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We've got the madness covered like no one else.  Ed Feng of ThePowerRank.com handles the advanced analytics and Pregame Pro Vegas Runner provides market perspective as the two dissect all 32 second round 2014 NCAA Basketball Tournament matchups from both an ATS and bracket standpoint.  Plus, Host Gill Alexander provides game theory you should consider for your office pools and advanced stats that will help you gain an edge.  What are the 6 characteristics that all National Champions have shared since 2004, and what one team in this year's field possesses them?  It's our annual March Madness edition on Tuesday's Betting Dork (March 18, 2014).

Covering all things baseball for Grantland.com, Jonah Keri drops in on Host Gill Alexander for his annual March podcast appearance and offers up his thinking on what led him to his one and only MLB season win total play in 2013.  Then, Pregame pros Vegas Runner and Dave Essler are back for a second straight week, this time to provide their ATS perspective on all eight Sweet 16 games in the NCAA Tournament, on Wednesday's Betting Dork (March 27, 2013).

No show on television or on-line breaks down the madness quite like this.  Pregame Pros Vegas Runner and Dave Essler dissect all 32 second round 2012 NCAA Basketball Tournament matchups from an ATS standpoint, while Host Gill Alexander provides game theory you should consider for your office pools and advanced stats that will help you gain an edge.  What are the 4 characteristics that all National Champions have shared since 2000, and what 7 teams in this year's field possess them?  What 8-9 matchup features the widest difference in BPI and which features up the two squads who are ranked closest by this metric?  Which are the most overrated and underrated teams in the field, according to BPI?  All of those answers and more, on Tuesday's annual March Madness edition of the Betting Dork (March 13, 2012).

Editor-in-Chief of ESPN The Magazine, writer of the Behind the Bets Blog for Insider on ESPN.com, and the host of the Behind the Bets podcast for ESPN.com, Chad Millman chats with Host Gill Alexander about the current Analytics Issue of ESPN The Mag and the place of magazines in the sports media landscape, in general.  Plus, the two sports betting pod hosts discuss their reactions to, what else, listener habits of betting pods.  Then, Pregame Pro Vegas Runner checks in to discuss the tenets of betting NCAA College Basketball Conference Tournaments, from money influx to scheduling to motivation to stats, on Tuesday's Betting Dork (February 28, 2012).

Just like old times, Pregame Pro Vegas Runner checks in with Host Gill Alexander, and the topic certainly demands it.  This time the two rehash their annual dissertation on everything you need to know about betting the 2nd half of games, including isolating discrepancies between 2nd half lines and game lines, key 1st half stats to consider, and what the action booked prior to the game starting and the action expected to be booked for the 2nd half has to do with it all, on Wednesday's Betting Dork (December 7, 2011).

Pregame Pros Marco D'Angelo and JR O'Donnell bring years of handicapping experience to the table, as they share their thoughts with Host Gill Alexander on college basketball.  Included are Marco's Free NIT Play of the night, their thoughts on the Final Four matchups, and the two pros' best stabs at all the potential betting lines for the NCAA Championship Game.  Plus, how you can win $10,000 betting on MLB, on Tuesday's Betting Dork (March 29, 2011).

It's a Dork mash-up.  First, Yahoo! Sports NBA expert Marc Spears hangs out with Host Gill Alexander to give his take on the pro prospects of Derrick Williams, Jimmer Fredette, and Harrison Barnes.  Then, it's American Idol betting talk with Tara in South Carolina.  And for good measure, Gill dispenses some 2011 Fantasy Baseball draft guidelines with some sleeper thoughts thrown in.  There's something for everyone, on Friday's Betting Dork (March 25, 2011).

Ya gotta love the Madness!  Pregame Pro Vegas Runner joins Host Gill Alexander to discuss NCAA Tournament handicapping angles before turning their attention to the real matter at hand, filling out brackets.  If you haven't quite filled yours out yet and are looking for any reason to finally pull the trigger on those particularly dicey Thursday and Friday games, listen in as the two fly through 32 ballgames and hone in on what will ultimately separate the men from the boys.  It's all about Bracketology, on Wednesday's Betting Dork (March 16, 2011).

Host Gill Alexander welcomes Pregame Pro Mike Hook from an undisclosed location on the California coast, and what results is a stream of free plays.  First, Mike offers up one of his standard free college basketball picks and then drops a pick that was intended to have been a paid play.  Listen in to grab it.  Plus, Pregame Pro JR O'Donnell stops through to offer up a freebie or two on Conference Week, as well, from just outside of Philly.  In between, from Chicago, it's Sam Clayton with Big Ten insights.  Oh, and some Dorkapalooza talk, as well, on Wednesday's Betting Dork (March 9, 2011).

Host Gill Alexander is back and firing up a very passionate Vegas Runner.  VR breaks down all things conference tourney week in the NCAA, including the amazing reluctance of books to release lines any earlier than they have to, the unique importance of varied scheduling, and the attention that should be paid to teams in must-win situations. Plus, a free pick and early Big Dance betting insight.  It's college basketball's most quirky and exploitable week, on Tuesday's Betting Dork (March 8, 2011).

In the midst of a stellar college basketball handicapping season, Dave Essler joins Host Gill Alexander for his first appearance on the show.  Giving insights into his daily approach and which teams he feels are underrated, Dave also sheds light on what his feelings are on a Pregame Convention in Las Vegas in August.  Get to know the man, on Monday's Betting Dork (February 28, 2011).

Pregame Pro Vegas Runner drops the knowledge on Host Gill Alexander, with a dissertation on everything you need to know about betting the 2nd half of games, including isolating discrepancies between 2nd half lines and game lines, key 1st half stats to consider, and what the action booked prior to the game starting and the action expected to be booked for the 2nd half has to do with it all.  That, plus breaking down VR's tweets, and a college basketball and NBA lean for the night, on Wednesday's Betting Dork (February 16, 2011).

There are certainly too many such moments to be included in just this one list, but Host Gill Alexander goes down memory lane, nonetheless.  Relive all of the quirky details that made these 7 moments across 3 sports some of the best or worst and certainly most exasperating for bettors in modern sports history.  Of course, whether each moment qualified as one of the best or worst depended on the side or total backed.  It's the true essence of the highs and lows of sports betting, on Tuesday's Betting Dork (February 15, 2011).

Have you ever wondered just what the routine of a true Vegas wiseguy really is?  Well, if so, this is the show for you.  Pregame Pro Vegas Runner joins Host Gill Alexander for another signature chat, as VR goes through his daily cycle, from the night before the action to just after tip-off of the late games that night, with all the hows and whos involved with the knowledge amassed in between.  All of that and a couple of major college basketball rivalry leans, on Wednesday's Betting Dork (February 9, 2011).

Host Gill Alexander and Pregame Pro Mike Hook segue from football season into a steady stream of golf value for this week, identifying the best plays in both the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Dubai Desert Classic.  Plus, two very strong leans tonight in college basketball, on Tuesday's Betting Dork (February 8, 2011).

Not, figuratively speaking, as in, "what's his story?".  We mean, literally.  It's the amazing story of what Vegas Runner has been up to the past several months, in his own words.  Our bet?  That you will hang on his every word, as he describes his exciting, bold, profitable, and treacherous run, playing blackjack in Vegas, and inevitably getting banned from casinos, city-wide.  Oh yeah, and some Super Bowl line talk and a review of VR's NFL futures plays, as well, on Thursday's Betting Dork (January 27, 2011).

Amazing how the relative anonymity of being behind a keyboard transforms once actual conversation begins. Host Gill Alexander welcomes both Pregame Forum stalwart and Big Ten expert Sam Clayton and Pregame Pro Brent Brooks, as each passionately describe their approach to handicapping college basketball.  Steel Cage Match, Kumbaya, or something in between?  Did one side sway you more than the other?  You be the judge, as the free college basketball picks and projections fly, on Wednesday's Betting Dork (January 12, 2011)

The newest Pregame Pro, Brent Brooks, discusses his background and handicapping philosophies while serving up a couple of additional free plays in college hoops, with Host Gill Alexander, on Wednesday's Betting Dork (January 5, 2011).