2008 February 29 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden suffered a broken left wrist and collarbone in a fall at his condominium Thursday night. He was hospitalized in Los Angeles on Friday.

The St. Jo Frontier Casino and other holdings of Las Vegas-based Herbst Gaming Inc. are in play. Privately-held Herbst said it had retained financial advisers Goldman Sachs & Co. to evaluate strategic alternatives ranging from refinancing to the sale of some or all of the companys 14 casinos in three states.

As you may have guessed, I’m not being entirely serious with that headline, but in this article there is actually a sports betting “system” that I could honestly claim…

BEAVER Two of three people charged in a gambling raid at an Ohioville convenience store in January waived their rights to preliminary hearings in Beaver County Court on Friday.

Anti-casino activists are hoping to score a royal flush with their latest campaign launched this week.

Confirmation that the Government is to scrap plans for Britain’s first supercasino put another nail in the coffin of gambling reforms this week. While Labour administrations have spent most of the past 10 years liberalising the industry scrapping betting tax and rewriting the arcane laws that have deterred most people from visiting casinos a political backlash has driven the modernisation …

State Police say money is the reason for cutbacks already happening at Pennsylvanias new casinos.

With public meetings set to begin next week on allowing Oregon’s first off-reservation casino in the Columbia River Gorge, the casino plan continues to be unpopular with most Oregonians and an unnecessary and unreasonable change to a fair state policy that limits casinos to reservation lands and protects the natural environment of the Gorge.

Sources confirmed Friday afternoon that WABC radio (770 AM) has fired veteran host John Gambling as part of a company-wide job slash and given his mid-morning slot to Curtis Sliwa.