NCAA officials try to find ways to curb the rampant proliferation of wagering on an event that is surpassed only by the Super Bowl in the minds and pocketbooks of avid sports bettors.

Finally, Americans will be able to place bets through their TVs by using their remotes.

Betfair, a British online sports-betting company, is drawing millions of bets daily. That has traditional bookmakers crying foul.

The Mail on Sunday today exposes the extraordinary campaign mounted by Britain's biggest bookmaker to ensure that its interests were protected in the controversial Gambling Bill.

Europe's new market boom is in online gambling companies.

Beckam, Ronaldo, Zidane and Figo have initiated legal actions to defend their image and name, which are used without any type of authorisation by online betting companies.

Investors looking to get into Internet gaming may soon be able to place their bets on Europe's PartyGaming. Other sites could follow.

Would it prove to be more than another dot-com mirage?

While the Government wants large casinos, a small machine has spawned a betting revolution by stealth in Britain.

Few activities have stayed as popular, and yet changed as radically, as poker in the last 40 years.

Local bookies are still around and then there is internet gambling.

Chinese gamblers spend $70-billion at casinos and horse races outside China every year.

Nearly $180 million is wagered every 24 hours at virtual poker tables.

Betfair's dominant position in the betting exchange market makes them something of a monopoly.

Queensland's $150 million bookmaking industry is facing an unprecedented shake-up in the wake of the State Government racing inquiry.

A series of confidential papers shown to us detail the massive lobbying campaign planned last year by Ladbrokes in a deliberate attempt to 'delay' the Gambling Bill now going through Parliament and to thwart betting exchanges.

Sportsbooks around the state have won a record $15.4 million, with a 24% increase from the previous year.

The founder of Betfair has made his millions by revolutionising an industry - but his journey to the top was dogged by tragedy and adversity.

A card game has undergone a transformation, aided by the rapid rise of online gambling.

A late touchdown pass by quarterback Donovan McNabb did not win the Super Bowl for the Philadelphia Eagles. It did produce a super Sunday for the sports books, however.