Word: spread
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Harvard was able to execute the game plan that they had going into this season for its offense: spread the field with lots of receivers, establish a high-tempo passing offense and set up the run with the pass...
...neither Britain's nor the rest of Europe's fuel troubles are over. Tanker trucks may be rolling again to London, but identical protests, which actually began in France a week before, spread into Germany and Spain, the Low Countries, Greece and Ireland. Europeans were bent on telling their governments they had had enough of paying the world's highest prices at the pump. Now their stunned leaders must find an acceptable reply...
...week gambling operation; the University of Rhode Island and Bryant College uncovered a gambling ring involving student athletes; a Northwestern University running back who became the school's career rushing leader fumbled the football on the goal line to ensure that his team would not beat the point spread and that he would win his $400 wager; a Central Florida student team manager was convicted in federal court of offering $15,000 in bribes to players to hold down scoring and cover the point spread in a basketball game with Stanford; Boston College suspended 13 members of its football team...
...little more than two decades now, the sports books, as they are called in Nevada, have been an integral part of casinos large and small. Walk into any casino and you will see an area carved out for sports gamblers. There the legal gambler may spread his sports pages and tip sheets across one of the rows of desks usually found in college libraries, each individually lighted, or sit back in one of the dozens of plush chairs and, while being served drinks by a cocktail waitress, study the giant electronic board that covers the wall in front, offering information...
...most insidious aspect of legalized betting on college teams is the point spread. It raises dark questions where there should be none. For someone betting the spread, it matters not whether your favorite team wins, but rather by how much they win or lose. Las Vegas casinos set a point spread for each game. It's published in newspapers across the U.S. and used by illegal bookmakers. Over the years, college coaches have taken the news media to task for providing this bookmaking service. Only a handful of large publications have refused to print the collegiate betting lines, among them...