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Washinton State Making Step in the Right Direction?

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Washington State Representative Chris Strow and his House Bill 1243, believe that online gambling in the United States should be legal in the privacy of your own home.
In 2006, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was signed into law by President George Bush, which makes online gambling conducted in the United States a Class C Felony.
Chris Strow plans to change this law after introducing House Bill 1243 to correct what he considers an inappropriate penalty for an activity responsible adults should be allowed to do in the privacy of their own home.
Strow said, “While I do see the need for protecting our citizens from online gambling that may be scamming innocent victims, I do think that there is also a level of accountability, as an adult, to do as he or she chooses in his or her own home.”
“Most certainly choosing to gamble, or play a game of skill such as poker, should not have been made a crime equivalent to possessing child pornography or threatening the Governor,” he added.
Strow made a plea for state residents to call and write to the Chairman of the House Commerce and Labor Committee, Representative Steve Conway, to ask him to schedule a hearing for House Bill 1243.
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Monday Computer Trends

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Monday, January 29, 2007

Computer trends from the various databases used by the OffshoreInsiders.com elite
handicappers.

NBA

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Denver
over 14-4 on non-conference games this year

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Memphis
over 17-5 if they lost at least 15 of their last 20 games

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Minnesota
over 12-2 in January

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Philadelphia
8-0 road with a total in the 180s this year

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Sacramento
2-11 after 2 straight games giving up 10 or less offensive rebounds

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New Orleans
8-1 their last nine games

 

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Hawaii
1-11 off consecutive unders

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Pittsburgh
9-3 to Big East


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Sunday Advanced News and Notes

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Sunday, January 28, 2007

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Ohio-Ball State

Press Notes

The Ohio men’s
basketball squad (13-6, 4-2 MAC) will travel to take on Ball
State (6-13, 2-4 MAC). This is the
only meeting this year between Ohio
and Ball State.
All-Time: Ohio holds a 36-29 edge
in the all-time series between the two programs.

Wisconsin-Iowa

Press Notes

Iowa (11-9,
3-3) plays the first of three games in seven days when it hosts #2/3 Wisconsin
(20-1, 6-0). With the 79-63 win over Penn State,
Iowa improved its home winning streak in
Big Ten Conference games to 12 straight. Iowa
has won 28 of its last 29 home games in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Wisconsin
is ranked second by the Associated Press and third in the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll. This marks Wisconsin’s
highest ranking of the season. Iowa
has posted a 1-2 record while facing three ranked opponents this season. Iowa
lost to 10th-ranked Alabama 72-60 in the semi-finals of the Paradise
Jam, defeated 24th-ranked Michigan State 62-60 Jan. 4 in Iowa City
and lost to seventh-ranked Ohio State 82-63 Jan. 20 in Columbus. Under Steve
Alford, Iowa is 2-5 when playing
teams ranked among the top three in the nation. That includes a 1-3 mark vs.
No. 1, a 1-1 record vs. No. 2 and a 0-1 record vs. No. 3.

Tennessee-Kentucky

Press Notes

The Vols are looking to bounce
back from a 83-69 loss at Ole Miss Wednesday night. UT
held a 10-point halftime lead but the Rebels shot 59.4 percent from the field
in the second half to take the win. The Vols
finishing are a stretch where they have played five of six games on the road.
The stretch began with three consecutive road games (at Vanderbilt, at Ohio
State and at Auburn)
before UT returned home to play South Carolina
on Jan. 20. Tennessee returned to
the road Wednesday, Jan. 24, when they visited Ole Miss and now travel to Kentucky.
UT will return home Jan. 31 to host Georgia
before hitting the road again when the Vols visit
top-ranked Florida Feb. 3. UT has
dropped four of its last five games. Each of those four losses has come on the
road and three of them were decided by three points or less. Tennessee
is leading the SEC and ranks eighth in the nation with 82.4 points per game.
Chris Lofton, the SEC’s leading scorer with 21.5 points per game, is out
indefinitely after suffering an ankle injury Jan. 20 against South
Carolina. The All-America guard missed his first
career game Wednesday, Jan. 24, when he did not play against Ole Miss.

Massachusetts-Charlotte

Charlotte Observer

Maybe the comforts of home will give the 49ers some
assistance in Sunday’s showdown with the Minutemen. Charlotte
is 5-2 at home this season with losses to North Texas
and Saint Joseph’s.

Virginia-Clemson

Daily Progress

UVa fans have been getting a real
show out of the Cavaliers’ starting backcourt of senior shooting guard J.R. Reynolds and junior point guard Sean Singletary. Since
returning from a disastrous road trip to San Juan
before Christmas, Reynolds and Singletary have combined to average 46 points
per game over the last eight contests. Singletary has averaged 23.9 per game,
Reynolds 22.1 over that span. That’s what it may require for the Cavaliers to
tame the Tigers, coming off a heart-wrenching, last-second loss at Duke on
Thursday night. Clemson bounced back strong from its earlier loss to North
Carolina with an impressive home performance,
something the Cavaliers will have to contend with on Sunday afternoon at
Littlejohn Coliseum. Considering that Clemson ranks ninth in the ACC in both
field-goal percentage defense and 3-point percentage defense, it at least
leaves the notion that it could be another one of those 40-plus point nights
for the Cavalier backcourt.

DePaul-West Virginia

Scout.com

When viewing the Blue Demons schedule before this season
began it was plain to see that this week would be the toughest for the DePaul
Blue Demons. With back-to-back road games at Georgetown
and West Virginia, it was obvious
that the Blue Demons would be in for a tough challenge this week. At the WVU Coliseum, the Mountaineers are undefeated at 10-0 this
season and are 23-2 over the last two years. While WVU
has struggled on the road in Big East play, they are awfully tough to beat at
home.

LSU-Georgia

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With a win against the Wildcats, Georgia
(12-6, 4-2 SEC) has to get ready for a Sunday battle with No. 21 LSU (13-6, 2-3). The team is now in a tie with Kentucky
and Vanderbilt for second place in the SEC East. Wednesday’s home sell-out was Georgia’s
first since last February’s Tennessee
game. An SEC opponent such as LSU (the Tigers played
in last season’s Final Four) should bring the fans back in droves on Sunday.
The Tigers are coming off a 64-53 loss at home Wednesday to a resurgent
Vanderbilt squad. This is almost the same LSU team
that gave Georgia
their worst loss last season, an 81-52 drubbing in Baton
Rouge, La.


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Saturday News and Notes

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Saturday, January 27, 2007

The latest industry
news including the War of Gambling at CasinoBettingNews.com Here are news and
notes from OffshoreInsiders.com private clipboard. They are compiled from hometown newspapers
and the team’s own press releases.

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Texas Tech-Missouri

Press
Notes

Texas Tech (15-5,
4-1) and Missouri (12-6, 1-4) are meeting for the fifteenth time
since the series began on December 5, 1955. Each team has won seven games. Texas Tech
holds a 5-1 edge when the teams have played in Lubbock. Missouri has a 4-2 margin in Columbia and has a 2-0 lead on neutral courts. Last
season, the Red Raiders won in Lubbock 73-55.

George Washington-Rhode Island

Press
Notes

It’s a match-up of
first- and second-place teams as second-place GW
(5-1) faces first-place URI (6-1) today in the only regular-season meeting this
season and the 25th time in series history. GW
is coming off a 74-65 victory over Saint Joseph’s Wednesday at Smith Center for its 24th straight home victory. The Colonials have
won 22 of their last 23 A-10 games. GW also has won 32 of its last 36 regular-season games and
its 24-game home winning streak at Charles E. Smith Athletic
Center ranks behind only three teams nationally. (We
point up their home streak as many top cappers consider home/road “splits” or
dichotomy). Rhode
Island
(13-8, 6-1) is coming off a 75-72 victory over UMass
Wednesday at home.

St.
John’s-Pittsburgh

Press
Notes

Winning eight of its
last nine games, Pitt enters the contest ranked No. 9 in both the Associated
Press and ESPN/USA Today coaches polls. The Panthers
are 12-1 at home on the season. Pitt has won 35 of its last 41 Big East home
games and is 30-6 against Big East opponents in the Petersen Events
Center. Pitt owns a 16-33 all-time record vs. St. John’s. It has won three consecutive games vs. the Red
Storm at home including a 2-0 record in the Petersen Events
Center. Pitt has limited six of seven Big East opponents,
eight of its last nine opponents and 18 of its 21 total opponents under 70
points. Under Jamie Dixon, Pitt has held opponents to 70 points or less in 99
of his 119 career games.

Temple-Duquesne

Press
Notes

Duquesne (6-11, 2-4),
which snapped a five-game home losing streak and doubled last season’s win
total with a 93-89 victory over Dayton on Wednesday, returns to action to host
Temple (7-11, 1-4). Temple leads the overall series 35-12, including a
13-7 advantage in games played at Pittsburgh. Duquesne snapped an eight-game series losing
streak with a 61-54 win over the Owls in Pittsburgh on Jan. 8, 2003. Temple has won the past three meetings. Duquesne,
which began the season with seven scholarship players, is currently competing
with eight. of the 10 total players on the current
active roster, just one is over 6-6.

Mississippi-Vanderbilt

Press
Notes

The Commodores also
recorded back-to-back road wins over ranked opponents for the first time in
school history when they topped Kentucky and LSU in the past
week. The Commodores (14-6, 4-2 Southeastern
Conference) have won three consecutive games—all against ranked opponents—to
find themselves in a three-way tie for second place in the SEC’s Eastern
Division heading into the weekend. Vanderbilt leads the overall series 68-38
overall, including a 45-7 advantage in Nashville. The Commodores won last year’s meeting 77-62
in Oxford on March 1.

Southern Miss-Memphis

Press Notes

Southern Miss looks to snap a six-game losing streak to Memphis
when they travel north to take on the No. 11-ranked Tigers. The Golden Eagles
(13-5, 3-2) enter the game having won two straight games, including an 83-72
decision at home over East Carolina, Wednesday. Southern
Miss, though, looks to snap a five-game losing streak in Memphis.
The last Golden Eagle victory in Memphis
came on Dec. 27, 2000, in
a 75-67 triumph over the Tigers. UM (16-3, 6-0), C-USA’s league leader, won
this season’s earlier meeting this season between the two teams, 75-62, in
Hattiesburg two weeks ago. The Tigers currently are riding an eight-game
winning streak, which includes a 72-59 home win over Tulsa,
Wednesday. Chris Douglas-Roberts, who led the Tigers in Hattiesburg
with 19 points, has been out with a high ankle sprain and has not played in the
last two games. Douglas-Roberts leads UM in scoring at
14.8 points per contest.

TCU-Wyoming

Press Notes

Wyoming
leads the all-time series 4 games to 3 and has won two straight meetings. The
Cowboys won the two games last year by a total of just six points. Five of the
seven contests have been decided by five points or less. TCU
is 0-2 in Laramie, as the Cowboys
have a two-point win and a three-point overtime victory over the Frogs in their
arena. TCU currently is in a season-long four-game
losing streak after matching a season best with three consecutive victories.
After holding 10 consecutive opponents to 70 points or less, three of TCU’s last four foes have surpassed the 70-point mark.
Opponents have averaged 74.0 points per game over the last five games after
scoring just 53.5 over the previous six games.
From Nov. 24 through Jan. 6, the Horned Frogs limited 10 consecutive
teams to 70 or under. It was the first time a Frog team accomplished that feat
since the 1986-87 season, when TCU held 13 opponents
in a row under that total (Jan. 7-Feb. 21, 1987). TCU shot 48.2
percent (41-of-85) from the floor during the team’s 2-0 start to league play,
but has made just 36.7 percent (79-of-215) of its shots in its four consecutive
losses.


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Analysis: Is Victory Pyrrhic For Personal Responsibility Advocates?

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The odds aren’t great, but some offshore online gambling firms have a puncher’s chance of legally returning to the United States, thanks to the dogged determination of the tiny, twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda.
The World Trade Organization has reportedly ruled unambiguously in Antigua’s favor in a three-year-old case that country filed against the U.S. for free trade violations.
The ruling has not been made public yet, but a spokesperson for the U.S. Trade Representative’s office has all but confirmed that the decision went against the U.S.
In 2003 Antigua complained that the U.S. government’s ban on offshore online casinos and sports books violates the General Agreement on Trades in Services (GATS) treaty since it allows the same activities within its borders (see Gaming Firms Plan Counterattack).
And since both countries are signatories to GATS, the U.S., if it abides by the spirit of the ruling, should do one of two things: Either open its market to online gambling firms based in Antigua, or shut down the firms running the same kind of operations in the U.S.
Second Victory
To most observers, the WTO already ruled in Antigua’s favor in 2005. But the U.S. government claimed victory anyway. The overly bureaucratic style in which the ruling was written lent itself to multiple interpretations.
There’s a good chance the U.S. can use the WTO’s dense bureaucratese as another clarion call to inaction. The ruling is expected to be made public within a couple of weeks.
In October the Antiguan government amended its complaint to include the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. The law prohibits financial institutions from transacting funds generated by offshore online gambling (see Gambling Firms Flee United States).
This latest WTO decision will reflect that amendment.
The U.S. has varied its defense over the years. Initially the Bush Administration said that GATS did not include online gambling. At least that was not the U.S. understanding of the treaty.
Since then the U.S. has come up with a “moral” defense. It says online gambling, unlike all the other forms of gambling available in the U.S., does not have adequate protection against minors betting the family house.
The Antiguan government and the offshore online gambling industry have indeed come up with techniques to weed out minors armed with their parents’ credit cards. But so far that defense has fallen on deaf ears.Antiguan Sanctions?
In October, a small group of politicians jammed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 through as an attachment to a popular port security bill. President Bush soon signed it into law.
Antigua is home to 44 online gambling licensees. Seventeen of those are regulated gambling firms. But they have slim hope of a U.S. revival. For Antigua, the WTO decision is likely to be little more than a Pyrrhic victory.
It’s unlikely the U.S. government will reverse its position or its laws banning offshore online gambling. The U.S. is more likely to ignore the ruling and leave the next move to Antigua.
Antigua could impose sanctions against the U.S. But that would hurt Antigua much more than the U.S. Without additional pressure on the U.S. government, the historic WTO decision is destined to suffer a quiet death.
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Victory For Personal Responsibility Advocates, Big Brother Gets Setback

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The United States has suffered a new setback in a four-year legal battle with Antigua and Barbuda over U.S. restrictions on Internet gambling, a U.S. trade official said.
At issue is an April 2005 World Trade Organization ruling against U.S. prohibitions on online horse-race betting. Since then, the U.S. Congress has passed additional legislation to ban betting over the Internet.
Gretchen Hamel, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Trade Representative’s office, confirmed Thursday the press reports that a WTO panel “did not agree with the United States that we had taken the necessary steps to comply” with that ruling.
At the same time, Hamel downplayed the decision contained in a preliminary, confidential report to the two parties.
“The panel’s findings issued today involve a narrow issue of federal law” and the United States will have opportunity to submit comments to the WTO before it issues its final, public report in March, Hamel said.
The issue is a touchy one for the Bush administration, which supports free trade but whose conservative allies in Congress late last year pushed through a bill to ban most forms of Internet gambling.
Antigua and Barbuda, a Caribbean island nation with few natural resources, has sought to build up an Internet gambling industry to provide jobs to replace those in its declining tourist industry.
It argued in a case first brought to the WTO in 2003 that U.S. laws barring the placing of bets across states lines by electronic means violated WTO rules.
An April 2005 ruling by the WTO’s Appellate Body, which both sides claimed as vindication, focused on the narrower issue of horse racing, saying that foreign betting operators appeared to suffer discrimination.
Antigua and Barbuda complained the United States had not complied with the decision. The WTO agreed in July 2006 to look into the matter, resulting in the ruling on Thursday.
The United States will decide after the final panel decision ruling in March whether to appeal.
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Super Bowl Proposition Plays

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Joe Duffy (www.OffshoreInsiders.com)

I’ve already been asked by at least a baker’s dozen people
about some of the best looking propositions.
Get your mind out of the gutter, I mean on the Super Bowl. There is not
much debate that few players will be under the microscope more than Chicago
quarterback Rex Grossman. That’s why one bet that jumps out at us is under 19
completions by him.

The easy, but false, presumption is to think Indianapolis
and a wide open shootout. It’s no secret that the Colts biggest weakness on
defense has been against the run, albeit the return of Bob Sanders has buoyed
that unit.

Still teams actually pass less against the Colts than they
do against other teams. Indianapolis
foes had a cumulative average of 18 completions on 31 passes, but when they
play the Colts, foes throw about five fewer times, completing 17 passes. Do you
expect Grossman to complete more than average?

With the successful and rested two-headed monster of
Thomas Jones and Cedric Benson, we look for the Bears to keep Grossman’s passes
to a minimum. Rex himself will make sure most are incomplete.

Mark Gold of CasinoBettingNews.com
has been betting proposition plays since 1977, when he lived in Las
Vegas. He says without question the best bet is Colts
receiver Marvin Harrison go under six receptions.

While teammate Peyton Manning has taken heat for folding
in big games, even when Manning had his watershed game in the AFC
Championships, Harrison had only four catches for 41 yards.

Gold says, “Because Harrison is so universally respected
as a class act, he has avoided the postseason scrutiny. But the facts are that
many of his worst games have been the big ones.”

Also keep in mind, that Manning’s outdoor playoff record
still leaves a lot to be desired so a lean towards the under in many of his
personal propositions will lead to nice profits.

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Sportsbook ID Crook Sentenced

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A Nigerian convicted of running a sophisticated identity theft ring that stole the personal data of online gamblers registered with BetonSports was sentenced today to 34 months in prison.
Lanre Elekede, 32, is the lead defendant in the case in which he pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of at least 175 individuals. According to the Department of Justice (DoJ), a many of the victims were BetonSports customers.
The London-based gambling firm and several of its executives, including former CEO David Carruthers, is under U.S. federal indictment on numerous counts of racketeering, conspiracy and fraud. In November, the company agreed to a permanent injunction barring the company from doing business in the United States.
Elekede’s theft of BetonSports users’ personal data occurred in the weeks before the company became enmeshed in its legal battle with U.S. authorities.
A DoJ statement on Elekede’s conviction states, “A common thread linking a number of the victims whose identities were compromised was that they had engaged in sports-related gambling over the Internet with a…website known as BetonSports.com.”
The data from BetonSports included users’ names, addresses, telephone numbers, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers and mother’s maiden names.
The DoJ said Elekede and his confederates used the stolen personal information to commit various forms of fraud, including making illegal purchases over the Internet. They also shared the stolen data over the Internet with other members of the ID theft ring.
BetonSports’ woes began when U.S. authorities arrested Carruthers in Fort Worth, Tex., while changing planes en route from London to Costa Rica, where the company then maintained several of its sites. According to the DoJ’s indictment, BetonSports in 2003 had 100,000 active players who placed 33 million wagers worth $1.6 billion through the company’s Web sites.
Carruthers, BetonSports and 10 others, including BetonSports founder Gary Kaplan were named in the DoJ indictments. The DoJ contends BetonSports violated U.S. law by taking sporting bets over the telephone and Internet. The government also claims BetonSports failed to pay excise taxes on more than $3.3 billion in wagers taken from U.S. gamblers.
Kaplan remains at large, variously reported in Spain, Israel, Costa Rica and Zimbabwe.
According to the DoJ, Kaplan launched his gambling business through a sports book in New York City in the early 1990s. After he was arrested on New York gambling charges in 1993, Kaplan moved his operation to Florida and finally offshore to Costa Rica. He sold his company in the early 2000s to the English company that took it public in 2004.
BetonSports saw its stock permanently suspended two days after Carruthers’ arrest.
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