As Euro 2008 steams towards its June 30 final, football fans are betting more than $1 million a day at Cambo-Six outlets, but calls are mounting for better regulation of gambling amid concerns that heavy losses will lead to a spike in crime.

Ideally, a week off would have provided a complete respite from football for the Calgary Stampeders. Besides keeping their carcasses off the field, the players could have kept their thoughts miles away from all things pigskin.

Cashed-up premiership team Hawthorn has paid itself almost $2 million in revenue from its poker machine club - and then claimed it as a community benefit.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The NFL has always had a strained relationship with this gambling city, though the case could be made that if it weren’t for Vegas point spreads the league would have never become the giant it is today.

A week previous, Kenny White had been addressing a group of NCAA officials on their home turf in Indianapolis in the role of a special guest from Las Vegas.