2007 April 05 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

College sports can be a breeding ground for game-fixing and crooked betting s hemes . We saw it in 1997 when a point-shaving scandal was revealed at Arizona State, involving two basketball players and a campus bookie. Another incident of g…

Local officials made no offer to restrict betting on NBA teams in their pitch for a professional basketball franchise sent to Commissioner David Stern on Thursday.

Local officials made no offer to restrict betting on NBA teams in a pitch for a franchise sent to commissioner David Stern on Thursday. The proposal, requested by Stern in February, emphasizes Nevada’s gambling regulatory record and argues the system “should provide sufficient cause for the association to permit a franchise to exist comfortably in Las Vegas without concern of corruption or …

A battle between Philadelphia and Pennsylvania over slot-machine gambling landed in state Supreme Court on Thursday as the state’s gambling regulatory agency asked justices to declare it the sole authority over casino placement.

Trinity County authorities have shut down two illegal gambling businesses in that area. The raids are a result of a joint investigation between the Trinity County Attorney’s Office and Precinct 4 constable’s office.

A man shot and killed himself at a blackjack table inside the Seneca Niagara Casino Thursday morning. State police in Niagara Falls say the 45-year-old Getzville man was gambling when he abruptly pulled out a 9-millimeter and shot himself once in the chest.

FLORIDA As reported by the South Florida Sun Sentinel: “The City of Coconut Creek has formally opposed the Seminole Tribe’s push to gain sovereignty over 44 acres surrounding its casino there — land being eyed for the state’s largest gambling-hotel complex.

AUGUSTA, Maine As reported by the Bangor Daily: “A measure that would authorize a casino in Oxford County is part of growing list of bills which would expand gambling in Maine, and it’s a trend Gov. John Baldacci vows to stop.

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