Word: bettor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game that year, he told the Touchdown Club in Birmingham: "Gentlemen, I wouldn't bet anything but Coca-Cola on tomorrow's game. Next year you can bet a fifth of whisky. And the year after that you can mortgage the damn house." Bryant was right. A bettor would have lost a Coke that first year (Auburn won, 14-8), but the mortgages were safe: Alabama took the next four games in the series without allowing a point...
Defense attorneys tried to establish that Errico was in Los Angeles during the period when he was supposedly fixing races in New York. But federal officials attempted to prove that a number of bettors were seen meeting with Errico and subsequently cashing huge payoffs (as much as $129,000 by a single bettor) on trifecta wagers. According to Amy, he and the other jockeys were paid up to $7,500 a race by Errico to assure that their horses finished out of the money...