at 12 and 17. However, she birdied the last to shoot 71.

"The wind picked up on the back nine, where it was definitely a two-club wind at times," Kono stated. "This is not an easy course and with the wind, it's a beast. Even-par is a really good score here."

NOTES: With the breezy conditions Thursday, there was four players that shot two-under 70, while 22 players shot 80 or worse...Whitney Neuhauser struggled to an 82 and tumbled from a share of fifth into a tie for 83rd for one of the biggest drops on the leaderboard...Birdie Kim, the 2005 U.S. Women's Open champion, tripped to a seven-over 79 and slid into a tie for 83rd at plus- seven...Reigning U.S. Women's Amateur champion Danielle Kang stumbled to a 78 to fall from a tie for 25th into share of 64th.

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SPORTS BETTING: NFL Football Sportsbook Betting

NFL owners, already life's biggest winners, want to try their luck with the lottery.


That was the news out of their meetings last week, where team bosses voted unanimously to allow stamping state and local lottery tickets with franchise logos, if, ahem, any governments wanted to do a deal.

A shocker: Within days the Pats announced they'd be sponsoring the Massachusetts state lottery, the Skins said they'd slap their sticker on Virginia scratch-offs and the Ravens admitted they were talking to Maryland lottery bosses. In all likelihood, it won't be long before every team is a presenting sponsor of scratch-offs or just plain old pick fives. "The change in policy was approved 32-0," said NFL spokesman Greg Aiello. "So you can expect to see more deals soon."

It's a branding opportunity too big for the owners to ignore, and one a couple of dozen baseball franchises have enjoyed for years. The fact the NFL has been slower to act than those slack-brained Seligites is indicative of its complicated relationship with all forms of gambling. Consider this: Last Thursday, as the Pats and the Redskins finalized their new lottery deals, a lawyer representing the NFL argued before Delaware's Supreme Court that the state's newly signed sports betting law should be repealed.

The NFL betting is the face of opposition to sports gambling . And as much as it would like to share that responsibility with other leagues, that's not going to happen as long as more than 40% of all money legally wagered on games is bet on football. That's why the Brewers can do a multi-million dollar deal with a local casino, or the Celtics can make their own pact with the Mass lottery, and the response is, "Sweet, let's play." But when the NFL does it the stakes are higher, and everyone from NPR's Frank Deford to the Associated Press to the guys blogging at Deadspin will line up to play gotcha.

So I asked Aiello, who surely knew there'd be piling on, how the league can rail against being bait for sports bettors, then allow its franchises to be just that for lotteries, the most insidious and addictive form of gambling around. He emailed me this response: "We are not moral crusaders. NFL personnel are permitted to engage in legal forms of gambling, except for betting on NFL games. We are making a distinction here between the spread of gambling on the outcome of our games and supporting state lottery scratch-off games, that have nothing to do with the outcome of our games."

Here's where I should rip him. But, the thing is, he's right. Not to get Obama on you, but this is a complicated, nuanced issue. As much as lotteries are considered a tax on the poor, the NFL isn't a socially obligated government program -- it's just a business. Scratch-off's help the bottom line, sports betting doesn't. Now, it's okay to call the league hypocritical when it releases injury reports, which players have told me only helps bettors … But when it supports other forms of gaming? Big Deal.

Now, it's okay to call the league hypocritical when it releases injury reports, which players have told me only helps bettors. And it's okay to mutter something obscene when the league pretends gambling doesn't help drive TV ratings and fan interest and put money in owners' pockets. But when it supports other forms of gaming? Big Deal. The Bears should put an orange "C" on every deck of cards dealt at Harrah's in Joliet; the Eagles should slap their logo on roulette wheels at the Borgata in Atlantic City; the Dolphins should hold training camp at the El San Juan in Puerto Rico.

Seriously.

The NFL's problem, when it comes to the gambling world, isn't hypocrisy, it's worse: The bosses lack vision. That's why the league is picking unwinnable fights in Delaware and taking pot shots from critics after making smart sponsorship deals. Roger Goodell and his gang are acting and thinking locally rather than globally, which is rare for them, especially compared to their professional (and amateur) counterparts.

The NBA held its All Star game in Las Vegas and David Stern's kingdom didn't crumble (although the town did bring plenty of players to their knees.) I'd say it's 6 to 5 and pick 'em that Lebron will make a road swing through Sin City before his career is over.

Even the NCAA College Football Betting is more progressive on this issue than the NFL. Several years ago Rachel Newman Baker, college sports' gambling czar, opened a dialogue with Vegas bookmakers to learn about how they do business. She's visited Nevada sports books, studied their operations and listened to how they regulate action. Now she knows she can expect a call from bookmakers, who lose money when sports are fixed, if they think something sketchy is going on in NCAA games. She's not in favor of sports betting, but, as she once told me, "I know it's not going away, either."

The NFL can't seem to accept that. And until it can find peace with the idea, it'll get flack, even when it's right.

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