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The most famous furniture salesman in America is known for his outrageous multimillion-dollar wagers on sporting events. Now Jim McIngvale is launching ...

With the NFL kicking off this week, Mack is also ready for football season, but he is waiting for a good promotion before he makes a big wager. I am a staff writer on the vices beat, covering cannabis, gambling and more. But his bets—including a [$9.5 million wager on the Cincinnati Bengals](https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyakowicz/2022/02/11/mattress-mack-on-why-he-bet-a-record-95-million-on-the-bengals-to-win-super-bowl-lvi/?sh=48c3ccd916f6) to beat the Los Angeles Rams in [Super Bowl LVI](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brettknight/2022/02/13/stan-kroenke-just-won-a-super-bowl-6-years-after-moving-the-rams-to-la-heres-the-billionaires-story/?sh=1691a63e65de) in February—are hedges against his big sales promotions. In times when trust in the media has waned and become hyper-partisan, Mack thinks his site could help bring people together. Over the last 15 years, McIngvale’s biggest gamble was on the Houston Astros to win the 2019 World Series. “But we will probably do a lot of stuff on big events, like the World Cup and that sort of thing.” “We will walk before we run,” he says. In 2019, Gallery generated $164 million in revenue, and by the end of 2021, sales grew by about 40% to more than $230 million. [now betting](https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyakowicz/2022/04/06/mattress-mack-jim-mcingvale-sports-bets-march-madness-super-bowl/?sh=43f759585264) on the media business. Mack isn’t selling ads yet, but he says if the site publishes great content and gets enough traffic, he will. [headline-grabbing wagers](https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyakowicz/2022/02/11/mattress-mack-on-why-he-bet-a-record-95-million-on-the-bengals-to-win-super-bowl-lvi/?sh=294933bb16f6) for decades. “I’m a promoter,” McIngvale says.

Fifteen passengers were injured when a government bus collided with a mini bus of a private transport service near Jaja Bypass Chowk, about 34 kilome.

(PTI) Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia held a review meeting with the officials of the Health Department and directed them to focus on working towards ensuring the timely benefit of this government scheme to the maximum number of people across the national capital. A Delhi court has discharged five accused in a case related to the 2020 northeast Delhi riots in which they were accused of having vandalised a motorcycle showroom and set two-wheelers on fire. The accident took place in the afternoon when the bus was travelling to Jalandhar from Pathankot, they said. The Supreme Court on Friday said it will hear after three weeks the pleas challenging the remission of sentence and release of 11 convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and murder of her seven family members during the Gujarat riots. The prime suspect in the murder of two 17-year-old boys from Kolkata was arrested in West Bengal's Howrah district on Friday morning, police said.