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5 billion in legal sports wagering).
About 80 percent of the action will be on which team wins, but Vegas bookmakers offer more than 200 wagering options, including Player to Score First Touchdown (Eddie George, Titans, is the 9-2 favorite); the Double Result, a bet on who's ahead at the half and at the end (you can have Tennessee at the half and St. Louis at the end at 7-2); who scores first and who wins the game (you can take the Rams both ways at 5-6).
In the first place, the rumor had all the makings of a story that was being floated by someone who had taken a large short position (in other words, who was wagering that the market was going down) and was trying to knock the market down after it opened strongly.
It will probably propose that casinos and state lotteries fund gambling-addiction research and that casinos take much stronger measures to bar problem gamblers from wagering.
That means that even though there's no demand for money in Japan , which in turn means that it's hard to see how economic growth is going to be sustained there, investors are wagering that the Japanese economy is coming back.