Trouble follows this guy.HOUSTON -- New York Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez suffered a torn ligament in his right thumb while allegedly striking the grandfather of his children last week at Citi Field, a team official said, and he is done for the season.

Rodriguez, who pitched Saturday with discomfort in his return from a two-day team suspension, was examined Monday at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan. Team doctors recommended surgery, but a date for the procedure has yet to be scheduled.

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You know the type of thing, being thrown into the air while sitting in a mobile toilet or slapping someone with a giant hand while they least expect it. (Come to think of it who would expect that?) The movie Jackass 3D will be released this autumn.

In keeping with the spirit of Jackass and its many imitators, one of Britain's richest men is dishing out thousands of pounds to people brave enough to put their safety on the...

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigeria's ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua, who gave amnesty to armed militants in the troubled oil-rich Niger Delta region, died Wednesday, the country's information minister said. He was 58.
Yar'Adua had not been seen in public since November, when he went to Saudi Arabia for treatment of an inflammation of tissue around his heart. He was diagnosed with that condition, acute pericarditis, last fall after he complained of chest pain.
He returned to Nigeria in February but had remained out of sight.
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan has served as the country's acting leader since Yar'Adua fell ill.
Yar'Adua took office in...

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A Utah judge signed a death warrant Friday allowing the state to execute Ronnie Lee Gardner using a five-man firing squad, a spokeswoman for the Utah's state court system told CNN.

Before signing the death warrant, Third District Judge Robin Reese asked Gardner if he wanted to be executed by the method he had chosen previously, spokeswoman Nancy Volmer said.

"I would like the firing squad, please," Gardner replied.

It would be the state's first use of the firing squad since 1996, when John Albert Taylor was executed for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. Taylor said he chose the method...

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March 31 (Bloomberg) -- Here?s a memoir about blackjack card counting by an author who says that ?math has never been a strong suit? and ?I didn?t know how to write a book.?

The math, it turns out, isn?t hard, as Josh Axelrad reveals in ?Repeat Until Rich: A Professional Card Counter?s Chronicle of the Blackjack Wars.? And the writing?s not at all bad.

In 1999 at age 23, Axelrad finds himself adrift in an ill- defined job at Swiss Bank Corp. By chance he meets Garry Knowles, who played with the MIT blackjack team and now offers the...

DALLAS -- One of the first things many people noticed about Caron Butler after his arrival to the Dallas Mavericks is that the guard likes to chew straws during games.
The NBA obviously took notice as well.

NBA executive vice president Stu Jackson phoned Butler on Tuesday and told him to leave his straws at home. Butler did not play against the Los Angeles Lakers due to a reaction to medication, so he was unavailable for comment.

But the Mavs confirmed that the league is serious about outlawing straw chewing.


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Only one month after the decision was made by MasterCard to crack down on online casino players using their MasterCard credit cards to fund their accounts, now VISA is following in the same direction. While using credit cards was usually a sure way to get money into a player account at an online casino, or poker room for that matter, it wasn?t the easiest way to withdraw funds. However, it?s not going to be that easy any more to use your VISA to put cash into your account.

VISA has reported that they will begin preventing transactions labeled ?online gambling? or...

FBI agents have turned up in Washington state interviewing online gambling patrons of Full Tilt, one of the largest Internet poker sites. With the looming implementation of the UIGEA, the US government may be preparing the first use of the ban in a prosecution of an online gambling operator.

Reports on the popular twoplustwo poker forum say that small-time players have received unannounced visits from FBI agents inquiring as to their transactions with Full Tilt. The agents are saying that they are not looking to prosecute the players, but rather to gather information on Full Tilt, indicating the building of a...

As the dreaded date of April 15 approaches (of course many file before), sports bettors should be knowledgeable of reporting rules regarding gambling gains or losses.

All forms of revenue from gambling are taxable by the Internal Revenue Service.

The threshold of what you have to report to Uncle Sam depends on what type of gaming you have earned money in.

At the poker table, a tournament payout of $5,000 or more is going to draw the attention of the IRS. In the horse racing and lottery realm of gambling, earnings of $600 or more must be reported if they are 300 times...