Numbers

By Harriet Barovick, Tam Gray, Lina Lofaro, David Spitz, Flora Tartakovsky and Chris Taylor

2.5 million Estimated number of people betting on the NCAA tournament in online pools

280 Total online gambling websites

1 in 75 million Mathematical odds of predicting all 63 NCAA games correctly

$85,125 Amount raised by House Speaker Denny Hastert's political-action committee, Keep Our Majority, in all of 1998

$350,000 Amount raised by the PAC in the first two months of 1999, since Hastert became Speaker

$175,400 House Speaker's salary

$383 million Taxpayer money spent every year on rescuing boaters, hikers and campers

$63.15 Average amount spent by rescue services on a stranded hiker

$150 Amount a climber is charged to scale America's tallest peak, Mount McKinley, in Denali National Park, to defray rescue costs

Sources: Wall Street Sports, Washington Post, AP, National Parks Service