Gambling News by House of Odds

With a string of harsh sanctions that has included the likely forfeiture of a first-round draft pick for the Patriots, Commissione Roger Goodell has lowered the boom on N.F.L. rules-breakers.Goodell Is Keeping the N.F.L. Inbounds (New York Times)

If you're a faithful reader (aren't all of you?) then you recall I wrote a column about officiating a few weeks ago when the NBA gambling broke. At the time, I said I didn't criticize officials for judgment unless it was a situation where you could prove what happened.It could happen to us, not just Chiefland (Williston Pioneer Sun News)

KAUKAUNA Jim Schmidt is a paper mill worker and past president of the Kaukauna Lions Club who thinks he would like to run for office some day.Kaukauna man seeks pardon for gambling (The Oshkosh Northwestern)

By AMAN BATHEJA Gambling Web sites like to attract customers, not controversy. But the Costa Rica-based 5Dimes.com got both last month when it began taking bets on this week's football game between Southlake Carroll and Miami Northwestern. It wasn't the first high school game on which the site had taken bets, but it inspired national outrage (on the bright side for Carroll fans, the Dragons .Online gambling thrives despite law (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

San Diego -- Once, retailers joke, action sports fashion came in black, black and black.Sports slams into fashion at expo (The Springfield News-Leader)

Times Youth Correspondents discuss: From Michael Vick and dogfighting, to an NBA referee and gambling, the sports world was full of scandal this summer. In your opinion, what was the biggest sports scandal of the summer, and why?Discussion Board (Carroll County Online)