: About Me

After 16 1/2 years of college, I completed my bachelors degree in journalism. Trust me, it's easier to make money on Helium than it is as a working journalist. The reason it took me 16 years to graduate? I was paying my way as a working journalist.
I have stopped writing professionally on a permanent basis and operate a couple of coffee shops/bookstores/pet boutique stores with my wife. We have three furry children and live in Southside Virginia. Look for a cynical undernote to everything I write with a tongue-in-cheek perspective. In other words, I take everything personally and nothing seriously.

My passion is ...

my marriage, my business and golf.

I know too much about ...

everything, and too little about the same.

My parents always told me ...

"you better shop around."

My childhood ambition ...

to play professional baseball.

My favorite memory ...

is the day I met my wife, and she thought I was hitting on her friend.

Why I write ...

really?!?!?

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Pursuit of Happyness, Perv: A Love Story.

My first job ...

was as a paperboy.

My best moment ...

graduating college after 16 1/2 years of trying.

My inspiration ...

thunderstorms, radio personalities, my pets, my wife and everything life throws at me.

Sports & Recreation > College Basketball Covering the spread: A guide to betting on college basketball

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The opening of the college football season brings the onset of the basketball junkies of the world whirling dervishly for the magazine racks to load up on the upcoming season. And all they will read are the stories on their favorite team to see how they're ranked; and how their conference will line up against them. In the world of gambling, these are the suckers. They devote too much time and information absorption into the conferences that too many people know, saturating their chances of achieving an edge. This is where the genius of college betting can strike wealth, with my own variati...

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