If you’re even tangentially involved in sports media — as I am — you end up on gambling email lists. Don’t ask me how this happens, it just does. One day, you awake for a day of pontificating about sports online and there they are: messages from the likes of Jimmy Shapiro (a particularly relentless source of updates) and various other oddsmaking organizations, hellbent on giving you the latest information. It would all be quite annoying if it also wasn’t so darkly compelling.
We wrote about this not long ago, thanks to one batch of information.