A single college football game shares the spotlight with baseball’s pennant
races on Wednesday, while golf prepares for the Ryder Cup. Here’s your Daily
Sports Roundup.

The Gridiron Spotlight

Louisville will host Kansas
State on Wednesday night, with the
Wildcats looking to run their record to 3-0 after blasting lesser opponents in
their first two games of the season. The Wildcats began the year with an easy
45-6 win over North Texas, and they then rolled past Montana
State 69-10 in their second outing.
The Cardinals started their season with a 27-1 loss versus Kentucky
before beating up on Tennessee Tech 51-10.

The oddsmakers opened the Big 12’s Kansas
State as 3-point favorites against
the Big East’s Louisville (college
football odds
, and that line increased to four points early in the week. The total for the
game is sitting at 56 points, and kickoff is set for 8:00pm ET on Wednesday night.

Entertainment Events

One of the top approved sportsbooks
and certainly one of the original is BetUs Sportsbook. They
have just released the betting line on both the Emmy Awards and the Bristol Palin pregnancy.

Among the odds
are on Outstanding Drama series, where Mad Men is the favorite with Boston
Legal, Dexter, Damages, House and Lost. It seems one or two word titles are the
key.

The Outstanding Actor candidates are Alec Baldwin, Steve Carrell,
Tony Shalhoub, Charlie Sheen, and Lee Pace. See
all of the odds for the Emmy Awards and Bristol Palin’s
child.

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Top hotties

Thanks for the suggestions we are getting for top hottie.
Among the latest are MSG Network’s Jill Martin, our favorite Olivia Wilde. As
always, check out the Hollywood betting odds

Political Odds

Influential Hillary Clinton supporter Lynn Forester de Rothschild is
supporting John McCain as the disenfranchised women’s vote continues to swing
to Sarah Palin. The political
betting odds has InTrade
with Barack Obama in a dead heat with McCain.  

Other betting odds

Will OJ Simpson get convicted in his memorabilia
trial? Will Ryan Howard win the NL MVP? Check out the approved sportsbooks for the betting line on
just about everything such as the Ryder Cup.

Other Notable Events

The Brewers (minus Ned Yost) will continue their series in Chicago
on Wednesday, and they’ll send Ben Sheets (13-8, 2.97 ERA) to the mound. Sheets was knocked around for five earned runs over six
innings by the Phillies in his last outing, and he was beaten by the Cubs back
on July 29. Jason Marquis (10-8, 4.36 ERA) will get the ball for Chicago;
he is coming off a win over the Reds in which he gave up two runs in 7 1-3
innings.

It’ll be Tim Wakefield (9-10, 3.92 ERA) taking on Matt Garza (11-9, 3.60
ERA) when the Red Sox and Rays play in Tampa
Bay again on Wednesday. Wakefield
blanked the Blue Jays over eight innings in his most recent trip to the mound,
giving up just three hits. Garza settled for a no-decision versus the Yankees
last time out, allowing three earned runs on six hits over his five innings of
work in that contest.

The Rest of the Schedule

Rounding out the AL slate for
Wednesday: Minnesota at Cleveland,
the White Sox at the Yankees, Baltimore
at Toronto, Detroit
at Texas, Seattle
at Kansas City, and the Angels at Oakland.
Indians starter Cliff Lee (22-2, 2.36) will look to continue his incredible
campaign by beating the Twins; he’s won each of his last eight starts.

Making up the rest of the NL slate: San Diego at Colorado, the
Dodgers at Pittsburgh, Houston at Florida, the Mets at Washington, St. Louis at Cincinnati, Philadelphia at Atlanta, and San Francisco at Arizona. Diamondbacks starter Brandon Webb (20-7, 3.28 ERA) finally
won his 20^th game last time out, throwing eight scoreless innings.

News from the Wire

Rays outfielder Carl Crawford is hoping to return from hand surgery by the
end of next week, while fellow Tampa outfielder B.J.
Upton is still recovering from a quad injury . . . Panthers wide receiver Steve
Smith is finally eligible to return from his team-imposed suspension this
weekend . . . Cardinals wide receiver Anquan Boldin still wants to be traded, but the team says they
have no interest in moving him this season.

A Peek at the Future

The WNBA playoffs get underway on Thursday night
in New York and Sacramento.
First-round matchups: Detroit
at Indiana, Connecticut
at New York, San
Antonio at Sacramento,
and Seattle at Los
Angeles . . . the Europeans are still pegged as the
-125 Vegas favorites heading into play at the Ryder Cup on Thursday, with the USA
at +105.