Archive for the 'Sports Betting' Category

Should Online Gambling Be Banned?

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

Internet gambling is booming as Americans continue to wager billions of dollars on online sports books, Web casinos and virtual poker rooms even though the U.S. Department of Justice considers such activities illegal.
Several U.S. lawmakers are trying to crack down on the industry by clarifying existing U.S. laws and making it easier to go after [...]

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 [...]

George Mason gamble may pay off big

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

When the March Madness bracket was announced on Selection Sunday, thousands upon thousands of hoops fans placed their bets at Sportsbook.com, the world’s largest online sportsbook and casino. Of those countless bets, only 13 visionary hardwood prognosticators backed the George Mason Patriots to win the national title before the tournament started. At 500-1 odds at [...]

Deposit Money Easily At Your Favorite Gambling Establishment

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

Reap The Benefits Of Alternative Deposit Mechanisms
Get only the best player experience when you know how to deposit money easily and effectively without any annoying delays or glitches.
Currently many Players don’t know where to go or how to fund their play at the casinos and tend to choose the easier option of using their credit card.
Did [...]

March Madness is Here!!!

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

It’s that time a year again folks where company head’s dread, as they realize several hours will be lost in productively as their employees are glued to their bracket sheet holding the names of 64 schools.
Tomorrow in Dayton, Ohio Monmouth and Hampton will square off in what is called a Play-in-game to see who gets [...]

Bodog Calvin Ayre - the online gambling behemoth arrested

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Cyber Bookie Billionaire Faces Raid By Costa Rican Police
What are the odds? If anyone would know, it would surely be Calvin Ayre.
Yesterday morning, the news of Calvin Ayre, the lad from Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, who is today Canada’s newest billionaire and cover boy at Forbes, the U.S.- based magazine that keeps the world’s scorecard on the [...]

Betting on the Sopranos - What are the odds

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

I stumbled upon this great article about Betting Odds and the Sopranos - and it’s a great read since the Sopranos return on March 12th finally.
Yup - season #6………..and it took long enough.
“I know that everyone was not always very happy with us, with our long hiatuses,” says Lorraine Bracco, who plays Dr. Jennifer [...]

American Idol Betting Odds for those who like to wager

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

MVPsportsbook.com is the latest online gambling company to add American Idol betting odds, realizing just how big the show has become among those who like to wager.
MVPsportsbook.com does not traditionally enter heavily into the celebrity props market, however, there are only a handful of online betting shops offering lines on Idol, MVP being one of [...]

NCAA to go after online gambling companies

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

A cease and desist order has been sent to one of the top gaming affiliate companies ordering them to stop using the term “March Madness” in its ads and on the company web site.
The cease and desist order states, among other things:
Your company’s current promotion for a “March Madness Affiliate Cash Bonus” utilizes the trademark [...]