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The precursor to the Academy Awards movie awards, the Golden Globe Awards, go off on January 17th. Naturally, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association event represents one of the year’s biggest occasions for proposition betting. Below follow the odds on nominees winning in certain categories as provided by Bet 365 online bookmakers, along with gut reactions [...]

Which cities will be getting a White Christmas in 2009? Berlin? Bonn? Ottawa? Vienna? Bet365 allows you to bet on the weather with the bookmakers’ “Snow on Christmas” proposition bet.

What will be the upshot of the beatdown handed the philandering Tiger Woods by his wife Erin Nordegren and the former’s alleged affair with Rachel Uchitel? We’ve got the odds right here…

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 [...]

In the United Kingdom, the unemployment rate is going up, up, up, up, up! By how much will the UK dole role shatter the 3 million mark? Paddy Power’s got your proposition bet so that you may profit from job loss — even yours.

Paddy Power now has a novelty bet available entitled “The Greatest Irish Sportsperson Ever” which asks punters to pick he/she who will top TV station RTÉ One’s popular-opinion poll on the subject. But come on, is this one even close…?

So, buddy, who do you like for next Pope? Paddy Power reckons Francis Arinze of Nigeria is top dog to succeed Benedict XVI, but Live Bets Direct has our money on Cardinals Angelo Scola and Angelo Bagnasco…

The only thing better than checking out dozens of skimpily-clad world-class beauties? Betting on ‘em! Coming this weekend: Miss Universe 2009! Herein, Live Bets Direct’s take and recommendations.

So here’s a question. Where the hell is the Wonder Woman live-action movie? Seriously, isn’t this is no-brainer? Isn’t Wonder Woman a household name of a sort that few comic book heroes outside of Superman, Batman and Spiderman have ever been before their on-screen adaptations? And how could two hours devoted to the screen time of one hot scantily-clad female who kicks ass in the streets?

So which of these is more inevitable: The huge Hollywood biopic on Michael Jackson probably already the subject of dozens of pre-pre-pre-production meetings or Paddy Power bookmakers offering a cheeky novelty bet on the subject?