Drag racing

Camaro at launch, with Altered Vision in the right lane. Wheelstand, or “wheelie”, means torque has been wasted lifting the front end, rather than moving the vehicle.
In drag racing, the objective is to complete a certain distance, traditionally 1/4 mile, (400 m), in the shortest possible time. The vehicles range [...]

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Mining The Hedge Funds (Forbes)

George Soros and John Paulson are betting on NovaGold.

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These Tech Stocks Will Make Me Rich (The Motley Fool)

I’m betting real money on these five stocks.

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NBA Betting: Sunday Doubleheader Recap (Covers.com)

The race for first place in the NBA’s Western Conference got a little tighter Sunday, as the Los Angeles Lakers suffered a third straight loss and the Denver Nuggets won a third straight game.  The first-place Lakers fell to the Magic in …

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The week that was in sports betting (Covers.com)

B. Sharps is the head oddsmaker for Legends.com . Well, players, a busy week has come to and end and it was a battle with the books barely getting the best of it.  Monday the books only won the Clippers and the Sooners in the college; the p…

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Big Jack: Betting on Manny (Sun Star)

LONDON — Manny Pacquiao’s last fight before he tries his luck in the political arena again is less than a week away but I have still not made up my mind if I would really put my hard earned money at read more

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Chilton betting shop staff threatened at knifepoint (Northern Echo)

TWO female betting shop attendants were threatened at knife point and locked in a back room when two men raided a bookmakers.

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Betting slips left to Oxfam (This is Oxfordshire)

OXFAM could make as much as £330,000 after a Kidlington man left a series of betting slips to the charity in his will.

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CryptoLogic Licenses Top Betting Games to Betsson (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

DUBLIN, IRELAND–(Marketwire – 03/08/10) – CryptoLogic Limited (TSX: CRY – News )(TSX: CXY – News )(NASDAQ: CRYP – News )(LSE: CRP – News ), a global developer of branded online betting games and Internet casino software, has signed a three-year agreement to license at least nine of its most popular online betting games to Betsson Malta Ltd (Betsson), a leading European e-gaming operator listed …

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George Clooney Isn’t Betting on Himself for Oscar Win (People Magazine)

The Up in the Air star jokes that he’s rooting for the Crazy Heart star in the Best Actor race

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Meryl Streep rules the betting arena by 2/1 (Entertainment and Showbiz!)

We love to speculate, don’t we? And especially when we get paid for it, then the game of speculation turns more vigorous. There are still a few hours left to the Oscar ceremony, and the betting arena is going hay wire. An online betting site has revealed that if anyone bets on Meryl Streep then [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Meryl Streep rules the betting arena by 2/1″, url: “[[[SHIFTOUT …

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Ice hockey game

Typical layout of an ice hockey rink surface
Ice hockey is played on a hockey rink. During normal play, there are six players per side on the ice at any time, each of whom is on ice skates. There are five players and one goaltender per side. The objective of the game is [...]

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Rooting for bet OK, but betting on pick illegal (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

It’s OK to root for Noynoy or Manny or Erap or Gibo, but just don’t bet on any one of them winning in the May 10 presidential election. It could land you in jail.

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Big beer bet for Obama, Harper on hockey (AP via Yahoo! Sports)

Something is brewing in U.S.-Canada relations. And it’s on Olympic ice. President Barack Obama is betting a case of beer with the Canadian prime minister on the outcome of Sunday’s U.S.-Canada gold medal game. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama had a case of Yuengling, a Pennsylvania regional brew, riding on the game.

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Betting on polls? Don’t, warns Comelec (Malaya)

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday advised the public not to place bets on the result of the May elections.

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Betting on election winners prohibited (Sun Star)

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) warned the public not to bet on who’s going to be the country’s next president or they will be charged of violating the Omnibus Election Code (OEC). read more

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Betting on poll results a crime, warns poll exec (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

It’s okay to root for Noynoy, or Manny, or Erap or Gibo, but just don’t bet on any one of them winning in the May 10 elections. It could land you in jail.

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Comelec warns against betting on election winners (GMA News)

The public is disallowed from betting on who they think will win in the May 2010 polls because it is unlawful, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said.

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DFNN seeks TRO on PCSO text betting (Manila Bulletin via Yahoo! Philippines News)

DFNN, Inc. has joined the recent controversy over the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office’s plan to allow betting in the lottery via text messaging services.

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Equine vet’s address used in national betting scam (Horse and Hound)

Sally Rackham, who runs Hawkedon Veterinary Surgery in Suffolk, has uncovered a betting scam using her practice address and has issued a warning to potential victims

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