Ted Parker could never resist a bet.

For years he just said it was a hobby, that he just did it for the cheap booze and love of poker. But after five years, a ruined marriage and a m...

I was in early, post 21st Century heaven as a 21-year-old college junior about to live on her own . A professor offered me a quaint, slightly delapidated studio in his backyard, facing a tiny cr...