I experienced the best bet ever around 1970 for a few years… other than a fixed game. I don’t think any game was ever fixed that I played on and never asked. It wouldn’t be an accomplishment or any fun.

Living a mile north of Wrigley Field (Cub’s Park) was a big advantage. There were no computers, cellphones or 24-hour off-shore stores… only flags and the right weather report.

Baseball begins and ends with pitching. Because of the number of games and the length of the season, the sport lures as many investors as the others. The structure of odds… no point spread… and the nature of the game however, with the disproportionate emphasis on pitching, baseball must be treated in a different way.

The role the pitcher plays has been assessed at anywhere between 70 ...  read more

The history of the Super Bowl starts with the merging of the American Football League with National Football League. The NFL - AFL World Championship Game was created as a piece of the merger agreement between the NFL and the AFL in 1966. During the negotiations between the NFL and the AFL, Kansas City Chief owner, Lamar Hunt, thought of the name "Super Bowl" for the Championship game.

The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a selection system that creates five bowl match-ups involving ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), including an opportunity for the top two to compete in the BCS National Championship Game.

The BCS relies on a combination of polls and computer selection methods to determine relative team rankings, and ...  read more

One of the questions facing the Falcons throughout the offseason and in the early weeks of this season was whether Matt Ryan would live up to the high expectations he helped create with his performance in his rookie year, when Atlanta made the playoffs. Team insiders will say those within the organization never doubted Ryan was headed in the right direction, but there was uncertainty as to when ...  read more

Most handicappers, particularly who wager on their predictions, no matter how they are arrived at, have there own understanding of the “FEEL” concept.

“FEEL?” The very word stimulates thought and the search for understanding. It suggests psychological as well as physiological reactions. During our waking hours it is our conscious awareness that dominates mental activity, while when a ...  read more

The handicapper must be constantly on the alert to make changes in his handicapping methods and techniques. This process is never complete, odds making, the creation of betting lines, and public knowledge are all in constant change. The good handicapper should never be assured that he has found all the answers. It is his measurement of change and adjustment that will add to his continual succes ...  read more

Each football season a group of mysterious gentleman leap into the sports spotlight with steam and other nonsense. The speculating public, which is essentially composed of followers, clings to every word they speak, complying and following their every lead. You know the fellows. They are referred to with reverential phrases as: "Who are THEY taking?" or "Who do THEY like?"

No matter ...  read more

Note: John Wall was excluded from this list because like Oklahoma's Blake Griffin last year he's clearly the premier player in college basketball. It goes without saying that he's a must-watch player as the top prospect the 2010 draft has to offer.

Evan Turner (Ohio State) There are a lot of players who hurt their draft stock by opting to pass on the 2009 draft, but Evan Turne ...  read more

Sports bettors don’t go broke because they can’t pick winners, and they don’t go broke because of vigorish… they go broke because they use bad money management.

I’ve listed below the top ten tested, guaranteed, sure-fire ways to lose. Follow one or more of these ten rules and you will positively lose betting sports. These aren’t the only ways to be a loser… there are plenty of others. ...  read more

A little over a third of the NBA season is over. Here is a rundown of the Conference leaders, as of today.

NBA Atlantic - BOSTON

With so many NBA franchises currently consumed with clearing out cap space in order to make a mad dash toward the summer of 2010 free-agent pool, the Celtics are the seemingly rare team that is focused solely on the here-and-now… Boston, with th ...  read more

The concept of the pointspread began over a half century ago and really raised the interest in sports betting. It leveled the playing field; the pointspread became the equalizer. In the 1970s, Bob Martin of the Union Plaza Race and Sportsbook in downtown Las Vegas was the most respected oddsmaker in the gaming industry. A lot of oddsmaking tools used today are credited to Martin.

Odd ...  read more

Bob will not be offering NBA selections until the third week of the season (Tuesday, November 10), because the teams will be starting to show some form by then.

In Pro Basketball, winning and losing are often not the final criteria in judging a team. When one team plays better in defeat, than another does in winning, you can gain real value by seeing through the misleading results. W ...  read more

The first step each season is to take a painstaking look at the previous season. We focus on all the factors that contributed to a team’s success or failure. There has to be a cause for every effect. We break down the strengths of each team. We study the reasons that might explain why it had the kind of season it did. Team morale and unity, season turning points, the caliber of opposition, how ...  read more