That's a question for the commissioner. But I don't think this incident hurts our chances of getting a team. Las Vegas is synonymous with legal gaming. |
That's revenue, not handle, and that's what's scary, |
The bottom line is gambling is here to stay, whether we go away or not. I think they realize that part. |
The days of true oddsmakers are gone. There aren't many guys in town like that anymore, |
The far bigger question is whether this community can get a broad base of allies inside the Congress so that we are not constantly fighting those kinds of battle where you depend upon one person at the last minute to pull out a miracle. |
The Lakers are a public team, like the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings. They get a lot more people betting on them. Even if a team like that should be at 20:1, we might go 15:1 because we know we're going to get more play on them. |
The motivation, we just have no idea. |
Their diseases get noticed later. |
There's just not a buzz about the Seahawks. |
Those numbers are staggering, and I can't believe the U.S. government can see those kind of figures. Why make criminals out of honest people? |
Tom needs to deal with this situation and get it behind him. |
We can't control it and we're not going to stop it. The problem is when there is big money involved there is always going to be people looking for an angle. What we're trying to do, like the NCAA, is make sure the game is on the up and up. |
We concluded we had higher priorities to invest in and health care came in at the bottom of the list, |
We did not lose, but this will probably be our worst Super Bowl in five years. |
We disagree with the FDA's conclusion about our drug, ... But we understand they made a scientific decision, and courts tend to defer back to the agency. ... It seemed like the chances that we would be successful in court were small. |