Bets in for Pacquiao-Mayweather Bout

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LAS VEGAS -- The fight hasn't been made yet, and may not ever happen. But this city's casinos are already taking bets on who will win if Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. ever get into the ring.

Pacquiao, coming off his dominating win over Miguel Cotto, opened as an 8-5 favorite at sports books operated by Station Casinos, and it didn't take long for bettors to take a side. Several $20,000 bets were put down on Mayweather, forcing the line down to 7-5 in the early going, said Art Manteris, the casino operator's vice president of sports book operations.

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Bets in for Pacquiao-Mayweather Bout

"It's been pretty decisive in the early going," Manteris said. "I think I made the line a little too high, but that's the nature of the business."...

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