Week One Pick ‘em: Kicking off the season with guesses, KP and Croshere

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to Year Five of our weekly college/NFL pick ‘em, where we invite dedicated readers and dear friends to pick against yours truly and my counterpart, Mr. Kevin Paul, who runs that blog out in the Continue reading Week One Pick ‘em: Kicking off the season with guesses, KP and Croshere

Colin Cowherd’s New Favorite NBA Player: Cooper Flagg

I have this friend, Croshere, a knowledgeable sports fan of the highest order.  He and I have been friends since the late 1990s.  We have watched and attended countless sporting events together, analyzed them, gambled heavily on them and statistically Continue reading Colin Cowherd’s New Favorite NBA Player: Cooper Flagg

Where Icons Go to Nap

I love Twitter.  I mean, I hate that it’s become a method for keyboard kings to spew hatred on a whim but if you can get past the nonsense, the application has become an amusing way to pass the time, Continue reading Where Icons Go to Nap

2021 Week 1: The Wife Hates SportsChump adds Croshere for some opening closure

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

Winning ways to wager: The saga continues

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

Sal, Planet Pizza and the end of an era

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

Talking out a wager: Your NBA Finals Game Three Edition

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

Hunches in bunches

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

Florida and Ohio State alums mull over Urban Meyer’s past, present and future

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

Durant, the Warriors, LeBron, “super-teams” and your 2016-17 NBA season in retrospect

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