Word: bowled
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...there's no way I'm not going to bet on the Super Bowl, the biggest betting event of the year, despite the fact that I hate football and know nothing about it. Luckily, the thoughtful hosts who run gambling establishments don't want anyone to feel left out, so they invented the "proposition bet," which creates wagers based on hundreds of superfluous details, such as who will win the opening coin toss, whether the first missed field goal goes left or right or if the jersey number of the last person to score is odd or even. Somewhere, someone...
...prop bets are based on either luck or sports knowledge. I needed a Super Bowl bet based on my nonfootball expertise, something that would make me feel smart on a day I feel dumb. So I called oddsmaker Art Manteris to see if we could come up with a bet that he would post on all 19 sports books he runs for Station Casinos. Manteris, author of Super Bookie, was responsible for making proposition bets a huge business when, in 1985, he offered 20-to-1 odds at Caesars Palace that an incredibly fat defensive lineman named William (the Refrigerator...
When we look at the upcoming match-up in Super Bowl XLII between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants, it is almost too easy to start making Star Wars comparisons.Leading the sinister Galactic Empire, otherwise known as the 18-0 Patriots, is the Emperor Palpatine-Richard Nixon hybrid of Bill Belichick, sporting a hoodie that could easily pass as the robe of a Sith lord as he resorts to any means to fulfill his quest for domination. Carrying out Belichick’s cunning plans are his very own Darth Vader (Tom Brady) and Boba Fett (Randy...
...many scoffed at the notion of a woman in charge. So at her first press conference, Georgia Frontiere, the NFL's first female team owner, lashed out at those who "feel there are two different types of people: human beings and women." The team went to the 1980 Super Bowl, losing to Pittsburgh. In 1995, Frontiere enraged fans in California, where the Rams had been based for 50 years, by moving them to her hometown of St. Louis, Mo. The team went on to win the 2000 Super Bowl...
...first time in a decade the "key driver of the U.S. economy, the consumer, seems to have finally thrown in the towel," says Xie. If true - and the economic data increasingly suggest that it is - the party really is over, and Bernanke may not have a big enough punch bowl to get it started again...