Today Show NBC's Today Show will air a segment Tuesday on Internet gambling. The piece will include a pre-taped interview with a couple from Arizona who were also featured in a recent People magazine article about online gambling. Keith Whyte, director for the National Council on Problem Gambling, will also appear live from the studio in New York. As of now, the segment is scheduled to run anytime between 7 and 10 a.m. EST.
Quoteworthy -- "Sporting regulators have more information now than they ever had before. They should use this information to maintain the purity and integrity of their sport."
- Rob Hartnett, UK managing director of betting exchange BETDAQ. Yesterday BETDAQ hosted a debate in Westminster that addressed several aspects of betting exchanges, especially its effects on the integrity of sports. When asked if sporting authorities should be allowed access to betting records of exchange customers and whether such an allowance would be a realistic step toward eliminating corruption, Hartnett replied, "It should not be a private club or association that has access to private data, but a government-appointed authority charged with maintaining and taking care of those personal details."
Antigua WTO Win -- The World Trade Organization panel handling the online gambling dispute between the United States and the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda rejected a U.S. attempt to have the issue dismissed. The United States argued that Antigua's first submission to the panel failed to establish that the islands had a case against the United States for breaching any WTO codes. The United States must now make a submission in response to Antigua's submission; then both parties will have a chance to rebut the other's arguments. The panel will publish its final ruling early in 2004.