Edwards wins Pepsi 300 for second straight

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04/08/2007 - Lebanon, TN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Carl Edwards won Saturday afternoon's Pepsi 300 Busch Series race at the Nashville Superspeedway. The No.60 Roush Fenway Racing Ford crossed the finish line 4.466 seconds ahead of David Reutimann.

The victory was Edwards' second in a row and 11th of his Busch career.

"I'm very fortunate to drive for Roush Racing," said Edwards.

David Stremme brought the field to the green flag after collecting his second career Busch pole earlier this morning. Stremme jumped right out to a one- second lead and held it for 20 laps.

Then Reutimann slid his No.99 Toyota underneath Stremme on lap 21 for the race's first lead change. He built a lead of almost three seconds through 30 laps. Meanwhile the battle behind him was three wide and three deep as cars were beginning to make a move.

Shane Huffman, Scott Wimmer and Jason Leffler grabbed second through fourth and pole winner Stremme fell to sixth.

Wimmer emerged as the strongest challenger and began to eat into Reutimann's big lead. By lap 50 he had cut the margin to half-a-second. On the next lap he surged past the No.99 for the lead.

Through a round of green-flag pit stops and Wimmer still had the lead. But he was caught by Leffler and Reutimann who both took turns with the lead as the field passed the 85-lap mark. The torrid pace left just 13 cars on the lead lap.

Through 100 laps Shane Huffman was the leader with Todd Kluever and a suddenly strong Edwards just behind. However the race was being slowed by multiple caution flags after a clean early portion of the race. Edwards kept charging once the green flag came out and grabbed his first lead on lap 119.

A Sam Hornish Jr./Johnny Sauter incident brought out caution flag No.4 and slowed the race once again. Another crash involving Jason Keller and Richard Johns also kept the race from going green.

Once they finally got a long green flag run, Leffler started on top of the charts until Edwards caught and passed him with 81 laps to go. Edwards was really fast and built a margin of two seconds within half-a-dozen laps. His lead was still growing (5.008 seconds) as the laps remaining fell to 50.

On lap 180 a debris caution flag set everyone up for a final sprint to the checkered flag. Leffler won the final race off pit lane with Kluever second and Edwards third.

Leffler got a great jump on the restart and put two lapped cars between himself and Edwards. His lead was almost two seconds until Edwards got around the slower cars and began to attack. With 30 laps to go the margin was just 0.752 seconds. On lap 201 Edwards got the nose underneath Leffler and the lead was his.

Edwards again built a big lead. The only thing that could stop him from cruising to back-to-back victories was a caution flag or a mechanical problem.

The gap from Edwards to Reutimann was 3.912 seconds with 10 to go and with no caution flags Edwards took the checkered flag unchallenged.

"We didn't have anything for Carl," said Leffler.

Blaney, Leffler and Regan Smith completed the top-five.

The win gives Edwards a 321-point lead over Dave Blaney, who jumped past the idle Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch in the standings.

The next Busch Series race is set for Saturday, April 14th at the Texas Motor Speedway.

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Odds to Win

There are a few things to consider when looking for the right win bet. First off, remember that this bet is for the long haul. Many people make the mistake of picking the performer who sang the best the previous week. This strategy leads to an underlay situation – betting a price, which is less than what it should be.

All Idol contestants struggle at some point in the competition, so you should always look for value. In last year’s competition alone, two performers who had some of the best performances early in the series were subsequently bet down to low prices - Lisa Tucker and Ace Young. After just a few weeks, Tucker had already been eliminated, while Young quickly became a huge long shot to win America’s largest talent search.

A better strategy is to look for performers who don’t necessarily get the praise from the judges, but show flashes of the talent necessary to go the distance.

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Understand that the great state of Alabama has a mighty edge when it comes to American Idol. 

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Every week MySportsbook.com anticipates offering a prop on who’ll be eliminated from the show each Wednesday night. A suggestion to handicap this is to gauge an overall feel for who’s the least popular contestant left in the competition. Generally the least popular performers have recently appeared in the bottom three and will have been the target of repeated criticism from the judges.

Last year, resources included dialidol.com and votefortheworst.com. Dialidol.com measures the volume of each contestant’s voting line. While by no means a perfect science, it does give a good indication of who is generating votes and who isn’t. Meanwhile, votefortheworst.com is a site that attempts to build support for the worst competitor to keep them in the competition for ‘entertainment’ value. The site has a proven track record of keeping performers around who most feel should have been voted off a long time ago.

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The best strategy for doing well on match-ups is to assess how close either of the contestants is to being eliminated. If neither is expected to be voted off of the show in the coming weeks, the value is almost always on the underdog. If both are expecting an imminent exit in the near future, the favorite in the match-up might offer value.

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