Six weeks before the college football season kicks off, Alabama?is the consensus favorite to win the national championship. But the Crimson Tide are not the most popular bet in Las Vegas.More bets have been placed on the Michigan Wolverines to win the national title than any other team at multiple Las Vegas sportsbooks. The Wolverines championship odds have moved from 15-1 to 7-1, making them the second favorites behind Alabama at the Westgate SuperBook.More money has been bet on Michigan to win the championship than on any other team at the SuperBook, and Jim Harbaughs squad has attracted 10 percent of all the national title bets at William Hills Nevada book. The Wolverines also have attracted the most bets to win the title at the MGM and Westgate sportsbooks.The Wolverines return a bevy of experience from last seasons 10-3 team?but are still looking for a starting quarterback. Juniors Wilton Speight and John OKorn, a transfer from Houston, are the leading candidates.Michigan is a 41-point home favorite in its opener against Hawaii?on Sept. 3. Colorado?is the only team from a Power 5 conference on the Wolverines nonconference schedule. But Michigan will face?Michigan State, Iowa?and Ohio State?on the road in Big Ten play.Theres plenty of support in Las Vegas for the Buckeyes, too. Ohio State has attracted the most money to win the national title at the sportsbook at the South Point casino, but its close.[Ohio State] has about $20 more than Michigan, said Chris Andrews, sportsbook director at the South Point casino.Ohio State will host Michigan on Nov. 26. The Buckeyes opened as 6.5-point favorites against the Wolverines at the South Point. The line has been bet down to Ohio State -5, and Andrews says 88 percent of the money wagered on the Big Game at this point is on Michigan.Ohio State is 8-1 to win the national championship at the SuperBook. 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Discount Swell Bottles .Y. -- Buffalo Bills coach Doug Marrone has drawn on his Syracuse connections once again by hiring Rob Moore to take over as receivers coach. RIO DE JANEIRO -- Police attempts to recapture a drug trafficker who escaped from a Brazilian hospital have led to more than a week of deadly gunbattles in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, which is hosting the Olympics in August.With violence raising concerns about security during the games, police near the Olympic beach volleyball venue in Copacabana also told The Associated Press on Wednesday that a foot and other body parts had been found on the shore. The officers said the parts washed up from the sea, but offered no further details.Ten people have been killed and about 50 schools have been shuttered over the past nine days because of shootings triggered by the police searches, the newspaper O Globo said. Police would not confirm the death toll, but said they had deployed 27 battalions of military police to various areas, including Rios downtown and its touristy southern area.Nicolas Labre Pereira, nicknamed Fat Family, escaped June 19 when assailants stormed one of the hospitals recommended for tourists traveling to the Olympic Games. The raid to free the 28-year-old suspect left a patient dead and a nurse and an off-duty policeman wounded.Other violence is also causing worries about safety during the Olympics. Last weekend, an ooff-duty bodyguard for Rios mayor was shot to death in an apparent mugging and a doctor was slain in her car on a main expressway.dddddddddddd Earlier this month, members of the Australian Paralympic team were mugged at gunpoint.Officials have warned that budget shortfalls may compromise security.An estimated 85,000 police officers and soldiers will be patrolling the streets during the Olympics and Paralympics, but Rio de Janeiro states acting governor says the state is still waiting for 2.9 billion Brazilian reals ($860 million) from the federal government that is earmarked for security efforts.The financial aspect is the big problem of Rios public safety strategy, said Andrei Rodrigues, a top security official at the Justice Ministry who is responsible for big events.Killings in Rio increased to 2,036 in the first four months of the year, compared to 1,818 for the same period in 2015, according to a state tally that counts homicides, officer-involved killings and deaths as a result of robberies.---Associated Press writer Mauricio Savarese and AP videojournalist Renata Brito contributed to this report. 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