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OTB Renames NCAA Weekend

19 March 2003

ALBANY – As reported by the Times-Union: `` The Capital OTB event previously known as the NCAA March Madness/Horse Racing Weekend Extravaganza has a new name.

```It's a fan appreciation weekend extravaganza,' Capital OTB Vice President John Signor said Monday.

``But Signor, Capital's point man for the promotion, isn't acknowledging any concessions to the NCAA's concerns about mixing college sports and gambling, or even that Capital OTB actually has modified the terms being used to describe the promotional event that begins on Thursday and continues through Saturday.

``…Whatever turns out to be the correct formal designation for the event, lawyer Michael Hutter, counsel to the regional Off-Track Betting board of directors, said he is confident that the corporation is on safe legal ground with the words now being chosen to describe it…"

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