Cilic, Hewitt fall in BMW quarters

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05/08/2009 - Munich, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Second-seeded rising Croat Marin Cilic and former world No. 1 star Lleyton Hewitt were among Friday's quarterfinal losers at the $595,000 clay-court BMW Open.

The world No. 15 Cilic succumbed to Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 3-6, 7-5, 6-4, while the unseeded two-time major champion Hewitt was shown the door by fourth-seeded Czech slugger Tomas Berdych, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) in 2 hours, 18 minutes at MTTC Iphitos. The Australian Hewitt was a wild card this week.

Berdych will meet Chardy in Saturday's semifinals.

The other semi will pit 2007 Munich runner-up Mikhail Youzhny of Russia against German crowd favorite Daniel Brands. Youzhny upended seventh-seeded Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 with the help of 10 aces, while the wild card Brands moved into his first-ever ATP semifinal by besting Italian Potito Starace 6-4, 1-1, as Starace retired with a right hamstring injury.

The 2009 Munich titlist will collect $95,000.

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Coaches and bettors alike are desperate to make sense of the new time-keeping rules on the NCAA gridiron. One of the big stories to come out of the Ohio State-Texas clash last weekend was Texas coach Mack Brown's criticism of the NCAA's new clock rules that are intended to shorten the duration of college football games, therefore affecting college football betting.

"They scored with six minutes left and the game was over before we had a chance to do anything," Brown told ESPN.com. "I really hope whoever made these changes will go back and look them over."

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As a result, teams combined to gain an average of about 100 fewer yards a game last weekend versus the 2005 openers. Scoring was also down by about 4.5 points (attention Las Vegas sports lines).

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*UPDATE* - Sept. 25, 2007

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