Words matter, I’m often told, and, well, I’m a words guy myself. I use 200, maybe 300 words a day, and even though almost every one of them is one syllable or a very simple word, I try to use them wisely, or judiciously….which is a pretty fancy word. I don’t like when people screw …
Let’s talk about the Washington Football Team. They finally got rid of their racial-slur nickname before this season, and while they are deciding what their new nickname is – and I’m betting it’s NOT gonna be another racial slur, but you never know – they are simply known as the Washington Football Team, which rolls …
UFC 265 fight card, odds Ciryl Gane -360 vs. Derrick Lewis +280, interim heavyweight championship Jose Aldo -115 vs. Pedro Munhoz -105, bantamweight Vicente Luque -120 vs. Michael Chiesa +100, welterweight Tecia Torres -135 vs. Angela Hill +115, women’s strawweight Casey Kenney -120 vs. Song Yadong +100, bantamweight Rafael Fiziev -330 vs. Bobby Green +260, …
We talked earlier about how bowling should be an Olympic sport. When I mentioned this on Twitter this week, my poker broadcasting partner Lon McEachern reminded me that tug of war once was an Olympic sport. That’s right — tug of war. It was a team event at the Summer Olympics from 1900 to 1920. …
Covered NFL and Nascar for sky sports, hosted pro football focus podcast, content creator for BetRivers and play SugarHouse, wsop poker commentator, and I’ve been gambling since I’m 11. Ran an extremely profitable book while in high school If not for some stupid kid who tattled to my partners dad, I might have parlayed …
All right, amidst all this madness in March, I want to pause to celebrate Ryan Fitzpatrick and Trevor Ariza. Fitzpatrick will be playing in his 17th NFL season. Ariza is currently in his 17th NBA season. Two long careers made more remarkable by their two far-flung journeys. Fitzpatrick just signed with the Washington Football Team. …
All right, turning to latrines, it’s been a busy, busy week in the world of toilet news, and I don‘t get to say that a lot. In Alaska, a woman who had been snowboarding with her brother in the back country sat down on an outhouse toilet and was attacked by a bear – from …
Alright, let’s deal with this Tim Tebow thing because he’s back again and he just won’t go away. On one hand, I am sympathetic to him – all he’s doing is chasing his dream. You’ve gotta respect that. It might be an improbable dream at this point, but why not? I’ve done the same thing …
We are back with the Gambling Mad Sports Book. You contact us at norman.a.chad@gmail.com and we’ll take your action. You bet ‘em, we book ‘em. Is it illegal? Of course it is. Will they catch us? Of course not. I’m a small fish in a big sea. All right, let’s take a look at this …
There are bad beats, and then there is what happened to Rob Huntze of St. Louis last Sunday. He was a millionaire – for about a half-hour. Huntze, a 41-year-old insurance agent, had scored the most points in a DraftKings contest among 176,000-plus entries. First prize: $1 million. Then, the official scorer for the Bears-Rams …
