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...1990s, when gambling on college sports became a major attraction at Las Vegas casinos--the betting action topped $2 billion a year, and the NCAA basketball championship rivaled the Super Bowl as the single largest gambling event--more college athletes were involved in fixing games or wagering on college teams than in any of the decades before legalized gaming became popular. Some of that action flowed into Nevada from illegal gambling networks across the country. Among the college gambling cases since...
...strike affects people beyond the strikers and their employers. Producers and casting directors are trying to conduct business as usual, especially as the normally flush season for shooting Christmas and Super Bowl spots begins. But New York's major commercial agents are not showing off their Crest smiles. Signatories to the SAG contract, they cannot work on non-union projects. That leaves them with something they hate to do: nothing. "You see me spending all this time talking to you on the phone?" barks one top commercial agent, who sounds as if he could have hired himself from Central Casting...
Most teams in Division 1-A college football play 11 games before bowl games, but some teams often end up playing 12 due to conference championship games, "pre-season" games such as the Kick-off Classic, and other commitments. In this case, the Michigan schedule-makers decided an extra game in Hawaii would be good for the team...
...index is calculated by adding together four factors: composite poll ranking, composite computer ranking, strength of schedule ranking divided by 25, and total number of losses. The two teams with the lowest index play for college football's national championship in either the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, or Orange Bowl, depending on the year...
Over 20,900 people came out to watch the game in the Yale Bowl, a massive crowd for a non-league Ivy football contest...