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...part of his job. Avello, executive director of race and sports operations at Wynn Las Vegas, runs the only sports book in all of Sin City that sets odds on entertainment. TIME caught up with the Poughkeepsie, N.Y. native to get his picks on which movies will win the hardware Sunday night, and what goes into setting Oscar odds in general. (See TIME's Oscar guide...
...What other odds will you offer for this year's Oscars? We always offer what are called "proposition," or "prop," bets. This year, I took the total number of nominations for each movie and set a number for how many total Oscars the movie will win. Bettors choose to go over or under that number. So let's take Benjamin Button. The movie received 13 nominations. I hung the number at 2.5 and think the under is the favorite, meaning I don't think that movie will win any more than two Oscars overall. Another fun prop...
...Just when it appeared that a win would be in easy reach for Harvard after the second set, Newbury started to prove otherwise...
...With the game at 28-27, Weissbourd answered the call one last time, making two key kills to win...
...play as well as we would’ve liked,” Baise said. “We knew that, and we learned some things. If we didn’t go and play those matches then maybe we couldn’t have pulled out this win tonight. It was hard, but I was proud of how they showed up tonight...