An interactive, analytical and hopefully entertaining look at the world of sports and all things otherwise
And so it begins, our season-long battle for the ages. To the victor go the spoils! With so many games to choose from on both the college and NFL slate, picking five, sure-fire winners week after week should be, as Continue reading 2021 Week 1: The Wife Hates SportsChump adds Croshere for some opening closure
We’ve talked repeatedly in the past about how to effectively gamble on sports, all with the intention of hopefully making us a little coin. Of course, if I had every answer to these questions that so elude us, I’d be Continue reading Winning ways to wager: The saga continues
On a recent romantic getaway, my beloved BCole and I decided to do perhaps the most Valentine’s Day thing ever. Well, at least Valentine’s Day for us here at SportsChump Manor. When inclement weather put a damper on our February Continue reading Sal, Planet Pizza and the end of an era
In need of a friend, my long-term gambling partner in crime, Croshere, and I decided to get together for a night out on the town and an analytical viewing of the overhyped yet still somehow underhyped NBA Finals Game Three. Continue reading Talking out a wager: Your NBA Finals Game Three Edition
Gamblers love a good hunch. Considering I’m a gambler, by the associative property of hopefully successful wagering, I also love a good hunch. Perhaps my favorite hunch of all-time came many moons ago on one of my annual, drug-induced visits Continue reading Hunches in bunches
Urban Meyer has retired… again. He hasn’t reached Brett Favre/Michael Jordan status quite yet but one more retirement party and he’ll earn a set of steak knives. When it comes to all things Ohio State, I like to go to Continue reading Florida and Ohio State alums mull over Urban Meyer’s past, present and future
I received an interesting text from a friend the other morning following the aftermath of Game Five. It read as follows… “Everything we thought was wrong with that move… was in the end. Lame season in reality.” The text came Continue reading Durant, the Warriors, LeBron, “super-teams” and your 2016-17 NBA season in retrospect
You know you’re gambling too much (or perhaps just the right amount) when you come up with prop bets all your own. With basketball season coming to a close, it’s becoming harder to make money on the games… that is Continue reading Fun with wagering, Volume 1: Prop bets, recency bias and unforeseen upsets
If you’ve been reading this website at all this football season, you’ve heard me complain (for far too long unfortunately) about how my wagers are a river of darkness… a big, steamy, sewage-filled river of darkness. I think I had Continue reading Aces, unders and great, big balls of steel
As most of you regular readers know, every so often, I’ll check in with Croshere, my Las Vegas correspondent.
