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John L. Smith The law has pursued sports bettor Billy Walters for more than 25 years. Is the gambler's uncanny luck about to run out? IN HIS DARK SLACKS and a red golf shirt, Billy Walters looked like he might have just finished a round at his flashy Bali Hai course on the south Strip. But he wasn’t strolling toward the clubhouse on May 19. He was seated, under arrest, amid a row of less impeccably dressed defendants, all waiting their turn to hear their charges read in U.S. Magistrate Judge George Foley Jr.’s packed courtroom. The confidence and color drained from his face, his white hai...

Another Vegas Light Goes Out But The Laughter Lives On by Padraig Parkinson |  Published: Jan 08, '21 A few days ago, I called my friend John Sheffield, better known as Vegas legend Scof. He told me he’d had an operation due to cancer. I panicked and asked if he was in hospital. When he asked if I had any more fucking stupid questions, I thought he’d probably be fine. Sadly, I was wrong and he left us a few days later. Scof had been battling cancer and a dodgy heart for a decade without cooperating too much with the medical profession. One doctor told him that if he quit smoking, he cou...