Beating the Odds: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Sports Handicapper

by Brandon Lang and Stanley Cohen

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The incredible rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches true life story of acclaimed sports tout Brandon Lang, subject of the motion picture Two for the Money (Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey). Beating the Odds describes in vivid, colorful detail Lang’s rise from small time sports-phone tout to big time national exposure, his dramatic fall, and his subsequent rebirth in the internet age. Also describes the series of improbable events, while working as a golf caddie in Los Angeles, that eventually led Lang to the optioning of his story to Hollywood and the making of Two for the Money.
  • ISBN10 1602396809
  • ISBN13 9781602396807
  • Publish Date 3 December 2009 (first published 15 November 2009)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Skyhorse Publishing
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 272
  • Language English