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U.S. Ban On Online Gambling On Way Out?
Thu Sep 9, 2010 12:09 AM EDT
When it comes to gambling, there has never been a shortage of opinion amongst the masses. Either people favor it or they feel strongly that it accompanies some of society's more depraved behaviors, along with attracting crime, and is a negative temptation for our youth.
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MLB's Gaming Sale of Texas Rangers Continues
Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:40 PM EDT
“If an alternative process is established, we’re going to be guided by the court’s procedures, subject to of course, our ultimate right to approve any owner submitted to us.” – MLB Commissioner, Bud Selig – July 12, 2010
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MLB Gaming Sale of Texas Rangers
Tue May 11, 2010 10:42 PM EDT
Back in 1989, it was but a no-brainer for George W. Bush to inject himself into the proposed purchase of the then flailing Major League Baseball (MLB) Texas Rangers.
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States Rush to Legalize Sports Betting & Expand Gambling for Revenue
Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:01 AM EDT
With the melt down of the global economy over the past 2 years, multi-national brokerage firms and trusted financial institutions bore the brunt of accusations of gambling away the financial health and futures of investors, primarily through the sale of toxic mortgages with cred …
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Baseball, Rawlings Bring New Meaning to Free Trade: Postscript
Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:03 AM EST
In 2006, this reporter shed light on the seemingly unfair labor practices taking place in the Central American country of Costa Rica, in a factory operated by the Rawlings Sporting Goods Co., Inc., and now a subsidiary of the multi-national corporation, Jarden Corp.
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Rogue Commissioner: NBA's David Stern
Fri Jan 1, 2010 12:29 AM EST
"Considering the fact that so many state governments – probably between 40 and 50 – don't consider it immoral, I don't think that anyone should. It may be a little immoral because in reality it is a tax on the poor; the lotteries.
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MLB Sportswriter Scoops Self to Remain Relevant
Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:10 PM EDT
At a time when rumor and innuendo in sports journalism has arguably never been more pervasive, one would hope that the current active senior statesmen of their craft would still have an interest in maintaining their once high standards.
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The Fourth Estate is Dying
Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:51 PM EDT
It was on June 21, 1788 that the United States Constitution was officially adopted with its ratification. And it was at that time that its ratification was contingent upon suggested changes be made to the Constitution, thereafter.
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MLB Ramps Up Casino Sponsorships
Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:32 AM EDT
It was 30 years ago when baseball legend, Willie Mays, was banned from Major League Baseball (MLB). Four years later, NY Yankee great, Mickey Mantle, met with the same fate as did Willie.
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Fallout of Energy Policy Act 2005: The Nuclear Option
Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:34 AM EDT
In this third chapter of this ongoing discussion and analysis of United States energy policy and its ramifications both realized directly and indirectly from the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005, (EPAct 2005) it would be irresponsible not to include U.S.
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Fallout from the Energy Policy Act of 2005: The Nuclear Option The Nuclear Option
Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:25 AM EDT
In this third chapter of this ongoing discussion and analysis of United States energy policy and its ramifications both realized directly and indirectly from the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005, (EPAct 2005) it would be irresponsible not to include U.S.
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Gaming Congress, Yanks Could Strike Out
Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:17 AM EDT
As previously chronicled in this series of reports subtitled, MLB Goes to Harlem Seeking Welfare, on the public financing of the new Yankee Stadium in Bronx, NY, a borough of New York City, the issues it encompasses and the various impending outcomes may have a broad impact for …
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Fallout from the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Pts. 1&2
Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:19 PM EDT
"Energy independence from foreign sources." A mantra repeated over and over again by those responsible for establishing United States energy policy. But it remains a contradiction in terms as the topic is never broached candidly by lawmakers as to how much of the U.S.
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Fallout from Energy Policy Act of 2005
Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:02 AM EST
Part 1 of a Series
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MLB Given Pass by Feds
Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:55 AM EST
Complicit in Drug Culture Major League Baseball (MLB) and drugs. The two have been linked for decades and their relationship has never waned. The drug ingredients are different, the players acquiring them have changed and the performance benefits have been enhanced.
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Saudi Takeover of GE Plastics Flies Under Radar
Mon Jul 9, 2007 1:30 AM EDT
The announcement on May 21, 2007 that the largest public company in the Middle East, by market value, would be acquiring a division of the world's second-largest corporation, by market value, and based in the United States, could not have been any less publicized.
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MLB Bats Whittled Down to Uneven Playing Field
Mon Jul 9, 2007 1:08 AM EDT
As Barry Bonds comes ever closer to breaking the National Pastime's hallowed home run record, currently held by Hank Aaron at 755, the controversy regarding illicit performance enhancing drug use, which may forever taint Bond's entire career, does accomplish taking the focus …
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NAFTA Superhighway Has Giuliani As Key Player
Mon May 7, 2007 10:05 PM EDT
On March 23, 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush, former Canadian Prime Minister, Paul Martin and former Mexican President, Vicente Fox, authorized the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), now under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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New Mining Laws Year After Sago Non-Implemented
Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:00 PM EST
The tragic explosion of the Sago Mine in West Virginia on January 2, 2006, which took twelve lives and permanently disabled another, still begs for a rational explanation over 1 year later.
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NCAA Gives New Meaning to Gender-Bias
Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:04 AM EST
"We talkin' about practice! Not a game. We talkin' about practice, man. We ain't talking about the game.
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Troops Pay Hidden Costs of Multiple Deployments
Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:56 PM EST
The ravages of war are hell and collateral damage that includes loss of life, permanent disability and war-related illness in both military and civilian populations is expected.
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Offshoring U.S. Patients No Cure for Ailing Healthcare System
Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:33 AM EST
For several years now, American healthcare consumers, including many from other western industrialized nations, have heard about elective surgeries being performed in lesser-developed nations and due to cost and denial of coverage by health insurance providers have opted to go th …
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Clinton Soda Deal Ignores School Funding Problems
Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:16 AM EDT
This past July, former President Bill Clinton announced an initiative in conjunction with the William J. Clinton Foundation to fight childhood obesity.
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Designs on Perfect Baby Drives Assistive Repro Industry
Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:56 PM EDT
Assistive Reproduction Technology (ART) has been an accepted medical alternative to human reproduction since the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, was conceived in England in 1978.
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Post-Katrina Role of Property Insurers Threaten Consumers Nationwide
Fri Sep 8, 2006 2:37 AM EDT
"Prediction is very hard, especially when it's about the future." Yogi Berra
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