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<title>Indy 500: Gentlemen and Ladies - Start Your Engines</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 14:44:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Gentlemen and ladies, start your engines" will be the call at the Indianapolis 500 this year, as a pair of female drivers are featured in its 33-car lineup - one a second-tier hopeful and legitimate contender, the other a true long shot.

Odds on popular pinup girl Danica Patrick range from a low of 15/1 at the Las Vegas Hilton to 30/1 at Bodog.com., with various stops between the two.]]></description>
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<title>Mixed Martial Arts-Latest Craze</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 14:22:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mixed martial arts rapidly has moved into the mainstream and, by several accounts, increasingly is pushing boxing against the ropes, even in the city that has delivered some of pugilism's biggest punches.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is a six-year-old league that originally was an early 1990s brainchild of a California man who wanted to find the world's greatest fighters. ]]></description>
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<title>Gab Session: Vroom - Vroom</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 13:50:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This Sunday is the year's biggest waste of fossil fuel, and I love it.

First comes the Indianapolis 500. It used to be the main course on Memorial Day weekend, something my even my grandfather, no racing fan, would tune into every year, even if it wasn't always broadcast live (anyone else remember when they used to air the 500 in the evening?]]></description>
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<title>Coca-Cola 600: Long Day's Journey Into Night</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 13:45:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It'll be a loooooong race on Sunday in Charlotte. And that's after you spend the early part of the afternoon imbibing watching the Indy 500. Plan for a nap.]]></description>
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<title>Gab Session - Vick As In Sick</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 20:06:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I'm a dog person, so I'm not going to go into much detail on this latest Mike Vick hullabaloo.

Suffice it to say that Vick owns a house in Virginia that was the home of a pit-bull-fighting ring, in which macho men wager on which dog will tear which dog to shreds. Yeah, it takes a mighty big man to starve defenseless dogs and then enrage them to the point that they want to kill. Like, I'd put such people on par with Dick Cheney hunting retarded quail and shooting his friend in the face. We're talking major stones here, people. ]]></description>
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<title>AT&amp;T Classic</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 11:45:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I went on record a few years ago in support of Rory Sabbatini, who was so annoyed and frustrated with the tortoise pace of his playing partner Ben Crane that he simply played the rest of the 17th hole at the Booz Allen ahead of Crane, ignoring all golf protocol. It was like Jim Morrison on Ed Sullivan. OK not really, but you get my point. In any case, I was all for Sabbatini.
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<title>Down the Stretch - The Preakness</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 11:40:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Horse sense - or common sense - dictates that Street Sense should be the strong favorite that he is in Saturday's 132nd Preakness Stakes at Batimore's Pimlico Race Course.

Earlier this month, the Street Cry-Bedazzled colt became the first Breeders' Cup Juvenile champion ever to win the Kentucky Derby, opening leg of Thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown for 3-year-olds. ]]></description>
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<title>Jim Stewart 400- Night Racing in Richmond</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 06:23:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Saturday night racing is just more fun. 

Something about the paint schemes under the lights, the fact that drinking alcohol on a Saturday night simply feels less taboo than getting bombed at noon on a Sunday (call me old-fashioned), and that you can skip dinner and eat nachos for about four hours. Heck, a good Saturday-night race can be a terrific precursor to a long night of fun. Finish the race around 10 (in the east), gather up any remaining pork rinds, and hit the town. And hopefully hit it flush with some extra cash from well-placed wagers. ]]></description>
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<title>Gab Session- Yankee Hanky</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 06:20:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is it time to shovel dirt on them? 

I know it's the first week in May, and I know the New York Yankees began the 2006 season 11-19 before rallying to their millionth consecutive AL East crown. But even the most rose-colored-glasses-wearing Yankee fan has to admit at this point that 2007 is shaping up a little different. 
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<title>Aaron's 499 - Return of the Random</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 15:33:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Talladega isn't the greatest place to get off a losing streak. 

Not that we're technically on a losing streak; we had Jeff Gordon winning last Saturday night's Phoenix event, which he did, as a +385 favorite. But in an excruciating turn of events, Dale Earnhardt Jr. got caught on in the pits during a late caution, went a lap down, and wound up losing his head-to-head match-up against Greg Biffle, who didn't have nearly the car Junior did, and who trailed the #8 all night. Drat. 
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<title>Gab Session - NFL Drafters Should Believe Their Eyes</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 15:03:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The NFL Draft is such an amazing combination of hype and groupthink. You hear seven "experts" repeat the same thing over and over, you start to believe it's your own opinion. Often, the "experts" who repeat the same talking points received their opinion from someone else. Who probably works for a player's agent.]]></description>
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<title>EDS Byron Nelson</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:10:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[They're putting in a skate park where I hit wedge-to-six iron when the weather is nice. We've had a sunny, warm spell lately. I hit balls all weekend.The skate park is supposed to be done by the summer,which will effectively end my short iron work because I don't want to brain a kid with a slice. It almost happened anyway. 
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<title>Gab Session- Eric Wedgie</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:13:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A lot of news in the sports world this week. The NBA playoffs starting to great fanfare. The NHL playoffs continuing without anyone noticing. The NFL draft just a week away. 

But nothing caught my attention like what happened in Yankee Stadium last Thursday. 

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<title>Subway Fresh Fit 500- Tomorrow Continues</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:43:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Saturday night under the lights, the Car of Tomorrow gets its first shot at a track longer than a half-mile. However, the one-mile Phoenix International Raceway is so shallowly banked - 11 and nine degrees in the turns - that it drives like a smaller track than it is. In fact, the heavy-braking, flat track is an awful lot like Martinsville, where the Smokeless Set ran just a few weeks ago in these very same CoTs. How very convenient. 
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<title>NFL 2007 Preview</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:35:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Las Vegas Hilton on Sunday night released NFL season win totals for 2007. 

New England is anticipated to be the top achiever with a projected 11 victories (over EVEN, under minus $1.20), while Oakland is expected to dwell in the league's cellar with just five wins (over minus $1.30, under plus $1.10). 

Teams play 16-game regular-season schedules, with each club receiving a bye week during the 17-week campaign. 

The season kicks off on Thursday, Sept. 6, with New Orleans meeting reigning Super Bowl champion Indianapolis and concludes with one game on Dec. 29 and a full slate on Dec. 30. ]]></description>
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<title>Kentucky Derby Tips</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:33:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Several long-standing Kentucky Derby handicapping angles likely will be tested in the 133rd Run for the Roses, a year after the late Barbaro became the first Thoroughbred in 50 years to capture the 3-year-old class' most prestigious competition after a layoff of five weeks or more. ]]></description>
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<title>Down the Stretch - Odds and Props</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:02:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Oddsmakers have prepared a smorgasbord of propositions, matchups and updated odds-to-win on next month's 133rd Kentucky Derby, the "fastest two minutes in sports." 

The race will be held May 5 and leading sophomore earners, based on graded stakes money won, are eligible to enter. 
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<title>Here Come the Playoffs</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:19:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The 2007 NBA Playoffs may look like an open and shut case, but lawyer-by-training Big Al McMordie cautions that as good as Dallas (67-15) looks on paper, the jury's still out, especially in the Eastern Conference. 

McMordie, a Professional Handicappers League member and winner of the 2007 World Series of Sports Handicapping's $100,000 grand prize, generally agrees with conventional wisdom that any of the West's "Big Three" could prevail, but views the East as a crapshoot, though he's very doubtful the Heat can repeat. 
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<title>Samsung 500- Rainy Friday</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:30:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[So much for qualifying. 

Inclement weather and some mixed messages from NASCAR led to delay after delay in Friday's qualifying session at Texas Motor Speedway, until finally the track ran out of light, and qualifying was officially considered defunct. As a result, we get little idea of who's got a fast li'l rocket ship for Sunday afternoon's race; the cars will roll off in the order of the points standings. 
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<title>Showbiz Props</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:23:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom contends that sports and entertainment wagers can't be equated because, like apples and oranges, they're two different things. 

Somewhat strangely, though, considering the demographic groups to which many entertainment/political propositions are crafted to appeal, sports gamblers are their biggest bettors (although more than a few little old ladies from Pasadena eagerly await the Academy Awards every year). 
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<title>Gab Session- Taking Pleasure In Sports Pain?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:14:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I don't know how I feel about the sudden self-righteousness invading sports. 

I mean, I was on the Suspend-Pacman-Jones wagon long before it was cool. Kid's a phenomenal talent, and probably deserved to go to the Pro Bowl last year, but he brings the thug life to a whole new level. Same with Chris Henry. And Don Imus has been a curmudgeonly putz for years- it just took five seconds of empty-headed Neanderthal behavior for the world to catch on. 
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<title>Ayre Apparent</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:32:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Bodog.com is so many things to so many people that its motto well could be "Different strokes for different folks." 

Younger generations may be into the glamorous, entertainment-oriented "Bodog lifestyle" that founder Calvin Ayre inspires. 

Others always will look at the Antigua-based Web site primarily --or solely -- as an online race and sportsbook. ]]></description>
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<title>Giving Back</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:12:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Uncle Sam keeps applying the heat, but it's not the kind of warmth that soothes Shaq's aging body when it starts to ache. 

Bodog.com founder Calvin Ayre knows all about America's long arms, heating pad and pursuit of folks who operate offshore gambling sites, but these things don't dash his spirit. 

Associates say he doesn't like talking about "all that," though. 
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<title>Poker News April 2007</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:35:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The earlybird supposedly gets the worm and BetUS.com already is angling for wagers on which players will make the main event final table at the 2007 World Series of Poker. 

By this time next month, offshore betting sites are expected to be awash with odds-to-win on poker's most prestigious event, as officials at sponsoring Harrah's Entertainment, Inc., are set to launch this year's WSOP June 1, with the $10,000 No-Limit Texas Hold'em Championship slated to run July 6-17.]]></description>
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<title>Verizon Heritage</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:33:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I like my Masters spring-like. Odd site it was to see spectators covered in blankets. The blooms were out and the birds were chirping but I felt cold watching it. Exxon Mobile lucked out with the unseasonably cold weather: See, no global warming. Big Blue's ads were great-I didn't tire of Sam Elliott, the stranger from The Big Lebowsky, voicing over Augusta beauty shots to the tune of Yo-Yo Ma. ]]></description>
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<title>The Masters</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:41:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Straight to the matter at hand, folks-kicking off the major season. (Despite my grumbling about the geographical incongruity of moving the Players to May, at least this way we'll have one major a month from now until August.) ]]></description>
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<title>Mike Lineback - Baseball</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:42:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sometimes flying under the radar is just dandy as far as Profesional Handicappers League All-Around standings leader - by a large margin - Mike Lineback is concerned. 

It's nice to have your name and picture front and center, but disguises can come in handy when a 'capper wants to experiment without being detected. 

One year Lineback, who takes pride in his professional accomplishments and the myriad competitions he has won, entered a baseball contest under an alias, picking only underdogs the whole way. ]]></description>
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<title>Shell Houston Open</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:42:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I'm all out of sorts. It's way too early to be going to Texas for this week's Shell Houston Open. It's not that I'm particularly missing the Atlanta tournament that had been in play this week before the Masters for almost a decade. It's about messing with what was a natural geographical progression. ]]></description>
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<title>R-E-S-P-E-C-T - Find Out What It Means To Me</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:33:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There's respect, then there's respect. 

I mean, every athlete these days crows about how their opponent isn't respecting them, or their team's contract-offerers are disrespecting them, or the fans aren't respecting them. Respect has become the ultimate stand-in for self-generated motivation, and you should definitely plug cotton in your ears whenever you hear a typical athlete invoke the "R-word." 
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<title>Scott Spreitzer - NCAA</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:15:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Professional Handicappers League member Scott Spreizter feels a sense of deja vu entering Saturday's Final Four match between defending NCAA Tournament champion Florida and 2006 runnerup UCLA. Last year when the two met, it was for all the marbles. This season, it's for the right to play for them in Monday's championship against Saturday's Georgetown-Ohio State winner.]]></description>
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<title>Gab Session - Pirates Go Undefeated</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:43:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mets vs. Pirates. Sounds like a stellar NLCS, doesn't it? After all, those two National League clubs were the first to sweep a regular-season series. The Mets went to St. Louis and took down the defending World Series champs in three straight, while the Pirates went to Enron, er, Minutemaid down in Houston, and squeaked three past the Astros. ]]></description>
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<title>Big AL - NCAA</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:58:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Las Vegas streets and supermarket parking lots unusually were deserted Friday night as Sin Cityites stayed home in droves or attended parties to root for their beloved Sweet 16 Rebels. 

UNLV's (impossible) dream of an NCAA Tournament Elite Eight berth rudely was interrupted 76-72 by Oregon in the Midwest Regional semis at St. Louis -- an accurate forecast by Las Vegan/Los Angeleno and Professional Handicappers League member Big Al McMordie. 
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<title>Food City 500 - Tomorrow Is Today</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:35:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is now. 

We've heard all the chirping, all the complaining, all the speculating, and finally the first Car of Tomorrow race arrives on Sunday at Bristol, TN. What's the Car of Tomorrow? C'mon, pull your head out from under that rock there! ]]></description>
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<title>Arnold Palmer Invitational</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:47:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I've always liked Mark Calcavecchia. He looks and talks like a favorite uncle. Someone who has fun even when things aren't going so well. At the Honda Classic a week before he survived a couple shaky putts down the stretch to win last week's PODS Championship, Calcavecchia was having a rough time on the greens. He knew he was going to miss the cut, so on his last hole Friday he broke out this Briny Baird flamingo-like putting stance for kicks.]]></description>
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<title>Dancing Till the Music Stops</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:43:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Longtime Las Vegas sports gambler Lem Banker likens the NCAA Tournament to a game of musical chairs. "Anything can happen," Banker said. "One loss, the music stops and you're out." The field of 64 (or 65) will be announced on Selection Sunday, after leagues wrap up their own conference tournaments. 

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<title>UAW Daimler-Chrysler 400 - Reconfiguring Vegas</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:27:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. No, okay, it was pretty much just the best of times. After getting shut out at the Daytona 500, for me the race in Fontana two weeks ago was a breath of fresh air- Matt Kenseth held on for the outright win, and Greg Biffle did his part by toppling Casey Mears in a head-to-head match-up. Kenseth's win gives us a nice big bankroll heading into a Vegas race that should be crazy. 

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<title>Morgue Before the Madness</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:15:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Las Vegas bet shops resembled morgues on Monday as bookmakers braced for huge NCAA Tournament crowds and accompanying March Madness hoopla, while bettors wandered from store to store, searching for the best available numbers. "It's like every party I've ever thrown," Mirage book boss Robert Walker joked to the local Review-Journal. "Nobody shows up." 
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<title>Sin City Cinderella?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:57:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Las Vegas bettors correctly went with their hearts over the pointspreads last week, wagering on hometown UNLV to pull off a pair of NCAA Tournament upsets and gain a coveted Sweet 16 berth. 
Playing more than 1,500 miles from home in Chicago, the underdog Rebels eliminated 1 1/2-point favorite Georgia Tech and then raced past No. 2 seed and 6-point choice Wisconsin to earn the right to meet Oregon in the Midwest Regional in St. Louis on Friday night.]]></description>
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<title>Gab Session - A Dog In The Hunt</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:32:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Damn you, Villanova. That's right, I had the Wildcats over the... um... Wildcats in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Villanova over Kentucky, that is. Not only that, but I also picked Villanova to upset everyone's current chic pick of the moment, Kansas, to get to the Sweet 16. Once the boys from Philly were erased in the first round, the Jayhawks were set loose in my bracket to wreak non-points-gaining devastation. My pick of Southern Illinois to the Elite Eight is suddenly looking pretty shaky, huh? 
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<title>WGC - CA Championship</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:24:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tiger Woods had a bogey, two doubles and a triple on the back nine last Sunday. If this was 2000 and I read that, I would have thought he burst an appendix at the turn. Forty-three after getting himself within two strokes of the lead? A healthy Tiger doesn't play that poorly. 
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<title>Kobalt Tools 500 - No Whining In Atlanta</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:23:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Enough whining, let's get to Atlanta. The Smokeless Set complained before last weekend's Vegas race, and they complained after. The track was too slick, the tires were too hard, it was too dangerous to race side-by-side. Boo. Hoo. Enough. Now we're at Atlanta, a time-honored track that's also dangerous as hell because of its speeds, but which everyone likes because it's got tradition. It's not that races don't get any less strung-out here, or that the speeds aren't just as death-defying, or cars won't get mind-numbingly loose to the point where they'll wreck themselves. It's just that everybody will smile and say what a fun place Atlanta is to race. 
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<title>Terrible Times in Vegas</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:06:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Terrible's" is, well, a terrible name for a casino, but a great little locals hangout where one still can buy a complete prime rib dinner, with salad, baked potato, veggies and beverage, for seven bucks and change. Tucked away on East Flamingo, a mile or so from palatial Strip resorts such as Bally's, Caesars Palace and Bellagio, Terrible's formerly was known as the Continental, a decrepit, decaying hotel-casino patronized primarily by Las Vegans who turned out in the wee hours to drink in entertainment offerings by hit act Cookie Jarr and the Crumbs. ]]></description>
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<title>Gab Session - The Maddest Of Marches</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:38:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How great is this NCAA men's college basketball tournament going to be? 

I mean, sure, the George Mason thing was awesome last year, and let's not forget that Wichita St. and Bradley made it to the Sweet 16, LSU shocked Duke, Kansas lost in the first round for the second straight year, a #14 seed (Northwestern St.) shocked a #3 (Iowa), and #2 Tennessee needed a buzzer-beater to avoid losing to #15 Winthrop. 
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<title>Street Sense Eyes Derby Dollars</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:07:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Handlers of Street Sense hope the luck of the Irish will be with them when their prize colt makes his 3-year-old debut in the Tampa Bay Derby on March 17. 

The St. Patrick's Day race took on added significance when Churchill Downs made Street Sense an 8/1 Kentucky Derby co-second choice with Ravel and Great Hunter in its second of three pre-Run for the Roses wagering pools. 

Street Sense is attempting to become the first Breeders' Cup Juvenile champion to go on to win Thoroughbred racing's most prestigious prize. 
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<title>Moon Over Madness</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:20:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The month's full moon has come and gone and that peculiar malady known as March Madness almost is upon us. 

Selection Sunday and spring's annual Big Dance are just around the corner, after America's college basketball conferences wipe up some unfinished business of their own. 

Most leagues with postseason tourneys begin competition on Thursday. 
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<title>PODS Championship</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:23:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Bo Jackson knew baseball, Bo knew basketball, but Bo, you don't know Weekley. Boo Weekley, that is. 

Maybe Bo does know Boo, or can speak to the shared experience of growing up in the rural south. We've been refreshed by other professional athletes from rural backgrounds who tend to speak their minds and shun the memorized sound bite, people like Charles Barkley and another golfer, John Daly. Never did I see Barkley or Daly plying his trade with dip spittle on his lower lip, though, which is what I'm pretty sure I saw on Weekley during last Sunday's final round of the Honda Classic. 
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<title>New Look for Chrysler 400</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:25:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NASCAR fans will find a completely remodeled Las Vegas Motor Speedway when the UAW-Daimler Chrysler 400 is contested this weekend. 

"It's a whole different situation (than in past races)," said Wynn Las Vegas bet shop supervisor and auto racing specialist Chris Chavez. 

The Las Vegas track was completely rebuilt in the offseason, adding increased 20-degree banking to a new surface and moving pit road 275 feet closer to the grandstands. 
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<title>Gab Session- Randy Moss -- Franchise Killer</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:38:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I don't have any particular allegiance to the Jacksonville Jaguars. 

I mean, their colors are kind of nice. I'm not sure how much I buy a blue-tongued jaguar (what, did he just eat a popsicle or something?), but Jacksonville's kind of a sleepy one-horse town whose NFL franchise is mostly just a little bit boring, saddled as it is in a primarily college-mad environment. I mean, they're not the most offensive team in the league, but they're just sort of there. 
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<title>Daytona 500: The Super Bowl Of Racing</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:46:15 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ah, the Daytona 500, when a young man's thoughts turn to those of pork rinds. 

There's been more controversy in a week of pre-race mumbo jumbo than in an entire BALCO investigation, it seems. Matt Kenseth and Kasey Kahne got docked 50 points in the Nextel Cup standings, while Elliott Sadler and Scott Riggs got docked 25 points and Michael Waltrip got docked 100 points, all for illegal modifications to cars during last Sunday's qualifying runs. To put things in perspective, Tony Stewart missed last year's Chase for the Championship by 18 points.]]></description>
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<title>Gab Session: The First Vegas All-Star Game</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:00:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In every sport, All-Star Games have long since outlived their usefulness. Need proof? Do you think the basketball world is abuzz because its constituents are thrilled to be playing the NBA All-Star Game in the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of UNLV? Does the drinking water at that venue taste particularly good there? Uh, no. 
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<title>The Nissan Open 2007</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:39:55 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[My plan was to wait until Sunday to tune in to the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am because by then even the TV people have tired of seeing George Lopez's act, there are less celebrities on the course, and so we actually get to see some tournament golf played by professionals. 

I thought I could hack it, though, so I tuned in a little each day.]]></description>
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<title>Boys of Summer spring forward</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:56:20 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As the Byrds sang and the Bible preaches, to everything there is a season; in the wide world of sports, football's over and baseball season is almost here again. 

Spring training is right around the corner and the Boys of Summer soon will dominate sports headlines. 

Like the planet's seasonal changes, folks feel the transformation as it's taking place. 
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<title>Sunny in Florida</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:21:16 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Maybe it's something in the orange juice. 

Rarely does a single school simultaneously rule America in the major sports of college basketball and football, but Florida pulled off this mini-miracle when it claimed the NCAA Tournament title last spring and then added the 2007 BCS Championship in January. 
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<title>Ryder Cup: U.S. has Weaker Links</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:36:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hilton oddsmaker Jeff Sherman, Las Vegas' leading golf handicapper, laughs when he recalls playing the 18th hole at Dublin's K Club, site of this weekend's Ryder Cup, during a 1999 trip to Ireland. 

"I've been hearing how tough it is and how it'll affect the outcome, but it was my best hole," Sherman said. 

"It's a par 5 and I bogeyed it, but I could've gotten a par." 
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<title>BGS 2006 NFL Power Ratings: Sept 4/2006</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:53:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Before getting to the 2006 BGS Pre-Season NFL Football Ratings, there are a few notes you should take into considertaion. 
As a rule, effective Power Ratings have no place for opinions or subjectivity of any kind. 

Additionally, many publishers of these ratings release Power Ratings 'tweaked' with their own subjectivity which not only deflates the value of the ratings, but in fact defeats the purpose of the ratings. 

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<title>Handicapping 101: High Winds</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:14:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tulane Stadium set the stage for Superbowl 4 on January 11, 1970, as the 12-2 Minnesota Vikings looked to "Kapp" their season with a rout of the Chiefs. But high winds and a game time tornado watch would play its hand in the outcome. Perhaps an omen of things to come, a pre-game balloon race ended in disaster, as high winds forced the Vikings balloon on a collision course with the stadium. ]]></description>
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<title>Handicapping 101: Hot Weather</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:34:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the 1995 City to Surf fun run, Australia's premiere foot race, a 14 kilometer trek through Hyde Park in Central Sydney to the Pacific Ocean, a 19-year-old man suffered a cardiac arrest on the finishing line and later died. 600 people were treated for minor problems and 200 were treated by physiotherapists. Medical centers treated 55 participants, of whom 38 suffered heat exhaustion. ]]></description>
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<title>Handicapping 101: Cold Weather</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:13:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder why your fingers, toes, ears and other extremities get especially cold in frigid weather? 

The body adjusts to extremely cold weather by adjusting the flow of blood. Crucial organs, such as the heart and liver, get more blood which is diverted away from the extremities, such as the fingers, toes and ears. Blood vessels in the extremities constrict, nearly shutting off, leaving the skin at increased risk of frostbite. 

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<title>California Triple Crown</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:17:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The world has a Triple Crown and so does Southern California. 

Lava Man, winner of the Santa Anita Handicap and Hollywood Gold Cup, will attempt on Sunday to complete a sweep of LaLa Land's Big Three by winning the $1 million Grade I Pacific Classic, Del Mar's richest race. 
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<title>Biggest Purse Ever at Breeders Cup</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:52:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Caesars Palace has added more than two dozen Thoroughbreds to its future book for the Nov. 4 Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs. 

Purse for the 1 1/4th mile affair has been boosted seven figures to $5 million, making it the richest horse race in American history. 
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<title>Las Vegas Odds &amp; Ends</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:08:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Las Vegas Hilton, home of the prestigious SuperContest football handicapping competition, will give away $10,000 in weekly drawings throughout the upcoming season as the resort turns its legenday theater into "Football Central" on NFL Sundays. 

Food and drink specials, including $1 hot dogs and draft beer, .will be served beginning with 10 a.m. (Pacific time) kickoffs. 
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<title>Stardust Line goes Global</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:22:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Sunday night Stardust Line has been a staple for Las Vegas bettors for a quarter of a century as sports gamblers were able to hear experts rehash the weekend college and pro games. 

The 'Dust earlier this summer pulled the plug on the popular show in anticipation of the resort's implosion later this year. 
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<title>3 Year 71% NFLX Resumes!</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:06:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Brian Gabrielle's 3 Year August NFL Pre-Season Football record stands at 46-19 71% and he's a perfect 4-0 100% with his NFLX games of the Year! 

This season promises to be his best yet, with no fewer than 36 exhibition games circled in Brian's War Room! ]]></description>
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<title>Pigskin Pickem Heats up in Sin City</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:05:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Las Vegas has begun serving up its usual smorgasbord of football contests and, as always, there are more selections from which to choose than the Bellagio buffet! 

The biggie, of course, is the Las Vegas Hilton SuperContest, which has been around for years and proclaims its winner to be the world's best handicapper. 
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<title>WSOP: Then There Were 9</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:55:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[All that glitters certainly looks to be Gold in the 2006 World Series of Poker's $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event at Harrah's off-Strip Rio Hotel and Casino. 

Jamie Gold, a California TV producer and talent agent, kept a tight grip on first Tuesday as the record field was sliced from 27 to Thursday's Final Table of nine, more than doubling the chip count of his closest competitor, well-known pro and two-two-time gold bracelet winner Allen Cunningham, at one point. 
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<title>Fox Foundation in Money at WSOP</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:08:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What would you do with $12 million, the amount the new World Series of Poker's $10,000 buy-in Texas No-Limit Hold'em champion will collect? 

Build a mansion? 

Buy a yacht? 

Take a trip around the world? 
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<title>Online Pros Dominate WSOP</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:31:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The axe continued to fall at the 37th World Series of Poker Sunday as the field for the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Texas Hold'em championship was slashed to the last 45 players. 

The original field was 8,773, including thousands - the vast majority - who qualified online. 

They will return at noon Monday, with the remaining players again facing the chopping block at Harrah's Rio Hotel and Casino. 
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<title>NIT: Not In Tournament</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:53:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The National Invitation Tournament (NIT) is the oldest tournament in college basketball. The NIT was started in 1938. It was the first postseason tournament to be played in the country. The NIT started what today is known as "March Madness". The NCAA followed 1 year later with a tournament of their own. 
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<title>Planting Seeds</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:43:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When it comes to dancing in March, all teams are not created equal. 

Pay close attention to seeds and HOW teams get there. Automatic bids are much better bets than At Large bids. 

Here's some historic seeding notes to keep in mind when filling out your brackets. 
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<title>Nascar Fever hits Vegas</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:21:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Toni Edwards is one lady who knows her cars, as in NASCAR. 

The Sam's Town Sports Book supervisor will have one eye peeled on veteran Ryan Newman and the other on rookie Denny Hamlin as she watches the rest of the field with both when NASCAR christens a new season at the Daytona 500 on Sunday. 

Unlike other sports, the auto racing loop annually launches a new campaign with its biggest race of the season. 
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<title>Derby Hunt Continues</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:13:03 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Kentucky Derby is still several months away, but leading Las Vegas handicapper Gordon Jones says now is the time to start zeroing in on top contenders who aren't necessarily the "media-hype" horses that currently garner the most ink. 

While Breeders' Cup Juvenile champ Stevie Wonderboy was on everyone's list, including Jones', his exit due to injury leaves things wide open. 
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<title>Propper Betting</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:20:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Half the fun in Super Bowl wagering these days is betting on and cheering in props. 

"The propositions are huge," said the MGM-Mirage's Robert Walker, who oversees 13 Nevada bet shops. 

"We've gotten to the point where the money we take in on propositions equals the game handle," said the Palms' Rich Baccellieri. "There's too many to keep track of." 

Likewise, "Whatever we put up, they want more," he said. 
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<title>The Bowl, According to Fezzik</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:19:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Avoid Super Bowl "needle-in-the-haystack" propositions and "donkey bets" and you could enjoy a profitable Sunday. 

So says Fezzik, the single-named sports bettor and blackjack player who is one of the hottest personalities/properties to hit Las Vegas sports gambling since Sonny Reizner lit up the Castaways' Hole-in-the-Wall Sports Book on a site now occupied by the Mirage. 
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<title>21 Super Opinions</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:14:24 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Twenty-one leading handicappers, bettors, oddsmakers and bookmakers participated in Friday night's Super Bowl seminar at the Las Vegas Hilton and the final tally was Pittsburgh 11, Seattle 10. 

Some prognosticators picked the Steelers to win but the Seahawks to cover, some forecast a Steelers' blowout and a few chose Seattle in a cliffhanger. 
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