Odds favor Internet gambling
By Tim Lemke
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
March 19, 2006

In thousands of houses across the United States at this very moment thousands of people are wagering thousands of dollars on NCAA tournament basketball games without leaving their bedrooms.

Overseas, thousands of operators of thousands of Web sites are collecting a portion of each bet and adding it to the millions of dollars they have pulled in just since breakfast.

This is the phenomenon of Internet gambling, a $15 billion industry driven by the popularity of sports and the growing interest in poker. The industry is the subject of tense debate between companies looking to cash in on the American marketplace and lawmakers looking to ban online gambling. The rest