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To: Rex Dwyer who wrote (2)	12/23/1998 5:27:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 7

Technically, office pools are illegal, but... Of course, just because you've tossed $10 into an office pool doesn't mean you'll hear the police knock on your door late Sunday night. "There is essentially no enforcement when it comes to illegal office pool gambling," says Gary Olshan, chief analyst at The Gold Sheet, a Los Angeles handicapping newsletter aimed at sophisticated gamblers. In fact, pools are so pervasive - even in such places as the hallowed offices of the U.S. Congress - that one legislator, Rep. Douglas Stoddart, R-Mass., filed a bill in 1994 to make them legal, as long as there's no vig. "The law should allow pools where there is no profit for the organizer," he told the Boston Globe last year. pathfinder.com If the "authorities" come a calling it would: 1) Give excellent free publicity to SI 2) Be a landmark trial I call that a win-win situation! But if you're still worried, just have your dog enter for you (gg). - Jeff