In my opinion, the Aria casino has the best sportsbook in Vegas. It's a lofty honor, because it's really not hard to create a fun time when you combine sports with betting, televisions, and drink service, and there are a lot of places on the Strip that manage to do so rather beautifully. In the end, picking a favorite becomes more about personal taste than about something absolute.
Hey you, yeah you with all the disposable income. You know what stimulates the economy? Casual sports gambling! But we're not throwing you in the deep end without some floaties, here. The Triangle has contracted two of Vegas' most astute handicappers to help you navigate the choppy waters of gambling, going into this 16th week of the NFL season. Here's what they had to say.
Are you ready for some football gambling?
Hey you, yeah you with all the disposable income. You know what stimulates the economy? Casual sports gambling! But we're not throwing you in the deep end without some floaties, here. The Triangle has contracted two of Vegas' most astute handicappers to help you navigate the choppy waters of gambling, going into this 15th week of the NFL season. Here's what they had to say.
Are you ready for some football gambling?
Hey you, yeah you with all the disposable income. You know what stimulates the economy? Casual sports gambling! But we're not throwing you in the deep end without some floaties, here. The Triangle has contracted two of Vegas' most astute handicappers to help you navigate the choppy waters of gambling, going into this 14th week of the NFL season. Here's what they had to say.
Are you ready for some football gambling?
Question: What do you do when there's too much NFL stuff to discuss in one podcast?
Answer: You split it up into two podcasts!
In Part 1, Cousin Sal came on to lament the latest improbable Cowboys collapse, bitch about Tebowners, figure out the playoff picture, guess the Week 14 lines, say goodbye to Jose Reyes and make another joke that we had to bleep. Here are the links for Part 1 on the ESPN.com PodCenter and iTunes.
In Part 2, my buddy Gus Ramsey (the only lifelong Broncos fan I know) came on to discuss the Tebow era, what it's been like from the perspective of a Denver fan who never saw this coming, and whether this has the potential to be a magical Cinderella season that makes no sense whatsoever (along the lines of the '88 Dodgers or '01 Patriots). Here are the links for Part 2 on the ESPN.com PodCenter and iTunes.
Previously on the B.S. Report:
Greg Wyshynski and Joe House
Cousin Sal
Cousin Sal, David Jacoby
Mike Lombardi
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Hey you, yeah you with all the disposable income. You know what stimulates the economy? Casual sports gambling! But we're not throwing you in the deep end without some floaties, here. The Triangle has contracted two of Vegas' most astute handicappers to help you navigate the choppy waters of gambling, going into this 12th week of the NFL season. Here's what they had to say.
Are you ready for some football gambling?
Scheduling games on Thanksgiving might very well be the greatest thing the NFL's ever done. Can you imagine how boring the day would be without football? How lucky we are to avoid bonding with our families under the guise of watching Detroit get blown out by 40 points.
Until the Lions were recently dragged down by the rising tide of Millen, though, the perception surrounding the Thanksgiving Day host teams was that they gained a competitive advantage by virtue of hosting games on the holiday. Not only did they get to play teams that had to travel after a short week of practice, but they then got a nine-day break before having to play again -- basically an extra bye week. That seemed more valuable before the NFL implemented a Thursday night package as part of their NFL Network in 2006, but it's a question worth re-evaluating: Do the Cowboys and Lions really have an advantage by virtue of those Thanksgiving games?
Wow -- what a week. I lost every single proposition wager I handed out. And if that isn’t bad enough, once again I wasn’t named People’s Sexiest Man Alive. Ever notice that only goes to famous people? Weird. Enough about sexy men. Let’s get back to something I know perhaps even less about -- wagering on the NFL. The Week 10 collapse puts me at 54,500 jermajesties* overall.
Do I plan on getting it all back this week? Of course I do. Is that going to happen? Almost definitely not. Check these out anyway.
Ah, three hours ago — those halcyon days when we thought an NBA season was still happening. Like always, Cousin Sal came on Monday's BS Report to discuss Sunday's games and guess next week's lines. We finished taping, and an hour later the NBA players' union decided to do something that would have worked only if it happened four months ago. So long, 2011-12 NBA season. I'm off to go punch a wall.
Find Monday's podcast here:
Previously on the B.S. Report:
Chris Connelly, David Jacoby, Cousin Sal
Adam Carolla
Chris Herren
Jane Leavy
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Bill Simmons is the editor-in-chief of Grantland, the host of the BS Report and the author of the recent New York Times no. 1 best-seller The Book of Basketball. Follow him on Twitter and check out his new home on Facebook.
Read more of The Triangle, Grantland's sports blog.
Contact us at triangle@grantland.com
Hey you, yeah you with all the disposable income. You know what stimulates the economy? Casual sports gambling! But we're not throwing you in the deep end without some floaties, here. The Triangle has contracted two of Vegas' most astute handicappers to help you navigate the choppy waters of gambling, going into this tenth weekend of the NFL season. Here's what they had to say.
Are you ready for some football gambling?
Bill Simmons and Cousin Sal lament their lack gambling prowess, pull a 180 on what they think about Baltimore QB Joe Flacco after Sunday night's Ravens-Steelers game, and breakdown the rest of Week 9 fun in the NFL.
Plus, as always, guessing the Week 10 lines.
Later on Monday: Bill Simmons and Chris Connelly discuss Magic Johnson
Find Monday's podcast here:
Previously on the B.S. Report:
Adam Carolla
Chris Herren
Cousin Sal
Jane Leavy
Bill Simmons and John A. Walsh on Hunter S. Thompson
Subscribe to the BS Report and the Grantland Network on iTunes.
Bill Simmons is the editor-in-chief of Grantland, the host of the BS Report and the author of the recent New York Times no. 1 best-seller The Book of Basketball. Follow him on Twitter and check out his new home on Facebook.
Read more of The Triangle, Grantland's sports blog.
Contact us at triangle@grantland.com
Cousin Sal and Bill Simmons discuss the national tragedy that is the Kris Humphries-Kim Kardashian divorce, review the Dallas Cowboys' performance on Sunday, and question the amount of camera time given to defensive coordinator Rob Ryan.
They also talk about whether Simmons is worried about the Patriots after New England's 25-17 loss to the Steelers, and guess the Week 9 NFL lines.
Find Monday's podcast here:
Previously on the B.S. Report:
Jane Leavy
Bill Simmons and John A. Walsh on Hunter S. Thompson
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Bill Simmons is the editor-in-chief of Grantland, the host of the BS Report and the author of the recent New York Times no. 1 best-seller The Book of Basketball. Follow him on Twitter and check out his new home on Facebook.
Read more of The Triangle, Grantland's sports blog.
Contact us at triangle@grantland.com
What's better than teasing and hedging bets on the NFL? Combining the two! The teaser-hedge was in play for many bettors in Week 7, myself included, and while it didn't end up working out as a huge victory, it saved a lot of people a lot of money.
The teaser-hedge is actually two separate bets. The first outlay is a teaser bet made on two separate games that start at different times. The easiest scenario is with a Sunday NFL game and then the Monday Night Football contest. With a teaser, remember, you move the spread in each of two games by six or more points, creating a new line that you'll need to beat in both games to cash. My personal six-point teaser was on the Packers -8 and the Ravens -7.5, moving their lines to Packers -2 and Ravens -1.5, respectively.
After getting bumped from Monday's BS Report by the NBA lockout, a chastened Cousin Sal brought his A-game to today's podcast, beating me in our weekly guessing of the Week 8 lines and unleashing a flawless Mad Dog Russo imitation to boot. Sal was followed by 30 for 30 director Mike Tollin (he did the USFL one), who produced ESPN's new documentary, The Real Rocky (about boxer Chuck Wepner, premiering tonight on ESPN), as part of our "We Can't Call These 30 for 30 Even Though We Should Have" series.
Related: The Real Rocky
Find Tuesday's podcast here:
Subscribe to the BS Report and the Grantland Network on iTunes.
Bill Simmons is the editor-in-chief of Grantland, the host of the BS Report and the author of the recent New York Times no. 1 best-seller The Book of Basketball. Follow him on Twitter and check out his new home on Facebook.
Read more of The Triangle, Grantland's sports blog.
Contact us at triangle@grantland.com
You're not going to believe what happened on the BS Report today. Oh wait, you'll totally believe it: I called Cousin Sal to rehash yesterday's games and guess the Week 6 NFL lines, and then I called Grantland's Bill Barnwell to discuss things like "Should we write off the Eagles?" and "What's the best long-shot Super Bowl bet right now?" (Somehow, Barnwell has been living on the Vegas Strip for two months and he's still alive. I know, I can't believe it either.) Sal also plays my embarrassing phone call after Tampa Bay's blowout loss, and Barnwell tells us what it's like to win $10k on a football bet, then blow it on coke and hookers. Fine, only one of those two things is true.
