Insider Best bets in the 2012 NCAA tourney
Other than a regular-season NFL Sunday, there is nothing in sports more interesting to handicap than the NCAA tournament. It has everything. Volume…
Insider Finding March Madness value
I have lot of affinity for the town of St. Louis. My grandparents were born there, raised there and died there. My mom grew up there. My dad went …
Insider College Basketball Sweat Barometer
As the mid-major conference tournaments come to an end, we can start to focus the major conferences. According to ESPN.com's Joe Lunardi's latest b…
Insider Effects of Calvin Ayre's indictment
The indictment against Calvin Ayre and his Bodog co-conspirators is six pages long. And, if you are a connoisseur of this brand of storytelling, it is…
Insider College Basketball Sweat Barometer
While the conference tournaments of the major conferences may not begin until next week, the more interesting and pressure-filled league tou…
Insider How the mob grew sports betting
There at the creation. That's one of my favorite phrases. It means you saw a flash of brilliance or caught a truly original moment or, if you spo…
Insider College Basketball Sweat Barometer
Last night, I mentioned to Sweat Barometer contributor and professional handicapper Sal Selvaggio of MadduxSports.com that I wanted to write about N…
Insider Forget Howard; Lin impacting NBA futures
This was going to be a column about Dwight Howard. He is an excellent player. A potential Hall of Fame talent. He is very popular, has lots of Twitt…
Insider College Basketball Sweat Barometer
The talk of the NBA -- and all of sports, for that matter -- is Jeremy Lin. Part of Lin's charm is that he came from the Ivy League (Harvard), a con…
Insider College Basketball Sweat Barometer
Early in the college basketball season, a loyal reader emailed with a sweat barometer request. He wanted the chart to include home and road ATS br…
