LAS VEGAS – It could be at least a year before MGM Mirage decides whether the company is able to operate an online betting site. Company executives say they first want to be certain that the technology exists to prevent illegal ‘net betting and that casino industry regulators are comfortable with any arrangement. “We said…
Online gamblers, most of whom can no longer use U.S. credit cards to fund their habit, are about to lose yet another payment option. Under the terms of its planned purchase of PayPal (PYPL), eBay said Monday it intends to stop offering the payment service for Internet gambling transactions. EBay, which plans to acquire PayPal…
As Rudyard Kipling wrote (sort of), “If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same, you have what it takes to be a champion poker player.” John Shipley, the winner of the London EPT tournament at the Victoria Casino last October, knows all about poker disasters. Shipley…
* Spain beat Ukraine 1:0 unimpressively in Seville to stay second in Euro 2016 qualifying Group C three points behind Slovakia and three ahead of Ukraine. The top two qualify for France. With Diego Costa injured, Juventus’ Alvaro Morata took his chance and grabbed the game’s only goal in the 28th minute,…
Promise of high-paying slots jobs questioned A closer look at the job creation numbers given by proponents of slot machines reveals that the average pay would be less than the regional average for all industries. BY CHRISTINA HOAG choag@herald.com The campaign to put slot machines in Miami-Dade and Broward parimutuels calls itself ”Yes for…
Hi. Come on in. I’m steaming a variety of fresh vegetables. It’s about time I offered some salubrious comestibles during our wandering around in the dark corners of your poker mind. I know you like to talk strategy, but today let’s speak about strategy: “ … a plan or method for achieving…
Scorelines don’t come much more amazing than Sunday’s Mancunian derby, but was there really much reason to celebrate, however many records tumbled at Old Trafford? With a few days’ recuperation from that shellshock of a final score, can the result be deemed a welcome riposte to or even wholescale power shift…
Korean football fans have a two-tier season. Not only does the K-League run from the end of February to the beginning of December, the European season and the overseas Taeguk Warriors, just recovered from the World Cup, are just getting started. The best-known of these is, of course, Park Ji-sung. When he…
Following on from Part I of Soccerphile’s J. League awards, this time we take a totally biased and unobjective look at some of the best performers in the league in 2008. Adopting a one-club, one-player rule meant several glaring omissions – the likes of Kashima’s Daiki Iwamasa and Kawasaki’s Chong Tese miss…
8-2.’8-2, eight bloody two’ as Michael Palin almost said in Ripping Yarns (8-1). The morning after Arsenal’s worst defeat since 1896 was a sobering one. The 8-2 capitulation at Old Trafford was slow-motion carnage or schadenfreude at its sweetest, depending on your opinon of the Gunners and Mr Wenger. It was humiliation…
