The Art of the Gamble, and Sunshine 300 Days A Year

It’s a Sunday afternoon somewhere in the urban haze of the northwest Las Vegas Valley. There is NFL playoff football on the big screens, and the cards are in the air in a cozy poker room. The day does not start particularly well. Playing a little 4-8 limit before a no-limit seat opens up, I [...]

Many people scoff at betting NFL preseason games. After all, the games usually feature reserves and players trying to make the team while starters saunter along the sidelines with thumbs in their jersey collars. But sometimes there can be an edge in the games once referred to as exhibition [...]

Roughly halfway through “First Man,” the Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 11 astronauts blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in a fiery, thunderous ascent that almost seems to shake the theater. It’s a powerful scene in a 2-hour, 21-minute film that traces the life of [...]

The Vegas Golden Knights burst onto the scene in 2017 with a once-in-a-lifetime season that saw them advance to the Stanley Cup Final. If you believe Wikipedia, it was the strongest debut season for a North American expansion team in pro sports history. They were the hot ticket. They dominated [...]