Backroom Visit With Joe the Book Probes Football Touting
An in depth look at a betting adviser known as Joe the Book as he guides callers through NFL playoff picks. The piece covers tout services across the nation, betting strategies, parlay risks, and the money flow behind bookies while noting PBS coverage of underworld links to the sport.
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Palestinian Liberation Organization
Fort Walton Beach
Joe
Football Central
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Redskins
Minnesota
Los Angeles
Raiders
Bowery Bar Restores Varnish and Relives bygone Ambience
Morgan jokes about rumors while bar manager Pentel cites real marks from 1880 and Al Capone teeth as decor. The Destin club inherits New York novelties including a hot peanuts machine and a Frankfurt hot dog cooker to recreate the era.
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Morgan
al Capone
Pentel
White Morgan
New York
Poco Bring Country Rock to Nightown in Destin
Nightown audiences in Destin welcomed Poco for a second time this month, drawing over 900 fans. The band played a straightforward set with minimal theatrics, focusing on new material from their Ghost Town album while older tunes were less prominent. Rusty Young and Paul Cotton described the songs as exploring relationship ups and downs, reflecting the group’s cross country and rock influences.
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Nightown
Destin
Poco
Gyra
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Paul Cotton
Eagles
Buffalo Springfield
Jim Messina
Loggins
Young and
Cotton
Stephen Chapman
Charlie Harrison
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