Biggest annual U.S. sporting events

I work Labour Day in our own version of the Labour Day Classic.

 

Really? How old are you? I'm amazed by how many guys from college age to at least 30, though even older, that I know who gamble on a regular basis through a bookie.

I'd argue that gambling is by far most prevalent with the NFL.

As for most popular, I'm not sure of the order, but I don't think the BCS title game is considered that huge, though maybe that's just in my part of the country where college football isn't huge.

 

$100 million a year is bet legally on the Super Bowl.

More than $7 billion dollars a year is bet illegally on the Super Bowl.

Sports betting - most of it illegal - totals somewhere around $200 billion a year in the US.

 

Yes, so I hear.
And one gets those numbers from where, precisely?

 

http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/97/03/Chapt1.html

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/02/super_bowl_bett.html#more

 

And why do you think a team must have an accurate injury report on Wednesday? So the other team can plan for them?

Nope.

It's for an accurate spread.

 

Oh, so we're quoting Danny Freaking Sheridan now?
Well, then.
I stand corrected.

 

The NBA finals don't make the list even if you want the top 10.

 

Huh?

 

Of the above, which are the best to cover from a facilities standpoint? I know the Masters is great (overnight wiring of the press center with Ethernet last year after wireless trouble on the first day earned plaudits) and the Indy 500 has improved, but what of the rest?

 

I've covered few of the biggies in the wireless age. The Indy 500 is great, anything at IMS is. I had no troubles when I covered the Super Bowl in Miami either.

Of course, the NCAA is well-renowned for their wireless gouging.

I haven't covered a Kentucky Derby since they rebuilt the press box. The old one was technologically-challenged.