Wednesday, October 10, 2007

A Web site promoting campus gambling and containing links to online poker sites uses the University of Massachusetts name and logo to promote itself, and school officials are demanding that it be taken down.UMass eyes shutdown of gambling Web site (Boston Globe)

Police in Taichung yesterday arrested 18 people on suspicion of running illegal sports betting over the Internet, taking advantage of the popularity of New York Yankees pitcher Wang Chien-ming ( ) to earn several million US dollars.Police in Taichung bust 18 over online gambling operation (Taipei Times)

SPRINGFIELD - Illinois lawmakers should reject a plan to expand gambling as a way to raise money for a massive road-and- bridge construction program, a nationally known gambling critic said Tuesday.Economist and lawmakers pan gambling expansion plan (Daily Chronicle)