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The sports betting SEO community (not the betting search engine optimization guys) has been following the Flyers-Bruins series - and the betting - very closely. It has reached a fever pitch as Philadelphia has come back from an 0-3 deficit to tie the series up at three games apiece, setting the stage for a massive Game 7 showdown in Boston. Can they overcome the odds?

The Flyers edged the Bruins 2-1 on Wednesday to send the series back to Beantown for the deciding game, and now they have a chance to become just the third team in NHL playoff history to come back from an 0-3 hole. The first came in 1942, when Toronto stunned Detroit in the Stanley Cup finals, and then in 1975, the New York Islanders came back to do it against Pittsburgh in the second round of the playoffs. The New York Rangers battled back to tie their semifinal series with Boston in 1939, but ended up losing Game 7 in double overtime. So it's not very likely, but given the way that Philadelphia has been playing, it's definitely possible.

The Bruins are favored at -125 in this critical Game 7, and they've scored just one goal in the last two games. The Flyers replaced the injured Brian Boucher in goal with Michael Leighton, and he played extremely well in the Flyers' 2-1 win, and they also got a massive performance from captain Mike Richards, who had a goal and an assist, as well as a couple of big shot blocks. The defense has also played very well in front of the goalie, keeping the Bruins at one shot, and then getting rid of the rebound. An upset by Philadelphia on Friday isn't out of the question, not by a longshot. We see these types of upsets on the football odds and online horse racing betting all the time.

Boxing betting players are waiting for only one fight this year: Manny Pacquaio against Floyd Mayweather. The two have routed their last foes, and their megafight could happen later this year, if all goes well.

Pacquaio has recently shied away from boxing news as Mayweather was hyping his fight with Shane Mosley, which he decisively won in 12 rounds, while Pacquiao followed up his destruction of Josh Clottey by forcing his rival to concede in a political race for Congress in the Philippines. Now, Pacquaio's handlers say that the seven-time world champion will fight in November, but they haven't announced who will be his opponent. The world wants Mayweather, who is sticking to the Olympic-style blood-testing demands that put a strain on the first round of negotiations, and Pacquaio has said that he would be fine with a deadline of 14 days before the fight for blood to be drawn. Mayweather has stated that he and Mosley did it before their fight, and Mosley said that the testing had nothing to do with his performance. The fight would likely take place at Dallas Stadium, where Pacquaio fought Clottey, and it would be a spectacle fit only for "Jerry's World".

So, will this fight actually happen this time? Honestly, no one cares about any other fight besides Mayweather-Pacquaio. There's even more money on the table now, and the two sides have to work day and night to make this happen. More than money is at stake: it's all about legacy, and we're betting this would be a fight for the ages.

The successful return of the world's number one ranked online sports betting golfer will have to wait at least another couple of weeks, until after Tiger Woods undergoes an MRI, which will reveal what it was that forced him to retire from the 2010 Players Championship this past weekend. Woods complained about an extreme soreness in his neck that was nagging him throughout the final day before finally deciding to withdraw from the tournament early. The incident marked consecutive events in which Tiger failed to reach the finish line, after he missed the cut at the Quail Hollow Championships the week before, the first time he's missed a cut at a PGA Tour Major in over six years.

Woods told the golf betting media on Tuesday that his neck injury was in no way related to the infamous car accident that began this whole debacle in his personal life in November of 2009, but cited that he would proceed with an MRI anyways. Woods revealed that he first felt the injury while training in Philadelphia two weeks before the Masters, and that he decided to play the last three tournaments only put him in a worse situation from a health standpoint. Woods has been treated for flare ups in his neck with physiotherapy since, but ultimately, he felt that it was best to shut it down and get the injury to his neck healed after mediocre play became an issue two weekends in a row.