Prince William & Kate Middleton: Betting on a Royal Wedding

After nine years of dating, Prince William of Britain and fiancée Kate Middleton announced in mid-November that they’d finally be making it official with a royal wedding; just seven days passed before the announcement of an exact date and venue for the ceremony. The date has been set for next April 29 and will take [...]

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Sanity and order reign on Dancing With The Stars, Jennifer Grey wins

Justice, though predictable, was serving on Dancing with the Stars last night. Congratulations therefore go out to Jennifer Grey, her partner and now-threepeat champion dancer Derek Hough, and all those punters who backed the Dirty Dancer.
Surely no one who backed Grey financially will complain about a small win – a W’s a W, as they [...]

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Dancing with the Stars finale: Favorite Jennifer Grey wows all; popular vote results to come

The finale dances were done last night on American TV and, since LiveBetsDirect can’t possibly top the lightning-quick review of the penultimate episode of “Dancing with the Stars” appearing in the first paragraph in the Kansas City Star’s take, LBD’ll just go straight to the quote machine:
“The first night of the two-night finale of ‘Dancing [...]

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Dancing with the Stars finale: Will Election 2000 pale in comparison?

More than one observer decried massive voting improprieties in Election 2000 – many, too, though these mainly went ignored, raised similar cries in 2004 – but could Republican dirty ballot-stuffing tricks have extended into “Dancing with the Stars”?
Tonight marks the close to the top-rated American show’s 11th season – and by far its most controversial [...]

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Betting on The Apprentice: Figure guys to Trump gals

LiveBetsDirect recently checked out the ESPN “30 for 30” Documentary on the old United States Football League (or, as we so fondly referred to it back in the 1980s, the USFL). We children of the 80s of course remember the USFL ultimately as being dominated by and eventually inadvertently (?) snookered by one Donald Trump.

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Braveheart, big mouth, tiny brain: Mel Gibson rants again

Faithful Live Bets Direct readers may recall those halcyon days of April 2009 when tabloid headlines where bogged down with pictures of Mel Gibson and Russian pianist Oksana Grigorieva, followed by very public announcement of separation between Mad Max and his wife of 28 years, Robyn Denise Moore.
This, of course, harkened back to an April [...]

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Tiger Woods novelty bets: Scandal du jour offers nice lines

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…

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Who rides Michael Jackson’s coattails to number one first?

Who will next record a Michael Jackson remake song that hits No. 1 on the UK BBC Radio 1 chart? Paddy Power’s got Janet Jackson and/or the Jackson 5 as odds-on favorites, but Live Bets Direct kinda like the possibilities inherent in Usher, especially at 10/1…

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Post-Miss USA, Carrie Prejean futures from BetUS

Carrie Prejean has been stripped of her Miss California title; couldn’t have happened to a nicer person, eh? Cleverly enough, BetUS bookmakers was able to capitalize on the next obvious question about The Dethroned One – i.e. What’s next? – with a slew of “Celebrity Props: Carrie Prejean” bets for your gambling perusal.

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Holy inevitably, Batman! Betting the next Dark Knight villain

Are you ready to talk some “The Lead Villain in the Next Dark Knight movie” betting? As for this writer, two and half decades’ worth of comic book reading and a good seven years in the film review biz have all led to this moment…

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