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- Florida pays out $225 for every $100 bet should they beat Chinese Taipei in the Little League World Series Championship game on Sunday.
- Betting on the Little League World Championship is available at BetOnline, now serving the gambling public for 25 years.
Little League World Series
Florida Faces Taiwan in Little League World Series Championship Game
Betting is available for Sunday's LLWS championship game between Florida and Taiwan.
Southeast - Florida is a +225 dog versus Asia Pacific Chinese Taipei (-290) with betting available at Betonline.
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Everything seemed to be going Texas’ way.
The Southwest region champ was ahead 4-0 over Florida in the third inning Saturday in the U.S. bracket title game at the Little League World Series. Starting pitcher Julian Hurst hadn’t given up a hit, much less a run, and had beaten the team from Florida last Monday.
Then things got crazy. Three lead changes later, Florida is headed to LLWS championship on Sunday. Luis Calo hit a go-ahead two-run double in the sixth inning as Lake Mary, Florida, beat Boerne, Texas, 10-7 in a semifinal matchup.
“We’ve prepared for this, we’ve worked for this,” manager Jonathan Anderson said. “It’s been our summer.”
Florida, the Southeast region representative, will take on Taiwan, a 4-1 winner over Venezuela, on Sunday afternoon. It will be the first appearance by a Florida team in the title game since 2003, when East Boynton Beach fell to Musashi-Fuchi of Japan, 10-1.
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Texas seemed in control after Doc Mogford hit a two-run double past the outstretched glove of Jacob Bibaud, which made it 4-0.
Florida’s comeback started an inning later, when James Feliciano got a pop-up to drop for an RBI single. An inning after that, Teraj Alexander capped a four-run rally when he stole home, giving Florida its first lead of the game, 5-4.
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“I saw the catcher was looking into the hill,” Teraj said. “I just started creeping. Then once I thought I had it, like 100%, I just took off.”
After Texas rallied for three runs, Florida came into its final at-bat in the sixth inning down 7-5.
But Jacob Bibaud hit a ground ball that bounced through the infield, bringing in James Feliciano and cutting the lead to 7-6. A sacrifice fly from Liam Morrisey brought in Garrett Rohozen to tie the game.
After Luis smacked his go-ahead hit, Liam — in as a courtesy runner — stole third and went to score when an error left the ball loose down the third base line.
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“I know I pushed them hard, and I know I told them that that work would get them to the promised land. And I’m sure they didn’t believe me,” Anderson said. “But here we are, boys, here we are. Job’s not done. We got one more. But boy, are we close.”
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Avery Hill is a student in the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State.
Politics
US General Election Odds Pulled Sunday Morning
While Popular Margin of Victory odds were still available and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris was favored to win by 2.50% to 4.00% priced at -250, the odds to win outright were temporarily pulled from the BetOnline site Sunday morning. This suggests something potentially newsworthy affecting the betting pattern, though Gambling911.com cannot confirm.
There is new polling data out showing Harris up +7 in a newly released Fairleigh Dickinson University survey.
Harris leading Trump 50 to 43 percent nationally, while 7 percent said they will vote for someone else. Trump and Harris fare equally well with voters from their party, each having 95 percent support from their partisans, pollsters found.
With independents who do not lean towards either party, Harris still leads Trump, but by a smaller margin, 38 to 33 percent, the poll found. Harris holds a large lead among self-identified liberals, 87 to 10 percent, along with progressives, 93 to 5 percent, and moderates, 62 to 30 percent.
The former president, meanwhile, leads among conservatives 76 to 19 percent, and MAGA [Make American Great Again] voters, 95 to 4 percent.
Pollsters noted race or gender played a large role in pushing Harris’s lead.
College Football
Massive Upset in College Football Kicks Off Season
Georgia Tech paid out $365 for every $100 bet after stunning Florida State in Dublin, Ireland Saturday. And what a start to the 2024 college football season.
And with that, Gambling911.com reported quite a traffic evening courtesy of the lucrative moneyline payouts of $360 for every $100 bet on Georgia Tech (not that there was a whole lot of that).
College Football Championship odds THIS MORNING:
— Dave Mason (@DaveMasonBOL) August 24, 2024
Florida State 33-1
Georgia Tech 1000-1
College Football Championship odds NOW:
Florida State 66-1
Georgia Tech 200-1
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