Archive for April, 2006

ESPN Bets on Dominoes

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

The next big thing in sports programming is … dominoes?
To the occasional domino player, it is a stretch to even call this quiet game of straight-faced strategy a sport. But anyone who has spent time in a Latino neighborhood in New York City could testify that dominoes played there — with the slammed-down tiles, the [...]

Online Casinos Offering Reality TV Gambling

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

Online casinos offer chance to pick TV show winners
Melissa Brown is betting that Chris Daughtry will be the next American Idol.
Literally.
She wagered $50 online on the bald aspiring rocker.
”I think it’s going to be Chris,” said Brown, 29, a website designer from Braintree, who for the past year has been placing online bets on reality [...]