The Super Bowl is still a couple of months away, but the holidays are here and so is college bowl season! As a bookmaker, I am thrilled with how many bowl games there are, but as a fan.not so much. The New Orleans Bowl this week featured a North Texas team that won 7 games [...]

I was lucky enough to have been recently invited to participate in a night school class on sports wagering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Las Vegas is one of my favorite cities and getting to talk about sportsbetting with a large group was a lot of fun; a big thanks to those [...]

Michael Phelps, Lance Armstrong, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Ichiro Suzuki, Vijay Singh, the Boston Red Sox – there have been some pretty amazing stories to come out of the past year. In this week’s issue I was going to cover the year’s best games, but I thought I’d better wait and see how things unfold [...]

Curses, charges, flying chairs and wild controversies. Miracle comebacks, Olympic heroes and football gods. For sports fans and sportsbooks, it has been one of the biggest years for sports in recent memory. With that in mind, I give you my thoughts on the year that was 2004. Some of these will appeal to every sports [...]

A couple of weeks ago I said that I would dedicate an upcoming issue to answering your questions and I want to thank everyone for taking the time recently to drop me a few lines. Your emails are always appreciated (and read!). Hey Rob, I have been gambling on all types of sports for the [...]

Analyzing trends on a game that is only played once a year is tricky business even if conditions are static, and in this case they aren’t. The NFL is in a constant state of flux and there have been many changes in the last decade or so that make results from too far back irrelevant. [...]

Following last weekend’s thrilling victory for Jeff Gordon at the Daytona 500, and Adam Scott’s rain-wrecked sudden death win at the Nissan Open, I thought this would be a great opportunity to cover both NASCAR and golf betting. Both sports have just started their respective seasons, and with summer approaching, both will become an important [...]

It has been a fairly unpredictable college basketball season, hasn’t it? Every time a team seemed to be playing well enough to be considered a #1 seed, they would be upset. Case in point? Take a look at last Sunday’s matchups: #1 Illinois: (-7) suffers its first loss of the year against unranked Ohio State [...]

This week marks the start of my second football season as a part-time columnist and the resumption of weekly publication (instead of my cushy off-season schedule of one issue every 2 or 3 weeks). For those of you that are new readers (and especially for new bettors) let me provide a little introduction. Do you [...]