Gambling News by House of Odds

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.A wag's take on wagering covers all the bets (The Oregonian)

An MIT meteorologist said three years ago that he would bet money that global average temperatures would cool back down in 20 years. The quote triggered a flurry of Internet dialogues and prompted scientists to challenge each other to make bets on climate-change issues.Gambling on Global Warming Goes Mainstream (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)

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.Online Sports Gambling & Me (Northern Express)

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 .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)

Once upon a time actually just a few years ago raising nearly $9 million in the first quarter of a presidential election cycle would have brought rave reviews for a White House hopeful from the political punditocracy.Dodd Posts Solid White House Money Number But Trails Bigger Names in Dash for Cash (New York Times)

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