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Film Review: “Big Fan”
As the financial divide between fan and athlete grows with each year, our superstitions are becoming all that we have to identify with our favorite teams. We rarely get to the stadium these days,
Read More »NFL Picks: Week 4 (updated)
Zack Dennis relives us the sportsbooks' top five bad beats of the 2008 season -- and, of course, gives us the picks for all of this week's NFL games
Read More »NFL Picks: Week 3 (updated)
We're headed into Week 3 of the 2009 NFL season, and Zack Dennis (and his trusty computer, Gamblor) are here to help you beat Vegas with your picks
Read More »NFL Picks: Week 2 (updated)
Well, Week One of the 2009 NFL season is on the books. How did Zack Dennis' computer model handle the picks -- and what does it say about this week
Read More »NFL Picks: Week 1
Are you ready for some football? Lord knows Zack Dennis is -- and with Week One's kickoff just around the corner, he's also ready to make his inaugural picks
Read More »I call him GAMBLOR! (Part 2)
Last week I explained a bit about how my prediction model came into being, and how it works. The “flip” component of it, which identifies questionable spreads and presumes a trap is being set,
Read More »I call him GAMBLOR! (Part 1)
Two years ago, after being introduced to the computer program MATLAB at work, I conceived the brilliant plan of writing a computer program to pick the winners of football games against the spread. Armed
Read More »Numberscruncher: Football and Finances
It’s been a bad time for NFL quarterbacks. Bernie Kosar, who played for the Browns, Cowboys, and Dolphins, filed for bankruptcy. Ryan Leaf, who played for theRead More »How Bad Can It Be?: Fightstarters
The point of a column like this is not to be a consumer guide, or to give “thumbs up”/”thumbs down” to the latest media product (which is just as well since Ebert owns the
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