Insider Championship weekend line moves
"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. No…
Insider Divisional playoff line moves
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 g…
Insider How to bet Alabama-Notre Dame
For the past few years, we here at the blog have offered up a list of eight factors handicappers consider when analyzing college football bowl…
Insider Analyzing early NFL divisional line moves
On Sunday night, I was talking to John Avello, the bookmaker at the Wynn in Las Vegas. He was driving home, shortly after the Seattle Seahawks had b…
Insider Wild-card weekend key line moves
How unlikely is it that the Seattle Seahawks would be road favorites in the playoffs? The answer is not in the stats, even though both their scoring …
Insider Picking the best bowl bets
It's four days later, and my head is still scrambled by the turn of events in the Belk Bowl. (Which somehow has yet to get a catchy nickname, like t…
Insider Week 17's key NFL line moves
For the past few years, as New Jersey's finances have crumbled, one by one a state senator (Ray Lesniak), then the state legislature, then the citiz…
Insider Week 16's key NFL line moves
It is still crazy early in the betting week to be making judgments about people's judgment, but I look at the betting ticket percentage splits at va…
Insider Week 15's key NFL line moves
I like to hear Jimmy Vaccaro talk. He's one of the last of the old-school Vegas bookmakers, now booking for William Hill, but he's worked in near…
Insider Key to handicapping bowl games
What's your motivation? It's a simple question, and has been since long before Lee Strasberg opened a studio in Greenwich Village and begged Brando…
