Intertops.com Offers New Option

A leading online gaming company, Intertops.com, is offering a unique proposition bet that it calls "The Texas Two-Step".

The prop is based on a sequence of events which has never been achieved: a football and basketball team from the same school -- in this case, University of Texas -- winning both the BCS (Bowl Championship Series) football championship, and capturing first place in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

Optimists who believe the Longhorns' teams will achieve this heretofore mission impossible can hoe-down their way to a nifty profit of $15 for every $1 wagered should the Texans end up wearing both crowns. Those from neighboring archrival State of Oklahoma and other naysayers who think the parlay is too farfetched can lay odds of 20 to win one.

The school's football team is undefeated, ranked #2 in the nation, and is on track to compete in the Title Game vs. defending National Champions, the University of Southern California, in the Rose Bowl on January 4, 2006.

Meanwhile, the Longhorns' basketball team is loaded with talent this year and picked by many experts to reach the "Final Four" once March Madness is upon us. To win the title, Texas would have to run the table in the Tournament.

This is the latest in a series of challenging and innovative wagers conjured up by the oddsmaker at Intertops.com to give sports enthusiasts and recreational bettors something more to ponder than the same old, same old.