Bounty out for poker star
After winning last year’s World Series of Poker main event and $7.5 million, Australian Joseph Hachem says he’s now treated like a rock star – but he has a price on his head. “The reality is, the chances (of) me winning again are astronomical,” Hachem told The Associated Press. The mother of all poker tournaments, the World Series of Poker, kicked off the first of 45 events Sunday at the Rio casino-hotel in Las Vegas , as Hachem faced 26 other elite players for a two-day, $2 million prize pool Tournament of Champions. Thousands of poker players from around the world are expected to come to Las Vegas over the next two months before the final table in the $10,000 buy-in main event plays down for the grand prize Aug. 10.
DWI on the ninth hole
Only you can keep your friends from drinking and driving … a golf cart. A Minnesota man has been charged with criminal vehicular operation and driving while impaired, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported, after he allegedly ran over his playing partner with a cart during a booze-fueled round of golf in Cottage Grove, Minn. The man who was hit by the cart was cut and bruised and suffered an injured eye.
Definition of boring
“Please spare me the stifled yawns and typical American gripes about how boring the sport can be. We’re a nation that venerates 1-0 baseball games, watches cars make endless left-hand turns and televises people playing poker and dominoes.”
Bryant Gumbel, on the latest edition of HBO’s “Real Sports,” saying more people in this country should give soccer a chance
Madden challenge: Fixing up bus with TV
We have all heard of musical chairs, but musical buses? John Madden, who travels by motor coach, got a new one shortly after he went from Fox to ABC, and now has another new one as he heads into his first season at NBC. It features a master bedroom/bathroom with a steam shower, full kitchen with granite flooring and countertops, high-definition plasma TV screens and a Trac-
Vision mobile satellite TV antenna. “We used to have to stop to set the satellite antenna to watch TV,” Madden said. “Now the TV is on all the time.”
