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One gambler is a manic former cokehead with an Ivy League degree. The second is a college dropout trying to make a living at the only thing he enjoyed at school -- gambling. The third, one of Vegas's most respected bookmakers, is perilously close to burning out. The Odds follows the lives of these three professional gamblers through a college basketball season in a one-of-a-kind city struggling to reconcile its lawless past with its family-friendly makeover. With a wiseguy attitude and a faultless eye and ear for the sights and sounds of Vegas and its denizens, Chad Millman has created a portrait that the Wall Street Journal called "fascinating. . . often screamingly funny." The Las Vegas Review-Journal had just one word for the book: "Superb."

ISBN-13: 9780306811562

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Hachette Books

Publication Date: 03-28-2002

Pages: 288

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.62(d)

Chad Millman is the Editorial Director of ESPN Domestic Digital. He is the author of The Odds and coauthor of The Ones Who Hit the Hardest, Iceman, Invincible, and Pickup Artists. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two sons.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
1 "Death Is Not the End" 1
2 "It's Us Against the Wiseguys" 11
3 "Get Out of My House" 22
4 A Nation of Sports Bettors 26
5 Let the Games Begin 44
6 Hi Mom! My Bookie Called, Send Money 60
7 "A Dying Breed" 67
8 The Devil's Deal 92
9 "This Life...Is Starting to Make Me Sick" 106
10 Take Me Home 122
11 "We Believe Anything Is Possible" 141
12 "I Got a Winner, Huh Cuz?" 153
13 "It's Just Another Day" 175
14 "Without Nevada, This Would Not Have Happened" 186
15 Everyone Jump in the Pool 207
16 The Final Four 224
Epilogue 247
Index 251