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A good weekend of football picks, and check back later with Oddjack to see whom your money should be on for tonight's Colts-Patriots wingding. • Death to Terrell Owens! Death! • Don't expect Edgerrin James to run for many yards tonight. • Wait, girls like online poker? That certainly changes one's p...
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The weekend's football picks won't be up at Oddjack for another hour, but there's plenty to keep yourself busy until then. • Weird looking New Yorker writer is all kinds of help in NBA betting. • Ray Allen and Bruce Bowen are totally getting in a fight, you just know it. • Your daily line on weird t...
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What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discriminating speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • So, I guess what we're saying is that we shouldn't bet on the Lions no matter what the circumstances. • What's worse, the movie about his life, or the real thing? The continuing saga...
A-Rod ... After Dark!
Oddjack is all over the big story this morning: Yankees lipstick model Alex Rodriguez has been chided by Yankees officials for playing cards in those infamous New York City underground poker rooms everyone's always talking about. Supposedly A-Rod has been playing poker under the cover of darkness ...
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As the NBA season begins, we check in with Oddjack to see how that degenerate gambling community is hanging in ... • Everyone's loving the Spurs to repeat, but hey, how'd the Nets sneak up there? Are they in Brooklyn yet? • You know you're bored when you're actually betting on how many points Darko ...
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What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • A scientific study of the Ravens-Steelers matchup, with footnotes. • Which fast food joint will be the first to land LeBron James? We'd go with Taco Bell. • NFL fans surround Oddjack hea...
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Football Up Your Ass! is taking a week off at Oddjack, but there's still plenty of stuff to get ready for weekend time ... • Everything you could possibly ever think to wonder about the Breeder's Cup tomorrow. • You should be very happy if you're a fan of the Georgia Bulldogs. • Vote for the most te...
Vote: First Gay Athlete To Come Out?
All right, we promised you a poll, and here's your poll, our first ever on Deadspin. The question: Who's the most likely athlete to come out of the closet first, based off Oddjack's Cultural Oddsmaker, which laid down the odds on five most likely suspects to be the first "out" athlete....
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Here's the seedy underbelly of sports, uncovered by the big dogs at Oddjack ... • As long as his linemen aren't carrying him down the field, Byron Leftwich could be fantasy football gold. • The handicappers dig deep into the psyche of horses and find out that they all have long faces. Awww. • It's n...
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What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for both the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • Can Roy Oswalt save the Astros? A roundtable discussion. • Dress like an NBA star, end up with your house being destroyed by a hurricane. We're pretty sure that's the gist of what this g...
Oddjack: Guaranteed Winners Or Your "Money" Back
If it's Friday, that means it's Football Up Your Ass! at Oddjack. Here's a look at Oddjack's best picks. GUARANTEED WINNERS* for the upcoming football weekend. • Vegas has gone insane, and so can you — the pick is the Dolphins minus-1 over the Chiefs. • It's Virginia vs. North Carolina , pick, and y...
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Hey, look at all the stuff Oddjack has. Cool. • More details on the depths of Michael Jordan's gambling addiction. • One week until the Breeder's Cup, when the earth shakes on its axis. • How long will the Colts' and Texans' zeros remains zeros?...
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What you're missing over at Oddjack, the site for bot the discerning speculator and the degenerate gambler ... • The smart money seems to be flowing toward Roy Oswalt and the Astros tonight. That's making Albert Pujols very mad — and you don't want to make him mad. • It's Troy vs. Florida Internatio...
Today's Favorite Repulsive Unsubstantiated Rumor
From a reader, in response to our recent items on Joe Buck and Todd Zeile:...
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...
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....
Todd Zeile, 21st Century Man
Now, we're not saying anything about those lingering rumors about former Mets manager Bobby Valentine helping him deal with some "issues" involving a popular veteran journeyman player who Bill Simmons might call being a "bi-curious guy," or his recent career as a producer of terrible teen movies o...
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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...
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• 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 ...
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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. • ...