http://assets.espn.go.com/i/tvlistings/tv_espn_original.gif en-us 10 ESPN Inc. http://espn.go.com/ Copyright 2010 ESPN Inc. 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 Twitter...]]> February 17, 2012 05:21:05 PST Ahh, the Super Bowl. It means morning shows spending days in a plaza away from home and presidents using the national holiday to give big sit-down int...]]> February 03, 2012 06:42:36 PST The beauty of Super Bowl prop bets is the wide berth they offer for creativity. The circumstances -- a zeitgeist-penetrating phenomenon that captures ...]]> February 01, 2012 04:12:32 PST Tina Wells loved the Arkansas Razorbacks. She loved going on cruises with her husband, David. She loved her three kids and her four grandkids and she ...]]> January 26, 2012 04:59:18 PST The first official Super Bowl XLVI line that I saw was from5Dimes, through the Covers.com feed on Twitter. It was listed at New England minus-3.5. ...]]> January 23, 2012 03:41:31 PST Last week I went to London with my wife. It's where we met, when we were college students studying abroad. I surprised her with the trip because, well...]]> January 20, 2012 06:33:53 PST You may have noticed the hours of programming ESPN dedicates to Tim Tebow, or the fact he is the most popular current athlete in the world, or that he...]]> January 13, 2012 05:12:35 PST So many intriguing lines this week. The Detroit Lions-New Orleans Saints number is, literally, historic. Posting at a wild-card high of 58, and then g...]]> January 06, 2012 03:26:58 PST I'm on vacation this week (most readers of the column might say I am on vacation every week, bada bum). I've got lots of family and friends in Nort...]]> December 30, 2011 03:11:17 PST On Mondays this NFL season, you've been accustomed to seeing analysis from Chad Millman, Behind the Bets boss, followed by a gambling breakdown of the...]]> December 26, 2011 04:43:15 PST Every Christmas I like to call Bob Scucci and reminisce about the one we spent together at The Stardust sports book. It was 1999 and I was, quite l...]]> December 23, 2011 05:21:18 PST First, let's do some grades. I went into great detail on Friday about how The SportsBoss calculates his ratings system. I also pointed out that, go...]]> December 19, 2011 04:47:59 PST Go to ESPN.com and there are 11 different individual passing stats listed. There are nine individual rushing stats and 11 receiving stats. There are e...]]> December 16, 2011 06:25:41 PST My first job in the magazine biz was at Sports Illustrated, checking Peter King's weekly NFL column. There's not a more generous man in journalism tha...]]> December 12, 2011 04:54:12 PST I've been covering the sports betting world for a few years now, and you know what I still get a kick out of? Being on the phone with a guy, bookmaker...]]> December 09, 2011 04:23:06 PST