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For nine wonderful seasons, David Chase and HBO treated us with one of the greatest shows in TV history, The Sopranos. In that award-winning crime drama, we saw many scenes with lead character Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) involved in many forms of gambling. New Jersey mobster Tony Soprano and his crew of Paulie “Walnuts” (Tony Sirico), ‘Big Pussy” (Vincent Pastore), cousin Christopher Moltis...

The trailer for the upcoming Avatar: The Way of the Water only has one line: Jake Sully saying "I know one thing. Wherever we go, this family is our fortress," to Neytiri. So, the plot of this much-anticipated movie will likely see a displaced main cast of characters. This second installment in James Cameron’s Avatar franchise will be a huge success at the box office. Although its mid-Dece...

The popular American reality TV show The Amazing Race will be wrapping up its 34th season on Wednesday, December 7 with the five remaining teams from the starting 12 competing for the $1 million prize in a special episode (CBS, Paramount+, 9 ET/8 CT/9 PT). The second round of Leg 8 (Episode 10), Leg 9 (Episode 11), and the critical Leg 10 (Episode 12) of TAR—the flagship and original iteration ...

The second-longest running event in PPV history, the Survivor Series will be returning this coming Saturday, November 26 with the 4-fight Survivor Series WarGames at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts (PPV, 7:30 pm ET/6:30 pm PT/4:30 pm PT). Second to WWE’s WrestleMania, the Survivor Series is one of the promotion’s “Big Four” events each calendar year along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, a...

Although nothing can top the real highs and lows of both the brick-and-mortar casinos or online gambling, cinema provides a very unique way to experience a variety of approaches to gambling. And, there’s not a better medium for watching gambling films than with Netflix. [get_cta id="264121" copycolor="cta-full-detailed"] The viewing menu of Netflix gambling movies has increased through th...

The Digital Age has provided us with fresh ways to work, communicate, bet, and entertain each other. Memes, in particular, have slowly become a part of our culture which seems to be morphing away from Mother Nature and the real world and into Cyberspace. British etymologist Richard Dawkins first coined the phrase “meme” and Webster’s defines memes as “...

The CBS reality competition staple Survivor returns on this Wednesday, September 21 with the premiere episode of Survivor 43 (8pm EDT/8 pm PDT) as 18 Castaways from three tribes compete for the $1 million prize over the 26-day season. As it has been the last 11 years, Survivor was filmed in Fiji, this 43rd season in the Mamanuca Islands with Jeff Probst host but there are all new players this...

There have been scores of great songs written about or referencing gambling through the ages, covering genres like the Blues, Country, Rock N’ Roll, and even Synth-Pop, but my research shows Mozart wrote no Classical sonatas about 3-team, 6-point NFL parlays. Gambling Songs like Frank Sinatra’s “Luck Be a Lady” (1950), Ray Charles’ “Losing Hand,” (1957),...

When they say you can bet on just about anything online, they aren’t kidding. Nothing is off limits and that includes the Vatican. If you were looking for the next pope odds, this is possible at entertaining betting sites. Betting entertainment odds can be fun and profitable if your finger is on the pulse. Becoming an expert entertainment bettor can be as simple as following the enter...

The worldwide leader in vaguely sports-related drama is at it again!  While hosting the 2021 NBA Finals, ESPN recently found a way to make the story about the media sports juggernaut itself.  The latest controversy centered around comments made by Rachel Nichols, the white host of ESPN’s The Jump and NBA sideline reporter, about her African American colleague Maria Taylor.   Without skippi...

The Miss Universe Pageant is almost here. The 2019 edition of the famed pageant is scheduled to go down in Atlanta on Sunday, December 8th. Last year’s champion, Catriona Gray of the Philippines, will cede her crown to a new winner. Gray entered last year’s pageant as a +6600 underdog, so there is surely plenty of betting value to be had if you think you can accurately peg this year’s winner. Ent...