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March Madness: Who Are You Betting For In this Hoops War?

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

Yes we all know what this month means. The bookmakers definitely do especially.

March Madness, is just that: the Madness. Over 60 games played in just over three weeks, with the best playing the best all across the country and the unpredictable outcomes that ensue.

During March Madness many spill out their bank account’s content to bet on their team whether thru online betting, office pools, or the traditional round-the-corner bookmakers. And during this time of the year most of…

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Before They Were Poker Stars (First of 3 Parts)

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Sure it’s huge now. But there was a time when poker wasn’t this money-making machine and professional poker players had day jobs.

That was then. This is now, poker pros literally spend their waking hours playing tournament poker online and offline. They have strategies, schedules, and yes bookeeping.

There are poker players who have been making a bit of money and names around the poker circuit even back in the days when pro poker was padlocked inside the casinos.

But for popular players like Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer and Joseph Hachem who very fortunately bagged millions of dollars and the World Series of Poker titles, they had working class lives before that fateful day that turned them into instant poker stars.

Chris Moneymaker, yes that’s his…

You Think You Know Pressure, Tell It To That 16-Million-Dollar Horse.

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

A 2-year-old horse that has never ran a race in its life was sold for $16 million at an auction at Calder in Florida. Making him the most expensive horse in training ever sold.

The price of the horse was driven up by two very determined bidders: Demi O’Byrne, an agent who ended up winning the auction, and John Ferguson, a buyer representing Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum of Dubai. The horse was certainly lucky for its previous owners, who purchased the yearling at last year’s auction for just $425,000.

Is Poker A Game or Sport? Let’s Ask the Brat Pack…

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

This is an ongoing debate about poker. And the end result of this debate could push for or be the death of the legalization of poker not only stateswide but globalwide.

For players who may be struggling to win at every tournament, maybe they’d tell you it’s a sport because the game require skill more than luck. But others who prefer not to make poker their entire life, they’ll readily tell you it’s just a game that shouldn’t be taken too seriously.

Ryan Pearson, an OJ mole, tipped us about his item at an AP-sponsored blog. The stuff is really about the so-called Poker Brat Pack consisting of young generation of poker champions under 30, who have accumulated at least $1 million dollars in winnings.

The ‘Brat Pack’ line-up are Antonio Esfandiary, Erick Lindgren, John Stolzmann, Michael Gracz, Michael Mizrachi, Nick Schulman, and Tuan Le. Even these bunch of poker champs contradict each other on whether poker is a sport or a game. Schulman says: "It’s an exciting game, but I definitely don’t think t’s a sport. There has to be some athletic requirement."

That Oscar Favorite Gay Cowboy Word

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

You can call it part of Brokeback Mountain’s Oscar campaign. Just two months off from the new year and a group called Global Language Monitor already declared ‘Brokeback’ as Hollywood’s word of the year.

Of course it means gay, fag, or girly-man as Gov. Ahnuld would prefer it.

Paul JJ Payack, the head of Global Language Monitor, said the movie became a cultural phenomenon that generated a million jokes, according to Google. Overall, a Google search shows more than 38 million references to the film, although only about 10 million people saw the movie.

The group placed ‘Brangelina’ in…

Steve Jobs Wants That Mouse

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Rumor is loud that Steve Jobs may be taking over Disney for good. Financial mag, Barron, is predicting that with Disney’s acquisition of Pixar making Jobs the biggest shareholder of the Mickey Mouse company, the Apple founder certainly is eyeing the top prize.

"I think he has an open option," Barron’s quoted analyst Christopher Whalen, a New York-based managing director of Institutional Risk Analytics. "Disney is badly undervalued right now. Jobs might get an opportunity to take it out…The markets and Disney shareholders would welcome a merger led by their apparent savior, Steve Jobs."

It’s An Honor Just To Be Nominated

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

For the second year in a row and for the third time in four years Bono has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Even rock’s biggest living icon knows that it’s way easier to collect Grammys than that million dollar prize in Oslo.

This year he’d be wise to expect no less beacuse he’s vying for the award against 191 nominees!

Altogether, there were 191 people nominated for the prize, the second highest tally in the 105-year history of the awards; there were 199 names submitted by the Feb. 1 deadline last year…

Let Booze and Boobs Prevail at the Mardi Gras

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Six months after Katrina, New Orleans is still a pile of wrecked homes and wretched morale. But if there’s one thing natural disasters and idiotic public officials won’t dampen in the town we call Big Easy, it’s the booze that raises the spirits of the Mardi Gras.

Few apprehensions are surfacing, but the people of New Orleans is celebrating Fat Tuesday this year. Partly to find escape and mainly to cling tight to tradition. Some are wondering whether spending badly needed money on repairs should be splurged for the event. What, forgot how to have a good time?

Even as Mardi Gras enters it busiest period, the estimated 150,000 remaining residents of the Big Easy are still split on whether spending $2.7m (£1.5m) on the festivities was the best move for a city whose coffers are bare, and where progress on reconstruction is, by its mayor’s admission, "in limbo".

Despite these sentiments, many find it inconceivable that Mardi Gras would not take place.

Smile, You’re on Comedy Central!

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Does this mean Jon Stewart’s fake news show is not at all making a dent on the ridiculous political issues as we suspect it to be? Or was the unsuspecting Illinois’ gov just wasn’t hip enough?

Last week Gov. Rod Blagojevich scratched his head and said "D’oh!" as he revealed to the press he wasn’t aware he was being interviewed for a comedy show even after the Daily Show’s Jason Jones fumbled for his name and unabashedly questioned his sexuality.

"It was going to be an interview on contraceptives … that’s all I knew about it," Blagojevich laughingly told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in a story for Thursday’s editions. "I had no idea I was going to be asked if I was ‘the gay governor.’"

At one point in the interview, a startled Blagojevich looked to someone off camera and said, "Is he teasing me, or is that legit?" [Yahoo News]

New Sexy Adult Poker Site Promises To Blow You (Away)

Friday, February 24th, 2006

The moment Cindy Margolis joined the poker party we knew it’s the start of really sexing up online gambling. And not just through those strip poker sites that teases you to play so you can see the girls’ tits pop up.

Adult Party Poker.com, not to be confused with Party Poker though their logo can really be confusing, is a legit online casino-poker cum sportsbook-racebook site being hosted by hot big-boobed adult actresses.

Hosted by some of the top adult entertainers in the world, including Sunset Thomas, Nicole Sheridan and Rebecca Love, to name a few, Adult Poker Party.com recently launched their site at the AVN Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada in early January…Sunset Thomas, adult superstar and AVN Hall of Famer turned savvy business woman was the first to see the value of coming on board. "It’s about business, and the marketing strategy for this project is brilliant." Zsebik boasts his team of topnotch entertainers and, innovative marketing gurus is up to the daunting task of carving out a significant niche in this competitive marketplace." [Poker Secrets Revealed]