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July 08, 2004
Around The Sports Blogs
Skip Sauer has lots of great stuff over at The Sports Economist, including a link to a New York Times piece on the rise of "peer-to-peer" betting based on the same technology that gave us online music services like the original Napster and Kazaa: For instance, a bettor could offer to take the New York Yankees over the Boston Red Sox, then propose terms for the wager. Betbug would take a 5 percent fee from the winning amount. It would secure the money by making sure both parties had put enough money into an escrow account (in a Cyprus-based bank) when they agreed to the terms of the wager. The owners of the service say they ought to be exempt from American law (as they don't serve as the House and set the terms of the wager), but something tells me the Justice Department might feel otherwise. Blogger Vance has the lowdown on how some courses are playing games with par. Even though I never watch the WNBA, I always read Women's Hoops -- which has everything all the elements a good sports blog should. I may not agree with much of what Sara and Ted have to say on a bunch of issues, but they know their sport and their audience like nobody's business. With Barry Bonds on a pace to break the single season record for walks well before the end of the season, Doug Purdie thinks it's time to change the rule regarding the intentional walk. Yeah, and I think it's time for baseball to get serious about steroids too. Ben Domenech takes a look at MLB at the season's half-way point. David Pinto says it's time for Rafael Palmeiro to call it quits. Whether or not David is right, there's little chance of that happening. With the Orioles playing poorly, and not looking to improve markedly anytime soon, the team is going to need something to bring folks to the park. And with Palmeiro only 150 hits away from 3,000, there's little chance he'll call it quits at the end of this season. Here's a link to a Bob Cook column on sports figures and their political contributions, including a detailed list of who's made donations to all of this year's major presidential candidates. One interesting twist: Bren Simon, wife of Indiana Pacers owner Mel Simon, made the maximum contribution to four separate campaigns for President (Wes Clark, Dick Gephardt, Howard Dean and John Kerry).
Eric
06:26 AM
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