Your football betting guide for the weekend - with Lee Wagers (Daily Mail)
Sportsmail Online's football betting expert delivers his top tips for the weekend and Fulham are about to get brought back down to Earth with a big bump at Aston Villa.
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Monday Night Football betting preview: Jaguars at Texans (Covers.com)
Based on their finishes last season, the Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans could easily have expected to be battling for playoff position when their upcoming Monday night matchup was announced.
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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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Stan Hey: 6-5 Against (Independent)
Look away now if you don't want to see what New Zealand's odds are for beating England at Twickenham today – from the shortest, 1-33 at Blue Square, to the longest, 1-14 at Betdirect.
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Joe Santoro (Lahontan Valley News)
Sports fodder for a Friday morning . . .
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F365 Features (Football365)
Aston Villa v Fulham Away wins for Fulham are about a rare as teeth on a chicken and so surely only the mentally unhinged would consider a punt on them winning at Villa Park? Well, put a pair of skimps on my head and butter my arse with Lurpak.
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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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Casinos Say Moving a Gamble (The Moscow Times)
27 November 2008 By Ethan Wilensky-Lanford / Staff Writer A government initiative to relocate the gambling industry to four zones scattered across Russia is looking increasingly like a long shot, with infrastructure development lagging badly and investors fearing that a move to the regions would leave them picking up the bill.
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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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Gambling operation busted at Lynn store (The Daily Item)
LYNN - Four people were arrested Sunday in an illegal gambling ring that was operating inside a convenience store about 100 yards away from the Lynn police station, police said.
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