Archive for September, 2007

Tuesday September 11, 2007 – 11:40 EST (Rolling Good Times)

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

CARSON CITY, Nevada — (PRESS RELEASE) — In the 1940s and 1950s horseracing was not just a sport — it was high-class entertainment and one of the few entertainment options for most people.

Easypay team rides on Empella (Cyclingnews.com)

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

On Thursday, September 6, Belgian team Easypay presented its team for the upcoming cyclo-cross season at the building of the East Vlaanderen TV station AVS , just ahead of the first races the team will tackle.

Is flower power the way forward? (Times Online)

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

The Frankfurt motor show, for male visitors at least, is about the interplay of hormones and horse-power. They head for the biggest and the fastest, stroke bonnets and then retire for a glass or two of some of the strongest beer in Europe.

Thursday’s Small-Cap Winners & Losers (TheStreet.com)

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Magna Entertainment jumps.

Cyclo-cross news & racing round-up for September 13 (Cyclingnews.com)

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Welcome to our regular roundup of what’s happening in cyclo-cross. Feel free to send feedback, news and releases to mtb@cyclingnews.com .

Before Las Vegas, Tijuana was Southern California s glitzy escape (Los Angeles Times)

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Glamorous casinos? Horse racing? Rita Hayworth onstage? Crosby, Gable, Chaplin and Fairbanks? Where was this magical place? The evidence of Baja California s Atlantis is still there if you know where to look. It’s dusk in Tijuana’s red-light district, and two bouncers are slouching outside a strip joint called the Chicago Club. A car rolls up, a window rolls down, and the American guy on the …

FYI: The 2007 Chase (Nascar)

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Clint Bowyer • Chase history: First appearance • The skinny: Comparing Bowyer’s year to Harvick’s shows that whenever one Richard Childress Racing teammate struggles, the other often shines. What Bowyer hasn’t done yet in his Nextel Cup career is win a race.

Racing Group Says Review of Track Bid Was Tainted (New York Times)

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

ALBANY, Sept. 11 — One of the four bidders for New York’s lucrative horse-racing franchise is threatening a lawsuit over what company executives said were improprieties in an integrity review required by the state inspector general.

Sector roundup: Online ads, railroads (Sharewatch)

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

(AP) – Among the sector activity stories for Tuesday, Sept. 11, from AP Financial News: NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of online advertising companies traded mostly higher Tuesday, even as an analyst predicted third-quarter growth in the online advertising industry will come in below an earlier prediction.

Poker: Chuck Blount — Identifying betting patterns limits guess work (San Antonio Express-News)

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

The most important read a player can make once a poker session starts is to put labels on the opponents at the table.