2006 August 26 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

If you think about it, really, then online casino gambling is just one of those things whose time has come. There’s no way to really downgrade online casino gambling, because it is what it is.

BILOXI, Miss. — If there is a booming recovery anywhere amid Hurricane Katrina’s wreckage, it is here in this city of casinos, fishermen and beaches.

Sure, we often refer to Anna Benson as a trashy hot publicity whore . So if we ever talked unkindly of Anna , well, we just thought that’s how poker playin’, PETA hatin’, Michael Moore loathin’, gun totin’, …

James Eastham is sports editor of The Sportsman, a UK national daily betting paper. He previously worked for gambling magazine Inside Edge and sports newspaper Sport First. He was shortlisted for British Young Journalist of the Year in 2001 and 2002.

An 83-year-old man who found a $1 million Massachusetts lottery ticket in a trash can will share some of the money with the guy who said he tossed it away.

EFFORTS at eradicating illegal gambling should not be limited to publicity, stressed Councilor Edilberto Tenefrancia in reaction to moves by his colleagues calling for a meeting with peacekeeping agencies to address the renewed operation of jueteng.

MILAN, Italy (AP) - A sports appeals tribunal upheld soccer federation sanctions against Serie A team Reggina in the latest ruling from Italy’s match-fixing scandal.

There is one game in the world of online casino and poker gambling that ranks supreme. This game is considered to be the number one tournament that truly judges who the best poker player in the world is.

A sports appeals tribunal upheld soccer federation sanctions against Serie A team Reggina in the latest ruling from Italy’s match-fixing scandal. The tribunal also upheld a 2 1/2-year ban from soccer for Reggina president Lillo Foti, the Italian soccer federation said Saturday. Reggina, which finished 15th in Serie A last season, was docked 15 points by a soccer federation sports court on Aug. 17