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Hedging the bet

By Darren Rovell
ESPN.com

Monday, March 14, 2005

Copy machines and printers are working overtime this week in offices across the country. But instead of the usual memos, legal briefs and company clippings, thousands and thousands of NCAA Tournament bracket sheets will be churned out. Martha Stewart and Michael Jackson, for the time being, will be spared at the water cooler. Though office pools are illegal in about half of the U.S. states, millions of people will wager anywhere from $1 to thousands of dollars, or more, on the outcome of NCAA T ...

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