Sport is made for betting

No great surprise here - most over-rated city in the world I reckon, even more fake than the oases built in the desert like Dubai and Doha. Casinos and clubs charging $20 for a drink do nothing for me.... Las Vegas in crisis Party Over AS MAYOR of Las Vegas for almost 12 years, Oscar Goodman has made it his mission to personify what he calls this “adult playland” in the desert. He prances through the casinos with scantily clad showgirls draped on each arm (although he is happily married). He claims to drink a bottle of gin every night (but “never before 5pm”). In his office he sits on a carved throne and gives visitors a symbolic gambling chip that depicts him, with his trademark Martini glass, as “the happiest mayor of the greatest city in the world”. Alas, much of this, like most things in Las Vegas, is purely show. This is not merely because the famous Strip of hotels and casinos that accounts for more than half of all gaming in the state is deliberately (for tax reasons) j...

The England cricket team went to pieces when they saw all the money Allen Stanford (he doesn't deserve the Sir title) had to offer last year in the Twenty20 circus, but it looks as if all that money was part of a massive con job! Stanford charged over $8bn fraud He looked as dodgy as they come, and looks like he might get his just desserts....

The global economic crisis is now being blamed on the hedge funds.... how about people start worrying about fixing it instead of focusing on who to blame for a change?? Hedge funds need regulation My favourite saying... whatever excuse you make, the result is still the same. So get on with it, and focus on the future!