Being meaning to link to this one for a while. Snarkshelf at her best:

Every Monday for the last 15 years or so, these guys had lunch. There was a core group: the restaurateur; the haberdasher; the ob/gyn; the concert promoter; a couple of salesman; the accountant; a bookie; an insurance guy (also a bookie); and some friends whose jobs I never knew, but they always drove nice cars.

Liverpool to win to nil against Bolton in bet of the day

Our bookie sniffs out the value and fancies the Reds to make light work of the Trotters at Anfield on Saturday evening

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With the season opener Hull v Blackpool commencing Friday evening (KO 19:45) LTLF's gambling column will look at the bookie's predictions for the season ahead as well as the best odds available for our upcoming home game against Barnsley [...]

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has detained a Selangor state football coach over match-fixing during the President's Cup U-20 youth tournament and charged Singaporean R.K. Rajendran, a bookie, with match-fixing in connection with the same tournament. Another football coach, from Negeri Sembilan state, Yusarman Yusof, was charged with match-fixing earlier this month.

The most loveable man in racing circle's Henry Cecil is to be Knighted as part of the Queen's celebratory birthday honours.

Cecil who has trained 25 Classic winners to-date including this years 2,000 Guineas winner Frankel, is just as comfortable talking to the Queen herself as he is talking to racegoers and was humbled when told of his imminent honour.

Looking back on the past nine months of Bundesliga football, it somehow seems as if I found myself on a radio show or a podcast every other week, yet could rarely say anything more substantial than how unbelievable it all was. But that's what it was like, week in and week out, as Europe's most unpredictable league proved once more why some people love it and others are frustrated by it.

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Hibs v CelticThe ESPN juggernaut rolls into town to enliven an otherwise dull - and rather damp - Saturday lunchtime in Leith. I've been banging on all week about how bad Hibs were against Ayr United but I really can't stress enough the shortcomings of this squad.
Bill Belicheck, coach of Superbowl favorites New England Patriots, once said this about his philosophy:
"There's an old saying that the strength of the wolf is the pack.