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More states are looking at starting or expanding betting--seen as an easy way to boost revenues--by adding new casinos, state lotteries and racetrack slot machines. In New York, Governor George Pataki signed contracts to permit three more Native American casinos in the western part of the state. He expects the 13-year deal to bring in $1 billion. Indiana and Illinois have raised taxes on riverboat casinos...
...HKJC has been off stride lately. With the racing season just past the halfway point, turnover is down by almost $200 million from the previous year, and a five-year slide in racetrack attendance shows no sign of abating. The troubled local economy is partly to blame. So too are new competitors: illegal bookies, Internet gambling and increasingly popular sporting alternatives such as football are all cutting into revenue. Late last year, big time British bookmaker William Hill began accepting online bets on races at Happy Valley and Sha Tin. The Jockey Club is not amused. "These guys are raiding...
...full-time medical director who will act as a liaison with local doctors. Currently, NASCAR relies on each racetrack to provide its own physician...
...night of my last exam here at the College I celebrated with a late-night run by the Charles—several laps around the asphalt pathways I think of as the racetrack. I spent most of the time absorbed in my own thoughts of senior week, my new job, spending the summer with my family and all those other details that fly through your mind as you pound the pavement. As I rounded the bend near the JFK Park to head home, I looked up. The river glittered in the light of the full moon, cooing and rippling ever...
Formula One Around and Around and Around They Go in formula one motor racing, intriguing twists and turns often take place far from the racetrack. Last week, some of the sport's biggest players - which include Renault, BMW and Fiat - threatened to set up a rival world championship to take off in 2008 when their current Formula One obligations expire. The car-makers were said to be concerned that Kirch, the German broadcasting giant that recently assumed control of Formula One's broadcasting and commercial rights in conjunction with EM.TV, would take the races off terrestrial TV and put them...