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Behind the Bets

By Chad Millman

Thursday, December 4, 2008

[Ed's Note: Chad Millman is a Senior Deputy Editor at ESPN The Magazine, and once wrote a book called The Odds. His column takes a close look at the culture surrounding the bet.] Karen Wright is so good it'll break your heart. I don't mean because she works two shifts a day as a school bus attendant for special needs kids in Tucson; or because the western-frontier twang in her voice snaps with pragmatism; or because she's still upbeat even after spending part of this year in the hospital wit ...

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