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How Did People Place Sports Bets Before Modern Sportsbooks Existed?
This is a question that many don’t think to ask because they assume the modern parlor style sportsbook has been around since the dawn of Las Vegas. But that simply isn’t the case. The mode... -
Former Mobster Discusses Fixing Games
68 year old Michael Franzese is a former member of the Colombo crime family in New York. He has had a life full of every mobster activity you can imagine. He did a lot of time in prison as well and is... -
Cowboys vs Dolphins Line One of the Largest of All Time
The Miami Dolphins may have overdone it with their “Tank for Tua” campaign. They may have possibly created one of the worst teams in the modern football betting era. In week one they got s... -
Super Bowl Betting History
As Super Bowl 53 approaches, we figured what better time to look back at some Super Bowl betting figures from the past. For this article, we will be using stats and figures gathered by Las Vegas Sport... -
Largest NFL Point Spreads Ever
A few recent tweets stated they have never seen a spread this big in the NFL. But, those of us who have been in the business for any length of time know that there have been bigger spreads. The first ... -
Point Shaving in Sports Betting History
The title names this scandal a candidate for one of the worst events in sports betting history and that’s because the point shaving scandal of 1951 was one bad. Here we’ll take a closer look, de... -
History: The Cronje Affair and the Sportsbook
Though the Cronje Affair actually occurred in 1996, it was not made public until 2000. In short, what happened was that there was a man by the name of Hansie Cronje who was the captain of a national... -
Sports Betting in History: Rumors of Wrongdoing: The 1906 Sports Betting Scandal
Sports betting has been around for almost as long as there have been sports to bet on. While no one knows for sure exactly when the first bet was placed on a sporting event, what we do know is that sp... -
The History of Sports Betting in America
America has a long history with sports and from the very beginning there has been sports betting action whenever people were engaged with competitive athletics. America was built by risk-takers – me... -
NBA Point Shaving
With the college basketball season quickly approaching and the NBA’s preseason in full gear, the sportsbooks have already begun accepting bets on regular season, division, and championship wins ...
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