The following year, the game runners increased the prize to a hundred thousand dollars.
Several years later, with the state lottery offering a similar game, runners and numbers bankers openly protested in Manhattan.
The prompts the question of whether Williams will have to be a 30-plus-carry-a-game runner for the Dolphins to remain a playoff contender, and whether he will be able to withstand the physical toll.
Britain has never won an Olympic dressage medal, but after going up a gear from their European silver display in Windsor two years ago and last October's World Equestrian Games runners-up result, team and individual medals are within the grasp of Hester and company.
Then there are bonus points, which game-runner Mark "not that one" Hughes is explaining to me from his base at ISM, Bristol.
Manny is one of 60,000 guys who share an obsessive online passion for a game called "Runner" and for Lena, its hot-looking virtual heroine.
In an important game, the runner on the other team came around his end of the field and tackled his player.
A pitcher who enters the game with runners on base usually has the express mission of stranding them.
Jose Jimenez earned his 14th save in 18 chances by striking out Marquis Grissom and Adrian Beltre to end the game with runners on first and second.
Jayson Nix slapped a single through the left side of the infield to score Swisher, and for the first time in seven games, the Yankees had more than one hit in a game with runners in scoring position.
The Nets called timeout and managed to get Joe Johnson open for a game-tying runner in the lane, and he delivered, silencing the crowd and giving the Nets another chance.
