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BMW opens the workshop and the Camaro gets upgrades, in News Brake for Friday, April 9:

BMW opens the workshop and the Camaro gets upgrades, in News Brake for Friday, April 9:
In today’s News Brake, BMW opens the factory workshop to customers, the Camaro gets upgrades and classic muscle cars go on the auction block in San Diego … But Wait, There’s More!

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by admin - April 10, 2010 at 6:53 pm

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A.M. News Links:Obama gets ready for first pitch, hero dad saves tot, and Indian Point denied a water permit

A.M. News Links:Obama gets ready for first pitch, hero dad saves tot, and Indian Point denied a water permit
AP Photon this July 14, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama throws out the first pitch before the All-Star baseball game in St. Louis. *Obama gears up for presidential first pitch (New York Daily News)WASHINGTON – One hundred years ago…

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Sports Hall of Fame gets $7,800 grant toward NASCAR wing

Sports Hall of Fame gets $7,800 grant toward NASCAR wing
The Rome Sports Hall of Fame and Museum is the recipient of a grant totaling $7,800 from The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Inc. and the Frank W. Baker Fund.

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Man Gets Finger Bitten Off At Healthcare Rally


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    25 comments - What do you think?  Posted by admin - March 19, 2010 at 5:39 am

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    Sports Betting Has Come a Long Way, Baby, and Roxy Roxborough Gets Much of the Credit

    Gambling was legalized in Nevada in 1931 but it took until the 1940s that the pointspread came into being. Charles McNeil, a Connecticut bettor and bookmaker, generally is credited with the invention of the pointspread though, like so much in the history of wagering, the facts are murky at best and open to interpretation. At any rate, sports betting still was in its infancy, barely able to take its first baby steps before the federal government applied its heavy handed child rearing tactics.

    In 1951, Congress imposed a 10 percent tax on sports wagering, all but stuffing the sports betting baby back in the womb. Then, in 1974, largely through the efforts of Senator Howard Cannon (D-Nev.), the tax was dropped to two percent. Nine years later it was cut again, to .025 percent, effectively launching the now burgeoning era of sports betting.

    Indeed, in 1973, the year before the federal tax was dropped from 10 percent to two percent, there were 10 sportsbooks in Nevada and the handle was a paltry $2.8 million.

    “There was one black-and-white TV set at the old Churchill Downs book, and if the picture fluttered, a guy would whack it with a broom,” remembered oddsmaker Roxy Roxborough, the seminal figure in the rapid growth of the sports betting industry.

    Twenty years later, Nevada boasted over 100 sportsbook outlets with a handle of over $2 billion. The numbers in the Silver State have tailed off a bit since the mid-nineties, Nevada’s loss the result of the proliferation of off-shore and Internet wagering outlets. The overall growth of sports betting remains staggering, with ESPN the Magazine estimating in a 2003 article that $63 billion is wagered annually on sports over the Internet. Other estimates run as high as $200 billion annually.

    The explosion of sports betting in the mid-eighties largely was the result of a daily double of good fortune; the lowering of the federal tax and the emergence of Roxborough, who everyone calls “Roxy,” as the face of sports betting.

    Roxy got his wagering feet wet betting baseball totals. In fact, he may have been the first player to regularly check local weather reports, chronicling the velocity and direction of the wind, a factor which influenced how many balls left the ballpark and, by extension, game totals.

    Lured to the other side of the counter by management at the Club Cal-Neva in Reno, it wasn’t long before Roxy, armed with little more than a few hundred dollars and an idea, founded his then fledgling company, Las Vegas Sports Consultants, on his kitchen table. In time, LVSC’s client list grew to include 90 percent of Nevada’s licensed casino sportsbooks.

    With a boost from Vic Salerno, the owner of dozens of wagering outlets under the Leroy’s banner and the man who developed the computer system now de rigueur in the industry, LVSC effectively helped transport sportsbooks from the hand-written betting slip Stone Age into the technologically savvy modern sports betting era.

    Roxy’s company not only supplied odds, but information on injuries and weather conditions as well. Later, the service added data that tracked line movements, including unusual wagers, alerting sportsbooks to possible betting anomalies that had the potential to devastate their bottom lines.

    Well-dressed and well-spoken, Roxy was equally influential in helping to obliterate the pejorative image of the oddsmaker/bookmaker as some sleazy, poorly educated garish figure in a hound’s tooth jacket with a diamond pinky ring and a cigar. Appearing on television shout-fests such as “Crossfire,” Roxy would vanquish the opposition, which included now NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, with a series of well-argued points.

    Roxborough has retired from the business of pluses and minuses and no one knows for sure what the coming years will bring, but if the future of sports betting is only half as imaginative and innovative as its glorious past, neither bet makers nor bet takers have reason for concern.

    This article was written by Karol Lucan for http://www.thegreek.com

    -The Greek Sportsbook & Casino is host to one of the top online sportsbooks offering sports betting

    on NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and all other major sports. The Greek is a must have sports betting and entertainment portal with one of the largest wagering menus available online. Article reproductions must include a link pointing to http://www.thegreek.com


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    Boris Johnson Gets Grilled by Panelists (HIGNFY)


    A selection of funny scenes from a Have I Got News For You episode where the panelists grill Boris Johnson continuously. Have I Got News For You s32 e09

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    Earl Weaver gets pissed


    Earl Weaver cusses out an ump after he gets thrown out of a game.

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    25 comments - What do you think?  Posted by admin - March 5, 2010 at 3:14 pm

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    Junior Seau gets run over by a bull at PBR


    WATCH AS ALL PRO LINEBACKER JUNIOR SEAU GETS TRAMPLED BY A BULL. SPORTS JOBS WITH JUNIOR SEAU PREMIERES DECEMBER 2 AT 10 PM ONLY ON VERSUS www.versus.com

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    25 comments - What do you think?  Posted by admin - March 3, 2010 at 1:55 pm

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    Fox News Chyron Always Gets Last Word?


    OVER 100 MORE examples of Fox News Bias at www.youtube.com The way Fox News uses chyrons and other on screen text to frame or even change the information reported reminds me of some of the satire in “The Word” segment on “The Colbert Report” as I show in this video. The clip of Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson discussing the return of President Barack Obama’s political advisor David Plouffe with former Obama national campaign manager Steve Hildebrand comes from a segment on the program “Fox and Friends” broadcast February 5, 2010 (which I have not been able to find online). The image of my youtube video titled “Does the Stephen Colbert Character Know The Word Mocks Him?” comes from my youtube video player page at www.youtube.com

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    Fox News Gets Reefer Madness Over So-Called Killer Marijuana


    In the tradition of the 1936 anti-drug film “Reefer Madness,” the Fox News story I caught airing on July 13 contained misinformation, a lot of scare words, and no independent fact checking of the claims of government agents. The uncontroverted facts I quote in my video come from the 1988 administrative law decision available at: www.druglibrary.org And, finally, though this video does not reveal Fox News partisan political bias, it still contains enough bias against more liberal drug laws to make OVER TWO DOZEN EXAMPLES on my Fox News Bias youtube playlist at: www.youtube.com

    25 comments - What do you think?  Posted by admin - February 28, 2010 at 1:54 pm

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