Today's news: Ohtani hired the same crisis PR firm as Alec Baldwin, Harvey Weinstein and Hillary Clinton.
Law firm has represented Danny Masterson, armie Hammer and Prince Andrew.
These are not people you hire when you didn't do it.
Pointsbet tried everything, celebrity influences, spending huge amounts on marketing campaigns, a partnership with NBC. They did everything they could to get into the US sports betting market, except take bets.
I can't wait for the Disney/ESPNBet cross promotions.
"Your trip to Disneyworld could be free for you and your entire family when you try Disney's new Wish Upon a Parlay(TM) promotion"
Tony Dungy told a story on the broadcast last night about Joe Lombardi learning football from his grandpa Vince. I’m almost sure that story is impossible/never happened. Mainly because Joe Lombardi was born almost a year after Vince died.
Pat Tillman was murdered by his own US Army unit, who then covered it up, burned his journals and lied to his family about it. No amount of propaganda will ever change that.
If you add up all the money lost every year on stolen goods from Wal-Mart it’s less money than Sean Payton and Russell Wilson are stealing from the Walton family and the Broncos.
PrizePicks “we aren’t a gambling site”
MGM “risk free doesn’t mean risk free read the fine print.”
Starting to think there aren’t a lot of honest people involved in legal US sports betting at the management level.
Moneyball is one of the worst things to happen to sports because it convinced a generation of fans it was noble for millionaire/billionaire owners to not spend money on their teams. 20 years and the A’s have won nothing, traded every star, and alienated an entire fan base.
It has been 20 years since the Moneyball draft.
Those parts of the book about finding underappreciated players, the quest for OBP, unusual pitchers and using an economist's apprpach changed the game.
The parts about the draft? They didn't age as well.
Yesterday I wanted to bet Vita Vea to score an anytime TD and nobody had it listed. So I asked
@CircaSports
to make a line and within 15-20 minutes it was posted for betting. A couple other books responded and said they couldn't do it. Most ignored the request.
I think everyone is kind of missing the morale of the story here. Trevor Bauer was such a huge fucking asshole and pissed off so many of his teammates, coaches, managers that when he needed people to stand up for him not a single person wanted to help him.
Sarah Fuller should not have won SEC special teams player of the week for one kickoff in a game where her team lost 41-0 and I’m not an asshole for thinking that.
The
#Ravens
will honor Ray Lewis and Ed Reed as "Legends of the Game" and they will be introduced onto the field just before the kickoff against the Chiefs.
That should be electric.
Elly De La Cruz does his first on-camera interview in English after his electrifying night.
You can see how much it means to him to do this and how much he loves the game. How awesome is this?!
People glossing over the headlines here. The owner of an NFL team offered his head coach 100k a game to intentionally lose games. That should get Ross’s franchise revoked.
Instead of trying to do the right thing Dave Portony doubled down on being wrong and continues to show why he has so little respect in the sports/gambling world. I mean he has all the money in the world and zero respect. Sad.
Phil Mickelson in the top 10 right now which isn’t too surprising. With college basketball over and no football to bet on he’s probably not too distracted by his bets this weekend.
Based on what we know so far I think the two most likely scenarios
A) Ohtani was betting big and using his friend to place the bets for him.
B) Ohtani's friend was using Ohtani's name for credibility with the bookie and got in way too deep.
Other wise 🤷♂️
Can’t say enough nice things about
@CircaSports
and
@JeffreyBenson12
. Had a great time there this weekend. Top notch sports book, they are the gold standard for how books should be run.
Brittney Griner has sent a letter to the White House, appealing directly to President Biden to secure her release from Russia.
"I realize you are dealing with so much, but please don't forget about me."
@BarstoolBigCat
I saw a tweet from JJ Watt about going to Portillos whiile in Chicago and I guess that was the signal to take the Bears team total over. You can't play defense at a nfl level after going to portillos.
When I see people call Ohtani a novelty it reminds me that A&W's 1/3 lbs. burger failed b/c American don't understand fractions and most people thought 1/4 was more than 1/3.
@Spreadapedia
Ohtani rightfully won his MVP. But the 2-way player novelty is no longer in play, so he better step it up bigly to have any chance to repeat.
@GoldenKnights
the fact that multiple people working for your team thought this was a good idea should make you reconsider who you are paying to make decisions.
Many years from now these Princeton and Yale basketball players will be working at Blackrock or the Federal Reserve or destroying the economy of a 3rd world country and they’ll remember the Ivy League championship game today.
My favorite Round 2 bet: a series parlay w/ the Celtics (-200) and Suns (-295) which is +100 right now on
@FDSportsbook
.
Giannis is the bet-busting X-factor obviously. Here’s how me, Mahoney + KOC broke down The Freak’s considerable ceiling in Round 2.
Occasionally very cool things happen on gambling twitter and today someone donates $500 to my local dog rescue because Donald Parham scored that TD Monday.
Tillman was murdered by members of his own platoon who burned his journals and body armor after killing him. He was then and still is used as a political prop even though he was anti-war and his family has said numerous times they don't like when their son is used for propaganda
Watching the replay of the hotdog eating contest when Joey Chestnut almost breaks the guy’s neck and doesn’t stop eating hot dogs. Might be the most American thing I’ve ever seen.
On April 25th, almost 50 years ago Rick Monday saved the colors from being burned by some clownshoes commies. Rick still owns the flag and has rejected multi-million dollar offers for it. He brings it to veteran charity fundraisers. Be more like Rick Monday.
Winning a big future when you are 25 is great because you can spend all the money on dumb shit.
Winning a big future when you are 35 is great because you can spend it all on dental work.
“The weight of history in your hands is heavy.”
Tom Verducci takes you through his
@baseballhall
ballot… and the honor and responsibility that comes with it.
Army/Air Force football game is sponsored by Lockheed. The game is supposed to be 4 quarters but Lockheed said it will be 8 quarters and $2 billion over budget.
Not a joke: The AFC Wild Card game on Jan. 10 will also be simulcasted on Nickelodeon in a broadcast tailored to young fans.
You’ll see slime in the endzones & googly eyes on players. The pregame show will be “The SpongeBob SportsPants Countdown Special”
You shouldn’t gamble on sports if you ever think you deserve a refund because a player got hurt. Sports betting isn’t for you. This is like cigarettes companies giving out free cigarettes. Need better regulations or you are just creating addicts not customers.
I don’t think anyone serious is debating this. Bettors do not “deserve” a mulligan, but it also makes sense that some sportsbooks will give refunds in rare high-profile cases to gin up a little marketing and build some goodwill