BetUS Sportsbook Posts Wagering Odds For 2008 Noble Prize Winners

The Nobel Prize announcements start next week with the medicine award on Monday, followed by physics, chemistry, peace and economics. Next Thursday is a possible date for the literature prize, but the Swedish Academy by tradition only gives the date two days before...

BetUS Sportsbook has just updated their betting odds for the Nobel Prizes in light of recent world events. Here are the latest numbers..

Nobel Literature Prize 2008

To Win - Sun 11/30 6:00AM (EST)

3501         Amos Oz                     3/1

3502         Adonis                        15/4

3503         Claudio Magris         5/1

3504         Phillip Roth               7/1

3505         Joyce Carol Oates    10/1

3506         Inger Christensen    12/1

3507         Michael Ondaatje      16/1

3508        Tomas Transtromer  16/1

3509         Don Delillo                   20/1

3510         Carlos Fuentes          20/1

3511         Ko Un                          28/1

3512         Antoni Tabucchi        30/1

3513         Umberto Ecco            40/1

3514          Ian McEwan               40/1

Nobel Peace Prize 2008

To Win - Sun 11/30 6:00AM (EST)

3601       Jia Hu                     2/1

3602        Lidia Yusupova   5/1

3603        Ingrid Betancourt  15/2

3604         Morgan Tsvangirai   7/1

3605        Thich Quang Do    5/1

3606        Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga and the African Union  10/1

3607        Martti Ahtisaari      7/2

3608       The Cluster Munitions Coalition   12/1

3609        Mordechai Vanunu     16/1

3610        Wei Jingsheng            16/1

3611         Abdelaziz Bouteflika      16/1

3612         Bill Richardson        35/1

3613        Helmut Kohl          25/1

3614         Esperanto             40/1

3615        Greenpeace           50/1

3616        Bono                       65/1

3617        Nicolas Sarkozy     80/1

Each Nobel Prize includes a $1.3 million purse, a gold medal and a diploma. The awards are handed out Dec. 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobels death in 1896.

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