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ESPN's Mike and Mike calling the action. Team boss Jon Bon Jovi in the owner's box. Overhead speakers pumping Fans catching and keeping football that land in the stands. It's a busy night for the Arena Football League in Philadelphia, an evening that satisfied fan Lea Fosco calls "adorable." Well, "adorable" probably isn't the word league commissioner David Baker would prefer, but he'll take it. .Arena football: Is it America's fifth major sport? (USA Today)

BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- China has forced more than 100 casinos operating just over its borders to shut down in the last two years as part of an intensified crackdown on gambling, a state newspaper said on Tuesday.China cracks down on casinos (CNN.com)

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)

> Photos: Art Schlichter at Centerville United Methodist ChurchSchlichter speaks at Centerville church about gambling, life (Dayton Daily News)

Those 28 were in Myanmar, Vietnam and Russia, it said. "We expect the number will continue to drop this year," it quoted Zhang Jun, from the ministrys anti-gambling team, as saying, attributing the fall to better cooperation with neighbouring countries. He did not elaborate.China wins big in crackdown on border casinos (Tiscali)