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Article: LAS VEGAS' ODDS FELLOW
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 15, 1988
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LAS VEGAS - "Sports, Roxy."
It was halftime of last Saturday's Minnesota Vikings-San
Francisco 49ers football game, and "Roxy" Roxborough was working
the phones. Or was it the other way around? From all over Las Vegas
the calls were coming in, five lines' worth, from eager bookmakers
in hot pursuit of a cold fact: Roxborough's betting line on the
second half of the game.
"Niners, 10 and 23 1/2 with no parlays," the 36-year-old
oddsmaker would say quickly, then punch another button. As he
worked, he watched a 13-inch, black-and-white television set that
was stationed atop a pile of cardboard boxes on the other side of
his cluttered, one-room office.
But the National Football League ...