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...billion-a-year gambling industry, the system has worked nicely. When some members of Congress tried to end the individual income tax deduction for gambling losses, key Republicans and Democrats buried the measure. Twice. Now casinos want to kill the legislation outlawing betting everywhere on collegiate and all amateur sports that would close the Nevada loophole. The legislation has the support of coaches and university administrators from Florida to Oregon. But it has been bottled up by the congressional leadership since April, despite growing pressure from reformers like Arizona Republican Senator John McCain...
...From the very beginning, the octet has been every bit the all-star ensemble predicted. Collectively, their high school resumes read like a Who's Who in amateur women's soccer. Among the eight of them are four club soccer stars, three former state players-of-the-year, two U.S. under-18 national team players, and, in Yenne, a player ranked fifth all-time in the national high school soccer annals for most goals in a season...
...genius of this scurrilous political work is that it is being done just at the moment when George W. Bush really is behaving like a f------ moron. His operation is the Original Austin Amateur Hour. Dubya's tractionless, spluttering campaign, belching smoke and throwing rods, seeming to do everything wrong post-Labor Day - arguing idiotically about the debates, for example - seems in itself to dramatize the supposed brain deficit that has been the subject of whispers and eye-rollings for months...
...cheater, hypocrisy rules at the end of the day. He says "it absolutely stinks" that Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor will compete in Sydney. The world-record holder tested positive for cocaine at last summer's Pan Am Games and was banned for two years by the International Amateur Athletic Federation. But in early August the federation, citing "exceptional circumstances" and a career with no previous violations, commuted the ban. Even federation senior vice president Arne Ljungqvist was appalled--"He should be suspended"--and threatened to resign. Cuban track officials, while applauding the reinstatement, were distressed that it wasn...
...hype to call Felix Savon's boxing record Herculean: 266 wins, nine losses; six world amateur championships since 1986 and gold medals in the past two Olympics. You'd think a Cuban fighter who has owned the ring like that for the past 15 years could retire to a beach hammock with a tall glass of Havana Club and a Cohiba...