McCain: name NCAA picks
Presidential candidate John McCain believes gambling on amateur sports should be illegal, but there’s nothing wrong with a little “prognostication” on the NCAA tournament, his campaign said Thursday. McCain, who once introduced legislation that would have banned betting on college sports in Nevada casinos, is asking visitors to his Web site to pick winners in the basketball tournament and compare …
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Casino gambling information:
- Massachusetts decriminalized bingo in 1931 in an attempt to help churches and charitable organizations raise money. Bingo was legal in 11 states by the 1950s, usually only for charity purposes.
- By the 18th and 19th centuries a dice game called Hazard had become popular in England and was played by the aristocracy in private gambling houses.
- The most popular form of charitable gambling is bingo. In California, bingo is the only charitable game that is legal.
- The first airplane flight to Las Vegas was made in May, 1920, with Lieutenant Randall Henderson, editor of the Blythe, California Herald, and Jack Beckley.
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