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Bookies will lose millions if McGregor knocks out Mayweather

Conor McGregor is making a lot of wise guys nervous in this gambling city. Should he somehow manage to knock out Floyd Mayweather Jr . in the early rounds Saturday night , the city's bookmakers would lose millions of dollars in the biggest single event loss in the history of sports betting . McGregor fans have flooded sports books with $100 bills backing the mixed martial arts fighter , and even a late surge of money on Mayweather might not be enough to balance the books. "I'm OK now," said William Hill oddsmaker Nick Bogdanovich . "But you might want to have a heart monitor on me when the bell rings and Conor starts throwing wild lefts ." Bogdanovich said his chain of sports books will suffer multimillion dollar losses — their worst ever — should McGregor win the fight in any fashion. If he wins early as he has promised, the losses would be even worse. The big bettors are putting their money on Mayweather, who is 49-0 as a pro. But so many McGregor fans...

Germany's Black Forest and Cologne – Rick Steves' Europe TV Show Episode

After visiting Germany's greatest Gothic Cathedral in Cologne, we'll enjoy the good life German -style at a top mineral spa and try our luck at the Versailles of casinos in Baden-Baden, then crank some old-time music and explore an open-air museum in the romantic Black Forest . Roman-Germanic Museum One of Germany's top Roman museums offers minimal English among its elegant and fascinating display of Roman artifacts : glassware, jewelry, and mosaics. All these pieces are evidence of Cologne's status as an important site of civilization long before the cathedral was ever imagined. Cologne Cathedral The Gothic Dom — Germany's most exciting church — looms immediately up from the train station in one of Germany's starkest juxtapositions of the modern and the medieval. One-hour English-only tours of the cathedral are reliably excellent (2/day Mon–Sat, 1/day Sun). For a workout of 509 steps, you can enjoy a fine city fiew from the cathedral's spire, ...

The most expensive homes in each of Oregon's counties (photos)

In November, we looked at the top residential properties on the market in each of Oregon's 36 counties. The homes ranged from historic Victorians to new construction, set in an urban settings to rural acreage, and from $24 million in Deschutes County 's Sisters to $240,000 in Gilliam County 's Arlington. Where are they now, six months later? Many are still on the market, some were pulled without being sold and some sold. There are also new top listings. Here's an update: Baker County, on the market for 756 days : 46601 Foothill Road in Haines is listed at $2.35 million. The three-story, log-style house, built in 2008 on 195 acres, has a floor-to ceiling natural stone fireplace , vaulted ceiling s in the great room and kitchen, four bedrooms, five baths and 6,000 square feet (the listing price breaks down to $392 a square foot). The listing agent is Garrett Zoller of Oregon Land and Wildlife Real Estate . Median list price for the county: $169,000, up from $156,000 ...