Because it’s so taboo to acknowledge that people gamble on sports with real currency, newspaper touts often use “units”, “simoleons” “sirignanos” or “guineas”. For the Super Bowl, Matt Sussman, a writer and friend of sister site Deadspin, is using rupees. More »
Irish bookmaker Paddy Power is offering a proposition bet on what will be the United Kingdom’s top-selling game, giving Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 most-favoured billing at 11/8 odds. More »
The so-called Madden Curse, which doesn’t involve witch doctors as much as it does wacky concepts like “regression to the mean” and “injuries in a full-contact sport,” claimed one of this year’s two cover boys in week one. More »
