Bit from Asia -- Hong Kong's government legalized soccer betting Tuesday. The decision comes half a year after the Chinese SAR outlawed Internet gambling. Control of the new form of betting is being handed to the Hong Kong Jockey Club, which controls all forms of legalized betting in Hong Kong. Illegal soccer betting is estimated to be a US $10.26 billion per year industry.
Oddities -- With Thanksgiving just around the corner, BetWWTS.com is predictably taking wagers on the Thanksgiving Invitational, an event put on by the International Federation of Competitive Eating. The competitors will be the champions from the group's 2002 Harvest Series, and each person will be presented with multiple servings of Thanksgiving dinner. Each plate will hold 1.5 pounds of food, including turkey, stuffing, green beans and cranberry sauce, and whoever eats the most plates worth of food in 12 minutes wins. "BetWWTS.com is pleased to be the official sports book of the inaugural Thanksgiving Invitational, an event that will expose the true excess of the holiday," said Buck Churchill, chief bet manager.