Inter Stumbles in Debut First League Game

Inter started the defense of their Scudetto with a meager 1-1 tie on Sunday of his own San Siro stadium in Bari, just team up to Serie A after eight years in the B.

In its first league game with Inter, Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o converted a penalty the opening goal on 56 minutes.

But Bari won the tie at 75 with Vitali Kutuzov, that goal came when Inter was controlling the match.

However, the counterattacks of Bari were always dangerous, especially thanks to the speed of Honduran midfielder Edgar Alvarez, well accompanied by Argentine Emanuel Benito Rivas, who entered the 60th minute.

At the end of the meeting, Rivas even had the winning goal on his feet, but lifted the shot from an enviable position or the ball could have happened to Alvarez, who was alone in front of goal for Inter.

But its biggest star Zlatan Ibrahimovic, transferred to Barcelona for Eto'o, the new Inter crashed with a well-armed, with personality, who played without fear against the champions.

The Nerazzurri were presented with four new players, Brazilians Thiago Motta and Lucio, the Argentine Milito and Eto'o.

Bari retired with a more than satisfactory result, which certainly was not expected.

On Saturday, AC Milan won 2-1 at Siena and Bologna and Fiorentina drew 1-1.

Barrichello back to Second in the World Cup with Win in Valencia

Rubens Barrichello (Brawn GP) take the second place again in the Formula 1 World by winning in Sunday's European Grand Prix in Valencia, ahead of Briton Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) and Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari).

The veteran, 37, could not hide his great emotion at the podium, touching his chest when the anthem sounded in his country.

Thus, GP retells Brawn and his two men in the top two positions, with the Brazilian leader to eighteen points highlighted, Jenson Button, who finished seventh in the Mediterranean city.

Despite his lack of success in recent races, compared to their brilliant start to the season, the English strengthened their position by the poor performance of its main rivals, the Red Bull, who bemoaned the ninth Australian Mark Webber and abandonment of Germany's Sebastian Vettel.

Barrichello was able to answer the apparent dominance of McLaren-Mercedes, with Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen had monopolized the front row of the grid and appeared before a golden opportunity to repeat the victory of the current world champion in the previous race in Hungary.

The success of the pilot of Sao Paulo was conceived largely by a bug in the McLaren mechanics in the pits the last step of Hamilton, forgetting to change the cover of a wheel, which damaged the options of English, to then dominating the race.

The six or seven seconds lost in the incident expensive cost to Hamilton, who was overtaken by Barrichello, who thereafter made no ruling and claimed his first victory since the China Grand Prix in 2004.

The big local hero Fernando Alonso, had to settle for sixth place, behind the Finn Kovalainen, fourth, and German Nico Rosberg of Williams, who signed a good performance and was fifth.

Detroit Tigers vs. Oakland Athletics Betting Odds & Picks

The Detroit Tigers and the Oakland Athletics will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.

The Tigers will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Rick Porcello in this game. Porcello has a 10-7 record and a 4.21 ERA this season.

Porcello's opponent in this one will be Brett Tomko. The Athletics righthander has a 0.00 ERA to go along with a 1-0 record this season.

Oddsmakers currently have the Tigers listed as 130-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game's total is sitting at 9.

Kurt Suzuki drove in the winning run to give the A's a 3-2 win over the Tigers on Saturday, as a -110 pick'em. The five runs went UNDER the posted over/under (8.5).

Adam Kennedy went 3-for-5 at the plate with a run scored for the A's. Andrew Bailey tossed a scoreless ninth for his sixth win in relief.

Miguel Cabrera and Carlos Guillen drove in one run apiece for the Tigers.

A few trends to consider:
Detroit is 6-3 SU in its last 9 games

Detroit is 4-13 SU in its last 17 games on the road

Detroit is 2-7 SU in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Oakland

Oakland is 7-2 SU in its last 9 games when playing at home against Detroit

Oakland is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games at home

Next up:
Detroit at LA Angels, Monday, August 24

Oakland at Seattle, Monday, August 24