Legal Stuff -- The Maryland Jockey Club is filing a lawsuit against TVG alleging that TVG has not been able to bring the club as much business as it wants. The club is suing ODS Technologies LP, which operates under the name TVG. TVG is a racing simulcasting network. The club maintains that TVG never informed it when it reached a three-month average of $230 million in gross wagers.
Old Stuff -- GoldenPalace.com sent a streaker, Ron Simon, to the Women's British Open golf tournament. Simon, who was wearing boxer shorts and a GoldenPalace.com tattoo, entered the course near the 15th hole. According to GoldenPlace.com, the crowd at the tournament has grown about as tired of the streakers as the rest of us have: Simon was booed, hissed and taken away by security.
Quoteworthy -- "Does the Senate Banking Committee propose stationing a policeman beside each home computer, watching to make sure no one breaks these rules? Will they now open our outgoing mail and question Americans on the real purpose of every personal check or credit card payment mailed to an offshore address?" -- from an editorial in the Aug. 3 Las Vegas Sun on the passage of S. 627, a prohibitionary Internet gambling bill, in the Senate Banking Committee last week
US News -- The Rocky Mountain News reported today that the Colorado attorney general has declared that according to both federal and Colorado law, betting on horse races on the Internet is illegal. "Our office...(thinks) that this activity is illegal Internet gambling under both federal and Colorado law," said Ken Lane, a spokesman for Attorney General Ken Salazar.