Review your bets.Check your luck.Examine results.Consider new stats.Test new theories.Import stats.Update your database.Say hello to your family.Take a shower.Buy new sweatpants.Analyze success versus the closing number.Self-scout.Of all the items ...

There was a point last NFL season, it was after Week 4 in fact, that we all thought the Atlanta Falcons were the best team in the NFL. It's true. I looked it up. They had started the season beating up on Kansas City 40-24 at Arrowhead. And this was ...

I am jetting to New Orleans as I write this, busting it in a tin can flying nose-first into 130 mph winds (you should have seen how this sentence looked before the turbulence stopped). To my left is a guy with a pen, making notes in the column of ...

I think Christopher Power is the kind of doctor I'd like to have in an emergency.For one thing, the 40-year-old is an emergency room doctor, so there's that. But there's also the fact that he is an NFL fan in Cullman, Ala., who, after moving away ...

Prop bets were born for two reasons, the same two reasons that just about every idea has ever been hatched: a simultaneous need to cure boredom and make money.Let me take you back more than a generation, to the Bears-Patriots Super Bowl following ...

A few years ago I was in Vegas for a visit toward the end of the summer. That's how you know it was for work: No one goes to Vegas for pleasure at the end of the summer. On a Tuesday afternoon I went to lunch with a bunch of veteran bettors, ...

If not for one of the most popular and powerful athletes of the past decade (who also happens to have created an influential charity) admitting he was a fraud; if not for the best player on the world's favorite college football team (who also ...

"Life moves pretty fast," my buddy Ferris once said. He was right. And this was back in high school, when the digital rage was all about watches. Nowadays it moves in less time than it takes the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks to give up NFL ...

I never noticed Chris Clemons before this weekend, before he caught his cleat in the dirt and dust at FedEx Field and became, you know, that other guy who blew out his knee in the Washington Redskins-Seattle Seahawks wild-card game. But the ...