Insider How wiseguys spend their summer
Review your bets. Check your luck. Examine results. Consider new stats. Test new theories. Import stats. Update your database. Say hello to your fami…
'The Sopranos' and legalizing gambling
"The Sopranos." Season 1, Episode 5. Aired Feb. 7, 1999. Title: "College." (What? I write a gambling column for ESPN, spent six years living in the…
Insider Updating NBA Finals betting strategy
This past Sunday morning, after the Pacers had evened the series with Miami and made LeBron think he was going to have to win the Eastern Conference…
Insider 2013 NFL win totals picks
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…
Insider Karma helps Streak for the Cash winner
When Michael Swanson woke up Tuesday morning this is what he was facing: His one-month-old son, Adam, had spent the night in the hospital with a fev…
Insider Is there such a thing as an ex-gambler?
I don't know many ex-gamblers. It's not the kind of gig that you can just decide you don't want to do anymore, like lawyering or doctoring or being …
Insider Final Four bets ... and the refs
Words have consequences. If that's a lesson from kindergarten you had forgotten at some point between then and now, we got a reminder this week. B…
Insider Tourney coaches who wiseguys love
At the 10:30 mark of the UNC-Kansas game last weekend, with UNC up 14-6, I thought to myself: I'm watching a pickup game in a really nice stadium. T…
Insider Best value spots in the brackets
'Twas Sunday, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, a few hours after the lines for the NCAA tournament had opened, and all through the night, most wis…
Insider Bad beats and the NCAA tournament
It was 1:35 on Thursday afternoon. At that moment, I was still getting questions about Iona's bad beat on Monday, still collecting sob stories of folk…
