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Live Bets Direct considers some seriously nice betting offers for the 2010 Cheltenham Festival, including in-game betting and free online viewing options.

With the help of bookmakers, we determined yesterday at Live Bets Direct that Gordon Brown (together with sidekick Tony Lloyd) has utterly buggered the Labour Party’s chances in the next UK general election. But just how badly has he screwed the pooch? An analysis of numbers and odds forecasting the number of seats each of the big three parties might occupy in the next formation of the UK parliament.

Gordon Brown getting reelected Prime Minister? According to bookmaker websites, we’re more likely to see Hugh Jackman play James Bond.

Come on, even the shameless Obama apologists were a bit embarrassed by the committee naming President Barack the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize: Not only was the man sworn into office some two weeks before the deadline for nomination for the award, not only has he not yet been US president for one year, but he’s [...]

Congratulations, Alexander Rybak and Norway for taking the 2009 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest convincingly in completing the “Fairy Tale.” Kudos also go out to the surprising Yohanna of Iceland, who, we learn upon release of the full Eurovision results, not only placed second overall but also took the first semifinal over powerhouse Hadise of Turkey.

So here’s the Os Man’s strategy on this one (or, to put it another way, give me another chance please): $10 on each of the aforementioned picks – Norway (8/33), Greece (11/6), Turkey (10/3), Azerbaijan (10/3), UK (4/1), and Malta (40/3) ensures a win if Greece or Norway finishes in the top three along with one of the other four. If $35 goes down on Greece and $10 on the others, you’re guaranteed a profit if Greece comes in; another other winner on your trifecta ticket is gravy.

In Bet365’s intriguing “To win match” Eurovision proposition bets, Denmark (at 8/11) is a slight favorite over Lithuania (1/1). With second-round favorites Greece and Norway plus Hungary all deploying studboys – not to mention better songs – Lithuania’s Sasha Son is working from a disadvantage already. Combine this with Sasha’s placement directly after the Greek titan Sakis Rouvas, and things don’t look great for the Lithuania bid against Finland’s contender for the finals.

Ready for part two of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, the fantastic competition wonderfully described by one anonymous news scribe “the annual extravaganza of music and camp”? Right, then, LiveBetsDirect.com presents another round of its fearless predictions!

This is the week, music fans, proposition-bet fans, and especially music prop-bet fans! The 2009 Eurovision Song Contest goes down this week in Moscow, with semifinal contestants competing on Tuesday and Thursday to determine the final 25 for Saturday’s sing-off.

As far as the Os Man’s concerned, this one’s going to come down to Melissa Rycroft and Gilles Marini, even though Johnson is an world-class artistic gymnast and the Os Man realizes that ever since Emmitt Smith nailed the debut season should the token jock ever be counted out.