Atlanta Braves at San Diego Padres Preview 7/11/2008
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MLB Betting Preview
Atlanta Braves (43-49) at San Diego Padres (36-56)
Friday, 10:05 pm EasternSBG Global Opening Line: Padres – 142 , Total 7 Under -115
A lot was expected of the Atlanta Braves and San Diego Padres this season and neither team has delivered. The Padres are already playing for next year and the Braves are not far from being in that situation. One of the few reasons to watch the Padres is Jake Peavy and he gets the start on Friday for the Padres as they open up a three-game series against the Braves.
SBG Global reports that early MLB betting has the public taking Padres at Home.
The Braves have struggled on the road this season, with a Major League worst mark of 13-31. They may have a tough time on Friday night going against Peavy who has an ERA of 2.67. Peavy has not had much luck though as his record is only 6-5. He is coming off a nice start in his last outing, allowing only three hits in seven shutout innings against Arizona.
“I was definitely better than I had been my previous couple of starts,” Peavy said. “I’m getting back to where if I have decent stuff I’m going to do much better than I have.” Peavy is 1-4 with a 4.70 ERA in six career starts against the Braves.
The Braves go with Jo-Jo Reyes on Friday. He is 3-7 with a 4.40 ERA. He has lost his last three starts overall.
Here are the MLB betting stats for Friday’s game. The Braves are 10-4 in their last 14 vs. the National League West. The Braves are 14-30 in their last 44 road games vs. a right-handed starter. The Braves are 7-16 in their last 23 games as a road underdog. The Braves are 3-8 in their last 11 overall. The Braves are 3-7 in Reyes’ last 10 road starts. The Braves are 6-1 in the last 7 meetings in San Diego.
SBG Global Current Line: Padres – 142 , Total 7 Under -115
The Padres are 6-2 in their last 8 vs. the National League East. The Padres are 3-8 in their last 11 games vs. a left-handed starter. The Padres are 5-17 in their last 22 overall. The Padres are 2-8 in their last 10 games as a favorite.
The Padres are 1-8 in their last 9 games as a home favorite. The Padres are 5-13 in Peavy’s last 18 starts vs. the National League East. The Padres are 3-8 in Peavy’s last 11 starts. The Padres are 1-5 in Peavy’s last 6 starts as a home favorite. The Padres are 1-5 in Peavy’s last 6 starts vs. the Braves.
The Under is 21-6 in the Braves last 27 games as a road underdog. The Under is 13-5 in the Braves last 18 vs. the National League West. The Under is 47-19-3 in the Braves last 69 games vs. a right-handed starter. The Under is 6-0 in Reyes’ last 6 starts as a road underdog. The Under is 13-3-1 in Reyes’ last 17 starts overall.
The Under is 7-1 in the Padres last 8 overall. The Under is 10-3 in the Padres last 13 vs. the National League East. The Over is 5-2 in the Padres last 7 home games vs. a left-handed starter. The Under is 21-8-2 in Peavy’s last 31 starts as a home favorite. The Under is 13-6 in Peavy’s last 19 starts vs. the National League East. The Over is 22-4-2 in the last 28 meetings in San Diego between the two teams.
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New at Kauffman; Foundation launches three new programs for entrepreneurs, and one for kids.(Focus: Small Business)(Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation)
Crain’s Chicago Business April 11, 2005 | Henricks, Mark Byline: MARK HENRICKS With nearly $1.8 billion in assets, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is one of the country’s biggest private sources of support and assistance for entrepreneurs. Last year the Kansas City, Mo., foundation launched a number of new programs and initiatives to advise and enable small business owners. see here hot shot business
`Tween’ entrepreneurs The Walt Disney Co. and Kauffman teamed in an exhibit at Disney World’s Epcot Center to teach 9-to-12-year-old “tweens” about entrepreneurship. The Opportunity City exhibit in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., continued a Disney-Kauffman collaboration that in 2003 produced “Hot Shot Business,” an online business-simulation game for kids (www. hotshot-business.com).
Opportunity City consists of nine interactive kiosks where kids play games that require players to quickly make simulated business decisions. Forty-one percent of tweens say they’d like to own a business, according to Kauffman.
Organizing angels Individual investors are harder for capital-hungry firms to find and less likely to offer useful advice and assistance than when those so-called angels are organized into groups. That, at least, is the idea behind a 2004 Kauffman initiative to encourage private investors to band together. A free 158-page guide, published in October and downloadable from the Kauffman Web site at www.emkf.org, helps angels decide whether a group would help them achieve their investing goals.
The guide was produced by the Angel Capital Assn., a Kauffman-initiated national organization of angel investor groups and clubs. Kauffman estimates that angel groups have grown from about 10 in 1996 to more than 200 today. The Angel Capital Assn., founded in January 2004, has signed up 83 member groups representing several hundred individual investors.
Helping minority business owners Chicago was not on the list of five cities where Kauffman and its partners announced a pilot program to encourage minority entrepreneurship. But Chicago may make the cut in 2006, when the initial roster of Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Kansas City and Jacksonville, Fla., expands to 15 cities. The Urban Entrepreneurship Partnership aims to develop one-stop centers to provide minority business owners and would-be entrepreneurs training, counseling, financing and access to government procurement opportunities.
The National Urban League, the Business Roundtable and President George W. Bush’s National Economic Council are Kauffman’s primary partners. One of the partnership’s goals is to create joint ventures between private-equity funds and minority entrepreneurs with access to $100 million in debt and equity financing through the Urban League. Kauffman is providing technical assistance to the centers and supplying a grant to develop a coaching model. this web site hot shot business
Small business regulation An initiative launched in September with the Rand Corp. will look at how regulations and laws affect small firms. The Kauffman-Rand Center will, for instance, examine how various government organizations’ definitions of women-owned and minority enterprises vary among themselves and change over time, and how that affects the small businesses whose access to government contracts and other resources is controlled by the definitions.
The initiative is part of a larger effort to improve the measurement of small business and related activities and could shine a welcome light on small business, given that most business research targets large companies.
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Kids must work together to make decisions during “Family Business Rally,” one of several entrepreneurship games in Opportunity City at Disney’s Epcot Center.
Henricks, Mark
