Having a bet on the baseball might be illegal in every American state bar Nevada, but every morning on the sports pages are the odds. It’s a reminder to those who would like to outlaw betting on Australian sports.
Betting odds
Nate Silver projects the Vancouver Olympics medal count
Psepho Nate Silver compiles betting odds and pundits’ predictions to project the winners (and losers) for the Winter Olympics. According to his figures, Australia should pick up a couple.
Greedy greed and horses
Greed is the cause of racing’s money laundering problem, writes Richard Farmer.
Bennelong: I tipped this, says MacKerras
Back on 20 February the following words of mine were printed in Crikey: “Let me be the first pundit to predict that the Liberal Party will lose this year’s general election as a whole, and Bennelong in particular.” Those words were the result of my reading of a Morgan Crikey poll showing Labor ahead in Bennelong by 55-45. That was before it was known Maxine McKew would be Labor’s candidate.
