College Football Odds: Weekend Betting Preview (Covers.com)
It's a great time of the year for football fans and handicappers, with games almost every day of the week. This college football weekend may be pared back a bit, but most of the games involve battles for conference titles, bitter rivalries or possib...
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Freestyle: Titans Crystal Ball - Telling you now what will happen on Sunday (Cleveland Scene)
By Steve Buffum One of the disadvantages of writing for a weekly publication is the concept of deadline: articles must be submitted a week in advance of publication, so for a sportswriter in particular, this can be an insurmountable burden. It would be like being assigned to write 1000 words on the triumphant reunion of Tin Huey … three days before the band performed. The show was ...
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Digger: Ministers close book on gambling fund levy (Guardian Unlimited)
With Europe's sports ministers meeting in Biarritz this week, the wider sports community has been begging Gerry Sutcliffe to make sports betting the central agenda item. David Collier, the England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive, has written to Sutcliffe, the UK sports minister, urging discussion of a Europe-wide levy on gambling to benefit grassroots sports programmes. Profits ...
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Tax hikes and credit crunch threaten talent exodus (Guardian Unlimited)
The Premier League could face a talent drain after a perfect storm of financial problems for English football clubs. England has traditionally been one of the most attractive football destinations, where big incomes have been buoyed by one of Europe's softer tax regimes and the strength of the pound against the euro. But many clubs are already struggling to raise credit in the financial ...
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College football appetizers: Betting Week 13's tasty morsels (Covers.com)
If Week 13 of the college football season was a meal, Texas Tech at Oklahoma would be the main course. Everyone wants a bite of this tasty matchup that is just dripping with national championship implications. But maybe you want to start with somet...
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College Football Betting: Spartans at Nittany Lions (Covers.com)
The No. 8 Penn State Nittany Lions (10-1, 6-3-1 ATS) go for the Big Ten title when they host the No. 15 Michigan State Spartans (9-2, 6-5 ATS) Saturday at Happy Valley. BetJamaica.com currently has the Nittany Lions as huge 15.5-point home fa...
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Soulsby on Ice (Washington City Paper)
A burly Larry D. Soulsby, dressed in formal uniform, lumbers through the crowd of protesters outside 1 Judiciary Square on Oct. 10. The group of District residents—members of the Washington Interfaith Network (WIN)—have a single message: "Soulsby must go!"
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Jeff "The Dude" Dowd: CEO to Self: (HuffingtonPost)
We can't afford CEOs, who may be stars in the Casino Economy, to be failures in our economy. We are the victims of their greedy crimes. And ironically so are they as long as they cling to the past.
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Ex-addict helps those hooked on gambling (Denver Post)
Michael Osborne figured he could make a living by betting on sports.
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Betting: Hughes looks hot for the chop (Guardian Unlimited)
Mark Hughes ought to be very concerned after bookies made him favourite to be the next top-flight manager sacked
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