<a href="http://www.kdwn.com/programming.html"> Listen to it live or archived</a>. 9pm PST friday. Selections announced and anaylsis given with question and answer period.
I'll have to hear it on the radio as I'll be on Fremont street then for the bike week crowd and free concert by Blue Oyster Cult (payed for by Harley-Davidson). Ain't Las Vegas fun! Now if I can only avoid going broke...
piece on Stardust Contest By Lynda Collins
Bryan Leonard is one of 16 players invited to participate in the 9th Annual
Stardust Invitational that will take place for 16 weeks beginning Sept. 12.
In a switch from previous years when professional handicappers and bookmakers
blended with "celebrities" such as Mayor Oscar Goodman and former UNLV Coach
Jerry Tarkanian to comprise the field, this year's handpicked contestants all
have ties to sports gaming.
The 16 players are paired off into eight opening-round handicapping
showdowns. Winners move on, losers fall out. The champion who survives through four
rounds will collect a winner-take-all $10,000 top prize.
Each week the two featured guests will make seven selections against the
Friday night Stardust line, including a best bet than can be used as a tiebreaker.
Picks are made public before live Friday night crowds in the Stardust Race
and Sports Book and on a radio show that is aired in nine Western States.
Scucci and contest host John Kelly are billing Lem Banker as their big catch
of the season.
"I've called Lem about six straight years asking him to be part of the
contest," Kelly said Monday morning on the Stardust Line radio show when the contest
roster was revealed. "Scooch calls him once and it's a done deal."
Defending champion and two-time contest winner Papa Joe Chevalier, a national
radio personality, will open contest action against well-known Vegas
handicapper/bettor Dave Malinksy, who now spends much of his time in Central and South
America and the Caribbean Islands.
Other invitees include Chuck Esposito, race and sports director for Caesars
Entertainment, Inc.; blackjack whiz and football fanatic Stanford Wong;
handicapper Dave Cokin of National Sports Service; handicapper Andy Iskoe of Logical
Approach; independent 'capper Kevin O'Neill; Ted Sevransky, a returnee who
co-hosts the Stardust Line; Florida handicapper Lee Sterling; Dave Stratton,
managing editor of Gaming Today; sports gaming radio talk show host Ron Frazier,
who also is a regular Stardust Line commentator; former bookmaker Jimmy
Vacarro, once the head of Mirage Resorts' sports gaming operations; and two-time
titlist Ken White, a handicapper and oddsmaker who supplies the 'Dust with numbers.
Stardust picks will appear on the PST site on Saturday mornings.
By Lynda Collins
I'll have to hear it on the radio as I'll be on Fremont street then for the bike week crowd and free concert by Blue Oyster Cult (payed for by Harley-Davidson). Ain't Las Vegas fun! Now if I can only avoid going broke...
piece on Stardust Contest By Lynda Collins
Bryan Leonard is one of 16 players invited to participate in the 9th Annual
Stardust Invitational that will take place for 16 weeks beginning Sept. 12.
In a switch from previous years when professional handicappers and bookmakers
blended with "celebrities" such as Mayor Oscar Goodman and former UNLV Coach
Jerry Tarkanian to comprise the field, this year's handpicked contestants all
have ties to sports gaming.
The 16 players are paired off into eight opening-round handicapping
showdowns. Winners move on, losers fall out. The champion who survives through four
rounds will collect a winner-take-all $10,000 top prize.
Each week the two featured guests will make seven selections against the
Friday night Stardust line, including a best bet than can be used as a tiebreaker.
Picks are made public before live Friday night crowds in the Stardust Race
and Sports Book and on a radio show that is aired in nine Western States.
Scucci and contest host John Kelly are billing Lem Banker as their big catch
of the season.
"I've called Lem about six straight years asking him to be part of the
contest," Kelly said Monday morning on the Stardust Line radio show when the contest
roster was revealed. "Scooch calls him once and it's a done deal."
Defending champion and two-time contest winner Papa Joe Chevalier, a national
radio personality, will open contest action against well-known Vegas
handicapper/bettor Dave Malinksy, who now spends much of his time in Central and South
America and the Caribbean Islands.
Other invitees include Chuck Esposito, race and sports director for Caesars
Entertainment, Inc.; blackjack whiz and football fanatic Stanford Wong;
handicapper Dave Cokin of National Sports Service; handicapper Andy Iskoe of Logical
Approach; independent 'capper Kevin O'Neill; Ted Sevransky, a returnee who
co-hosts the Stardust Line; Florida handicapper Lee Sterling; Dave Stratton,
managing editor of Gaming Today; sports gaming radio talk show host Ron Frazier,
who also is a regular Stardust Line commentator; former bookmaker Jimmy
Vacarro, once the head of Mirage Resorts' sports gaming operations; and two-time
titlist Ken White, a handicapper and oddsmaker who supplies the 'Dust with numbers.
Stardust picks will appear on the PST site on Saturday mornings.
By Lynda Collins
