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12/31/2011 - Santa Clara, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The San Francisco 49ers promoted wide receiver Joe Hastings to the active roster on Saturday.
The 49ers needed to add a wide receiver after getting rid of Braylon Edwards on Tuesday.
Hastings joins Michael Crabtree and Brett Swain as the only healthy receivers on the team for Sunday's regular-season finale against the St. Louis Rams.
Fellow wide receivers Ted Ginn Jr. (ankle) and Kyle Williams (head) are both listed as questionable for Sunday's game.
Originally signed by the 49ers as an undrafted free agent on July 27, 2011, Hastings was released following training camp and was signed to San Francisco's practice squad on September 4.
The 49ers (12-3) can secure the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye in the playoffs with a victory.
<< Kentucky sends Louisville to a second straight loss
Lexington, KY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Michael Kidd-Gilchrist posted career highs of
24 points and 19 rebounds, leading third-ranked Kentucky to a 69-62 victory
over No. 4 Louisville at Rupp Arena.
Anthony Davis contributed 18 points, all in t
<< Kentucky hands Louisville second-straight loss
Lexington, KY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Michael Kidd-Gilchrist posted career highs of
24 points and 19 rebounds, leading third-ranked Kentucky to a 69-62 victory
over No. 4 Louisville at Rupp Arena.
Anthony Davis contributed 18 points, all in t
<< Padres acquire OF Quentin from White Sox
San Diego, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The San Diego Padres acquired outfielder
Carlos Quentin from the Chicago White Sox on Saturday in exchange for minor
league pitchers Simon Castro and Pedro Hernandez.
A two-time All-Star and former Si
<< No. 9 UConn downs St. John's
Hartford, CT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Shabazz Napier scored 17 points and added nine
assists, as No. 9 Connecticut downed St. John's, 83-69, on Saturday.
Andre Drummond added 16 points and 11 rebounds, Jeremy Lamb had 15 points and
Ryan Boatrigh
Texas A&M holds off Northwestern in Meineke Car Care Bowl >>
Houston, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Ryan Tannehill threw for 329 yards and a
touchdown, as Texas A&M survived a late Northwestern charge to win Saturday's
Meineke Car Care Bowl, 33-22.
Trailing 30-7, Northwestern scored 15 straight
Islanders down Oilers >>
Uniondale, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Matt Moulson totaled a goal and two assists
as the New York Islanders downed Edmonton, 4-1, at Nassau Coliseum.
P.A. Parenteau and John Tavares picked up a score and helper each and Matt
Martin also ne
No. 10 Florida rebounds with win over Yale >>
Gainesville, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Kenny Boynton made five three-pointers en
route to 26 points, as the 10th-ranked Florida Gators bounced back with a
90-70 victory over the Yale Bulldogs.
Patric Young added 19 points for the Gato
No. 12 Georgetown drops Providence for 10th straight win >>
Washington, DC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jason Clark scored 16 points and grabbed
nine rebounds, as 12th-ranked Georgetown fended off Providence, 49-40, to
stretch its winning streak to 10 games.
Henry Sims finished with 11 points, eight b
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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New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox early favorites to win 2008 World Series
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Going in to this weekend, MySportsbook.com's favorites to win the World Series are the New York Yankees at 7-2 and last year’s winners the Chicago White Sox at 9-2.
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