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Nevada casinos win $6.86M on Super Bowl bets

LAS VEGAS – Nevada casinos won almost $6.9 million on this year's Super Bowl as bettors wagered $82.7 million on the NFL title game, gambling regulators said Tuesday. The 02 10 2010 9:15PM (...more)

Las Vegas latest member of "Who Dat Nation"

TORONTO (Reuters) – The New Orleans Saints can count several Las Vegas casinos as the newest members of the "Who Dat Nation" since most of the millions
02 6 2010 7:08PM (...more)

Vegas sports book to take fantasy bets

The billion-dollar business of fantasy football got another new player Wednesday: Las Vegas oddsmakers.
09 2 2007 6:45PM (...more)

An Open Championship by any other name not same

TURNBERRY, Scotland – In these parts of the world, the oldest major is known simply as " The Open Championship ." It's not unusual for Americans to refer to it as the British
07 16 2009 12:07AM (...more)

NFL teams must be wary of fans' psyche when letting star players go

By Mike Florio -   A comedian (it was Jerry Seinfeld, Billy Crystal or maybe Kenny Banya) once explained that free agency has converted baseball into an exercise in rooting for laundry. Over the past 15 years, that
03 7 2009 3:15PM (...more)

How the meltdown is rewriting investment rules

BOSTON – Stocks always rise over the long haul. Bonds are for retirees and investors with little taste for risk. Companies rarely cut their dividends. Those are three of the long-followed rules of investing — and rules that, as investors learned during a year of the stock
09 22 2009 10:56PM (...more)

Great Depression lesson

With the Bush administration set to unveil an overhaul of the nation's fragmented financial regulatory system today, and Congress likely to offer a counterproposal in the coming months, it might be tempting to tune the whole debate out. After all, this is a topic unusually rich in detail and complexity.
04 8 2008 4:18PM (...more)

Volcker: New Government Powers Won't Be Able To Dismantle Megabanks; Too Big To Fail Lives Despite Reform Bill

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker believes the centerpiece of the administration's effort to end Too Big To Fail -- the perception that the nation's largest banks
07 1 2010 12:03PM (...more)

Low-Cost HTC Wildfire Focuses on Social Networking

As it prepares for a possibly long battle with Apple on intellectual property, HTC continues to roll out new Android-based smartphones. The Taiwanese handset maker hopes its latest device will catch on like, well, wildfire. Dubbed the
06 5 2010 3:44AM (...more)

The Coming War Over Innovation

NEW YORK – With Hewlett-Packard ’s recent acquisition of Palm, the lines are being drawn for an epic showdown over the future of smartphones and tablets. The Daily Beast’s John Kao on how consumers stand to benefit.
05 14 2010 3:59AM (...more)

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