Following recent international media coverage of Paddy Power’s negotiations with IMG to sponsor Tiger Woods, the company confirms that its initial offer covering a five year period for a total potential sponsorship of $75 million has been rejected by IMG. Paddy Power remains keen to work with Tiger Woods, and will re-engage with IMG. An enhanced offer will be made, the details of which will remain confidential.

But the odds of Woods working with Ireland’s biggest online bookmaker remain slim to none. 

"We’re in negotiations with IMG to sponsor Tiger," Paddy Power told US magazine website ‘Golfweek’. "It’s still in the early stage of the negotiations, really, to be honest with you.

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It’s been a few years since former NBA star Dennis Rodman has been on the court, but this hasn’t stopped Only Poker from pursuing him to represent their room. And recently, their pursuit paid off as an anonymous employee of Only Poker said they’ve signed the 6′8" Rodman.

The poker website now features a picture of Rodman wearing an Only Poker cap with the logo "The Bad Boy is Back" next to him. The signing of Rodman makes sense because Only Poker is part of the Cake Poker Network, which markets heavily to US players. And many Americans remember Dennis Rodman as the eccentric power forward who played for the Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls.

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The Men’s Olympic Hockey Championship line for Canada vs. USA continued to sit at +140 for the United States at BetUS.com (see website here).   Canada was getting significant betting action as of Saturday night as a -210 favorite.

Dave Bond of BetUS.com had this to say about Sunday’s Championship game: "Sunday’s Gold Medal final is one that not many predicted but is one that is deserved. Like it or not, the Canada-US rivalry has supplanted the Canada-Russia rivalry that dominated the International Hockey world for the past 40 or so years. "Canada will battle nerves but I think that they learned enough from their 5-3 loss to the Americans during the Round Robin to improve and defeat Team USA for Gold on Home Ice. &

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Both the online sportsbooks and Las Vegas establishments are counting on NASCAR betting, and to fuel those bets they are hopeful that Danica Patrick will at some point begin to make an impact.  To date, odds have not been offered on Patrick, but that could change soon.  Patrick is expected to do for NASCAR what Tiger Wood has done for golf.

Saturday’s Sam’s Town 300 Nationwide Series race will end the first phase of Patrick’s NASCAR tutorial before she focuses on her day job as an Izod IndyCar Series driver with Andretti Autosport, with whom she spent testing Wednesday and Thursday at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama, USA Today reports.

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InterCasino is one of the Internet’s oldest online casinos and the revamp is the latest in many incarnations for the gaming room.

The re-launch will be advertised fairly extensively with television commercials, print advertising in magazines and newspapers, and a dynamic and innovating online advertising campaign.

The business is keeping the exact details of the re-launch very close to its chest but strong rumours suggest that players will be in for a treat. The new site will be ‘radically different’, according to inside sources.

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Amanda Leatherman will no longer play hostess for the televised event of the WPT tour. This news was released by Poker News Daily. According to a few rumors doing the mill, she will be joining the North American Poker Tour that is organized by PokerStars.

Although these are still rumors and are not confirmed by official sources. However several of the internet forums believe that she is definitely the host of the NAPT, also a "Representative of the tournament series" had confirmed the news about Leatherman’s departure. And said the following,

"Amanda is well-known in the industry for her work across a variety of live reporting and poker news outlets she was a great addition to the WPT Live Updates team for two seasons and now she’s moving on to her next adventure.

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Warnings by the European Commission as far back as 2006 that Finnish state gambling monopolies are in conflict with EU principles of free movement of goods and services appear to have gone unheeded by the Finns, judging by this week’s news that RAY and Veikkaus Oy have been given the green light to exclusively offer online action.

RAY (the Finnish Slot Machine Association) and state lottery Veikkaus Oy are the main state gaming monopolies, and will be allowed to launch online poker and casino games when new and exclusive licensing legislation comes into force early next (March) month.

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All Slots Casino Microgaming powered online casinos have been at the center of some of the biggest jackpots hit over the past couple of weeks. On Tuesday, the SupaJax video poker game became the latest to pay a major jackpot.

One lucky player walked away from their computer on Tuesday with an extra $50,516 in their pocket. in order to hit the main jackpot on the game, a player must get four jacks and a SupaJax card across the pay line.

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Shane Mosely believes he can beat Floyd Mayweather Jr.   Whether words translate into reality remain to be seen.

Said Mosley this week: "I have always wanted to fight Floyd and now it is finally coming true. I am already in great shape and ready to show everyone on May 1 that I am stronger, faster and better than he is. I will have no problem beating him."

Should his promise come to fruition that’s great news for gamblers who can currently bet Mosley online at $100 and potentially win $260 at SBG Global.

The May 1 bout promises to be a major draw for gamblers and boxing fans alike. <

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BetUS.com has posted its 2010 Winter Olympics odds for the speed skating events. 

"The United States hasn’t enjoyed any other event in the winner’s circle more often than speed skating. While it certainly doesn’t have the glory of ice hockey, nor the historical significance of the alpine ski events, it remains a thrilling event and one where you can stockpile your Vancouver Winter Olympics bets for solid payback," writes Tim Furious of BetUS.com. 

Some important considerations is that Americans have won a grand total of 63 medals in speed skating, leading all countries with 28 gold medal victories. N

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