If the book you wrote is a bible, and everything you say is treated as the final word, odds are that your name is ‘God’. Either that or Roxy. AKA the Las Vegas Oddsmakers’ Oddsmaker.

Michael ‘Roxy’ Roxborough is kind of like the Bill Gates / George Lucas / Run-DMC of betting odds. You don’t know Jack if you don’t even know the guy. Roxy is credited for a lot of history-changing things in the world of oddsmaking; among them, for having monopolized the Las Vegas betting lines way longer than his nemeses cared to pray against, and for having evolved sports betting from paper to paperless trail.

If you had seen Roxy in his heydays, he didn’t look anything like the icons of today, with their slogan t-shirts and baseball caps. He wore glasses and a tie, conducted himself like a businessman, looked pretty much like what happened to the nerd who got his sweet revenge. Hell, yeah, Roxy called…

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Yeah baby, the new OddJack team is going to take on another challenge.

Sedge Court Journal is having this handicapping contest for the basketball season where handicappers, (or in this case, since OddJack is the ONLY true handicapper here, OddJack and the rest of the pseudo-handicappers) will post basketball picks for the NBA, NCAA Basketball and the WNBA (seriously, who watches that crap?), with three posts per week being the minimum.

Sedge Court sez’ if participating handicappers, oops, I mean, OddJack and the rest of the pseudo-handicappers, fail to post at least three picks a week, points will be deducted as if they were losses.

The scoring system is pretty fair, with two picks being your ‘regular picks’ and your one pick being your ‘best play of the week.’

Two ‘regular picks’ will earn the contestant 10 points and the participant’s…

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Michael Jordan is the most electrifying basketball player the National Basketball Association (NBA) have ever seen.

Together with Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan became the standard in which basketball greatness was measured. Yes, Michael Jordan is great but who knew that he will continue his dominion over mere earthlings outside the basketball court?

(Jeez… enough already! This generation saw enough of Michael Jordan already… puh-leeze…)

Michael Jordan turned a $500,000 deficit into a whopping $800,000 gain during a famous run at the blackjack table in the Mohegan Sun Casino. This yet another Jordan feat showed up in…

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Nick Bogdanovich, after being bamboozled during the Super Bowl, returns after a three-year absence in bookmaking.

Bogdanovich is revered as his locale’s most fearless bookmaker during the ’90s as he ran Binion’s Horseshoe casino. When Becky Binion Behnen, called as the ‘Witch of Fremont Street,’ won a legal battle for sole control of the hotel from brother Jack Binion in ‘98, Bogdanovich was one of those who were forced out.

Bogdanovich took a position as sportsbook director at the Mandalay Bay hotel about a year from the Binion eviction. Never did he imagine that he will meet his demise there.

Charles Barkley.

In a notorious communications gaffe, accepting two moneyline (Super Bowl XXXV) bets from former NBA star Charles Barkley. The bet totaled to $550,000 on the Patriots to beat the Rams.

Bogdanovich punched in the two tickets for Barkley without taking any money or casino chips believing the casino had arranged for the wagers, and Barkley had signed for them. Turns out…

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