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Today In Oddjack: Hope For Cards Fans!
We have much faith in Oddjack, tonight. If they don't come through for us, we're gonna run down to Oddjack world headquarters and there will be fisticuffs, we tell you, fisticuffs! • There is no reason to panic. There is no reason to bleed Cardinals red. St. Louis is bringing it back to, well, St. L...

Anybody Recovered From The USC Game Yet?
Honestly, you just know Nick Lachey was wetting his pants in South Bend on Saturday. We still haven't quite come down from the high of USC's thrilling 34-31 victory over Notre Dame, a game that somehow made everyone on both teams into a legend. Most of the Notre Dame fans we know aren't even angry...

Oddjack's: It's Football Up Your Ass Time!
If it's Friday, that means it's time for FOOTBALL UP YOUR ASS! at Oddjack. Here's a look at the Oddjack's best picks, GUARANTEED WINNERS*, for the upcoming football weekend....

Hang In There, America: LeBron's Back With Us
Well, everyone can breathe a little easier: LeBron James has been released from the hospital. With Suns forward Amare Stoudamire out until at least the All-Star break, if James had been out for too long, this NBA season was in serious danger of sucking before it even started....

Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • A tiger almost ate half of Siegfried and Roy, but the Clemson version is your friend this week. • These hokey sports bets between mayors stopped being fun about three decades ago, didn't...

The Dirty Sheets Of South Bend
People are so excited about the USC-Notre Dame game this weekend that even travel arrangements are making the news. The fine folks at HotelChatter have taken a look at one of the worst hotels near Touchdown Jesus you could possibly find, the Knight's Inn South Bend, where one guest checked into th...

Will The Boss Rock Touchdown Jesus?
We keep hearing about all these rumors, so since we are who we are, we might as well publish them. Whispers abound all around South Bend that tomorrow's pep rally for the Notre Dame game against the undefeated USC Trojans — recently moved from the Joyce Center to Notre Dame Stadium — will feature ...

Today In Oddjack
• You can count on the White Sox rebounding like Chris Klein tonight. • If you're a Cardinals fan, and you're counting on a Game 1 win, well, life's totally going to suck for you tonight. • The Brandon Link/Lang/Lane confusion comes to a strange, violent, tragic end. Well, OK, it just ends. Nothing ...

Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • Brandon Lane in desperate race to have a winning week before the movie based on his life is consigned to home video. • The smart money is on the ChiSox. Um, this may not apply to you. • ...

Uh, Who Exactly IS This Guy? Like, Really?
About a million years from now, when aliens discover our dark, burned-out husk of a planet and start digging around for clues to our long-dead civilization, we hope that the Brandon Lang saga is not the first thing they come across. Oh Christ, we hope not. Our gambling-addicted sister Oddjack del...

Hey, How's Oddjack Doing With Picks?
We've been watching with a bit of amusement as our gambling addict brother Oddjack struggles to make sense of the early baseball playoff action. He's not alone, of course, but his picks have been a bit erratic of late. (Not that we've been much better.) This afternoon, he likes the Padres to beat ...

Oh, The Fun They'll Have
According to Sports By Brooks and KMPC Radio in Los Angeles, now that college football expert Nick Lachey and non-sports-related wife Jessica Simpson have reportedly split up (or maybe not), Lachey might actually be moving in with Southern Cal quarterback Matt Leinart. (We're going to assume he do...

Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • We've always said it — never bet on the fat pitcher when there's pie waiting in the clubhouse. • Football picks guru Brandon Lane coasting on fame ... you, not so much. • That urge to be...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while poking the Pillsbury Dough Boy a little too often and a little too vigorously ... • ALDS: Yankees' Mussina does his part to head off disaster that would be an Angels-Padres World Series. • NLDS: Jake Peavy discovers broken rib, Padres discover they're down 0-1 to Cardinals. • A...

Those Racist Cubs Owners
Working presumably from ESPN Page 2 columnist Scoop Jackson's somewhat inexplicable column about racism and Cubs manager Dusty Baker earlier this season, satirical Onion-esque site SportsPickle "reports" that Cubs Management Unsure How To Fire Baker Without Exposing That They're Racists....

Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • Finally, the airports get tough on terrorism. Um, well, actually they get tough on fantasy football. But it's a start. • Roses are red, violets are blue; White Sox, Contreras are smili...

Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Jay Mariotti
"Never dull and always armed with an opinion ..." Beware those eight little words. When you read them, it can only mean: A) Ann Coulter has escaped her zoo enclosure and has written another book; or B) Your paper is promoting its circus freak show sports columnist. Jay Mariotti is one of these. He...

Today In Oddjack
What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • Who has Eli Manning fever? If you don't stop scratching, it'll never heal. • NHL's new rules have bettors a little skittish? You should see the goalies. • The Week in Football Betting — ...

Today In Oddjack
We haven't made much of a secret about this: We're not that into gambling on sports. (We don't need anything to make sports more fun.) But we understand its appeal, particularly when our scrappy connoisseur of vice brother Oddjack is on a roll like he is today. Declaring today "Football Up Your As...

Today In Oddjack
Things Our Sexual Deviant Brother Oddjack Is Wrong About Today ... • Barry Bonds is being shut down, probably as early as today. So, uh, we wouldn't bet on him, no. • The San Diego Padres couldn't be scarier if they were wearing a bright red jacket with chains and dancing around a graveyard. • Nobod...