You’re in the wrong place – the picks for Week 9 of 2010 will be posted HERE on Thursday morning. You really should go read them because Gamblor is absolutely…
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UPDATE: The Giants line continues to see wild movement – it has shifted all the way to +1 and now the Eagles are considered underdogs. Gamblor now likes the Giants…
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Fantasy football has been described as “Dungeons & Dragons for jocks,” so in the spirit of Halloween, Shi Ne (a.k.a. the Sports Report Girl) has joined us for a countdown of five monsters from the D&D manual — and their real-life NFL counterparts.
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Zack Dennis has punched the buttons and shifted the levers on his trusty supercomputer Gamblor, and is here to tell us who will win and lose in the NFL this week.
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– WELCOME! If you’re here looking for the picks from Week 6 in 2009, you’ve come to the right place. But you’re probably not. So instead, go see my 2010…
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Zack Dennis is here with all your picks for Week 5 NFL action — purely for entertainment purposes, of course.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Welcome, fans of the Vampire Diaries!Á‚ In episode 3, the closing moments of the show featured a cover of the classic New Order songÁ‚ “Temptation,” as envisioned by Moby and…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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It’s hard to say no to a free bottle of tequila. It’s even harder to write a review of that free tequila where you explain how the only way they…
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Yeah, we just visited the Ferris Bueller soundtrack in one of Kelly Stitzel’s excellent Soundtrack Saturday posts — but one good turn deserves another, and Zack Dennis returns to the musical themes of the noted ’80s rapscallion with his latest edition of Motion Picture Soundtrack.
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Zack Dennis is back with another installment of Exit Music — and this week, he uses the closing credits of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as a starting point for a discussion of Timothy Leary, Hunter S. Thompson, and the Kentucky Derby, all set to the strains of “Jumping Jack Flash.”
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In “There’s No Secrets this Year,” the first song on Swoon, the Silversun Pickups come out swinging for the fences.Á‚ If the band has been bothered by frequent comparisons to…
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In 1998, Terrence McNally’s play “Corpus Christi” was first performed in New York City. It wasn’t hard to predict that portraying Jesus as a promiscuous homosexual living in Corpus Christi,…
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A couple months ago, Jeff mentioned to me that he was thinking of putting together the Ultimate Drinking Mixtape in time for St. PatrickÁ¢€â„¢s Day. I got so excited that…
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Conceptually, counting cards is incredibly simple.Á‚ Take a deck of cards.Á‚ With a full deck, the count is zero.Á‚ Deal the cards out one by one.Á‚ Each time you see…
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In 2002 I decided to cross one of the items off my bucket list (I hate that expression – if someone knows a better one please leave it in the…
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The soundtrack to Danny BoyleÁ¢€â„¢s film Trainspotting (1996) is widely considered to be one of the best soundtracks ever.Á‚ The songs Boyle selected for the soundtrack fulfill two primary goals…
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Nothing has expanded the proliferation of year-end Top Ten Lists like the internet.Á‚ Every year critics of every stripe put together their top ten lists for the year, and impossible…
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Every great football game, at its heart, is like an action movie. Once you cut out the commercials and halftime, they’re both about the same length. They both build along…
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Buddy Revel, the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of a bully in Three O’Clock High (1987), isn’t actually a bully. Bullying is a tool used to establish or enforce social dominance. And…
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The first time I realized I was driving by one of the locations used in The Big Lebowski (1998)- Johnie’s Coffee Shop – I thought it would be great fun…
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Why is gold valuable? Why is it worth anything at all? Sure, it’s yellow and shiny. But so is brass. It’s scarce, but so is osmium, and you don’t see…
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The Pogues – “The Old Main Drag” The Decemberists – “On the Bus Mall” — n {democracy:24} — Thanks to everyone who voted during Halloween week!
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When it was released in 1988, Die Hard set a new standard for action movies. For a decade afterward, pretty much every single action movie was unable to avoid a…
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A few years ago, my dad took a vacation to Hawaii. While he was there, he tried surfing for the first time. Even though he’s a good athlete, and solid…