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...Since a 40-year gambling monopoly ended in 2002 and the Sands Macau, the first foreign-operated casino in Macau, opened its doors two years later, that has certainly been the case. Over the past four years, the casino giants of the tiny Chinese territory, including Sheldon Adelson, Steve Wynn and Stanley Ho, have enjoyed sky-high growth rates and billions of dollars in revenue...
...Harvard a shot at a share of the title. But going into the home stretch of the Ivy schedule, the Crimson will have to perfect its special teams play for its final contests at Penn and against Yale at home. The Quakers’ top returner, defensive back Chris Wynn, averages about 20 punt return yards per game and 50 kick return yards per game, and Penn leads the league in both average punt return and average kickoff return. The Bulldogs’ Gio Christodoulou has 170 punt return yards—including a 71-yard touchdown return?...
...state-backed behemoths, massive conglomerates and supertycoons - almost always pin smaller enterprises against the glass to score the plum deal. So it seemed for Lawrence Ho, CEO of NASDAQ-listed casino operator Melco Crown Entertainment. Less than a year ago, the giants of the gaming industry - Vegas legends Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson, chairman of Las Vegas Sands - had shoved the little-known Ho to the edge of Asia's casino market. But his rivals should have taken note of how Ho, a recreational hockey player, likes to mix it up on the ice, no matter the size...
...matched his competitors chip for chip. His first casino-hotel, the Crown Macau, saw few customers when it opened in May 2007. But Melco Crown swiftly closed the gap. Its market share of 16% in the first half of 2008 was just a whisker behind Wynn with 17% and Las Vegas Sands at 21%, according to Citi Investment Research. More impressively, the Crown has become Macau's top casino for VIP high rollers. "A lot of people were surprised we turned it around so quickly against the big boys," Ho says...
...first, Ho looked unlikely to contribute much to the family empire. The venture's first major investment, the $524 million, 216-room Crown Macau, appeared a feeble alternative to the ornate 600-room Wynn Macau, which opened in 2006, and Adelson's gargantuan 3,000-room Venetian, a re-creation of his famed Vegas resort that opened three months after the Crown Macau. Located on one of the enclave's outer islands, the Crown was too far from the city's other casinos to attract walk-in gamblers. In the month of its opening, the Crown claimed an embarrassing...