I don't lose the money, but if I am not able to get my bet in before kickoff I can't bet that game and I lose out on the action. Also, I just want to be able to log in, place my bets, and log out. I don't want to spend hours on the site just to place a handful of bets. 

What happen to the bets which do not go through ? The money which you bet is credited back to your account ?
I think you should try to contact support if not already did so  or maybe you need to check your own internet connection, if slow net is the reason for timeout.

What confuses me about Ross isn't whether he was sentenced to life or got off completely free. Ross strikes me as a pretty bright kid. He must have known that the Christian Puritan laws in this country would eventually catch up with him because he wasn't 12 years old and tried to hide his identity. He's not a martyr because he did try very hard to hide his real identity. Martyrs usually want everyone to know who they are and don't mind taking a bullet for the team. What confuses me is why this bright kid didn't leave America to run his illegal business? Why stay in the Christian Lions jaws waiting for the eventual bite? Makes no sense to me.

Lol. Charlie Shrem got a couple of years and his charges were minute in comparison. He'll be lucky to get anything under 20 years. His only hope is if they can prove wrongdoing by the feds on an appeal.

Wrong. According to his own diary he kept he was the very first seller on there selling shrooms he grew.

Not quite. I think you need to read up on the case and the charges against him. He also allegedly facilitated or helped to organize certain big drug deals. There's also the murder for hire charges and money laundering etc.

Block timestamps are set by the block miner/pool. Since Bitcoin is decentralized, there is no absolute time reference within the network (and there shouldn't be). There will always be clock variations between nodes. The blockchain is all about consensus, and the protocol has a tolerance for next block candidates timestamps: they can be slightly in the future, and even slightly in the past, compared to your local clock and the timestamps of previous blocks already in the chain.

In other words, the timestamp is not a strictly increasing sequence, while the block height (of the main chain) is.

It's terrible but that actually made me lol.

I was in the courtroom on Wednesday and Thursday.  The jurors appeared bored with the direct examination, most were fighting just to stay awake.  The exception was when Mr. DerYeghiayan started talking about what was on Mr. Ulbricht's laptop when he was arrested and what scraps of paper were found in his bedroom trash can.  The jurors appeared very interested those two times.  

During cross examination the jury was awake and interested in everything being said.  Just from my observation the defense's strategy seems to be working.  You have an agent testifying about how he was able to assume multiple different identities online and take over the moderator account "cirrus" without being detected so how can they then argue that there was only one DPR and Ulbricht was it?  Keep in mind that Karpeles wasn't just a suspect, the agent believed he had probable cause to search Mr. Karpeles' email accounts.  

The defense also poked many holes in the prosecution's case.  The agent did not know exactly when the buyers and sellers guides were posted.  The agent did not know when the escrow and commission system was started.  The agent did not know when the bitcoin tumbler was started.  The agent did not know when hacking equipment and software was first sold on Silk Road.  These questions seem to imply that the defense is going to, as they already have, readily admit that Ulbricht had a hand in starting Silk Road but it is these features that add the damaging money laundering, conspiracy, and hacking charges.

The agent also insisted that he thought DPR was male but he also admitted that he was surprised to find out that the original "cirrus" was female.  The defense also brought up how the price of bitcoin jumped up to over a thousand dollars immediately after Ulbricht's arrest.  Since Mt. Gox's trading bots may have been the reason behind that price increase expect the defense to make the case that Ulbricht was set up as the fall guy so that Karpeles could benefit from that rapid price increase.  This was not brought up in the courtroom but I wouldn't be surprised if it is brought up later.

The Bitcoin Talk forums were also brought up on Thursday.  The defense is going to say that Karpeles created the Bitcoin Talk forums.  And both the Bitcoin Talk forums and the Silk Road forums not only use the same software but the exact same version of the software even though other versions have come out.  The defense will also make the point that this software is not commonly used to make online forums.    

The reason is simple: you don't understand the law, and particularly the authority of law. For whatever reason, you have not educated yourself on this topic.

It has been repeatedly declared by the courts of this land (America) that an enacting clause is to appear on the face of every law which the people are expected to follow and obey.

Here, I will help you out; if you are in a rush then simply read the last page or the chapter entitled "Our Nonconstitutional Legal System", but do read the entire document if you can:
http://econcurrent.com/devine/files/08-Law/Authority%20of%20Law%20part%202.pdf

That was a vapoury $88 price shift due to bug in coindesk BPI ticket, i guess now fixed, currently displayed daily change = $7.53.