The Rams Football Company owns and operates the St. Louis Rams professional football team, which boasts three National Football League championships, its last coming in 2000. The franchise started as the Cleveland Rams in 1936 and moved to Los Angeles in 1946. The team moved to St. Louis in 1995 where it hosts home games at the Edward Jones Dome. Former minority owner Stan Kroenke is now the majority owner of the Rams after purchasing the Rosenbloom family's stake for about $750 million in 2010.

The New York State Lottery is one of the largest and oldest state lotteries in the US (only New Hampshire's lottery is older). It runs three jackpot, five daily, and about a dozen scratch-off games through retailers and online outlets. About a third of the lottery's revenue, or some $2 billion a year, goes to support New York State education. It also awards Leaders of Tomorrow scholarships to one eligible graduating senior from every public and private school in the state (provided they attend New York universities). The New York Lottery was established by the new state constitution passed in 1966.

The Washington State Public Stadium Authority is the public partner and owner of the $430 million Qwest Field and Event Center (formerly Seahawks Stadium and Exhibition Center), home of the Seattle Seahawks. The authority owns the stadium, while Seahawks owner Paul Allen's First & Goal operates the facility. The stadium opened in 2002 on the site of the former Kingdome, in the Pioneer Square neighborhood near downtown Seattle. The two facilities (the event/exhibition center opened in 1999) are close to Puget Sound and just north of Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners.

The cryptic world of online gaming makes perfect sense to this company. CryptoLogic is a leading supplier of software and systems to online casino operators and other Internet gaming companies. Its portfolio of gaming software includes more than 250 casino games, including online poker, slots, and other table games. It also provides secure payment systems that allow players to deposit funds for use in online casinos and to withdraw winnings. CryptoLogic licenses its systems through subsidiary WagerLogic to such companies as Littlewoods Limited.

Sunderland Ltd. owns and operates the Sunderland Football Association Club, which plays in the English League. Known to supporters as The Black Cats, the team was started in 1879 and plays host at the Stadium of Light. A consortium of Irish businessmen known as Drumaville, led by chairman and former Arsenal player Niall Quinn, has controlled the team since 2006.

Loto-Québec's primary mission is to assure the systematic and effective operation of games of chance in the province. Created in 1969 to implement a public lottery, the Corporation has diversified its activities over the years in order to carry out new mandates entrusted to it by the Government. Loto-Québec operates four casinos, related restaurant and hotel services, a video lottery network, including two gaming halls, along with network bingo activities. In addition, the Corporation exports multimedia products to international markets and holds a financial interest in Casino Développement Europe, the third largest casino operator in France.

Consolidated Restaurants operates about a dozen upscale and casual-dining restaurants in the Seattle area, including DC's Grill, The Metropolitan Grill, Steamer's Seafood Cafe, Quincy's Chargrilled Burgers, and Wing Dome Restaurants, and Elliott's Oyster House. Consolidated Restaurants' Royal Argosy is a fine dining dinner ship (operating in partnership with Argosy Cruises) that offers lunch and dinner cruises around Puget Sound. The late David Cohn founded Consolidated Restaurants as Barb Enterprises when he opened his first restaurant in Seattle in 1951.

AlacraStore.com is an e-commerce website offering consumers access to select reports from a host of premium databases. Searching AlacraStore.com is free. You register to purchase and download reports with a credit card. Types of business information available include company fundamentals and financials, credit research, earnings estimates, economic data, filings, market and investment research and news. Company coverage includes more than 50,000 global public companies, 20,000 private issuers of public debt and 350,000 global private companies with more than $20 million in revenue or 200 employees. Searches can be performed by keyword, company name, ticker symbol, publisher, or industry criteria. AlacraStore.com is a service of Alacra, Inc. Alacra is a leading global provider of business and financial information and solutions. A privately held company founded in 1996, Alacra is headquartered in New York City. The company provides a diverse portfolio of authoritative databases along with proprietary solutions that enable clients to quickly find, analyze, package and present mission-critical business information. Alacra customers include more than 700 leading financial institutions, professional service firms, consulting, law and accounting firms and other corporations throughout the world.

The New Mexico Lottery Authority isn't spilling the beans, but they do offer money prizes to consumers through scratcher tickets, an online raffle, an in-state lottery draw, and the multi-state, mega-jackpot lotto game, PowerBall, which accounts for about one-third of the authority's sales. More than half of its total sales go to winner payouts; roughly a quarter go to public college tuition programs and scholarships. Since 1996, the New Mexico Lottery Authority has raised more than $300 million for education in New Mexico.

Operating one of the world's largest online betting businesses, Betfair offers wagers on everything from horse and dog racing to which royal prince will get engaged first. With more than 6 million transactions per day, its products include peer-to-peer betting exchange Betfair.com and a group of poker and other traditional casino games. Betfair holds licenses to take bets in the UK, Germany, Italy, Malta, Austria, and Australia though it allows customers to bet on events worldwide. For another sort of betting, the company runs Tradefair, which applies its transactional technology to the financial derivatives market.

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