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 Lan...
Sport Integrity
Sport Integrity examines sports integrity from a range of disciplinary perspectives that will help to enhance the reader’s understanding of this burgeoning problematic in sports management. Securing and promoting the integrity of sport has become one of the critical tasks for the governance and management of sport at professional, elite and non-elite levels. Threats to the integrity of sport manifest themselves in an array of guises, and include problems such as match-fixing, corruption, and th...
A unique analysis and guide to betting on the Placepot, which is accessible to all levels of gamblers; Malcolm Boyle is the acknowledged expert on all things Placepot. This book expands on his previous best-selling title, Win at the Tote Placepot and gives a detailed, five year, in depth analysis of all races run at all UK horseracing tracks and shows all levels of punters how to bet successfully and find those six placed 'winners'.
Jacques Black journeys into the world of the casinos, looking primarily at roulette and blackjack. Reporting back on the history, the mechanics, the politics and the characters that have populated this demi-monde, his work makes disturbing - and compulsive - reading for anyone interested in the game. A long-running bestseller.
In the summer of 1966, as England were winning the World Cup, Norman Leigh took a team to the Casino Municipale in Nice with the express intention of systematically winning large sums of money at roulette. Two weeks later his team was banned from every casino in France - the reason being, not that they had cheated or behaved badly, but simply that they won - methodically and consistently. This book is a detailed and wry account of the events that led to an event that all expert opinion holds to...
The book all racing trends fans have been waiting for has finally arrived Every major race and festival in the 2008 Flat season has been placed under the spotlight in this unprecedented compilation of racing statistics. By highlighting the vital clues that pinpoint the winner's profile, along with exclusive 'future pointers', Racing Trends Revealed shows whether individual winners of big races should be followed or avoided in the future. Covering 214 major races in Britain and Ireland, this uniq...
In The Wizard of Odds, renowned and best-selling basketball writer Charley Rosen brings us for the first time the full life story of Jack Molinas, one of the greatest basketball players of his era, a man whose gambling addiction and hubris caused his ultimate demise. Drawing on numerous, previously unavailable first-person accounts, including Jack Molinas’s own journal and trial transcripts, Rosen presents the true saga of a man who perhaps better than anyone around him understood the weaknesses...
The gambling writer and journalist David Spanier looks back at his life-long love of poker in this compelling memoir. Spanier takes us from teenage days spent playing the horses to the elegant casinos of Mayfair and Monte Carlo, from the legendary Tuesday night game in north London to Las Vegas. Primarily a collection and development of articles that Spanier produced for various publications, (although many pieces appear in this book for the first time), Spanier begins with an account of his ear...
Relates how a longtime Interpol cop and former FIFA head of security has taken on a mission to track down the fixers and financial backers acting on behalf of Asian criminal syndicates to fix more than seven hundred international soccer matches since 2008. "In February 2013, the director of Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, made the shocking announcement that 700 international soccer matches had been fixed since 2008, including World Cup qualifying and exhibition matches, wi...
Football Betting - Monday Night Football Gambling Success
by Johnny Depot
‘A joy’ Philippe Sands ‘Glorious’ David Spiegelhalter A fascinating, enchanting and personal look at the meaning of luck, and the way in which it has shaped our shared history and continues to inflect our day to day lives. What does it mean to be lucky? How might we mitigate the effects of bad luck and maximise those of good? Is there actually such a thing as ‘luck’—some force that intervenes between desire and its consummation, that impedes...