Sports betting

A narrow success in race run at crawling pace until the final two furlongs was enough to propel Shirocco to the head of the betting for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe with many bookmakers yesterday.

The principal winners on trials day at Longchamp, though, were Christophe Soumillon, ...

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BOOKMAKER Paddy Power is on track to deliver 40 per cent growth in operating profit for the full-year after recording a 12 per cent rise in first-half earnings.

The firm, which operates more than 200 betting shops in Ireland and Britain, reported profit before tax of about £13.9 ...

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AUSTRALIA'S biggest punter, Sydney brothel owner Eddie Hayson and rogue jockey Allan Robinson have launched an extraordinary attack on the integrity of NSW chief racing steward Ray Murrihy.

The pair's attack on Mr Murrihy, which began yesterday, will continue this morning on ...

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College football coaches around the nation are throwing up their hands in anguish over new rule 3-2-5-e.

But in Las Vegas, oddsmakers are scratching their heads, trying to figure out how to maintain an edge on uncharted turf.

After a change of possession, the new rule ...

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With the NFL regular season just around the corner, Nevada bookmakers are hoping for a return to "normalcy" in the split between winning favorites and underdogs.

Last season, NFL favorites were an unprecedented 147-107 against the spread (ATS), a whopping 57.9 percent ...

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A QUEENSLAND punter has had a $120,000 to $600 bet about dual Argentine Group 1 winner Taimazov being the leading first-season sire by individual winners this season.
Sportingbet Australia said the punter was connected to Queensland's Wattle Brae Stud which stands Taimazov.


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PORTSMOUTH boss Harry Redknapp is on a collision course with the Football Association.

The FA are threatening to suspend him following their investigation into an alleged betting scam following his appointment at Fratton Park last December.

Redknapp has already handed over ...

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Sport has always been addicted: now the nation is too, says Michael Atherton

Last week people kept asking me the same three things: “Did Pakistan cheat?”; “Was Inzamam-ul-Haq right to take his team off?”; “Is cricket corrupt?”

All I can say is that if Pakistan were ball ...

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ATHENS Ladbrokes, one of the world's biggest publicly traded gambling companies, said Thursday that it would invest €100 million in Italian gambling as growth weakened in British betting, its main division.
 
Betting-shop sales in Britain will probably slow until the end of next year, ...

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Police confirmed a former Vietnamese footballer and referee fixed a game between Vietnam and Myanmar in the Southeast Asian Games in December 2005, reported Tuoi Tre Thursday.

Truong Tan Hai was indicted for organized gambling after he gave a total of seven footballers VND500 ...

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LONDON - The World Cup boosted first-half operating profit by 12 percent at bookmaker Ladbrokes, which laid out plans to expand in Italy but deferred a decision over entering the lucrative U.S. market.

Ladbrokes said the World Cup brought more than 220,000 new Internet and telephone ...

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ALBANY -- In just a few months, New Yorkers will have two new ways to bet on their favorite horses: With their cellphones and on the Internet.

A law allowing such wagers was signed by Gov. George Pataki in late July, and supporters say it should help capture millions of dollars in ...

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HARRY REDKNAPP, the Portsmouth manager, attended a meeting at the FA yesterday in an attempt to persuade football’s governing body that he was not involved in a £16 million betting sting.

Redknapp volunteered to travel to Soho Square to meet the FA’s compliance department who are ...

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PADDY POWER has eased the chaos of the Fourth Test - by paying out on ALL win, lose and draw bets.

The bookie claims it is restoring "fair play and common sense" after Pakistan forfeited the match in one of cricket's greatest ever fiascos.

The angry tourists ...

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Major League Baseball hasn't placed the Paul LoDuca gambling investigation in the cold-case file just yet.

MLB sent two investigators from its security office to Philadelphia during the Mets' series against the Phillies this week to interview the All-Star catcher about gambling ...

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