“Players aren’t buying an investment; they’re buying permission to fantasize for a couple of days.” — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, April 2025 Neurologists recently figured out what gamblers have known ever since a savvy Sumerian grifter invented the shell game: You don’t have to win to be a happy punter. You just have to bet […]
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Fact Checking Ads for California’s Sports Betting Propositions
Odds are, one of the many ads for legalizing sports betting has snagged your attention, given their ubiquity on TV, websites and billboards across California. You’d be forgiven, though, for still not having a clear sense of what either of the initiatives do. Some of the ads don’t mention sports betting at all, potentially leaving […]
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Get yer hide to the races!
A fancy, feisty lot of mules and horses tore up the loamy dark track yesterday in Ferndale, to the delight of the hootin’, wagerin’, drinkin’, beef-chewin’, funnel-cake-inhalin’, corndog-swillin’ crowd that packed the grounds and stadium. If you were the person who forgot to be there, check out what you missed (but don’t despair, there’s more […]