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Online Sports Gambling & Me (Northern Express)When I started looking into challenges teens and kids were faced with on the Internet a year and half ago, I found that many of the same trappings for kids were also the same for adults.

Sports betting data in dispute (The News Journal)It's been touted as the savior of Delaware's racinos, a quick infusion of tax dollars for a cash-strapped state. Legalized sports betting, say industry officials, can help the state fight back against the casinos opening across state lines.

A wag's take on wagering covers all the bets (The Oregonian)R ichard Hoffer gets a kick out of gambling. He'll tell you it's a mug's game between tales of his own mortgage teetering on a blackjack hand. He rubs elbows at kamikaze poker tables and reads subtle nuances in the shifting odds of a sports book.

Today's athletes can learn dignity from Robinson (USA Today)Before there was Jim Brown or Wilt Chamberlain, before there was Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan, there was a man from Georgia who obliterated some of the dehumanizing blight from our national disgrace. None of those iconic figures, not Jimmy, Wilt or Ali, was more important than Jack Roosevelt Robinson

STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS: RANGERS 2, THRASHERS 1: Good luck trying to spot puck on TV: Of all sports, hockey may be the one . (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)For those just tuning in to professional hockey, drawn by the novelty of the Thrashers' first plunge into the playoffs, television is a window onto a strange sport involving neither ball nor hash mark. It is a slightly warped and frosted window, at that. The history of trying to stuff the buffet of professional hockey into the lunch box of television is bookmarked by attempts to appeal to the .

Transcript: Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, CEO, Hong Kong Jockey Club (CNN.com)It's a typical Wednesday night at Hong Kong's Happy Valley race track.