RSL keeps TFC winless away from home

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05/01/2010 - Sandy, UT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Real Salt Lake battled to a 2-1 victory over Toronto FC in Major League Soccer action at Rio Tinto Stadium on Saturday night.

With the loss, Toronto drops to 0-4 away from its home stadium while RSL improves to 2-3-1 overall, ending a four-game winless streak.

Big defender Jamison Olave got credit for the game's first goal in the 14th minute to give RSL the early advantage. Off a corner kick, Alvaro Saborio headed toward goal and Olave out-muscled a defender to get his toe on the shot to knock it across the goal line.

RSL's Andy Williams put his side up 2-0 just before the first-half break when he received a ball at the top of the Toronto area and turned to fire into the top right corner after no defender stepped up to challenge him.

Toronto pulled a goal back seconds before the final whistle when Dwayne De Rosario converted a penalty kick thanks to a Kyle Beckerman handball in the box.

RSL will be gunning to get to .500 when it hosts the expansion Philadelphia Union next Saturday, while Toronto (2-4-0) returns home to take on the Chicago Fire the same day in its next MLS fixture.

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Big 12 Conference betting odds

Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State

Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

Work left to do:

Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on.

Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough.

Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.