
Roots of Sports Fanaticism in Gatsby Era
"He's quite a character around New York," Jay Gatsby tells Nick Carraway, in the opening pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, about his friend Meyer Wolfsheim, "a denizen of...
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"He's quite a character around New York," Jay Gatsby tells Nick Carraway, in the opening pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, about his friend Meyer Wolfsheim, "a denizen of...

It is a lucrative time of year for Nevada, where more than $200 million will be wagered in sports books on the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament, a pot of money that has ...

For millions of Americans, March Madness is not so much about March as it is madness. Take a former stockbroker from New York we'll call Fred (not his real name). For him, March Madness...