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November 20, 2017

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The Offshore Game of Online Sports Betting

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Hard by the High Line, in a vintage industrial building with a Romanesque arch, lights flash on powerful computers in row after row of metal cabinets and cages. Power lines connect the equipment to diesel generators on the roof. Cables route data through the building to conduits beneath New York City streets. This is one small corner of the Internet, unremarkable except for the confluence of two facts: Sports betting is largely illegal in the United States. And this Manhattan building, on 10th Avenue in Chelsea, is one node in a vast network used by a major offshore sports book â€” ever faster, ever more sophisticated and harder to track or regulate. The network is traversed by United States customers of pinnaclesports.com, a hugely successful Internet sports-gambling company with headquarters until recently in a shopworn hotel in the tiny Caribbean island nation of CuraÃ§ao. The unlikely chief of Pinnacle Sports is a granddaughter of a former North Dakota governor who famou...

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Great Britain's men and women won gold in their team pursuit finals at the European Track Championships. Laura Trott, Joanna Rowsell Shand, Katie Archibald and Elinor Barker rode to an emphatic victory over Russia in a time of four minutes 17.010 seconds. GB's male quartet of Sir Bradley Wiggins, Owain Doull, Andy Tennant and Jon Dibben sealed a memorable double by beating hosts Switzerland. They clocked a time of three minutes 55.243 secs at the Velodrome Suisse. Britain have won team pursuit gold in every European Championships they have entered since 2010. The event in Grenchen marks Wiggins's first 2016 Olympics qualifying outing since he decided to return to the track from road racing. Points earned will help towards securing places at next summer's Olympic Games in Brazil.