NFL Week #14: Analysis and Picks

A Note to Readers:
I checked my website traffic this past week. And frankly, I’m baffled. Number of visits:


A Note to Readers:
I checked my website traffic this past week. And frankly, I’m baffled. Number of visits:


THE ULTIMATE BOOK OF HORROR
There are many terrible books, but not many are worse than the (so-called) Holy Bible. With it’s clear and unwavering instructions on how to beat slaves, its open advocacy of stoning adulterers to death, its call for mass retribution and revenge by burning innocents alive in fire and brimstone, and a professed destiny for all humankind that promises us mass murder on an unprecedented scale ending in a global holocaust, this isn’t a guide book on living. Rather, it’s celebration of death, paved in mass punishments. It’s a sick, sadistic tribulation of horror. It’s a delivery device of terror. The Holy Bible is a far scarier book than anything ever dreamed about by Stephen King.
Fortunately, it’s *also* a book of fiction.
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This is a review I never expected to write.
Toasted Gastrobrunch gets my highest recommendation. After two lunchtime visits, I’m astonished by the high quality, the amazingly wide variety, fast and friendly service, and extraordinary value of everything I’ve tasted on their menu. Oh, and they have an amazing special promotion right now that I have to tell you about. You won’t believe this.
Here’s the full story.
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WHY BARRY SANDERS QUIT
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That’s four winning weeks in a row.
That’s 54 wins, 20 losses over the course of this run.
On 231 overall posted picks this NFL season — that’s 55.9 percent wins. Currently +28 games over .500. See the full stats below.
I’ll take it.
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Read MorePreface: Last week marked the 25th anniversary of Stu Ungar’s death. In remembrance of the occasion, I was featured in a few interviews and was asked to share my memories of being with Ungar.
I remembered my experiences of working with him, and eventually co-writing One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey ‘the Kid’ Ungar, the World’s Greatest Poker Player (with Peter Alson).
What follows is the longer (unedited) version of the full interview with Santiago García Mansilla, a writer-journalist based in Argentina. The article is in Spanish and can be seen HERE. Also, The Sporting News did a story on this, which can be seen HERE.