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...time looking at Internet start-ups. And prior to that I had worked for companies that built trading software for a variety of stock exchanges around the world, so I was very, very familiar with general stock-exchange-type technology. I've always been a punter [bettor], all my adult life, and very, very interested in sport. So this was a reasonably natural area for me to find an idea because I had an awful lot of knowledge in the right places, just through coincidence really...
Crist never liked the Form. As a bettor, he spent hours supplementing its statistics on horses’ past performance as he handicapped the next day’s races. As a journalist, he thought its coverage was shallow and its reporters were cheerleaders for the racing industry...
...With so much advice swirling around - and so much of it cooked, corrupt or just plain bad - even the companies themselves get to play oracle. For weeks, Wall Street has been a chastened bettor, placing few bets and admitting its ignorance. Then Cisco announced after the bell Tuesday that the year in tech looked pretty good - and Wednesday the casino was jumping again with a furious rally that added 122 points to the NASDAQ and 305 points to the Dow, the biggest daily gains of 2002. Nobody even complained about Cisco's obvious conflict of interest as a company that...
...given day is 95 percent male and the average age of patrons is 50, and it's the last place in Massachusetts, I'm convinced, where profanity and chain-smoking are not only tolerated but encouraged. No sentence spoken without using "motherfucker" can be taken seriously; no bettor without a Lucky Strike dangling from his mouth is respected. Some players are cool and rational and know how the pace in a particular race will break and where a given horse will fall in and bet accordingly; others scan the tote board for good odds or good numbers and convince themselves...
...class comedian whose best subject was human nature. Twain tried his luck at mining in the little gold town of Angels Camp, a 2 1/2-hour drive east of Martinez; a replica of his one-room shack sits on top of Jackass Hill. His comical tale of a compulsive bettor, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, made Twain a household name and inspired an annual Jumping Frog Jubilee, held the third weekend in May in Angels Camp. Current world record: 21 ft. 5 3/4 in., set by Rosie the Ribeter in 1986. Visitors to the area can see two other...