Tag Archives: rugby
If you are into rugby betting…
Mike Robb has the info.
What was the music played at the 2007 World Cup of Rugby?
If you watched TV during the 2007 Rugby World Cup (hosted by France and won by South Africa), you surely noticed a symphonic music played at the beginning and at the end of each game.
Composer: Jean-Michel Jarre (French);
He is into electronic music, mainly. [Disclosure: I'm one of his fanboys. ]
Title: “Industrial Revolution Part [...]
They perform their haka to intimidate you? Look at them straight in the eyes and stand up to them.
International Herald Tribune:
Standing up to All Blacks haka was France’s platform for World Cup upset
CARDIFF, Wales: Standing eyeball to eyeball with the All Blacks during the haka set the tone for France’s memorable upset Rugby World Cup victory. France overturned a 13-0 deficit to beat New Zealand 20-18 Saturday and book a place in the [...]
BetFair, Sim Exchange = Vertical Prediction Exchanges, First
The Sim Exchange’s founder (Brian Shiau):
Chris [Masse] speculated on whether the simExchange will become a more generalist exchange, like BetFair, which began as a horseracing market before transforming into a general prediction market.
The simExchange is indeed exploring the possibility of expanding beyond traditional console and PC games, such as the immediately close tangent of downloaded [...]
If the British legal betting companies offer bets on the sport, it is because there is demand for bets on the sport —and if that demand were not offered in a regulated environment, it would be filled in an unregulated one (like what we see with TradeSports-InTrade and MatchBook in the US market).
Mark Davies of BetFair (PDF file):
International Leaders in Sport conference, Auckland, New Zealand. April 3-4th 2008.
Keynote speech, April 4th. Mark Davies, Betfair.
“New Understandings in Sports Betting”
Minister, ladies and gentlemen… Thank you very much for your kind invitation to speak to you today. I have once before been asked by sport to address it, as a [...]