TV best bets (The Record)
NEW YORK - Major League Baseball's umpires union is telling its members to ask their friends and neighbours not to cooperate with background checks being conducted by the sport.MLB umps resist background checks (Canada.com)
Michael Jordan. Pete Rose. Charles Barkley. John Daly. These men are all not just some of the best athletes in their fields, but they are men who have come forward with admissions of their penchant for gambling.The Ugly Side of Sports Gambling (Old Gold and Black)
There's a moment in the 1988 baseball movie "Bull Durham" where the wise old sage catcher tells a talented young pitcher not to bother trying to be creative, clever and smart.Steve Beshear (The Kentucky Post)
Bruce Bukiet is a math professor, not a bookie. But he's always figuring the odds. For seven years he has been using mathematical models to chart baseball's postseason.Professor uses baseball to sell you on math (The Record)
THE NATURAL -- Robert Redford stars in this 1984 drama as a baseball player whose first stab at the big leagues is ended by his encounter with a beautiful woman (Barbara Hershey).TV best bets (The Record)
NEW YORK - Umpires called out Major League Baseball for talking with their neighbors. In the wake of the NBA's gambling scandal involving referee Tim Donaghy, the commissioner's office has stepped up monitoring of its umps.MLB: MLB: Umps: Monitoring out of line (The Salt Lake Tribune)
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