The official investigation might have given the Donaghy affair the all-clear, but the numbers seem to tell another story. From Jeff Haney at the LV Sun: Throughout the saga of disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy, Las Vegas sports betting analyst R.J. Bell has done a thorough job of examining the scandal from a point-spread perspective. […]
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news about gamblingI’m on another book review kick, thanks in part to Amazon’s Vine program–they send me books to read, and I get to review them. Looking at the selection, I’ve got to say that Theodore Sturgeon probably had it right–there weren’t that many that I’d want to read. But I picked a few of the more
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book reviewsJeff Haney over at the LV Sun’s had a bad run with Vegas sports books recently. In his latest column, he comes just short of calling for an immediate ban on all sports betting. Here’s the apex of the piece: My opinion of elected public officials places them slightly below Saturday morning scamdicapper slime on
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news about gamblingRight now, Missouri won’t let you lose more than $500 in its casinos in any single two-hour period, and you’ve got to swipe your player card to get “on board.” But that might change this election year, according to Forbes: Supporters say it doesn’t matter that the gambling industry wrote and bankrolled the promotion of
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