Speaking of degens, we are joined as always by The King himself, Gary Margolis, legendary southern California gambler, sports bettor and raconteur. Tell me something good in 25 words or less, King. Well, before we get into this weekend’s picks, I want to talk about a couple of gambling things that caught my attention this …
NBC Sports will debut the first ever second-screen broadcast targeted specifically for sports bettors. The new show, NBC Sports Edge BetCast, will broadcast live from the Waste Management Open exclusively on Peacock Premium, hosted by Golf Channel’s Steve Burkowski and George Savaricas. The production will run alongside the regular NBC Sports telecast on Golf Channel and …
Okay, remember when fortune cookies would tell fortunes? They stopped doing that for some reason – maybe it was a legal issue. Maybe someone would sue if the fortune said, “You will meet a tall and dark stranger this week” and it didn’t happen. I don’t know. But fortune cookies went from telling fortunes to …
Okey dokey, ESPN….what are you doing? What are you doing? This whole Rachel Nichols-Maria Taylor kerfuffle has actually been festering for an entire year. ESPN is only dealing with it now because the video of Nichols complaining about Taylor getting prominent work because she’s black was just leaked publicly. How could ESPN not nip this …
You cannot bet legally on the presidential election here in the U.S., but we all do it. I just bet my Uber driver three rides on who is gonna win in Wisconsin. Now, outside of America, you can bet on the U.S. election, and this baby is BIG. In the 2016 Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton contest, …
Al Michaels: “You Can’t Make This Up” (2014) Cosell was standing on the corner — toupee on his head, cigar dangling from his mouth, ridiculous yellow blazer making him impossible not to notice. Suddenly the fight stopped. The kids looked at him dumbfounded, their eyes and mouths wide open. Then Cosell spoke: “Now listen. It’s quite …
Colin Kaepernick took a knee. Since then, much of America took a knee to George Floyd’s neck, and last week, MAGA took a knee to America’s neck. Colin Kaepernick took a knee in 2016, for the cause of racial injustice. It was a peaceful protest; America reacted volcanically. Last week, home-grown terrorists tried to tear …
Norwegian chess wizard Magnus Carlsen sits atop the FIDE rapid and overall world rankings, but the format in which he truly excels is classical chess. He’s the top-ranked classical player in the world, of course, though a more impressive metric of his dominance was his 125-game, two-year unbeaten streak which is comfortably the longest confirmed stretch …
All right, for a change of pace let’s put us in a good mood with a nice story. I was reading an article the other day at sportsbroadcastingjournal.com by David A. Halberstam celebrating the 100th anniversary of Chuck Thompson’s birth. Thompson was the fabulous, long-time voice of the Baltimore Orioles who died in 2005. In …
From MLB to the NBA – somehow, the NBA season is upon us next week. Didn’t the Lakers just win the NBA title a couple of weeks ago? Yes, we’re in a pandemic, and, yes, none of us has any idea what day of the week it is any more. And in all this confusion, …
